American blog TechCrunch is one of the most powerful media organizations in the world.  TechCrunch founder and CEO Michael Arrington is on first name basis with most senior managers of the top tech companies.  In a record of sorts,  last month TechCrunch had a million readers to its RSS feed which is more than the figures of the top 10 blogs in India combined together. More...

UK’s biggest mortgage giant HBOS is making news due to an impending 12 billion pound takeover by Lloyds TSB as well as rumors that some Lloyd shareholders are resisting this alliance. But eleven top officials of HBOS including HBOS IT Director John Callan and head of IT sourcing Adam Warwick found time to fly to Bangalore, India to explore outsourcing tech jobs. More...

In the forthcoming elections to the Lok Sabha in 2009, many of the NRI crowd is slated to fly back to India to test their luck in the political waters. One of them is Srikanth Reddy Palem, the MD and CEO of Four Soft (the world's largest transportation and logistics software products company), who would be contesting as a TDP (Telugu Desam Party) candidate. More...

Gyanesh Kumar Jha, a software engineer at TCS, Gurgaon turned out to be a terror suspect for a little while when his black Bajaj Pulsar motorcycle was found abandoned in a no-parking zone of Delhi airport on Saturday evening.  This was the same day the two terrorists who had placed a bomb in Mehrauli market killing innocent people had come riding a black colored Pulsar. More...

Respected Kerala Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan is chasing the dragon which has manifested in the form of hackers from China. Last year in June, the official website of the Kerala Chief Minister was hacked four times. The Hi-Tech Crime Enquiry Cell of Kerala Police with the help of C-DAC Cyber Forensic Division Experts have zeroed in on two IP addresses in China during the investigation. More...

Gurgaon is one of the most important tech hubs in India.  The IT software Sector in this ‘Millennium City’ earns revenue of $4 billion dollars a year.  Gurgaon is also the Head Quarters of India’s top BPO Genpact.  Raman Roy, whom many see as the founder of the Indian BPO industry, runs his company Quattro from this city.  40 percent of Fortune 100 companies have some presence here. More...

Corporate and professional rivalry between Avaya and CISCO has scaled new heights. Looks like they cannot even stand each other’s presence anymore (professionally speaking). And the brunt was borne by one of the largest and most prestigious exhibitions - Call Center Demo and Conference India (ccdci.in).   Avaya quietly left once competitor CISCO decided to sponsor the event. More...

In a bizarre incident reported recently in Gurgaon, a newly-wed young woman, aged about 23, allegedly conspired with the family driver to eliminate her father-in-law, a senior manager with a top notch Indian telecom company, in an apparent bid to take control of his property and wealth. For this, the Bahu had promised to gift the driver Rs. 50 lakhs after the 'assignment' was over. More...

Some people may find it annoying, but I think I must write about this. Almost a month back, I received an Email from NEN for participating in the hottest startup contest. I looked at the website and was impressed by the participation. What was annoying was the classification of a “startup”. I could see companies founded in 2003 with 70+ employees nominated by NEN with expert rating 8+. More...

Every wondered how Google just keeps getting bigger and bigger?  Much of their multi-billion dollar success is because of their superb search engine and innovative products like Google Maps.  Other Google offerings like Google Apps are used by a number of universities (and other sectors) as they offer popular Email, calendar, word processing and collaboration tools.  And now students are being rewarded for promoting Google More...