The best and brightest among Indian students went to study at IIT, many of whom would later lay the foundation of our booming IT-ITES outsourcing sectors. IIT graduates like ex Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin, McKinsey Partner Rajat Gupta, Sun Founder and eminent VC Vinod Khosla are giants of international business. More...

Microsoft dominates the PC software market and so it was no surprise that in the last quarter it earned revenue of $19 Billion.  This revenue for 3 months was an increase of 14% from last year.  Net income was $6.66 Billion up 60%.  Even as the Microsoft founder Bill Gates donates billions to charity, the company is underpaying some teenagers in Asia. More...

Cyber law expert Na.Vijayashankar, also known as Naavi in Cyberspace, is one of the most respected names in the Indian tech world.  As Chairman of the Digital Society Foundation and as a Director of Cyber Law College, one of Naavi’s life mottos is “Let’s build a responsible Cyber society”.  More...

International technology giant Computer Sciences Corp (CSC) had revenue of $3.95 Billion in the last quarter.  CSC also told analysts that it had won $6.8 Billion of new business in the last few months – much of which will be managed from India. CSC India is one of the jewels in the crown of this tech behemoth. More...

The USA had set up the H-1B visa program to hire on a short term basis highly skilled workers not available in America.  While many blue chip Indian tech firms follow the letter and spirit of the American law, the ground reality is that some have used every loophole in the H-1B system to bring in low cost workers. More...

The best and brightest among Indian students went to study at IIT, many of whom would later lay the foundation of our booming IT-ITES outsourcing sectors. Now, a professor of one of the elite Indian Institutes of Technology has been warned against raising his voice to demand transparency in the IIT admission process. More...

A recently concluded competition organized by PayPal gave $50,000 in cash and another $50,000 in waived transaction fees to the best application which could be used on its payment system.  An ongoing Nokia competition ‘Calling All Innovators’ gives a first prize of $30,000 to the best application for its phones. More...

ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) describes itself as a not for profit public benefit corporation which coordinates the unique computer identifiers across the world. ICANN started life as an American Government instrument but now gets input from more than 100 countries while formulating policies. More...

On Jan 6, 2010, we had reported on how Hewlett Packard (HP) had teamed up with WWF India and Sanctuary Asia to launch a climate change photo contest. Unlike similar contests by Google and Intel where employees are barred to avoid perceptions of partiality, this photo competition allowed their workers to participate.  And the Judges are from the companies as well. More...

The best and brightest among Indian students study at IIT, and many of its graduates can be credited for laying the foundation of our booming IT-ITES outsourcing sectors.  The first Indian Institute of Technology was launched in May, 1950 in Kharagpur. There are some rumblings of discontent at this prestigious institute. More...