Hewlett Packard India is a Rs. 16,000 crore well run company poised for even greater success.  It’s 48 year old Managing Director, Neelam Dhawan, resigned from Microsoft to rejoin HP. Hewlett Packard proudly advertises itself as “India’s No 1 technology company” and its businesses include PCs, laptops, servers, printers and even BPOs. It has a growth rate of 30% a year. More...

The Weblog Awards are the world's largest blog competition with over 545,000 votes cast in the 2007 edition, and nearly two million votes cast in all editions since 2003.  This year record votes were cast for the 48 categories.  A popular Indian blog ‘India Uncut’ which feared vote rigging in the ‘Best Asian Blog’ category has now graciously conceded to the winner. More...

Heard of Ada Lovelace? No? Or is it yes, and can’t place her? Okay, what about Charles Babbage? Ah, does that ring a bell? Well, Augusta Ada King or the Countess of Lovelace, or the English poet Lord Byron's only legitimate child was one of the world's first computer programmers. This techie pioneer wrote the very first description of a computer and of software. More...

The Weblog Awards are the world's largest blog competition with over 545,000 votes cast in the 2007 edition, and nearly two million votes cast in all editions since 2003.  This year, voting has been popular with record votes cast so far, and frenzied last minute participation as the deadline of Jan 13, 2009 approaches. Now an Indian finalist is claiming vote rigging. More...

SPACE, not as in galaxy or universe, is the Society for Promotion of Alternative Computing and Employment, and is a non-governmental organization in Kerala which has been in the news recently for bagging several of the ostensibly big-budget projects under the Kerala IT Mission.  Last month, prestigious national paper Indian Express published an ‘investigation’ into SPACE More...

New year 2009 began on a bad note for the Managing director of a software solutions company, E-ware Technologies of Gurgaon, as a local Court remanded him into 14-day judicial custody in Gurgaon Jail on Jan 2. E-ware MD Rajeev Nagpal and HR manager Shalu Sharma were arrested on Dec 30 by police on charges of criminal breach of trust and intimidation inflicted on engineers. More...

In India, politics rules. In Kerala it is a way of life of the people; the cent per cent literate politically conscious people take politics as a part of their daily bite. Not surprisingly, the Government of Kerala takes huge steps to promote free software and wage battles against proprietary software as well, probably as a part of a left wing stand against American MNCs. More...

Yesterday, I-flex solutions, the premium technology company that became a stalwart in finance vertical with flexcube - the core banking product - was truly one of the big fish in the pond.  Today, it became just another company to merge with Oracle. It seems to become petite by the day.  And the cost cutting steps include the stoppage of free snacks and travel. More...

The British High Commission saved an IT professional from falling prey to a fraudulent GSM Promotion that promised to ‘reward’ him 450,000 pounds.  The sender of the SMS remained in touch with the WNS employee for about ten days through phone calls and emails using a fictitious name Garry Miller before finally promising to meet him outside the office of High Commission  More...

Indian tech powerhouse Infosys held its 13th Annual Awards for Excellence 2008 ceremony this week.  Being an international company, the ceremony was held across 12 locations.  The Annual Awards for Excellence is the biggest event in the Infosys calendar to recognize the achievements of Infoscions.  Indian cricket super hero Anil Kumble graced the occasion as well. More...