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...

In the United States, politicians have been successfully using social networking to further their political aims. Case in point is Barack Obama who has close to 1 and a half million supporters on his Fan Page on Facebook.  Barack Obama had the foresight to hire Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes to join his team in 2007, a move which paid rich dividends.  Obama has also raised tens of millions of dollars via the net. More...

Yet another incident of anonymous vilification of people by posting lewd remarks and photographs on a social networking website has come to light in Cybercity Gurgaon, India. This time the family of a serving Major in the Indian armed forces has become an innocent victim. The photographs of the Major, his wife and niece coupled with derogatory remarks have been posted on Orkut which is owned by Google. More...

The leading English business newspaper, The Economic Times, had on Monday, 25 August 2008, carried a story on UST Global, which is Kerala’s largest IT services company. With over 5500 employees and offices across four locations in India and many overseas, UST Global is part of the over $6 billion Comcraft group owned by the NRI Chandaria family based in Geneva. ET had reported the possibility of the Comcraft Group selling its stake in UST Global. More...

Terrorists aim to create a climate of fear and insecurity to achieve their ends.  Is India’s generally lax computer security providing terrorists, militants and cranks the opportunities to threaten others without fear of being tracked down? Last month, an organization claiming to be the Indian Mujahideen, hijacked the WiFi connection of Mumbai-based American Ken Haywood to send an email to TV Channels claiming credit for the blasts which killed many. More...

Uday and Vinay Kadbe are shocked brothers-in-arms. Vinay was well employed with Infospectrum India Pvt Ltd at Nagpur. Uday was doing well on his own in the US. When an opportunity presented itself, Vinay referred his brother for a senior job in his company. Uday landed the job given his skill set, and left his cushy life in the US to be back with his family. All went well for over 5 months. Then everything went wrong. More...

Google India has been fighting to protect the rights of an Indian blogger for the last few months. Mumbai-based Gremach hires out heavy equipment to infrastructure projects in India. Gremach has a number of sister companies, one of which took out a controlling stake in coal mines in Mozambique in 2007.  Gremach has a number of high profile clients like the Reliance Group, L&T and Punj Lloyd Ltd among others. More...

The Cyber Crime wing of Gurgaon police have booked an IT professional of an export house on charges of stealing a company’s confidential data containing proprietary designs and other modules. This professional also sold the same data to a rival company in Mumbai through email. The Udyog Vihar based Exports Company Crafts Exports has alleged that the data theft has caused it monetary losses running in millions of rupees.  More...