Although telecom secretary Siddharth Behuria has ruled out an immediate ban on Blackberry services, it could still be enforceable if the issue is not resolved soon. The issue on hand is that Blackberry has to allow Government of India security agencies to access the information, whether email or SMS. Currently, all Blackberry emails and text messages are encrypted and the information is hosted in the US and North America, the company does not grant anyone access to it, citing consumer privacy. More...

A software engineer working for respected IT Company HCL could face a life term in jail for the death of his wife Ranjana. The police have booked the techie and his relatives on charges of dowry death. Aged about 25, the deceased was working as deputy manager with a private sector bank HDFC. More...

How would you like to make $500 as reward just for identifying a blogger? Here is how to do it!  Angela Hoy of www.writersweekly.com  is desperately looking for one Poddymouth who is going round impersonating a previous blogger, who has retired and archived her site as on March 17, 2007. More...

By any measure, Aditya Jha who heads global branding for Infosys has had a successful career.  An IIT graduate (degree in Chemical Engineering), Aditya has worked for a number of international advertising companies and won a number of prestigious awards.  Like many successful employees, he tried his hand at business and stumbled and has returned to full-time employment.  Aditya may be regretting some choice of words in a recent article for Indian Express. More...

How does an H1B visa or a green card connect with the popular deity Krishna? Can’t say it actually does, since Krishna went abroad first to the US, long back with the ISKONS! But this time, it isn’t the ISKONs that is sponsoring Krishna worship, but, hold your breath, our own Bill Gates Company,  software giant Microsoft! More...

Dan Edelman has come a long way from his successful media tour in the early 1950s parading twelve pairs of identical twins as a part of his marketing assignment for the Toni Company. His public relations company Edelman is now headed by his son Richard, who is President and CEO although Dan remains the chairman.  Edelman has just released a survey showing low public faith in bloggers and social networking sites. More...

Techgoss had reported the story of the techie Lakshmana Kailas K being jailed wrongly because of a slip-up by Bharti Airtel in identifying an IP address from which a defamatory message was sent. The techie had since been released and in January slapped a mammoth million dollar law suit on the Telecom giant. More...

“Hacking” is one word which piques the interest of everyone in the tech industry.  The dictionary meaning of hack is more innocent and means “someone has to write programming code or add a code to an existing program to solve the problem, because there is no pre-written software that does it”.  The ground realities are that countries like China are launching relentless hacking attacks on other countries. More...