Public Relations firm Waggener Edstrom Worldwide has 800 employees in 16 countries.  In the past, Waggener Edstrom was named European Technology Agency of the Year.  Its clients include tech giants like Microsoft and Toshiba.  Like most communication agencies, it has mastered new media like blogs, Facebook and Twitter. More...

She modestly says she has done ‘some other interesting things, like research as a biomedical scientist, solder on rocket payloads, teach French, volunteer with both abused women and abused animals, and work for a nonprofit healthcare organization’. Meet Vanitha Sankaran, techie, whose debut novel “Watermark’ is making waves. More...

The Readers Digest is the world’s largest circulation magazine.  The Readers Digest Association publishes 92 magazines, including 50 editions of Readers Digest, to reach an audience of 130 million worldwide. Readers Digest India has just published its list of the most trusted Indians which includes a number of IT managers. More...

US-based Indian origin Tech firm Apex Technology Group had initiated legal action against American blogs EndH1B, Itgrunt and Guestworkerfraud. Apex, which counts IBM, Microsoft, UBS and other blue chip companies as clients, wanted to protect its reputation after EndH1B published a post accusing it allegedly of mistreating Indians on H1B Visas. More...

United States based whistle blowing website Cryptome has been operating for 14 years and has published many secret documents that Governments and powerful corporations wanted to keep out of the public eye. Despite threats from some FBI agents, big business and a legal notice from Yahoo, it survived and soldiered on. More...

Over the last six months, Techgoss had published a series of exclusive reports giving details of all that was happening inside BPO Syntel.  One report showed how that in the recent past Syntel was overly reliant on couple of key clients.  Techgoss had also reported on the exit of the CEO and senior HR people at Syntel. More...

As many as 85 percent of all the emails in the world are spam selling everything from Viagra to designer watches from Hong Kong. The Spamhaus Project is an international nonprofit organization whose mission is to track the Internet's spam operations and to provide dependable real-time anti-spam protection for networks. More...

Three small Philippine tech firms have broken a seemingly glass ceiling and are getting ready to hit the big time after winning  a pitch competition organized by Silicon Valley investment firm Plug N Play held in Feb, 2010. Now they can take their act to Silicon Valley and get much needed investment funding from venture Capitalists. More...

Four call center agents from Sitel Philippines have been suspended for sending text messages with the "F' word in it. They are going to get the axe for their dumb deed no doubt. I've been in the Philippines IT-ITES industry long enough to have seen, heard or learned about dumb things that can happen in a call center office. More...

Every week, Indian mainstream media reports on multi million dollar outsourcing contracts signed by IT-ITES majors like TCS, Wipro, Infosys and Genpact.  Even as the deals worth hundreds of crores are being signed and serviced, individual Indians and small firms are working on projects sometimes worth only 100 dollars. More...