Tech giant Microsoft and its proprietary operating systems are being increasingly challenged as more Governments and businesses opt for the cost and flexibility of open source.  Indian State Governments like Kerala, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal have taken a number of steps to ensure they are not locked into proprietary software and its associated restrictions and costs. More...

US-based Brown and Wilson Group offer themselves as experts in the outsourcing business.  Every year, Brown and Wilson release a Black Book which gives readers an up to date snapshot of the outsourcing world.  Separately to the Black Book, they have now produced a downstream risk metric for offshore outsourcing decision makers to identify and prioritize outsourcing hubs. More...

Pune-based Ravi Ghate runs a local SMS Community Newsletter service and his motto is ‘From Zero for Zeros.’ In 2006, he won the National Youth Award, Government of India’s highest award given to Youth Social Workers in India for his contribution in “Computer Literacy Mission” & “Technology for the Masses.” In 2007, he received the prestigious Manthan Award. More...

Wait! Before you call your lawyer to sue me for libel; I am not talking about your er…character or qualities! Nor am I making war on the inhabitants of Mallu Pradesh! ‘Fraud Mallu’ for your information is an Orkut community of Mallus, for Mallus and by Mallus, only you need to be a pardesi mallu or Marunadan mallu as they say in Malayalam. More...

The Kerala Police has arrested the CEO of an unauthorised Call Centre in Kochi last week on the basis of a complaint from BSNL authorities regarding unpaid telephone bills. According to the complaint lodged with the police, Mohammed Ali of Kozhikode took a connection from BSNL under the super mega scheme for his firm Malabar Infoway in Kochi, but refused to pay for it. 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”.   Naavi’s views are highly regarded and he is regularly quoted by Indian media. More...

Indian roadside eatery Convergys Dhaba, popular amongst the BPO agent fraternity, just outside the Convergys BPO in tech hub Gurgaon, is in the line of fire again. After being demolished by the enforcement wing for its unauthorized location on the green belt along the National Highway in January, the Dhaba has relocated to a place next to the boundary wall of the BPO.  More...

24/7 Wall St. is an American corporation that manages a financial news and opinion operation with content delivered over the Internet. 24/7 articles are purchased by established news organizations like TheStreet.com, AOL Finance and even the prestigious The Wall Street Journal online.  24/7 has done the math and worked out the dollar values of popular American blogs. More...

A 23-year old girl studying at a B-School in tech hub NOIDA, India allows herself to be filmed doing a strip tease for her boyfriend and fellow student.  She then uploads it to her computer and shares her passwords with her boyfriend.  The couple breaks up and things get messy.  Police now allege that he hacked into the computer to send out the video to all her contacts. More...

Swedish company Pingdom was founded by Sam Nurmi with “a very strong and narrow focus. That focus lies on covering the uptime monitoring needs of 90% of the companies in the world.”  By all accounts, the technology used by Pingdom provides a quality service to customers in 131 countries. Pingdom is now reporting on the downtime for social networking websites in 2008. More...