The booming IT-ITES industry in India has empowered many Tech Specialists to drop out and pursue their passions.  But few are more inspiring than IIT Kanpur and Delhi trained Engineer Lalit Pant who gave up a lucrative six figure income in USA to return to Dehradun, India and do social work in the form of teaching children maths, programming and IT. His pay cut? Almost 100% ! More...

Vital Links & Services, the company which runs the Food Court at Thejawani in Technopark, Trivandrum, has alleged that the audit report of restaurants, food outlets and joints in the Technopark campus is part of a sustained malicious campaign by Technopark authorities to oust them from Technopark. The Food audit is an element of the annual Technopark ISO certification Process More...

One of India’s most successful majors HCL Technologies Ltd has posted a 50 percent year on year jump in net profit to Rs 496.7 crore for the first quarter ended September 30, 2011.  The figure for same Quarter was Rs. 331 crore in 2010. HCL told WSJ in Oct that it had joined the ‘No Diwali Bonus’ Camp. But a Techgoss Tipster says HCL has given much to its workers this Diwali. More...

Working in Technopark Trivandrum, Kerala? It’s ok as long as you are not eating anything from the various restaurants, food joints and the outlets of leading food chains there. Food from 18 out of 19 outlets / restaurants / food joints in the Technopark campus, which was audited by a leading IT company there, failed to achieve the minimum standards set for safe consumption. More...

Over the last 20 months, Techgoss had published a series of exclusive reports giving details of all that was happening inside the BPO, KPO and IT divisions of one of India’s most successful IT-ITES companies Syntel.  One report showed how that in the past Syntel BPO was overly reliant on couple of key clients. Also, reported were the sudden exits of the CEO and key HR people. More...

The Microsoft Security Intelligence Report is an investigation of the current global threat landscape. It analyzes exploits, vulnerabilities, and malware based on data from over 600 million systems worldwide, as well as internet services, and three Microsoft Security Centers. The latest Security Threat Report allows you to zoom into the dangers facing countries like India. More...

With the passing of Apple founder Steve Jobs, the world has lost one of the greatest visionaries of the century.  While the Macs, iPod, iPhone and iPad revolutionized the world, Steve, with his unmatched understanding of tech, design and futuristic concepts, had a special fan following in the tech sector. But Indian IT – ITES firms had also blocked Jobs from their computers. More...

Teleperformance (TP) is one of the biggest BPO’s in the world.  It has about 100,000 employees and revenue of 2058 mill pounds last year. Established in 1978, its core business spans the full spectrum of CRM/BPO contact center solutions. Teleperformance has a large global footprint in the industry with 276 contact centers, presence in 51 countries, servicing over 75 markets. More...

Teleperformance (TP) is one of the biggest BPO’s in the world.  It has about 100,000 employees and revenue of 2058 mill pounds last year. Established in 1978, its core business spans the full spectrum of CRM/BPO contact center solutions. Teleperformance has a large global footprint in the industry with 276 contact centers, presence in 51 countries, servicing over 75 markets. More...

IIT Kharagpur alumnus and SAP expert Anirudha Bhattacharjee co-authored a biography on the music maestro R D Burman which is now going places. On April 26, 2011, Techgoss had interviewed Anirudha.  We catch up with Dubai based Anirudha again after "R.D. Burman - The Man and Music” is one of the six books recently short listed for the prestigious Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize. More...