The US had set up the H-1B visa program to hire on a short term basis highly skilled workers not available in America.  The ground reality is that some tech firms have used every loophole in the H-1B system to bring in low cost workers.  The ongoing misuse of the visas is an open secret. Now an anti H1B and anti Indian site has banned Indians from posting comments. More...

ChaCha.com describes itself as a ‘Human powered search engine’.  While the market is not sure if it will succeed, ChaCha investors are sufficiently impressed to pump in more than $60 Million. Any American can call/text any question to ChaCha and its staff will answer via a text message. ChaCha has a youngish audience with many in their teens.  More...

Aegis is one of the leading BPO’s in India and part of the $40 Billion Essar Group Aegis has more than 30 thousand employee’s world wide. After the recent loss of a number of respected HR managers, there is increased friction in the company. Recently, dozens of trainees of Aegis BPO stoned its building in Infocity just off the Gurgaon Expressway. More...

Pramod Bhasin, President and CEO of Genpact, is going the Narayana Murthy way. In recent times, the Genpact top brass have been reshuffled to reflect his choices and succession planning going forward. In February, Tiger Tyagarajan, the erstwhile Executive VP and Head of Sales, Marketing & Business Development, and the Americas Operations, took over as the COO. More...

Wikipedia is one of the top 20 websites accessed by Indians.  Apart from being a rich source of research and educational material,   it can be credited as one of the greatest achievements of idealistic, global volunteer effort. Started in 2001, it is widely regarded as a reliable source of news, research and information. Now Wikipedia wants a factual NASSCOM entry. More...

LIRNEasia describes itself as a regional information and communication technology (ICT) policy and regulation capacity-building organization active across the Asia Pacific.  Put simply, it is a think tank and research body which strives to improve the lives of the people in the Asia Pacific. Now, its research is being touted to say that only Indians make missed calls. More...

Google dominates the online search market and Google Apps products like gmail are hugely popular. So, whenever Google announces a new product or feature, it is picked up by most newspapers, TV Stations and blogs.  In the media’s quest to outdo each other and ‘engage’ their readership, excitement and exaggeration drive the first cut of news. Cold reality is more boring. More...

Blog SpicyIP is easily the leader in its niche in India.  Along the way, it was won a number of awards and accolades.  In May 2008, Lexis Nexis listed it as a top IP blog.  The US Library of Congress describes Spicy IP as a useful online IP resource.  And there are many more experts worldwide for whom Spicy IP is mandatory reading. It was the first to report on Satyam. More...

As many of our anonymous cowards, not to forget the FakeIPLplayer, will tell you – anonymity has its own thrills. Unfortunately for some of their anonymous brethren in the United Kingdom, a recent decision of the High Court of that country has held that anonymous bloggers cannot restrain another person from stripping them of their cloak of anonymity. More...

While Facebook is the hottest social networking website in the world, its domination is not absolute.  Google’s Orkut was the first to move into India and Brazil and has a commanding lead in both these countries. Till 2008, it seemed that Orkut would continue its domination in India and would manage to face off the Facebook challenge. Now Orkut is nervous. More...