Last week, the Indian Government announced that it had appointed Infosys co-founder and current co-Chairman, Nandan Nilekani, as Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India.  Nandan will be given a Cabinet Rank and a budget of billions of dollars.  Nandan has said that he will get the first National ID Cards rolling out in less than 2 years. More...

Aegis BPO, in its quest to becoming a $500 million dollar company, is on an acquisition spree.  With more than 30 thousand employees in 31 offices around the world, Aegis is telling analysts that it plans to add 1,000 employees a month to meet its target of a double digit growth in 2009.  Aegis staff are reeling after the quick exits of two senior female managers. More...

Nokia dominates the Indian phone market.  Last week, it launched a contest via 5 leading Indian blogs where readers could get a chance to win ten N97 phones.  Each phone is valued at approximately Rs. 35,000. Nokia wanted to promote its new model.  The respected Indian blogs ‘engaged’ their readers with a coveted prize.  The readers won a great mobile phone.  More...

Intel is the dominant chip player in the world and controls 80 percent of the $40 billion market.  Intel chips have stood the test of time and rugged conditions and drive most of the personal computers and laptops in the world. But the recession is biting and Intel first quarter profits this year was only $647 million as compared to $1.44 billion in 2008. More...

Nokia is the dominant phone company in India.  It had the foresight and business acumen to see the potential in India much before its rivals.  And Nokia does produce quality phones. But Nokia is facing bitter competition and is losing some market share across the globe. Nokia India has launched a contest for its new phone N97, but its fine print is scaring many. More...

Like many Indians, I subscribe to the view that the majority of Pakistani’s want peace and harmony with India.  The people are exactly the same and techies from both countries perform equally well. The only difference is the leadership.  While we have men like Manmohan Singh, they have Zardari and Musharaff. An international tech contest has now excluded Pakistan. More...

Yahoo picture site and community Flickr is popular in India and the rest of the world. Flickr users have uploaded more than 3 billion photos.  Flickr also offers a premium service to its users which enables them to have more space, speed and preferential help from the service desk. Now Yahoo is being accused of removing the personal photos of an anti-Obama protestor. More...

22 year old Sunny Vaghela is your ‘friendly neighbourhood cyberman’ in all respects. This cyber-whiz has notched up impressive achievements like helping the Crime Branch solve the blast cases in Ahmedabad and Mumbai by tracing emails sent by terrorists.  He is also credited with solving a number of cases involving fake Orkut profiles as well as SMS spoofing. More...

When you logon to Yahoo or Google to check out the news, network or blog, there is a reasonable expectation of privacy.  After all, when you first logged on to Yahoo, its terms of service assured you that it does not share your data with third parties.  While most websites like Yahoo do not share your data with third parties, it is given to hundreds of affiliates.  More...

Sparsh is the domestic subsidiary of Intelenet Global Services.  It offers state of the art solutions to Vertical Industries to meet their voice and BPO needs.  In 2008, Sparsh had 5200 seats operating 24 by 7, and was telling investors that it had the potential to scale up to 20,000 seats by next year.  But it has lost a number of key clients in the last year. More...