On March 16, 2011, Microsoft announced that the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit, in cooperation with industry and academic experts, had successfully taken down the Win32 / Rustock botnet. At the time of the takedown, Rustock was estimated to have had approximately a million infected computers operating under its control and was sending billions of spam email messages every day. More...

Indian technology giant Infosys had set new high standards for other Indian businesses to aspire to.  But its golden image has been tarnished by a number of incidents including a new HR initiative which saw many Infosys employees bitterly complain on public forums.  Recently, the US Government initiated a detailed investigation into Infosys misusing temporary working visas. More...

(Techgoss note: The following article is evidence of how the new IT laws can be misused by some).  Kochhar & Co managing partner Rohit Kochhar has withdrawn a case against Legally India in the Cyber Regulations Appellate Tribunal on Friday, which had passed a stay order five weeks ago prohibiting Legally India from publishing any material relating to any of Kochhar’s disputes. More...

Bangalore based The Centre for Internet and Society describes its vision and mission to ‘critically engage with concerns of digital pluralism, public accountability and pedagogic practices, in the field of Internet and Society, with particular emphasis on South - South dialogues and exchange’. CIS filed a RTI with the Govt of India and had scooped the list of banned websites. More...

Bangalore based VidTeq describes itself as having a mission to help with providing driving directions and locating a business.  Their product Video Map is a video clip of the complete route between source and destination with rich features (business logos, background music, turn-by-turn audio overlay, road names etc.) embedded into it. Their site gets 500K visitors a month. More...

By any standards of the world, Indian tech major HCL is a successful company.  HCL was launched in 1976 and successfully overcame a number of obstacles in the pre PM Singh liberalization era to grow from strength to strength.  Today, it employs 62,000 professionals in 26 countries looking after many blue chip clients. HCL announced revenue of $915 Million in the last Quarter. More...

Till 2010, Indian origin Rajat Gupta was one of the biggest success stories on the international business stage.  IIT educated Rajat Gupta went on to do an MBA from Harvard and the rest is history.  He made tens of millions of dollars as Managing Director of McKinsey for 3 terms.  The now discredited Rajat used to be one of the key players of the powerful Indian lobby in USA. More...

Over the last year, Techgoss has conducted at least 2 photo competitions and published a number of exclusive human interest photos with some IT, BPO, KPO and Telecom links to the images.   In July, 2010, during our first Photo Competition, Techgoss had published exclusive photos of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg attired in Indian clothes and dancing at a wedding in India. More...

UK based CRF works out a best employers list in many countries. It claims its independent research is also audited by Grant Thornton. According to CRF, ‘using international standards, the Top Employers project identifies the front-runners in excellent HR management. Our unique approach is characterized by HR policy based research, objectivity and an independent assessment’. More...

Over the last 15 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 recent past Syntel BPO was overly reliant on couple of key clients. Also, reported were the exits of the CEO and key HR people. More...