Three small Philippine tech firms have broken a seemingly glass ceiling and are getting ready to hit the big time after winning  a pitch competition organized by Silicon Valley investment firm Plug N Play held in Feb, 2010. Now they can take their act to Silicon Valley and get much needed investment funding from venture Capitalists. More...

Four call center agents from Sitel Philippines have been suspended for sending text messages with the "F' word in it. They are going to get the axe for their dumb deed no doubt. I've been in the Philippines IT-ITES industry long enough to have seen, heard or learned about dumb things that can happen in a call center office. More...

Every week, Indian mainstream media reports on multi million dollar outsourcing contracts signed by IT-ITES majors like TCS, Wipro, Infosys and Genpact.  Even as the deals worth hundreds of crores are being signed and serviced, individual Indians and small firms are working on projects sometimes worth only 100 dollars. More...

Popular micro blogging platform Twitter projects itself as a hub for information sharing. Twitter describes Indian Minister, Shashi Tharoor, as a Twitter Advocate. In Oct, Twitter banned Techgoss writer and satirist Techgirl for spoofing Shashi.  On Nov 1, Twitter suspended an Indian who politely questioned Shashi Tharoor about that ban. More...

On Jan 6, 2010, we had reported on how Hewlett Packard (HP) teamed up with WWF India and Sanctuary Asia to launch a climate change photo contest. Unlike similar contests by Google and Intel where employees are barred to avoid perceptions of partiality, this photo competition allowed their workers to participate.  And the Judges are from the companies as well. More...

Most Indians are resigned to the fact that registering complaints with the Police is a waste of time.  Sometimes, the police will actively discourage minor complaints because they want to avoid the paperwork and show low crime figures. A report showed that there was not a single conviction for cyber crime in Bangalore. More...

There have been few public debates more heated than the one about introducing genetically modified Brinjal in India. Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has announced that he has ‘temporarily shelved’ the introduction of such brinjals which had been objected to by farmers, environmentalists, scientists and some governments. More...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is highly regarded for its courageous battles to protect human and civil rights.  It is staffed by idealists who have taken huge pay cuts to work for a cause they believe in. It has the same credibility as public interest organizations like Greenpeace and Red Cross. More...

While NASSCOM does a good job promoting the business interests of the Indian IT-ITES sectors, some of its conferences provide good reasons for many people to enjoy a junket.  Stay in a five star hotel in Mumbai.  Lots of speakers saying the same things.  Much networking, backslapping and boozy parties after ‘work’ is over. More...

Over the last six months, Techgoss had published a series of exclusive reports giving details of all that was happening inside BPO Syntel.  One report showed how that in the recent past Syntel was overly reliant on couple of key clients.  Techgoss had also reported on the exit of the CEO and senior HR people at Syntel. More...