The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) — the powerful industry lobby of India’s software and BPO industry — appointed Rajendra Pawar, chairman of NIIT group as its new chairman. Som Mittal will continue to be the President of the organization, arguably India’s most successful industry-lobby. N Chandrasekaran, the CEO and MD of […]
We’ve all heard of newspapers coming out with April Fool’s stories, but a cable leaked by Wikileaks reveals that even the dour diplomats have a funny bone they let out once in a year. The cable, reproduced in entirety below, was authored by the American Embassy in charge Steven White on April 1, 2008 and […]
Despite the protest by a section of the populace the government has reiterated its determination to go head with the Jaitapur nuclear plant. The Chief Minister of Maharashtra,Prithviraj Chavan, after holding meeting with the Prime Minister, ruled out any rethink on the 9900 megawatt nuclear plant. He however said that the compensation package for the […]
Despite humoring the US concerns on Iran when discussing matters like nuclear proliferation, India very much continued to be a ‘behind-the-scenes’ friend to Iran and Myanmar, according to the latest US cables leaked by Wikileaks. According to the late 2006 cable sent from USA’s Finnish embassy in Helsinki, Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh was very […]
Indian IT outsourcing firms, such as TCS and Infosys Technologies, may have to tweak their business plans if Forrester Research’ latest prediction on the evolution of the cloud market turns out true. While the firm has come out with one of the (if not THE) biggest projection for cloud services, albeit by 2020, it has […]
The latest release by whisleblower organization Wikileaks — prisoner stories from the Guantenamo Bay has shed light into the role played by Pakistan in training Taliban militants. Wikileaks started releasing hundreds of prisoner files from the controversial prison set up by the US after it started its attack on Afghanistan ten years ago. “Detainee attended […]
comScore, Inc., one of the top ‘web measurement’ companies, has found that the Netherlands led the world in penetration of mass messaging service twitter and the professional networking service LinkedIn. “The Netherlands is in many ways a nexus of global social networking behavior,” pointed out Mike Read, svp and managing director of comScore Europe. The […]
The Gauntanamo prison records released by the whistleblower site Wikileaks has thrown light on an aborted “parallel” 9/11 attack in Asia that was supposed to take place at the same time as the US attack. According to the records of the prisoner Abd al-Malik Abd al-Wahab, an alleged member of al-Qaida and former Usama Bin […]
Wipro Limited reported March quarter IT Services Revenue at $1,400 million, a sequential increase of 4.2% and YoY increase of 20.1%. The growth is slower than the 5.6% posted in December quarter and the 5.7% growth posted in September quarter, but higher than the 3.2% growth of the June 2010 quarter. It has guided for […]
Many users of Facebook in India were surprised to find a small ‘camera’ icon next to their comment boxes under posts made by others. Indeed, India is one of the early markets to receive the feature, which started rolling out overnight. The feature allows commenters to upload jpeg or png files as part of their […]
Good news for the Indian IT industry as the first three big results have confirmed that attrition — which had reached disturbing levels 3-4 quarters ago, is finally coming under control. Both Infosy and TCS continued to post significant declines in attrition levels in the March quarter. However, HCL Technologies, the country’s fifth largest IT […]
Fund flows from Foreign Institutional Investors reacting to global and local factors is largely behind the sharp fluctuation in the value of the Rupee over the last few days, Crisil Research has said. While predicting that the Indian currency will recover much of the ground lost over the past one month or so, the agency […]
It was a movement started by the KDE group around 3 years ago — radically redesigning how the Linux desktop looks. Since then, Ubuntu — the most popular flavor of Linux out there — latched on and announced it too will radically alter how the computer interface will look. Through all the retching changes, the […]
The government has extended the deadline for electronics manufacturers and importers to get safety certifications for their products due to delays at the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). The original deadline was July 3, after which products that did not meet the safety norms were not to be sold. “Department of Electronics and IT shall […]
Jairam Ramesh, India’s ‘activist’ environment minister, will flag off the first harvesting of bamboo by villagers on 27th under a new law that removes the plant from the list of restricted category. Ramesh has, over the past several days, sent letters to state chief ministers clarifying that bamboo was a grass and not a tree […]
VentureNursery, India’s first angel-backed start-up accelerator has announced an investment in Mumbai-based consumer internet company Smursh Ecommerce, the owners of Klip.in. Klip.in helps users discover unique and interesting lifestyle products across the web by aggregating and curating them based on their social connections and interest graph. Klip.in covers over 5000 products curated from over 100 […]
Three years after the riots of 2002, Michael S Owen, the US Consul General in Mumbai, gave a vivid description of Gujarat reminding readers of Akira Kurosawa’s classic, Rashomon. While NGOs and minority representatives insisted the presence of a ‘communalizing’ government, business leaders and government officials portrayed a picture of normalcy and harmony. In the […]
India has managed to convert nearly 20% of its potential for non-solar renewable energy to installed capacity, but is likely to miss its yearly target this year. According to numbers, the total non-solar installed generation capacity at the end of January 2011 was 18,800 megawatt, almost 1,000 megawatt short of the target. The government had […]
India’s old-world and “capacity-constrained” bureaucracy is the biggest impediment to improving relations its relationship with the US, US embassy officials told Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a briefing paper prepared for her July 2009 visit. According to the Peter Burleigh, the in-charge of the American Embassy in New Delhi, even as the defence forces […]
EvoTV, the Android-based streaming TV box from Amkette, has added support for the Times Group’s BoxTV – an online movie and video service. With the addition of the BoxTV app, EvoTV users can now watch scores of movies available BoxTV, such as Aashiqui.in, in their EvoTV. EvoTV is arguably India’s most popular independent Internet TV […]
