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Gartner Predictions On Enterprise and Social Media Marriage

by Ankit Agarwal on February 4, 2010

I sometimes wonder if Online is going to become synonymous with Social Media in times to come.Everyone is talking about it at length,there are new start-ups emerging from everywhere which seemingly help you tap the social media platform and convert it into increasing business.The B2C segment has seemingly made good progress in leveraging Social Media [...]

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A Job Portal For Aspirants With Disabilities, courtesy Nasscom

by Ankit Agarwal

Nasscom (National Association of Software and Services Companies) is going to launch a dedicated job portal that will facilitate recruitment for persons with disability by creating a repository of applicants, available skill-sets and potential recruiters.

This is one of the first initiatives that Nasscom has taken after the formation of Nasscom’s disability advisory group (DAG). In [...]

1 comment February 3, 2010 Continue Reading →

Indian IT company of the 2009 – Wipro / IT buzzword of the 2009 – Cloud Computing

by Arun Prabhudesai
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Springboard research, a leading IT research firm recently released their survey called “Indian IT Market Predictions 2010”, in which along with predictions for 2010 they also named the IT company of the year award, which went to Wipro Technologies. I think Wipro has been one of the companies which has stayed away from too [...]

2 comments February 1, 2010 Continue Reading →

20 Mbps Broadband From MTNL , Too Good To Be True

by Ankit Agarwal
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High Speed Internet Connectivity in India might as well be called an Oxymoron.Despite the larger than life claims from the Service providers, the broadband speeds have been rather sub standard or even if they deliver on the speed , the uptime and the pricing negate the effect.

We keep pondering over why E-Commerce has not taken [...]

7 comments December 31, 2009 Continue Reading →

Mobile Application Platform from Infosys – Flypp !

by Ankit Agarwal
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Its high time our IT service providers moved into Product development (especially for Web & Mobile) and creating IP for themselves rather than just servicing clients. These are the companies best suited to take the risk creating cutting edge products (Why does it have to be Google all the time :) – and what better [...]

8 comments December 15, 2009 Continue Reading →

Will Just in Time Recruitment in IT Industry work?

by Prateek Gupta
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I have always believed that the Indian IT services ran a close ship with analogies to the traditional manufacturing industries. I actually wrote a satire post distinctly relating the IT industry concepts with the Supply Chain Management. However, with the latest news coming in with Wipro and TCS talking of revamping recruitment structure [...]

1 comment December 9, 2009 Continue Reading →

IBM takes Crowdsourcing to the next level with its Real Time Translation Project

by Ankit Agarwal
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If you thought crowdsourcing only worked for creating marketing/design campaigns and soliciting community feedback, think again? IBM is changing that and taking crowdsourcing to the next level with its latest project. Christened N.Fluent , the project is a text translation based project which has been internally crowdsourced among IBM employees.The project is currently used company’s [...]

1 comment December 5, 2009 Continue Reading →

SFO helping Bangalore to be the next valley ?

by Ankit Agarwal
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Bangalore, the next Silicon Valley? Now, the community has always been divided on this one. With its early mover advantage and it being home to probably the highest technology companies in India , some say Bangalore is ‘the’ contender to become the next Silicon Valley. A certain section of the community is very clear that [...]

6 comments December 1, 2009 Continue Reading →

10 days after launch Windows 7 still not available to consumers

by Arun Prabhudesai
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We have written a lot about it and have been blown away with the new operating system called Windows 7. One of the very few products that has managed to create right kind of buzz ! Indian Consumers were quite happy that not only did Microsoft offer discounted rates to them, but also introduced [...]

2 comments November 3, 2009 Continue Reading →

Top 20 I.T Employers in India

by Arun Prabhudesai
Top Reasons why people change jobs

Yeah, we have a top list today for our readers today – The best 20 Information Technology Employers in India. The survey was conducted by Dataquest and IDC jointly – The DQ-IDC Best Employers Survey. This survey surprisingly does not feature the big 4 IT companies in India – Infosys, TCS, Wipro, [...]

5 comments September 12, 2009 Continue Reading →

Finally the mad rush for H1Bs is over !

by Arun Prabhudesai
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This probably is for the first time in the decade that H1B visa are under a threat of not filling its full quota of H1b visa’s. More than 20,000 H1B visa’s are still vacant and there are less than 3 weeks remaining to fill that up.

(update: These remaining  H1B Visa’s can be filled up till [...]

5 comments September 10, 2009 Continue Reading →

Is shifting vendors that plug and play?

by Sriram Vadlamani
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BP has reduced its IT vendors from 40 to 5. IBM, Accenture and the three Indian musketeers – Wipro, TCS and Infosys – are the chosen five. It takes a lot of gumption for any company to reduce the vendor dependency. When I first heard the news, I was like, [...]

6 comments August 27, 2009 Continue Reading →

Top 10 Riskiest Outsourcing locations in the world

by Arun Prabhudesai
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We have published number of posts over last couple of years on , best managed outsourcing companies and , but this list is exactly opposite to that.

This list gives you the riskiest cities to outsource your work. If you are looking to outsource your work to any of these countries, think twice !

This list has been published by Black Book of Outsourcing who have been doing it for last 3 years.

The rankings of the riskiest places are based on factors like high terrorist or rebel target threats, uncontrolled environment waste and pollution, corruption and organised crime, unstable currency, geopolitical conditions and unsecured networks and technology.

Here are the top 10 riskiest cities for outsourcing.

1 comment August 7, 2009 Continue Reading →

Is IT Sector Killing Itself and The Young Minds By Keeping Them “On Bench”

by Arun Prabhudesai
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Figure out a few of the headlines in recent times,

“18,000 People On The Bench At Infosys”

“Mahindra Satyam places 500 associates on bench”

Not that this practice is something new, but it has never ceased to riddle me. Moreover, in the current economic downturn, with companies battling it out to maintain their profitability, these headlines sure signal a cause of worry.

I had wanted to write on it for quite sometime, but it was not until that I read this piece by Sramana Mitra who is asking what these 18,000 people are doing (Infosys Headline).

Not sure if I can answer this, since I was lucky enough to be un-benched quite early after joining the job. But, I have had my experiences and the ones I gathered from people around me. And believe me, they are anything but nice.

18 comments August 6, 2009 Continue Reading →

Identity Theft – Will it be the downside of Unique ID Project?

by Arun Prabhudesai
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There are so many articles surrounding the advantages of National UID system in India. Here are some of the advantages I see going forward.

  1. Increased efficiency in public spending
  2. To control corruption at Govt offices
  3. More transparent and efficient voting system
  4. Better Tax payments (long way to go ,though.)

But like every other initiative there is a distinct drawback here. It is that of having a central identification system, which Mr. Nilekani might have noticed – It is identity fraud.

9 comments August 4, 2009 Continue Reading →
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