Nasscom, the IT/ITES industry association has said that, Of the general pool of graduates across all streams only 25 per cent have employable skills. When we look specifically at tech graduates then only 35-40 per cent are readily employable The statistics paint a grim picture especially with IT/ITES industry
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Every year, Springboard research releases IT market predictions for many countries including India – we have been covering it for last couple of years and this year is no different. But, before we look at 2011 IT predictions, lets look at what was buzzing in Information Technology sector in
» continue readingNow here is another announcement by Mr. Kapil Sibal – “We have now a policy. All schools will have an ICT (Information and Communications Technology) teacher. We will pay their salary, which is Rs.10,000 per month” I don’t think any other HRD minister has made such significant announcements in
» continue readingI am really sorry folks about the overdose of Satyam. But, I couldn’t resist this. I am suffering from verbal diarrhea when it comes to Satyam. Since, no body listens to me I am putting this down. This is not an attempt to malign Satyam’s reputation nor is this
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Information retrieval via Internet search is now an indispensable tool for billions of people worldwide. Most of us will feel paralyzed even at the thought of not having
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Outsource to countries where the work can be done at cheaper cost than India. And Indian companies are doing exactly that - opening offices before their clients approach these countries by themselves. The advantage Indian companies have is, they have mastered the outsourcing game over last few years. So
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If you walk on the any of the city streets in India, you will rarely see people without mobile phones. More than half of these people have new generation mobile phones sporting big screens and GPRS having internet access. Infact, as per a recent study more than 30 million
» continue readingAccording to recently released Dataquest 2007 salary survey, typical Indian software professional got an average salary increase of 18.7% in 2007, an improvement over 18.3% increase recorded in the previous year. This is revealed by a nation-wide survey carried out by IDC India for CyberMedia group’s flagship publication Dataquest,
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Google Gears is a breakthrough open source technology introduced by Google few months back. It eliminates a requirement of “always on†internet access. The possibilities it presents to application developers are innumerable. Companies like Zoho have already gone offline with certain online applications and it will not be long before
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We are right now is the phase of huge transition in the way we do our work on computers. Hordes of users are moving from Desktop applications to Web apps.Web2.0 applications have taken internet users by storm. The internet usage has increased dramatically, thanks to Social Networking and tons
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