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Nasscom Says Only 25% Graduates Employable, Is There A Solution?

by Ankit Agarwal on April 11, 2011 |

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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10 Indian IT Market Predictions for 2011 !

by Arun Prabhudesai
Indian IT Market 2010

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 2010. 2010 IT …

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Every School will have an IT Teacher – You just cant stop Sibal, Can you ?

by Arun Prabhudesai

Now 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 education so regular basis, We have [...]

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Satyam banned from World Bank. What else can Satyam do?

by Sriram Vadlamani

I 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 a false news. I couldn’t make [...]

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Internet Search: Can you do without it?

by Arun Prabhudesai
Amount of Search Engine Traffic

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 it.

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Software outsourcing comes a full circle!

by Arun Prabhudesai
Global Economy

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 before countries like Vietnam rise in outsourcing space, they setup shop and capture the market share.

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Should you have a mobile version of your website / Blog?

by Arun Prabhudesai
Mobile Internet phone access

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 Indians have access to internet via mobile phones compared to that with 4.2 million normal subscribers accessing Internet on PCs.

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Indian IT professional’s salary increase one of the highest in world !

by Arun Prabhudesai
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According 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, covering 2,806 IT professionals. This number is one of the highest in the world. Compare this to roughly 2.7% to 3.3% average salary increase in US.

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GMail going offline? Impending death of Microsoft?

by Arun Prabhudesai
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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 most of the apps follow the same direction.
According to the news published in Hindustan Times, GMail is going offline, very soon. Although, there is no way to confirm the authenticity, this is very much a possibility and logical next step for Google

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Are Web Applications replacing Desktop Softwares?

by Arun Prabhudesai
Web Applications Desktop Software

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 of free online Web2.0 apps that are making life much easier for the users.

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Top 5 reasons why Indian IT professionals return back to India

by Arun Prabhudesai

Indian IT professionals, Information technology, homeland, ABCD, American born confused desi, h1b visas, h1b quota, Wage inflation, rising salaries, nasscomm , Western culture, US settled, Yasg Chopra fils, Bollywood

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Bank of India Attack: What went wrong ?

by Arun Prabhudesai

The hack was first reported by Sunbelt Software Inc. researchers and here is the video of what was happening when users went to bank of India site when it was under a hack. An average user would never have imagined what was going on under the hood. See this video and you will know what I am talking about (click on title link if you are seeing it through email)

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Verdict on Indian Software Industry: Best in Quality and price !

by Arun Prabhudesai

India leads the pack in a big way in Global outsourcing game. And it is not due to cheap labor. It is due to High quality that Indian software companies produce. With Indian software wages sky-rocketing, India is no more cheapest. However, quality produced by Indians is still the compelling reasons for companies globally to turn to India to do their work.

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Indian Software companies: Do they need branding?

by Arun Prabhudesai

Is it that Indian software companies do not need branding? I guess that must have been the case till last year. However, with every company spreading its wings globally, it has become imperative for these firms to wake up and aggressively push their brand.
TCS has gone ahead and made a 3 minute TV campaign, which I must say is quite impressive. Actually, this video has been published nearly a month back, however, I just came across it today.

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