In the United States, politicians have been successfully using social networking to further their political aims. Case in point is Barack Obama who has close to 1 and a half million supporters on his Fan Page on Facebook.  Barack Obama had the foresight to hire Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes to join his team in 2007, a move which paid rich dividends.  Obama has also raised tens of millions of dollars via the net.More...

Yet another incident of anonymous vilification of people by posting lewd remarks and photographs on a social networking website has come to light in Cybercity Gurgaon, India. This time the family of a serving Major in the Indian armed forces has become an innocent victim. The photographs of the Major, his wife and niece coupled with derogatory remarks have been posted on Orkut which is owned by Google.More...

Foreign currency and gold coins worth Rs. 5.5 lakhs have gone missing in mysterious circumstances from the premier business process and IT services company Keane India Limited in Gurgaon, India. The police officials who are investigating the case are perplexed about the theft as all the access-controlled doors and locks of the safe where the currency and coins were safely stored have been found to be intact. More...

Copyrights? Yes! Patents? No! The Free Software Users Group in India emphatically protested against a back door attempt to create patents out of what is considered at par with an art form in the field of IT, viz. software. They held a candle light vigil attended by more than a 100 people in Bangalore, on the 23rd August 2008 in front of the Town Hall in India’s Silicon City.More...

The recent opening up of the Telecom business has been very rewarding for the likes of Chandan.  Highly regarded Chandan Ghosh has moved from Airtel (VP and Chief of ILD) to Aircel (Head ILD, NLD & WiMax).  In a telecon with Chandan, he said that his stint at Airtel has been very rewarding and he has decided to move on since his new job provides a challenging assignment. More...

After the recent turbulence at the Barclays Bank India Process in Sparsh, a new Vice President has been recruited and has joined since the past week. Vijay Venkatesh, the Vice President of Sparsh BPO Services handling  the Barclays process in the West and South,  has begun the handover of the Barclays Process to the new Vice President ArindamMore...