McKinsey is among the top brands in the world and a number of Governments and blue chip companies value the advice of this respected management consulting firm.  Earlier this month techgoss had reported on how Visual Graphics, McKinsey’s BPO in Trivandrum, has failed to pay a Placement Agency’s fees.  And despite polite requests from the Placement Agency in Kerala, due payments had stalled. More...

On July 25, murderous terrorists struck the peaceful, cosmopolitan tech hub of Bangalore.  The terrorists aim was to cause fear and inflict economic damage to the increasingly prosperous Indian society.   The tech sector in India’s Silicon Valley paused, took stock of the situation and bravely soldiered on.  Even on the day of the attack while some mobile phones did not work for short periods, landlines and internet worked well.  Many tech-savvy locals ‘twittered’ to keep in contact. More...

There is a fine balance between the often astronomical prices charged by software companies and doing all that is necessary to spread computing in developing countries.  If you try to charge a poor man thousands of rupees for an operating system or to use MS Word, do not pretend to be shocked if he makes a copy rather than buy it. Some States like Kerala and Tamil Nadu have to be commended for pushing open source so that their middle and lower classes can cross the digital divide. More...

Kerala has been long touted as a role model not just to the country but the world as well in several areas like health and literacy; and the free software initiative is a prominent paragraph in the IT policy of its state government. It supports the use, development and even promises a mandate for the use of free software and has done the migrations already in a number of government offices, institutions and schools. More...