New Year is fast approaching and the IT companies are hoping to cash in on techies who are planning expensive holidays abroad with referral bonuses.  Gone are days when employees were awarded food coupons and Rs. 5,000 cash reward as referral bonus. Now, Internal Referral is the ‘in thing’ in most of the IT/ITeS and BPO sectors. More...

Out here in the business jungle the customer is king, and they say in the web world, content is king. So what of the content creator? Is he/she a king maker?  You bet! But king makers are notoriously badly treated and things are no different in the case of writers! As the internet opens more opportunities to connect the business requirements between the rich countries and talent in India,  a number of scam artists are also stepping in to exploit this cross border trade. More...

Techgoss gets many of its stories via anonymous tips.  We received a particularly juicy one this morning. Hindustan Times is one of the most powerful media groups in North India.   It has tied up with the respected Wall Street Journal to start a business newspaper named Mint. More...

‘It’s probably the toughest Diwali in the history of HR industry’ quips one HR Manager. As though retaining employees was not difficult enough, now comes the challenge of making them work on India’s most sought after festival season. More...

Unknown hackers have gained unauthorized entry into the official website of the IT solution provider company KLG Systel Limited and have deleted vital information including login and application modules. The company with a pan-India presence and head office in Gurgaon has reported the matter to the police officials who have registered a case of cyber crime against the hackers.  The police Cyber Crime Cell have sought the help of experts from the IT industry including NASSCOM. More...

A senior executive of IBM-Daksh was caught up in a long, protracted ‘war of wits’ with a group of local journalists recently when his car accidentally hit a scribe’s car outside a shopping mall in Gurgaon. Being driven by his driver, the Hyundai Accent was turning back to pick up the wife of the executive when it hit the parked car of a reporter of a national news TV channel. More...

There is much to admire and emulate about India.  Perhaps one of its most admirable qualities is the motherly way in which she has accepted and assimilated all religions and cultures.   The foundation of such tolerance is built on the maturity of introspection and a respect of other viewpoints by its citizens. More...

Local police have approached the Gurgaon-based offices of Google for collecting documentary evidence against the techie who had posted lewd remarks against a girl  studying law on its community site Orkut recently. Google owns the social networking web portal Orkut on which the techie Sameer had posted coarse remarks about the legal student. More...

It’s said, a friend in need is a friend indeed. But does this saying hold good even now? Shaji Yusuf, a techie working with Intel in Bangalore had gone to help his friend, Yaseen Mohammed who was arrested by the Delhi Police in a conversion case. Yaseen is also a software engineer with IBM in Bangalore. But Shaji was also taken into custody for helping his friend. He has been charged for giving support to Yaseen. Now both the software engineers from Bangalore are in a Delhi jail. More...

Every tech professional is aware of the growing demand for skilled computing workers in USA, Europe and Australia.  The reasons are varied -  growing economies and computerization,  globalization, rising rupee and the inability of IT giants like India  to accept more major contracts due its own shortage of skilled computing staff.  And there was a time when it seemed that most computing jobs would be outsourced to tech behemoths like India due to their high quality and competitive costs. More...