"Real Radia" tapes in Indian 2G scandal on the way
Indian Home Secretary G.K. Pillai has confirmed that around 100 tapes have been leaked to the Indian media in the 2G-Gate scandal. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal he said that the...
View ArticleRatan Tata stirs Indian 2G row pot
An Indian business leader has decided to stick the wooden spoon into the row over the country's 2G licensing policy. Fat cat Ratan Tata, chairman of Tata Group and owner of Tata Teleservices, has...
View ArticleUK India Business Council has "no opinion" on Radia scandal
Earlier this year we posted an expose on the outright dodgy practices of on-shoring in the UK as well as the abuses and tax dodging that companies exploiting an Intra Company Transfer Visa loophole can...
View ArticleInfosys, Wipro, TCS want to hire fired ex-employees
Once fired, now eligible to be hired. That's the case for ex-employees of Indian Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) major player Infosys. Sources close to the Infosys BPO claims that the company...
View ArticleWipro opens development centre in Hungary
Wipro Technologies has announced the opening of a new European development centre in Hungary's capital, Budapest.The Indian outsourcing company, which has received criticism for its part in UK...
View ArticleControversial Huawei proposes $2 billion India market push
Huawei Technologies wants to conquer the Indian market. The Chinese telecoms company is reportedly looking to invest $2 billion in the country within the next five years. Huawei vice president Yao...
View ArticleChild Support Agency computer system gets worse
Blighty's much ridiculed Child Support Agency's computer system is causing costs at the outfit to skyrocket. Part of the problem is that more than 100,000 cases have been deemed too difficult for the...
View ArticleIndian services industry pulls out of Japan
Given the Japanese radiation crisis deepening at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, Indian IT organisations Infosys, Wipro, HCL Technologies, MindTree, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and L&T...
View ArticleMicrosoft makes further bid to capture the Cloud
Mega-corporation Microsoft is attempting to persuade the world and its canine friend to accept its view of cloud computing.And today it claimed that cloud computing is changing the manufacturing...
View ArticleCapgemini buys Prosodie
Capgemini is once again splashing its cash. The services company, which has been raking in the dosh from big contracts from BAA and EDF, has announced it's discussing money with Apax Partners and the...
View ArticleIndian outsourcing companies forced into price cuts
After years of seeing a buoyant services market, India's top players are suffering. According to the Economic Times, back office and software work is hardest hit, where potential clients want to see...
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Argentina telecoms regulator opens net censorship Pandora's Box
The telecoms regulator in Argentina, CNC - National Telecommunications Commission - officially opened the Pandora's Box of internet censorship by caving in to a Federal Judge's order and issuing a...
View ArticleHuawei invests $150 million in Bangalore R&D
Chinese mega-company Huawei is ploughing $150 million into an R&D campus in Bangalore, India. India, China's neighbouring competitive powerhouse, is fertile breeding ground for the network and...
View ArticleTech Mahindra and Mahindra Satyam merge
Two of India's biggest tech companies have announced that they will merge. The marriage of Mahindra Satyam and its parent company Tech Mahindra will make the company the fifth largest software services...
View ArticleUK IT workers betrayed by George Osborne
When the British Coalition government promised to clamp down on immigrant workers who were being exploited at below minimum wage, it is starting to look like it was talking about restaurant chefs - not...
View ArticleIndian based IT service providers grow
The top five Indian based IT service providers are continuing to grow. According to a report by Gartner the companies grew 23.8 percent in 2011, compared to the 7.7 percent of growth for the whole...
View ArticleIndian outsourcers feel the pinch
After being a key part of India's technology boom, the outsourcing industry is suffering. According to Reuters, the woe is due to uncertainty about spending by US and European clients who are a bit...
View ArticleInfosys loses around 8000 staff
Indian IT behemoth Infosys is reportedly losing staff, losing around 8,000 in the first quarter of this year alone. According to a report in the Times of India, the company's mission, which tells...
View ArticleSamsung comes up trumps in Gartner supply chain list
Samsung is the cock on the dunghill in Gartner's Supply Chain Top 25 research of companies based in the Asia Pacific region. The Korean giant beat Chinese companies Lenovo, Huawei and Korea's Hyundai...
View ArticleRatan waves ta-ta to Tata
Ratan Tata has thrown in the towel as his position of chairman at the Tata Group. However, the magnate, whose company is involved in a wide range of sectors, from cheap cars, to software services, to...
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