August 22, 2009 – 10:17 am
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August 16, 2009 – 1:25 pm
One of the biggest problems due to the proliferation of social networking is the spam invites you receive from perfect strangers to the various social networking websites. I am extremely careful online, but I still face this deluge of unwanted mails. The worst culprits are: Facebook – “Check out my photos” - who wants to [...]
August 12, 2009 – 11:46 am
Like a movie sequel , my Airtel prepaid balance is again being debited for Rs 3 for Thought for the day service to which I have never subscribed. In June I was facing this Airtel prepaid problem and after repeated follow up, I managed to get a refund. Now in the space of 30 minutes [...]
Though India is a very diverse country, one of the things I have noticed is the complete lack of diversity in the employee profile of most software / internet companies in India. Everyone comes from similar socio-economic backgrounds, age and have similar interests. Even bloggers/ websites are very similar in nature and their opinions. One [...]
As this article indicates, corporate espionage is widespread in India today , and some Indian companies are very careless about their internal security systems. With the lifestyle people lead, “integrity is the cheapest commodity that can be purchased in India today” and I will write more about it later. In the internet sector, you will [...]
These articles on Cybercrime networks in Mumbai and the e-crooks confirms what something that has troubled me for the last two years. From the article The latter two cases indicate social engineering, where the victim has been spied on and cultivated. The Pune man had to have had a reason to believe he had African [...]
Nice article on what happens to female school and college toppers in India , more than 50% end up wasting their talent and skills. Most of the women who are showcased by the media belong to a rich/ famous family – they are some one’s wife / daughter / daughter-in-law / girlfriend and owe their [...]
India Today, India’s largest magazine publisher is not going to spend any more money on digital media, they are not getting the returns they want. You can make money from content, but you have to keep your overheads really low. Most big Indian media companies have plush offices and highly paid employees( very important for [...]
Infosys has fired 2100 employees and a confirmation from ex-Infosys employees about layoffs. The problem is that when you provide services to only a few major customers, your fortunes are tied to how well their business does. Compared to developing a product, providing a service is not very risky , but is very labour intensive. [...]
So salaries are being reduced in the mainstream media companies, earlier there was talk of layoffs too. Unlike the developed countries where major newspapers are closing their print editions, the mainstream media has flourished in India in the last few years. However, at least for the English language papers, it is going to be a [...]