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 [...]
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. [...]
Though Google’s official motto is “Do no evil” , they certainly do hire evil employees. Internet marketer sues Google employee . When I was using Adsense on my websites , I always felt that the code was used to track the websites I owned , how I marketed them, how I gathered content for my [...]
March 14, 2009 – 10:44 am
This recent ragging death has got a lot of media coverage. The students who suffer the most are those who stay in hostels, usually 17 or 18 years , living far away from their parents for the first time. Its been a long time, but from what I remember from my hostel days, those who [...]
So Nirmala Venkatesh has been removed from the National Commission of Women for stating what 95% (or more) of the population of India feels about the incident – in most parts of India, wearing skimpy clothes is asking for trouble. I once met a British lady tourist at Jaipur airport, the first thing she asked [...]
February 25, 2009 – 3:24 am
Harvard’s declining endowment funds – shows that most investment bankers are grossly overpaid, just because they handle the money, they get very high salaries and bonuses. Few have the judgement or foresight to take the correct decisions. A comment is even more interesting (the best part of Rediff are the comments) The worst fall-out of [...]
February 16, 2009 – 4:35 am
IT firms and the Indian market - I come from a non IT and internet background and have been very surprised how arrogant most IT and internet companies in India are. In engineering, even if you worked for the largest company in the industry and your customer was a very small company, you always tried [...]
February 9, 2009 – 12:46 am
In a few years, India will have the largest population in the world, so most companies don’t pay much attention to productivity. If you look at the revenues of major Indian internet companies , the revenue per employee is not very high. They seem to spend a lot of resources on marketing. So focussing on [...]
January 31, 2009 – 8:50 am
The colonised minds of the Indian Elite and media quoting from this article British colonisers in league with the Christian missionaries realised 200 years ago that the biggest obstacle to fully subjugating India was Hinduism.Simultaneously, they created in a span of two or three generations a class of Indians who looked up only to the [...]
January 25, 2009 – 4:49 am
In the current economic conditions, companies are trying to reduce their variable expenses, and one of the first casualties are the jobs. I personally feel that salaries in the last few years have increased too rapidly and many people are overpaid for doing too little work. The basic cost of living in India is still [...]