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Why are Indian outsourcing companies such bashful suitors?
Comment The top three Indian firms each have around 100,000 employees in large tech hubs such as Bangalore and smaller cities such as Jaipur and Coimbatore. Smaller outsourcing firms such as Bangalore-based... [06 Nov 2009]
Downturn means fewer outsourcing workers saying 'I do'
Comment What's Bangalore's hottest outsourcing trend? So earnest are some employees that they label outsourcing firms "heartless" for holding out and "ruining" their chances of conjugal bliss in an already tough market, one HR... [07 Oct 2009]
India outsourcing workers stressed to the limit
Comment Ash (not his real name), an employee with a multinational firm's captive outsourced unit in Bangalore, has just been discharged from a week's stay in the hospital. The cheery, chatty voice at the other end of your... [25 Aug 2009]
Offshoring: Is resistance weakening at Whitehall?
News Bangalore, the city that plays home to some of India's biggest outsourcers (Photo credit: Steve Ranger, silicon.com) After years of resistance to offshoring, the need to slash billions of pounds from public spending... [03 Aug 2009]
India's social ills soothed by outsourcing leaders?
Comment Technology can handle scale very well, unlike the paper and pen systems used in India until now," says Arun Ramu, who quit as Infosys' product engineering and testing division head to join Bangalore-based eGovernments, a... [27 Jul 2009]
Apple bonanza, crime breathalysers and broadband tax
News Find out what silicon.com's Indian correspondent, Saritha Rai, discovered when she visited Infosys's training centre in Mysore, three hours from Bangalore. June was a month full of Apple-related news with the launch of... [02 Jul 2009]
Ramco Systems Case Study: Auto Component Manufacturing
White Paper A leading auto component manufacturer headquartered in Bangalore, with operations that include fabrication of body parts for heavy commercial vehicles and manufacturing construction equipments, trucks, buses and... [27 Jun 2009]
Indian outsourcing trainees feel heat of recession
Comment Instead, they are bussed off to the training campus in Mysore, a three-hour drive from Infosys' headquarters in Bangalore. Evidently the showpiece training campus in Mysore, like Infosys's vast corporate headquarters in... [23 Jun 2009]
Photos: India's mega outsourcing training centre
Photo silicon.com's Saritha Rai recently visited the giant training centre run by India's second-largest outsourcing company, Infosys Technologies, in Mysore, a three-hour drive from Bangalore. The 336-acre expanse, with its... [23 Jun 2009]
Shocking iPods, netbooks and an offshoring backlash
News Last but not least, our Bangalore-based columnist Saritha Rai made a few waves discussing what's not popular in the current economic downturn: outsourcing. Bangalore tech workers are suffering a Western... [01 Jun 2009]
Bangalore bashing: Recession gets nasty
Comment When some of them heard 'Bangalore', it was as if a small red flag had gone up, describes Baskar. The West becoming hostile towards Indian outsourcing hubs such as Bangalore, says Saritha Rai. Is... [28 May 2009]
Wi-MuMe: WiMAX MuLTIHOP MeSH - A Relay Based Approach to Deliver Broadband to Rural Communities
White Paper Multi-hop relay based WiMAX is one of the proposed solutions to address the problem of capacity and coverage expansion in the developing and under-developed regions of the world. Compared with the Point to Multi-Point (PMP) based... [22 Apr 2009]
Tech workers ignite Indian elections
Comment A new, vocal group of voters - outsourcing workers, many from India's tech hub Bangalore - are shaping the country's upcoming elections, says Saritha Rai. Vandana Prasad, a 29-year-old team leader at the... [21 Apr 2009]
Banking on Application Development
White Paper Working with standard Microsoft and select application tools, the team, including one of BearingPoint's Global Development Centers, an offshore facility based in Bangalore, India, developed a solution to leverage current... [01 Apr 2009]
Ten ways to make your boss love you
Comment Hard times hit Bangalore Worried about job security? These days, who's not? Andrew Donoghue offers some advice for tight times. No matter where you happen to be perched on the IT career tree, the branches are probably... [30 Mar 2009]
