Technology

Infosys announces Rs.50 lakh science award

By Aditya Mhatre at 17 February, 2009, 8:50 am

Infosys announced that it will be setting up an “Infosys Science Foundation” to promote and highlight the achievement of Indians across various sciences. The non-profit organization was set up by founders of Infosys as well as Infosys Technologies itself with a corpus of Rs. 21.5 crores.
The plan is to reward Indians for significant work [...]

Nokia announces app store too

By Aditya Mhatre at 16 February, 2009, 12:44 am

After Apple’s App Store success, Google decided to start an a market place for Mobile applications for Android and given the fact that Microsoft has been doing exactly what Google has, it announced SkyMarket to sell mobile applications for Windows Mobile. And today, guess you decided to join the party. Nokia announced that it would [...]

Indian scientists clone a buffalo

By Aditya Mhatre at 12 February, 2009, 12:43 pm

One might think that a job at India’s National Dairy Research Institute might not look the best on your shaadi.com profile. Well, at least not until recently. But scientists at the National Dairy Research Institute revealed that they had successfully managed to clone a buffalo calf using a technique that is superior to the one [...]

Top 15 emerging software companies to work for in India

By Aditya Mhatre at 12 February, 2009, 12:27 pm

The large Indian IT companies might be heading for tough times with forthcoming lay-offs. But all might not be lost for technology and software workers as a few companies are ramping up their operations. NASSCOM has released a list ranking top 15 best mid-sized IT and BPO organizations to work for.
The ranking was done based [...]

Tech Tip: Gmail multiple view

By Aditya Mhatre at 8 February, 2009, 1:51 am

Gmail has had the labels features ever since it launched and although I dont use it as much, it is a handy way to auto-sort your emails to keep you inbox clutter free. For example, if you subscribe to the Mckinsey Newsletter (I highly recommend it), you could create a label and all your email [...]