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Google makes up for Gmail downtime

By Aditya Mhatre at 25 February, 2009, 10:08 am

You might have noticed that Gmail was down for several hours a yesterday and for some it might have been a welcome relief from the email clutter in their inbox. But the problem is that Gmail services businesses as well and an email outgage might turn into a big problem for a small business.
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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 [...]

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 [...]

Infosys to cut variable pay?

By Aditya Mhatre at 3 February, 2009, 4:22 am

After putting around 5000 people on the watch list, Infosys has reportedly issued warned that it may cut employee bonuses and the variable pay components from the compensation packages. Usually the varibale pay is a component of every employees salary strcuture and in many cases (if not all) the largest portion of the salary. [...]