Traditional IT outsourcing models have focused mainly on reducing costs. Modular Global Sourcing (MGS) model is Infosys’s evolutionary outsourcing strategy, which enables companies better align their sourcing activities with business strategy, deliver innovation and achieve operational efficiency.
Modular outsourcing means that enterprises adopt best-of-breed sourcing strategies by structuring business processes and IT systems into individual modules … Read full story »

In an interview with Narayana Murthy published in Times of India, Mr Murthy talks about the future of offshoring and defines Infosys’s offshoring model as Collaborative Distributed Development Model. According to Mr Murthy, the term ‘offshore’ somehow assumes that the work is entirely done in India. Infosys’s vision is sourcing capital from where it … Read full story »

ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has approved the creation of the new .Tel top level domain.
The purpose of .Tel is to provide individuals and businesses a text-based naming and navigation structure for the Internet communications space: any individual or business will be able to initiate communication or access services simply by inputting … Read full story »

While reading news on the OBC Reservation Issue in higher education systems, I am just thinking aloud, what could be the impact if the reservation is applied in Information Technology jobs too? How will the whole system work in such condition where capability and competency comes second to the caste system? Can any company keep … Read full story »

Recently Google Labs introduced a new tool called Google Trends that uses the Google Zeitgeist to help find facts and trends related to search and news.
See how Google Trends compares India and Pakistan.

How does Google Trends work?
Google Trends analyzes a portion of Google web searches to compute how many searches have been done for … Read full story »

Finally there is a new rival for dating service companies and Google! Read full story »

According to a survey conducted by SWNS on behalf of online learning provider, SkillSoft, IT experts are more likely to suffer from stress than any other professional.

A staggering 97 per cent of people working in IT claim to find their life at work stressful on a daily basis.
Four out of five IT consultants feel stressed … Read full story »

Today I received the following message in orkut from one of my friend.

Dear user because of sudden rush of people signing upto orkut is come
to an attention that we are vastly running our of resources so with in a week
any one who does not receive this scrap will be deleted of our server . We … Read full story »

Did you know that Google Chat/Talk has more than 20 emoticons enabled? Check out the article can I use emoticons in Gmail Help Center.
The emoticons are very simple and semi transparent. You can actually see how the character combination that you enter is rotated and translated into the emoticon image. Move the mouse over the … Read full story »

Now that Infosys is celebrating 25th anniversary, what is Infosys’s actual date of birth?
In an interview with Narayana Murthy, in rediff.com, he says “it was a wintry morning in January 1981 when seven of us sat in my apartment, and created Infosys.”
From a case study about Infosys Technologies Limited prepared by The Wharton School:
On … Read full story »

My friends have been asking me this question, why am I still working with Infosys for the last 8+ years and not looking for opportunities with other companies, including foreign multi nationals?
My answer was simple. Infosys is a company powered by intellect, driven by values. The most important factor I love in Infosys is … Read full story »

Hm… On 1-Apr-06, Google extended their search capabilities to the youth to find their dates and mates! Check out Google Romance™ You can post your romantic information and search for love of your life!
You might remember other April 1st Google applications like Google’s Lunar Mission and Google’s April Fool’s Day Hoaxes! Read full story »

Google has again come up with another innovation. It is Google Pages. Allows to create webpages online without requiring any technical knowledge. It has a good WYSIWYG interface. The pages will be added to Google search engine by default. A lot of templates/layouts are provided. This is really easy to use. I have created a … Read full story »

I registered for Microsoft Office Live beta, and started using the free basics edition.
Office Live Basics beta provides company domain name, a hosted web site with 30 MB of storage and five free e-mail accounts with 2 GB of storage each. I have created a draft web site for ananthapuri.net using the site builder … Read full story »

As part of Sanjeevani activities, we conducted a session on Computers, Internet and Information Technology in Modern World to a group of selected 9th standard students of Abraham Memorial Higher Secondary School, Thirumala, Thiruvananthapuram.
It was a 4 hour session for 20 students. In this discussion, I have connected to the Internet from my laptop through … Read full story »