How Does An Indian Company Innovate?
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…By opening tech centers in US and hiring US talent.
Traditionally, Indian companies have focused more on either importing cheap labor from India using the skilled worker visa (a lot of them even come on Business visa and do billing but thats another story) as the statistics have shown or by totally off-shoring the job to low cost development centers back home.
In a changing trend, TCS, the largest technology services company from India plans to open a development center in a former paper plant in Cincinnati, Ohio. To staff the site, the company additionally announced it has plans to recruit about 1000 people. Talent would be primarily scouted from the mid-west. This would make it one of the largest U.S based development centers by an Indian company.
Perhaps more such examples of local hirings would help deflect some of the criticism the Indian companies have been gathering lately about ridding America of high paying tech jobs, which consequentially also resulted in less number CS major seats getting filled up in colleges.
In related news, Bill Gates recently proffered his views to a senate committee hearing about skilled worker visa reforms. Affirming his traditional position of supporting an increase in the number of such visas, Bill Gates thinks there is dire shortage of skilled manpower in America and if the country is to maintain its numero uno position, needs to act fast on this.
Read more about reverse outsourcing from an Economics Times article from here.
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My comment about Indian companies innovating is in humor. Hoping nobody takes offense.
Happy Greetings
World over today is the day for festivities and merry making.
Holi, Good Friday, and Eid Milad-un-Nabi are being celebrated in different parts of the world.
Hope you all have a good time.
Learn From Google
Google has done it again. The media giant has just launched its online education portal focusing on computer science and related technologies all for no charge.
Want to learn how to program or refresh your language skills? Database development fascinates you? How about the latest web 2.0 app tools like AJAX and CSS etc?
Enhance your skills as a developer or programmer or just learn the lingo. The website has tutorials, lecture slides, and problem sets for a variety of topic areas including Distributed Systems, Web Security, and a bunch of other great classes including common tools used in Computer Science such as version control systems and software configuration management.
Want to see what Stanford is teaching its CS majors? You can search for the computer science courses of different colleges that have been released online. Apparently a cluster search of specific colleges whose computer science websites have been added to be searched from.
Head over to the website to find out more.
So You Want To Build A Startup
Any start up that you greatly admire? Makes you wish you had gotten that idea earlier, could have easily turned you into a millionaire?
Say long before Youtube came into the lime light and became a big hit, you had gotten the idea of letting users upload and watch streaming videos. Do you think you would have been able to similarly build it into a billion dollar business?
Adding Twitter To Your Wordpress Driven Website
Twitter is a micro blogging app which allows you to broadcast tiny SMS-ish messages to your friends and contacts. I had a first hand experience of this technology when Google integrated Twitter with Google Maps during the current election primaries. I was totally awed by it’s power and concept.
Orkut Phishing Scam
So today when I logged into Thunder bird to check my email, what do I see but a notification from Orkut asking me to verify my account or else it will be deleted.
Boo-Hoo.
Same old phishing scams which seem to be a dime a dozen these days. The email is pasted below as it is:
TechBanyan Goes Live With Email Subscription
Better late than never. This feature was long time in the coming but because of inputs from Sita, I was able to put it on fast track.
If you are a regular, you might want to subscribe through the emails.
Besides the fact that the articles are literally served to you in a platter, it helps you avoid the ads as well.
China Outsurfs US - What It Means For American Startups
(Pic: A Chinese Web Cafe)
Blame it on population but China’s Internet users have overtaken the United States’ to become the world’s biggest with about 220 million web surfers according to BDA China, a Beijing based technology consulting and research firm.
Net Etiquette
Every site should carry this in my opinion. There are generally no rules or standards of internet browsing, posting, commenting. The below mentioned points should help making decisions even when there is ambiguity.
Late Joining, Lazy HR
Off late, I am increasingly witnessing a disturbing trend in entry level IT hiring. A lot of fresh college graduates have a grouse. And for a definite reason. The new hires are bemoaning that the gap between when they get signed on to the time they are asked to show up at the office has been increasing with much regularity.