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The Indian IT Industry has raised its concerns against the discriminatory nature of the $600 million US Border Security Bill . Would it affect Obama's India visit in November this year? There are millions of Indians working in the US on H1-B and L-1 visas. However things seem to get murkier for the Indian IT immigrants with the US Congress approving the Border Security Bill, just months before the US elections. What seems to be the pain point for the Indian IT Industry especially is that this bill has steeply increases the work visa fees mainly used by Indian IT firms. The hike in visa fees could actually cost Indian IT firms a whooping $250 million annually. The new fees may discourage some firms from hiring talent that Indian tech firms might need to innovate, expand and ultimately create more jobs. Nasscom has come out very strongly supporting the Indian IT industry and condemning this bill. Nasscom lashed out on the comments of the Senator Charles Schumer stating that th...

Brainchild behind India's first web browser EPIC, Hidden Reflex has within months created a uproar in the world wide web. If Karl Marx was to appear in Cyber era, his saying would have gone like this Workers of the Cyber World Unite! You have nothing to lose but the world wide web. The importance of Internet has grown manifold over the years with several new actions happening. Dataquest recently did a story on how Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) is losing its market share to Google Chrome, Apple Safari, and Mozilla Firefox. Now the competition gets more tougher with several new browsers making their appearance that too with really interesting add-ons. Start up companies are doing several activities in the mobile content and the Internet space, and STPI has encouraged small and start-up companies to use their infrastructure to build new and innovative applications. For example, Tachyon Technologies introduced their transliteration tool, Quillpad for mobile applic...

How is IT Inc. Going Green!! ( http://dqindia.ciol.com/content/GreenIT/2010/110062205.asp ) Every year, June 5 is celebrated as the World Environment Day, a concept promoted by United Nations as part of their United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Interestingly, this year UNEP focused on providing solar energy to the villagers and school children apart from a funding of $85,000 for gorilla conservation. Not to mention IT companies are also not lagging behind to put their best efforts forward to promote green and contribute to the overall green initiatives to address global warming concerns. This year saw a lot of companies coming out with certain interesting concepts on World Environment Day, which in a long run would ensure benefits for both the industry and the consumers. For example, Dell had committed to become the greenest company of the planet. It launched the Dell Go Green Challenge to raise awareness and community involvement in green initiatives in India. It is also comm...

In what can well be termed a backlash against complexity, a majority of users surveyed across Indian enterprises have said that management complexities such as multiple security vendors and multiple passwords are the top pain points for them. In a survey of 1213 users across India, as many as 58% of users have identified managing solutions with multiple security vendors as a pain area for them. An almost equal number of users-56% to be accurate-see multiple passwords for authentication, as a pain point. Complexity in managing security issues, complex security environment leading to loss of productivity, and restrictive desktop procedures have emerged as the other top-of-mind issues for IT users, in a survey conducted by Microsoft and Cross Tab. The results have been shared exclusively with Dataquest. Here are some more findings from the survey called Check Noise, Make Noise Most users identified with the problem of multiple security vendors as having solutions from multiple vendors mea...

The much awaited US Healthcare Reform Bill was passed under the leadership of President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010 when the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law. Accordingly the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 was passed by the Senate on March 25 by a vote of 56-43, and was signed into law on March 30, leading to several opportunities for the BPO and IT outsourcers. Says Partha Sarkar, CEO of Hinduja Global Solutions, "This act brings 35 million more Americans under insurance cover. To begin with, it would mean millions of more enrollments and transactions. It would extend the scope for customer support, especially in the first few years when the customers would need clarity on the changed regulations. Says Amit Kothiyal , Head, emerging markets, Infosys BPO, BPOs can play a significant role in helping both payors and providers align their strategies with the enacted Healthcare Reform. The Reform has also made it mandatory for a ...