Western Economies Warned Of 'serious' Skills Crisis
News Azim Premji, chairman of Bangalore-based Wipro, said poor maths education from primary school onwards is one of the fundamental causes of the shortage of science and engineering graduates in Western countries.
[March 19, 2008, 7:56]
Smashing India's Language Barriers
News There's no further chance of growth unless that particular problem is solved, the Bangalore team claims. According to a team of HP engineers from Bangalore, over to meet UK journalists in Bristol as part of the celebrations around HP Labs' 40th...
[May 12, 2006, 16:50]
Strike Fears Over BT Outsourcing Plan
News BT has already outsourced broadband technical support to Client Logic, a Watford-based firm with a call centre in Bangalore, as well as several centres in the UK, according to Bridge. The company has a trial of 25 narrowband contract workers in...
[February 19, 2003, 15:45]
Dell Admits Indian Mistake
Talkback When i see the new IT guys in Bangalore blabbering away in Hindi and what not, their english is so bad, I wonder what they will code and how. SABEERBHATIA2 dreams Indian English will be the standard. Remember if a average American knows bad english...
[September 25, 2006, 11:56]
Dell Admits Indian Mistake
Talkback I work for a large pharmaceutical organisation which outsourced it's IT facility to a lIBM with a call centre based in Bangalore. A nightmare to deal with at the best of times they plumbed new depths of ineptitude recently when they took 5 weeks to...
[October 25, 2006, 14:10]
Job Ads Suggest Netscape Regeneration
Talkback AOL has been off-shoring to Bangalore, India for a while. I was in Bangalore in late 2002 and I met someone from the AOL Bangalore office even then. I have a word of caution for companies thinking of off-shoring to Bangalore.
[May 2, 2004, 1:05]
Oracle To Double Indian Staff
News Oracle's Indian subsidiary has two large development centres at Bangalore and Hyderabad, where 80 percent of its more than 3,000 employees work. China is also known for the quality of its technical education and professional services, but US...
[July 14, 2003, 14:53]
Microsoft Launches Low-cost PCs For India
News Beginning next month, Microsoft and its partners plan to start selling the IQ PC through computer retailers, bookshops and other stores in Bangalore and Pune, with plans to sell it throughout the country by November.
[June 28, 2007, 12:47]
HP Sets Up Indian Call Centre
News HP opened the call centre in Bangalore sometime in the last couple of months, HP spokeswoman Monica Sarkar said on Wednesday. After receiving customer complaints, Dell stopped sending US technical support calls for two of its corporate computer...
[February 12, 2004, 7:35]
AOL Plays Down New Netscape
News AOL shifted some programming jobs to other offices within the company, including a new research centre in Bangalore, India. Netscape's most recent upgrade came last July, adding support for domain names written in non-English languages and a spam...
[May 28, 2004, 9:00]
Google To Set Up In India
News US-based Google, the world's top-ranked Internet search engine, said it will open its first international research and development centre in Bangalore, India in early 2004. Around 100 engineers will be hired for the Bangalore R&D centre, The Times...
[December 15, 2003, 14:10]
HSBC Bangalore Suffers £233,000 Security Breach
Talkback Managers are so stupid, in the last 6 months they demand stability, so candidates can be stable but if they do not know proper english or have no communication skills its ok, they are stable. Most Indian managers are useless, not new.
[September 19, 2006, 11:31]
HSBC Bangalore Suffers £233,000 Security Breach
Talkback We have to disconnect and redial as english of most guys in India is very bad or they simply can't understand the problem. Big talk by Hsbc, Cheapo India Hsbc same as any cheap company. Snatch credit forget to block the security holes.
[October 3, 2006, 6:46]
