Started in 2007, this is a series of quar­terly lec­tures this year on sci­ence, tech­nol­ogy and the inter­net in India. The lec­tures, under the ban­ner of the Yahoo! Big Thinkers India series, bring together acad­e­mia, sci­en­tists, the cor­po­rate world and the media. The speak­ers are acclaimed experts from the Yahoo! Inter­na­tional team. They bring with them […]

Blog­camp 2006 is hap­pen­ing at Tidel Park in Chen­nai on Sept 9–10, a two day packed event that is bound to be infor­ma­tive, fun and will have loads of inter­ac­tion, which is exactly what you’d expect from an event involv­ing blog­gers. Here’s a clip from the web­site: “Blog­camp hopes to pro­vide a forum where bloggers […]

If you want to know more about Bar­Camp, you can read about it here. They’re hap­pen­ing all over and if you want a glimpse of what’s in store, you can log in to BarCAmp.org. I’m hop­ing to make it if my work sched­ule allows it.

Is any­one aware of a Mac users group in Ban­ga­lore? If you do, please share.

A really inter­est­ing two-part arti­cle, by Basab Prad­han, Sr. Vice Pres­i­dent at Infosys Tech­nolo­gies, on why off­shore out­sourc­ing is good for the US and how Indian com­pa­nies should respond to the back­lash. Prad­han writes that the time has come for the gov­ern­ment of India to step into the fra­cas: “Glob­al­iza­tion is a two-way street. There […]