The tragedy behind Indian IT Services

Understanding Indian IT Companies (TCS, Infosys, Wipro, HCL Tech, TechM)

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An excellent infographic of the top IT/ITES providers in the country.

The bulk of the revenue comes from abroad, and this seems to be a problem. As technology keeps getting more simpler and easier to adopt, the reason to outsource the contract to another country will keep going down.

Combine this with the recent spate of visa issues, and you have one impending slump in the near future.

Hours Spent Reading Around the World

Hours Spent Reading Around the World

I have been reading a lot these days, especially after sign-up for the 40 Book a Year challenge on GoodReads.

I should be done by the month of September and am looking to hitting 50 books this year. Thats almost a book a week, and I could not be happier.

This infographic also speaks volumes, I thought the Swedes are more voracious readers, but, looks like times are changing.

Gartner Hype Cycle 2015

Gartner Hype Cycle 2015

I have been following the Hype Cycle reports that Gartner publishes for quite some time (since 2008, if I remember correctly). There are multiple applications of the Hype Cycle, and for these reasons I keep myself updated whenever a new report is published.

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Gartner Magic Quadrant of Cloud Storage Services

I remember my early childhood when the first PC I ever owned was delivered to my house. It was a secondhand XT 8088, a very simple CPU architecture (I studied this during my engineering days later). The machine did not have a hard-disk. It had a 640 kB RAM storage which was used for the OS and any other programs that I wanted to run (mostly games).

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9 Blog Promotion Tactics [Infographic]

A picture is worth a thousand words. Not for a SEO professional though!

I love infographics. Not only are they a beautiful way of driving home a point, but also people remember the key takeaways from visual media much more as compared to text.

These are some interesting tips to promote your blog, and I have to say that I am guilty of not following all of them.

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