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Report: IT provider Infosys overbilled Apple, CEO and CFO on the way out
It's not nice to fool around with Apple, especially when you're an outsourced tech support company that's making about US$2 billion a year from work with the Cupertino kids. 9to5Mac, citing a post in The Economic Times of India, reports that Apple contractor Infosys has fired the CFO of its business process outsourcing unit and that the CEO of the company has resigned on "moral grounds" linked to alleged overbilling of Apple. A tweet from Techmeme editor Mahendra Palsule noted that Apple does about $2 billion worth of business with Infosys annually, and that the "CFO was sacked for overbilling Apple." Wow. Apple contributes over $2B to Infosys annually. Infosys CFO was sacked for overbilling Apple. - Mahendra Palsule (@ScepticGeek) November 19, 2014 That info was apparently reported only as an "insider exclusive" on the TV channel run by The Economic Times of India, while the online post of the changes at Infosys provides no mention of Apple. We'll update this story as details become available.
India issuing biometric IDs to all 1.2 billion citizens
While not busy being the destination of Westerners seeking spiritual growth and the birthplace of the beloved Bollywood song and dance flick, apparently India is home to some 1.2 billion people -- many of whom possess no proof of identification whatsoever. According to The Times (UK), less than seven per cent of the population are registered for income tax, and the voting lists are terribly inaccurate. Hoping to bring the nation's census data into the 21st century, India has created the Unique Identification Authority. Under the direction of Nandan Nilekani, one of the founders of Infosys, the plan is to outfit every one of the nation's citizens with a biometric ID card that contains personal data, fingerprint or iris scans, and possibly even criminal records and credit histories. Gathering the data is projected to cost at least $4.9 billion, a figure that's likely to soar once the ball gets rolling. While the Government expects that the first cards will be issued within 18 months, analysts say that project won't likely reach "critical mass" for at least four years.[Via Switched]
Infosys develops 3D cellphone cameras, projectors
We've seen a couple handheld 3D devices, but Infosys just announced that developed a chipset capable of capturing and projecting 3D holograms from ordinary cellphones, and that it hopes to take the tech mainstream by 2010. The system captures a series of 2D images from normal cameras and uses them to develop 3D holograms, projecting received images using a laser projector and micro optical elements. Infosys also had a patent granted on the system required to transmit 3D data over normal telecom networks without clogging them up -- the data is transmitted unprocessed, and the chipsets at either end do the heavy lifting. There's no word on what devices this stuff might appear in, but we're wondering what that laser system is supposed to project onto -- or if we'll have to take up smoking to get our 3D on.[Thanks, Bucky]
