Technopark based Trucid describes itself as providing ‘mobile application development for Android, J2ME or Symbian though our core area is iPhone Apps. Our services span from simple support apps for business to main stream game development. Each application that is released is tested at multiple levels to ensure high quality”.

The Technopark, Kerala based Trucid CEO has just apologized to Conde Nast owned American tech super blog Arstechnica for some employees in his company who falsely claimed that they had developed popular iPhone applications like ConvertBot. The software application ConvertBot is a unit conversion tool and cleverly converts currency, length, mass, time and much more. It is a huge success among iPhone users in USA.

The CEO of TapBots, USA which solely developed Convertbot did a sting operation on Trucid pretending to be an American business interested in getting work done from India. Trucid replied back claiming to have developed ConvertBot software in Kerala. The Trucid resume also claimed at least another piece of software that they did not develop.

The next step of the sting operation was to go to popular American tech and business blog Arstechnica.  Arstechnica reports

We confronted Trucid about the apps, and the company came clean. The CEO said that he had no previous knowledge of what was happening, but since receiving our inquiry he talked to the employee responsible. He told Arstechnica that he was grateful for the information and that he was “taking all steps that is necessary to ensure that this will not happen again”. Meanwhile the CMO, Trucid e-mailed Haddad, saying that it wouldn't happen again. Haddad told Ars that the CMO said he felt compelled to lie as Trucid had some experience, but it was all under NDA.
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The Trucid website describes Babumohanan KV as their CEO.  It also lists their offices as being in Technopark, Kerala.  No physical address and phone details are listed on the website.

This article published in techgoss.com and posted here by Sushma