Current issue August, 2010
Cover Story
Ajit Balakrishnan, the CEO of Indian online giant Rediff, feels that his internet firm allows him to reach out to a much larger mass. In todays world of globalization, success comes only through innovation. And to talk about innovation, we have to talk about education, Ajit clarifies his view.... more>>


 
 
Guru Talk
Ravi Jagannathan
Post my various positions over 2 decades, across the globe and across diverse business lines, in early 2008, I was given the responsibility of creating and growing a B2C business for our group.... more>>
Company Spotlight
Anonya Roy
Enterprises today constantly seek to attain the highest level of business performance. Progress Software brands this aspiration as OperationalResponsiveness.... more>>
Technology
Amy Bethke
BPM-powered CRM solutions are fundamentally different because they are not isolated. They manage customer orders and services in streamlined end-to-end, customer centric processes.... more>>
Ajikumar TN
Software testing was definitely not a sought-after job. Not many organizations had a separately carved out testing division. Also, the revenues from testing and salaries offered to the...... more>>
Ajith J Pillai
The cost base in India is increasing and the attrition levels have also increased. Business is becoming more challenging and most organizations are looking at innovative methods to run the floor in...... more>>
By Derek Bluestone
By 2013, there will be more people using smart phones with access to web-based applications than laptops. In the first three months of 2010, Apple sold approximately nine million iPhonesthe first...... more>>
By Rajiv Bhalla
With an active and transformative education policy and a supportive infrastructure, the development of a knowledge-based population can apply itself to sustained and equitable growth. For us to...... more>>
Santhosh D'Souza
Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor and philosopher, wrote that the secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.... more>>
STARTUP CITY
Pragyan Acharya
With the growing popularity of mobile applications telecom companies, software designers, and users have channelized all their efforts in the development of mobile applications. ... more>>
VC talk
Dharmesh Thakker
Cleantech 1.0 from 2004-08 was dominated by solar and bio-fuel startups, founded by semiconductor and biotech execs in many cases. ... more>>
Tech Tracker
Binu T Paul
Amazons decision to slash the price of Kindle from $259 to $139 has accelerated the E-reader price wars but for Amazon, it is just another strategy to target the mass market.... more>>
Binu T Paul
The browser war takes on a new high with the release of Mozillas Firefox 4 Beta.... more>>
Binu T Paul
With the opening day sales numbers growing beyond 1.5 million, iPhone 4 had a grand launch as expected, but the emergence of bugs and problems were something unexpected.... more>>
Binu T Paul
In an effort to catch up with the rival products from Apple and Google, Microsoft is paying developers to build mobile apps for Windows Phone 7.... more>>
Movers and Shakers
Juby Thomas
Suresh Kandukuri, with 19 years of experience in IT sales with reputed firms, has been appointed as the new Sales Director for Cyberstar Infocom, a distributor of IT products in the Indian...... more>>
Juby Thomas
CDC Software Corporation, provider of hybrid enterprise software applications and services, has promoted Nagaraja Prakasam, Managing Director of CDC Softwares India operations, to the additional...... more>>
Juby Thomas
Sarvesh Asthana has been appointed as the Senior Vice President of Technology, Netxcell. In this new post, he will be in charge of ushering in a new focus to Netxcells cutting edge VAS and...... more>>
Juby Thomas
Jagbir Singh, who resigned as group CTO, Bharti Airtel, has joined Reliance Communications as its President and Head, Network.... more>>
Juby Thomas
Having started his career as a Management Consultant in Booz & Company backed by 8 years of experience in WNS as the exCOO, Anup Gupta has now become the Managing Director of Nexus Venture Partners.... more>>
Tech Buzz
Roshna Sankar
Lenovo India is all set to grab the attention of the youth and fun loving minds in the country.... more>>
Roshna Sankar
In an attempt to grab the fast growing mobile market in the country, Wynncom has rolled out a mix of seven Utility, Multimedia and QWERTY phones.... more>>
Roshna Sankar
In a bid to provide better solutions to its clients, HP India has announced a new alliance partner program, AllianceONE, following the HP ISV Summit 2010.... more>>
Roshna Sankar
In a bid to improve the current infrastructure in the country, Indian IT majors TCS and Wipro together with ABB, provider of power and automation technologies, have joined hands with Acatech, the...... more>>
Roshna Sankar
The cost of running R&D centers in India has continued to decline over the last two years.... more>>
Tech Product
Anonya Roy
Seagate has come up with the worlds first 3 terabyte (TB) external desktop drive.... more>>
Anonya Roy
Zen Mobile has announced the launch of a new handset, the M25, which boasts of a 72 day or 1728 hours battery standby time.... more>>
Anonya Roy
HP has introduced e-All-in-One D110a, an all-in-one printer that can print documents that are sent directly to its unique e-mail address.... more>>
Anonya Roy
Sony Ericsson has introduced the first full touch walkman phone Yendo.... more>>
Venture Beat
SI Team
Bangalore-based hotel Global Distribution System, MagicRooms has secured Rs. 7 crore investment from Nexus Venture Partners.... more>>
SI Team
The mobile advertising network InMobi, formerly known as mKhoj, has secured $8 million in its second round funding, led by the existing investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sherpalo...... more>>
SI Team
Netscribes has secured its second round capital from Basil Growth Corporation, a Mauritius based venture capital firm.... more>>
SI Team
The digital media network company Komli Media has secured $6 million in additional funding from existing investors Nexus Venture Partners and Draper Fisher Jurveston.... more>>
Events
Juby Thomas
SoftTec 2010, the leading event for the Software Test and QA Community at Bangalore provided a platform for the testing community to bridge the gap and meet new challenges.... more>>
Engineer's Diaries
Juby Thomas
Vishnu Narayan S.LEmployer: Infosys Technologies LimitedDesignation: Technical Analyst... more>>
Juby Thomas
Leo PaulEmployer: IBM Designation: Senior System Administrator ... more>>
Juby Thomas
Madhavi CirasanambatiEmployer: Infinite Computer SolutionsDesignation: Software Test Engineer ... more>>
In Focus
SI Team
Global IT spending has increased to 3.9 percent over that of 2009, down from an initial projection of 5.3 percent growth. This effectively pegs global spending on IT at $3.35 trillion, over last...... more>>
SI Team
Google offers a free software called Google App Inventor for Android, which will make it easier for users to write applications for its Android smartphones.... more>>
SI Team
Effective use of technology for in-house audit processes could prevent accounting fraud in a company.... more>>
SI Team
As telecom firms roll out Broadband Wireless Access air waves that were auctioned in June, the number of high-speed Internet users is likely to touch 275 million from 9 million by 2015.... more>>
SI Team
SiteonMobile, designed by HP Labs India, is an application that makes Web content and services available even to the lower end mobile phones.... more>>
People Manager
C Mahalingam (Mali)
In the last column, we witnessed that deep domain ability is critical to success and this has to be acquired outside of the MBA degree. ... more>>
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