CURRENT ISSUE February , 2010 
 
Mentor Graphics Etching EDA Leadership in India
Cover Story

The 1981 founded MentorGraphics is all set to establish its leadership in India leveraging on the country's automative, embedded and startup ecosystem.
Eureka Bharali



 
 
 Guru Talk
Technology Optimization, Business Process Excellence to Impel IT Outsourcing

The recent global downturn turned out to be a blessing in disguise for mid-sized IT companies. Now these firms revisit their drawing board, re-strategize and come up with path breaking, yet cost effective ideas for maximizing business productivity and performance.
Nick Sharma

 Technology
Overcoming Mobile Insecurities

Enterprises will need to start thinking seriously about a mobile threat prevention strategy to ensure that their networks are not vulnerable to the new threats that will abound with the increasing mobile activities of their users.
Vishak Raman





Long live the domain, said the Enterprise!

A good domain model amplifies re-usability. When we say domain object or entity we are really talking about a context for rules to operate within.
Donny Biddappa

INNOVATING FOR EMERGING MARKETS

India's economic growth has prospered over the years thanks largely to the opening of markets to foreign companies and investors which has ushered a very healthy and competitive environment.
Viswanath Poosala (Vishy)





From Living Faster to Living Better; Innovations in the “More than Moore” era

The CTO, NXP Semiconductors says that there is a shift from generic CMOS-driven technology convergence towards technology diversification which provides semiconductor manufacturers with new means for differentiation and much welcomed new business initiatives.
Rene Penning de Vries

Mobile Applications in India: Challenges and Opportunities

The Founder-Director of Eterno-Infotech talks about how the mobile phone can be made more than a make-and-receive-calls device in India.
Chandu Sohoni

 Company Spotlight
Wirkle: Bringing the world on our fingertips

Wirkle are the mobile experts who deal with companies from the Fortune 500.
K.C.Deepika





TranSwitch: Engines for Global Connectivity

TranSwitch has more than a 100 award winning designs or subsystems around the world.
Sikta Samantaray

Spice Digital – VAS for Your Everyday Use

The mobile has become more than just a communication device with many value added services. Meet one among the top three VAS players in the country.
Vimali Swamy





Orca Systems: Geared up to Challenge the Biggies

Orca Systems braved conventions to establish itself as a leading solution provider in the Rf/semi-conductor industry.
Ojas Sharma

 STARTUP CITY
What's On India

The television viewer today has more on his plate than he can manage, forcing him to watch what comes first rather than what he wants to watch. What's On India is here to change that.
Benny Thomas

 Engineer's Diaries
Taking Challenges Everyday

Read about Pankaj Jain, a Sr Software Engineer at SonicWALL Infosecurity with 4 yrs and 6 months experience.
Sudarshan Kumar





Sincerity and Hard Work Make Task Easy

Read about Pradeepa Prabhakaran, a Sr Quality Engineer at Yahoo Software Development Corporation with 4 yrs experience.
Sudarshan Kumar

Keeping Pace with Changing Requirements

Read about Abhilash Thomas, a Sr Systems Engineer at Siemens Information Systems with 4yrs 2months experience.
Sudarshan Kumar

 Movers and Shakers
Looking at Business in a Global Context

Sunir Kheterpal who is recently appointed as the new CEO of IN Entertainment of Hinduja Group, will be responsible to spearhead the company’s growth plans in the media and entertainment industry.
Sikta Samantaray





Providing Ambitious Growth Strategy

IT professional Sanjiv Mital, with almost three decades of experience in technology and telecom sectors, has recently been chosen the CEO Designate of National Institute of Smart Government (NISG) in the space of e-governance.
Sikta Samantaray

Driving Consumer Centric Approach

With over 19 years of IT experience, Subroto Das has been appointed as the Chief Operating Officer, EMC, India and SAARC region.
Sikta Samantaray





Pacing up Business with New Verticals

A senior executive, Rajeev Singh-Molares has been recently tapped as the President of the Asia-Pacific region at Alcatel-Lucent.
Sikta Samantaray

Strengthening Market Strategy of Company

Rajan Kohli has been recently appointed as its Chief Marketing Officer, IT Business. He has held various leadership roles within the organization.
Sikta Samantaray





Enhancing the Channel Strategies

With over 20 years of experience in business development and strategic marketing, Niraj Vedwa has now been appointed to the role of Chief Operating Officer at Nucleus Software.
Sikta Samantaray

 Tech Tracker
Mobile devices can't kill PCs

What does the future hold for the good old PC? Find out.
K.C.Deepika





User interface turns more natural at CES 2010

Innovation at its best at CES 2010. Coming soon? 3D TV, more sophisticated tablets and mobile apps.
K.C.Deepika

iPhone to iPad - Apple's iMpact slows down

Will the iPad do Apple proud just like the iPhone? Maybe not.
K.C.Deepika





Siemens uses light to transmit data; sets record

LEDs are slowly overtaking other channels as the preferred mode of transmission.
K.C.Deepika

 Tech Buzz
Bangalore to have India‘s first ‘Level III’ datacenter

Karnataka on her way to score another first in e-governance.
Zoya Anna Thomas





Akai brings its energy products to India

Akai launches its first energy product in India.
Zoya Anna Thomas

Yahoo! inaugurates hadoop cluster lab at IIT Bombay

IIT-B students say Yahoo!as the web giant gives a boost to researchers.
Zoya Anna Thomas





Virgin Mobile enters the GSM battleground

Virgin Mobile launches GSM services in India.
Zoya Anna Thomas

Tesco HSC emerges as hub of innovation

Tesco is also planning to double the freshers’ strength in India by the end of 2010.
Zoya Anna Thomas

 In Focus
IT budgets in 2010 to be flat: Gartner

The economy will move from recession to recovery and enterprises will transition their strategies from cost-cutting efficiency to value-creating productivity.
ST Team





Most of the supercomputers in India are in Bangalore

The IT capital tops another list, boasting of having five out of the country's 15 supercomputers.
ST Team

Indian SaaS market to be worth $352 million by 2012

India is the fastest growing SaaS market in Asia, with higher SaaS familiarity than the whole Asia Pacific region.
ST Team





iPhones may have Bing as default search engine

Bing gives Google a run for its money by replacing it as the default search engine in the iPhone.
ST Team

Indian professor to make robots a part of one’s home

Robots could soon become a member of your family.
ST Team





Indian IT services market to double by 2013

The key challenge remains the disability to convert the potential demand into successful client engagement.
ST Team

 VC talk
Brave Entrepreneur

Questions on an entrepreneur’s mind- pre and post VC fund raising
Hemir Doshi

 People Manager
First Line Managers as First Rate Coaches!

The Executive Vice-President and Chief People Officer of Symphony Service speaks about the models and frameworks of making managers become good coaches.
C. Mahalingam

 Event
Emerging Markets A Goldmine for Semiconductor Industry

India is now the preferred destination for semiconductor design, with a growth rate four times the market CAGR.
Benny Thomas

 Woman Achiever
Donning Different Roles

Meet Girija Muraleedharan of UST Global who does not believe that glass ceilings exist just for women.
Zoya Anna Thomas

 Tech Product
Notebook and Tablet in One Device

Now, get two PCs in one device.
Ojas Sharma





LG Unveils World’s Thinnest LCD TV

LG brings the world's thinnest LCD TV panel.
Ojas Sharma

Google Launches Superphone, Nexus One

Google launches its Superphone.
Ojas Sharma





AMD Offers DirectX 11 at $99

AMD launches graphics card that delivers up to 620 GigaFLOPS of compute power and GDDR5 memory.
Ojas Sharma