Empowering Technology Leaders Of Tomorrow

Interchain Solutions: Enabling Navigation for All
Cover Story

Interchain Solutions, a Bangalore headquartered Location based services (LBS), Telematics and Social Media Company is leveraging its innovations to beat years of monopoly and stiff challenge from the firms like Garmin in navigation space.
Jayakishore Bayadi

Talisma: Enhancing Customer Relationships

Incorporated in the year 2000, Talisma, a wholly owned subsidiary of Campus Management Corp., provides true Customer Lifecycle Management across sales, service, and marketing functions, and enables organizations to communicate with customers at any time.
Jaya Smitha Menon

Utilizing Resources Efficiently and Effectively

Read about Amit Kumar, an Application Engineer in Ikanos Communication India.
Saheer Karimbayil

Diligently at Face-to-Face Customer Service

Read about K. Vijaya Kumar, a Quality Assurance Analyst, in Management Dynamics.
Saheer Karimbayil

No Compromise on Timely Delivery

Read about Shilpa J Babu, a PG Engineering Analyst in Dell International Services India.
Saheer Karimbayil

Building a software product company in India: A Perspective

The author is discussing the Challenges being faced by software product companies in India to survive as professional services companies dominate.
Sridhar Vembu

IITs, IIMs Produced Over Half of India’s Top Executives

The hype surrounding a degree obtained from IITs and IIMs has gained more glitz as more than half of the country's chief executives or strategic business leaders enjoy the legacy of being the alumni of one of these institutes.
ST Team

Siliconindia Women Event attracts 1000 women professionals across India

Over 1000 women from all levels of the technology industry attended Women 2.0 Summit on March 13 in the honour of International Women's day.
ST Team

Siliconindia Women Event attracts 1000 women professionals across India

Over 1000 women from all levels of the technology industry attended Women 2.0 Summit on March 13 in the honour of International Women's day.
ST Team

Indian CEOs’ Confidence Level Highest in the World

Indian CEOs simply outshine their foreign counterparts in terms of confidence in running a business.
ST Team

Talent management in the times of downturn

The author explains and gives tips on effective management of talent during tough times.
Rishi Das

Continuing the Long Term Leadership

After years of selfless service in Texas Instruments, Biswadip Mitra has been rightfully chosen as the President and Managing Director of the Indian operations.
Vimali Swamy

Performing in Price Sensitive Market

Sridhar Mani in AMI India, is all set to beat the challenges that lie in establishing and increasing the market share for Vehicle Tracking, Storage, Embedded, and BIOS solutions.
Vimali Swamy

Driving a Sustainable Business

After a long journey in the IT industry Andy Kalambi have gained the position to use his long experience to drive Dassault to untouched level in the country.
Vimali Swamy

Leveraging Business in the Emerging Market

As the new Managing Director, Kuldeep Tikoo aims to establish an undying footprint of the RFS brand.
Vimali Swamy

Creating a Fearless Environment

UST Global dons a new face named Alexander Varghese to take on the Indian market.
Vimali Swamy

Performance Management in a Nutshell

Performance management is always deemed to be a tricky task and as a people manager, Mahalingam clarifies all the self-created problems and the remedy to it.
C. Mahalingam

VAAKYA TECHNOLOGIES

Vaakya Technologies, a Bangalore based four-year-old startup, focused on fundamental research and development of innovative software infrastructure products, recognized the opportunity here and built a 1.5MB sized framework.
Jayakishore Bayadi

Alcatel-Lucent Insists Cell Number be the Identification Number

The mobile phone number may soon become an individual's identity number (ID) on account of its uniqueness, if Alcatel-Lucent's plans materialize.
Shoukath Koduvally

India to Benefit from AT&T’s 2009 Investment of $1 Billion

The communication technology enabler AT&T is planning to invest approximately $1 billion in 2009, of which a part of the money will be infused in India.
Shoukath Koduvally

Sun Microsystems Partners with Redington to tap Reseller Market

Sun Microsystems has extended its partnership with Redington, an IT product distributor, to tap the reseller market by using the latter's huge reseller network base.
Shoukath Koduvally

HP to Groom Quality Software Testers

Testing major Hewlett-Packard (HP) has launched HP Software University (HPSU) in partnership with Indian Institute of Hardware Technology (IIHT).
Shoukath Koduvally

Wipro Bets Big on Consulting Amidst Recession

Indian IT biggie Wipro has begun the process of boosting its consulting business by setting up a dedicated research and development arm, Global Research Centre, in Bangalore.
Shoukath Koduvally

RFS Opens New Manufacturing Plant in India

Radio Frequency Systems (RFS), a provider of wireless solutions, has opened a new manufacturing plant for microwave antenna systems, in Kolkata.
Shoukath Koduvally

Paprikaas to Use HP’s Blade Server Technology

Looking to increase the storage capacity and efficiency of its servers, Paprikaas, one of the animated content providers has entered into a partnership with HP to use HP Blade server technology.
Shoukath Koduvally

MicroWorld eScan Internet Security

The internet has become one step more secured with MicroWorld's new version 10 of eScan Internet Security.
Vimali Swamy

Hitachi’s new Deskstar 7K1000.B hard drive

Hitachi's blockbuster hard drive Deskstar is here with some real-time features that one cannot miss to explore.
Vimali Swamy

Matrix Telecom EON48

EON48 is not just a phone rather its intuitive user interface makes it much more than that.
Vimali Swamy

ATEN CL5708/ CL5716 LCD KVM Switch

Here you will see the world’s first KVMP Switch with ‘Finger Identification System’.
Vimali Swamy

Sun Steps into Clouds to Nullify Amazon’s Dominance

Sun Microsystems has unexpectedly emerged a competitor through its Open Cloud Platform to the cloud-based giant Amazon.
Eureka Bharali

Mozilla Speculates to Call off Google’s Support

Of late Mozilla, the second best browser that has partnered with the Internet giant Google to include its search engine in Firefox, is experiencing a strained relationship with the former.
Eureka Bharali

Microsoft IE8 Unveiled to take on Firefox, Chrome, Safari

Microsoft, on a quest to retrieve its lost shares in the browser market, which dipped below 70 percent, unveils 'Internet Explorer 8' (IE8), the new version of its iconic browser.
Eureka Bharali

India-born digital geek develops MIT’s ‘Sixth Sense’

India-born Pranav Mistry, a researcher at the Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has pulled off a new technology, christened 'Sixth Sense', which can turn any flat surface into a touch-screen, including your hand.
Eureka Bharali

Mobile Phones The Convergent Device for Ubiquitous Computing

The present crave for the mobiles will take some some unprecedented curves and Sankalp Saxena enlightens on this aspect in the piece.
Sankalp Saxena

Safe on the Cloud (A Perspective into the Security Concerns of Cloud Computing)

Here is a detailed note on the advantages of cloud computing and the factors that restrict companies to adopt this system.
Bikram Barman

CIO Security Predictions: Top Three Trends Affecting Enterprise Risk

The author explains on how organizations should approach the accompanying security challenges, especially the top three challenges- Identity, Information Security and Application Security.
Gaurav Agarwal

Surveillance An Eye on the Future

Security is becoming a major concern for nations in the light of recent terrorist attacks in many parts of the world. In this context, the author is explaining the scope of Surveillance applications.
Prakash Prabhu

Femtocell: A Possible Way out of Spectrum Crunch

The author speaks about a less expensive alternative to increase the capacity of the Radio Access Network. The concept is called Femtocell or home base stations.
V. Sridhar and Pramod Pagare

How to beat Recession Blues? A Holistic Approach for Automation Using Latest Speech Recognition Technology

Recession is not about losses and pessimism rather there is a silver lining to it and here C Ram Mohan evaluates the optimistic side of it.
C Mohan Ram

Unveiling the Mysterious World of an Ethical hacker

The article tries to differentiate between a hacker and a cracker and attempt to counter the negative impression that exists around hackers.
Anuj Magazine

Managing Risks in Offshore Outsourcing Relationships

The author talks about the best practices of risk assessment when dealing with offshore vendorsand how potential risks can be identified during the sourcing strategy phase.
Subhash Parameswaran

Value of Integrated Vulnerability Management and Intrusion Prevention Systems

A vulnerability management program must play a key role in managing a company’s overall security posture and risk tolerance..read more on this.
Akshay Chitlangia

It is All About Proving one’s Merit

The articles explores the journey of a lady who proves that a right attitude and the zeal to succeed can break all barriers to hit the victory goal.
Vimali Swamy

Behind a Successful Woman Executive…

The first thing a woman needs to do to become a leader is to break away from unfounded myths. Read the thoughts of some of the distingushed women leaders on leadership and success
Jaya Smitha Menon

ISSUE : April , 2009

		Interchain Solutions: Enabling Navigation for All Cover Story Interchain Solutions, a Bangalore headquartered Location based services (LBS), Telematics and Social Media Company is leveraging its innovations to beat years of monopoly and stiff challenge from the firms like Garmin in navigation space. Jayakishore Bayadi

Company Spotlight

Talisma: Enhancing Customer Relationships Incorporated in the year 2000, Talisma, a wholly owned subsidiary of Campus Management Corp., provides true Customer Lifecycle Management across sales, service, and marketing functions, and enables organizations to communicate with customers at any time. Jaya Smitha Menon

Engineer's Diaries

Utilizing Resources Efficiently and Effectively Read about Amit Kumar, an Application Engineer in Ikanos Communication India. Saheer Karimbayil		Diligently at Face-to-Face Customer Service Read about K. Vijaya Kumar, a Quality Assurance Analyst, in Management Dynamics. Saheer Karimbayil
No Compromise on Timely Delivery Read about Shilpa J Babu, a PG Engineering Analyst in Dell International Services India. Saheer Karimbayil

Guru Talk

Building a software product company in India: A Perspective The author is discussing the Challenges being faced by software product companies in India to survive as professional services companies dominate. Sridhar Vembu

In Focus

IITs, IIMs Produced Over Half of India’s Top Executives The hype surrounding a degree obtained from IITs and IIMs has gained more glitz as more than half of the country's chief executives or strategic business leaders enjoy the legacy of being the alumni of one of these institutes. ST Team		Siliconindia Women Event attracts 1000 women professionals across India Over 1000 women from all levels of the technology industry attended Women 2.0 Summit on March 13 in the honour of International Women's day. ST Team
Siliconindia Women Event attracts 1000 women professionals across India Over 1000 women from all levels of the technology industry attended Women 2.0 Summit on March 13 in the honour of International Women's day. ST Team		Indian CEOs’ Confidence Level Highest in the World Indian CEOs simply outshine their foreign counterparts in terms of confidence in running a business. ST Team

Management

Talent management in the times of downturn The author explains and gives tips on effective management of talent during tough times. Rishi Das

Movers and Shakers

Continuing the Long Term Leadership After years of selfless service in Texas Instruments, Biswadip Mitra has been rightfully chosen as the President and Managing Director of the Indian operations. Vimali Swamy		Performing in Price Sensitive Market Sridhar Mani in AMI India, is all set to beat the challenges that lie in establishing and increasing the market share for Vehicle Tracking, Storage, Embedded, and BIOS solutions. Vimali Swamy
Driving a Sustainable Business After a long journey in the IT industry Andy Kalambi have gained the position to use his long experience to drive Dassault to untouched level in the country. Vimali Swamy		Leveraging Business in the Emerging Market As the new Managing Director, Kuldeep Tikoo aims to establish an undying footprint of the RFS brand. Vimali Swamy
Creating a Fearless Environment UST Global dons a new face named Alexander Varghese to take on the Indian market. Vimali Swamy

People Manager

Performance Management in a Nutshell Performance management is always deemed to be a tricky task and as a people manager, Mahalingam clarifies all the self-created problems and the remedy to it. C. Mahalingam

STARTUP CITY

VAAKYA TECHNOLOGIES Vaakya Technologies, a Bangalore based four-year-old startup, focused on fundamental research and development of innovative software infrastructure products, recognized the opportunity here and built a 1.5MB sized framework. Jayakishore Bayadi

Tech Buzz

Alcatel-Lucent Insists Cell Number be the Identification Number The mobile phone number may soon become an individual's identity number (ID) on account of its uniqueness, if Alcatel-Lucent's plans materialize. Shoukath Koduvally		India to Benefit from AT&T’s 2009 Investment of $1 Billion The communication technology enabler AT&T is planning to invest approximately $1 billion in 2009, of which a part of the money will be infused in India. Shoukath Koduvally
Sun Microsystems Partners with Redington to tap Reseller Market Sun Microsystems has extended its partnership with Redington, an IT product distributor, to tap the reseller market by using the latter's huge reseller network base. Shoukath Koduvally		HP to Groom Quality Software Testers Testing major Hewlett-Packard (HP) has launched HP Software University (HPSU) in partnership with Indian Institute of Hardware Technology (IIHT). Shoukath Koduvally
Wipro Bets Big on Consulting Amidst Recession Indian IT biggie Wipro has begun the process of boosting its consulting business by setting up a dedicated research and development arm, Global Research Centre, in Bangalore. Shoukath Koduvally		RFS Opens New Manufacturing Plant in India Radio Frequency Systems (RFS), a provider of wireless solutions, has opened a new manufacturing plant for microwave antenna systems, in Kolkata. Shoukath Koduvally
Paprikaas to Use HP’s Blade Server Technology Looking to increase the storage capacity and efficiency of its servers, Paprikaas, one of the animated content providers has entered into a partnership with HP to use HP Blade server technology. Shoukath Koduvally

Tech Product

MicroWorld eScan Internet Security The internet has become one step more secured with MicroWorld's new version 10 of eScan Internet Security. Vimali Swamy		Hitachi’s new Deskstar 7K1000.B hard drive Hitachi's blockbuster hard drive Deskstar is here with some real-time features that one cannot miss to explore. Vimali Swamy
Matrix Telecom EON48 EON48 is not just a phone rather its intuitive user interface makes it much more than that. Vimali Swamy		ATEN CL5708/ CL5716 LCD KVM Switch Here you will see the world’s first KVMP Switch with ‘Finger Identification System’. Vimali Swamy

Tech Tracker

Sun Steps into Clouds to Nullify Amazon’s Dominance Sun Microsystems has unexpectedly emerged a competitor through its Open Cloud Platform to the cloud-based giant Amazon. Eureka Bharali		Mozilla Speculates to Call off Google’s Support Of late Mozilla, the second best browser that has partnered with the Internet giant Google to include its search engine in Firefox, is experiencing a strained relationship with the former. Eureka Bharali
Microsoft IE8 Unveiled to take on Firefox, Chrome, Safari Microsoft, on a quest to retrieve its lost shares in the browser market, which dipped below 70 percent, unveils 'Internet Explorer 8' (IE8), the new version of its iconic browser. Eureka Bharali		India-born digital geek develops MIT’s ‘Sixth Sense’ India-born Pranav Mistry, a researcher at the Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has pulled off a new technology, christened 'Sixth Sense', which can turn any flat surface into a touch-screen, including your hand. Eureka Bharali

Technology

Mobile Phones The Convergent Device for Ubiquitous Computing The present crave for the mobiles will take some some unprecedented curves and Sankalp Saxena enlightens on this aspect in the piece. Sankalp Saxena		Safe on the Cloud (A Perspective into the Security Concerns of Cloud Computing) Here is a detailed note on the advantages of cloud computing and the factors that restrict companies to adopt this system. Bikram Barman
CIO Security Predictions: Top Three Trends Affecting Enterprise Risk The author explains on how organizations should approach the accompanying security challenges, especially the top three challenges- Identity, Information Security and Application Security. Gaurav Agarwal		Surveillance An Eye on the Future Security is becoming a major concern for nations in the light of recent terrorist attacks in many parts of the world. In this context, the author is explaining the scope of Surveillance applications. Prakash Prabhu
Femtocell: A Possible Way out of Spectrum Crunch The author speaks about a less expensive alternative to increase the capacity of the Radio Access Network. The concept is called Femtocell or home base stations. V. Sridhar and Pramod Pagare		How to beat Recession Blues? A Holistic Approach for Automation Using Latest Speech Recognition Technology Recession is not about losses and pessimism rather there is a silver lining to it and here C Ram Mohan evaluates the optimistic side of it. C Mohan Ram
Unveiling the Mysterious World of an Ethical hacker The article tries to differentiate between a hacker and a cracker and attempt to counter the negative impression that exists around hackers. Anuj Magazine		Managing Risks in Offshore Outsourcing Relationships The author talks about the best practices of risk assessment when dealing with offshore vendorsand how potential risks can be identified during the sourcing strategy phase. Subhash Parameswaran
Value of Integrated Vulnerability Management and Intrusion Prevention Systems A vulnerability management program must play a key role in managing a company’s overall security posture and risk tolerance..read more on this. Akshay Chitlangia

Woman Achiever

It is All About Proving one’s Merit The articles explores the journey of a lady who proves that a right attitude and the zeal to succeed can break all barriers to hit the victory goal. Vimali Swamy

Women in IT

Behind a Successful Woman Executive… The first thing a woman needs to do to become a leader is to break away from unfounded myths. Read the thoughts of some of the distingushed women leaders on leadership and success Jaya Smitha Menon