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April-2010 issue
Editor\'s Desk
Author: Jayakishore Bayadi
'Innovation for emerging markets' is the hot mantra nowadays among giant MNCs. more>>

Cover Story

Jayakishore Bayadi
Within 15 years, after a humble beginning in 1995, Synopsys has raised itself to a full-fledged corporate entity. Now its eyes... more>>

Guru Talk

Keshav Murugesh
Trends point towards a greater IT adoption in retail, healthcare, telecom and BFSI (the banking, financial services and... more>>

Technology

ST Team
Gartner saw it as the one bright spot during recession. Traditional software is slowly but steadily making way for it. more>>
Sridhar Mittal
Realizing Virtualization’s Full Potential Most large organizations are in the process of adopting hardware virtualization... more>>
Manish Baxi
RIAs only load data relevant to a user’s action and then refresh only parts of the screen that are affected by that data. more>>
Shankar Bala
Connectivity in rural India will allow the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry to now consider setting up call centers... more>>

STARTUP CITY

Jayakishore Bayadi
It was around 2007, when person to application (P2A) SMS services just starting to take off. Since then, nearly every major... more>>

Business

Rakesh Verma
Startups generally lack enough resources and time to counter these hurdles in the beginning as opposed to large corporate firms. more>>
Sanjay Nayak
Despite the fact that Indians have contributed immensely in building many successful global high-tech product companies, we... more>>

VC talk

Manoj Gupta
Agriculture in India is a more than 100 billion dollar market, which can easily double since our average yields are less than... more>>

Tech Tracker

Eureka Bharali
The keyboard and mouse can be intimidating for the uninitiated while using computers. more>>
Eureka Bharali
Browser war has gained a serious momentum as Microsft's Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) embrace HTML 5 to adhere to compete with the... more>>
Eureka Bharali
With the Internet is entering new domains to reach out to a larger base, what would a merger between TV and Internet do? For... more>>
Eureka Bharali
A lot has been debated about user identification with reference to security issues as computers have been used extensively in... more>>

Venture Beat

Sikta Samantaray
Bangalore-based personal finance software solutions provider Perfios Software Solutions Private Limited has raised $2 million... more>>
Sikta Samantaray
Hyderabad based merchandising and corporate gifting solution company eYantra Industries has raised $7.8 million in series B... more>>
Sikta Samantaray
Rajesh Reddy founded July Systems, a mobile media company, has raised $7 million Series C investment in a round led by Intel... more>>

Event

Ojas Sharma
The days when women had to struggle to reach higher positions in corporate world is long gone. more>>
Sudarshan Kumar
In an attempt to earn fame and gain the ground among the corporate bigwigs, every person starts the entrepreneurship journey,... more>>

Woman Achiever

Vimali Swamy
Her cool demeanor and the ease with which she comfortably fits into any surrounding is what one notices in Ivy John. more>>

People Manager

C Mahalingam (Mali)
This article highlights some of insecurity-causing factors that need decisive attention by the leaders. Not doing so will lead... more>>

Tech Buzz

Roshna Sankar
As part of their expansion plans and business intelligence (BI), the product firm Manthan Systems is scouting for strategic... more>>
Roshna Sankar
Research in Motion (RIM), designers and manufacturers of BlackBerry smartphone, is looking forward for talented mobile-based... more>>
Roshna Sankar
The business software giant SAP unveiled its 'BusinessObjects' more>>
Roshna Sankar
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Technology Review honored 20 Indians below the age of 35 for their technical... more>>
Roshna Sankar
In an attempt to offer better video and data services to the end users, BSNL unveiled the Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband... more>>
Roshna Sankar
As an effort to create more awareness about the advantages of Ruby on Rail (RoR) among developers, the Ruby community organized... more>>

Tech Product

Ojas Sharma
Research in Motion has finally launched the much awaited BlackBerry Storm 2 in India. more>>
Ojas Sharma
Excited about 3G arriving in India? The west has already moved towards the ten times faster 4G. more>>
Ojas Sharma
Replacing textbooks with tablets will soon be a reality as Marvell has launched a Rs. 4,500 ($99) tablet Moby for students,... more>>
Ojas Sharma
HP has launched the multitouch-enabled convertible tablet, HP EliteBook 2740p. more>>

Movers and Shakers

Sikta Samantaray
Prashant Ranade has appointed as the Chief Executive Officer and President at Syntel. more>>
Sikta Samantaray
Skilled and experienced, Arun Sarin has been recently appointed to the Board of Directors at Aricent. more>>
Sikta Samantaray
Iomega has appointed Praveen Sahai as Director of Sales in India and SAARC. more>>
Sikta Samantaray
Bhuvaneswar Naik is recently appointed as the Vice President, Human Resources for India, SAP AG. more>>
Sikta Samantaray
Amitabh Jacob is appointed as RSA Channel Manager for India and SAARC at RSA, the security division of EMC. more>>
Sikta Samantaray
Premlesh Machama has appointed as the Vice President of India Business at Buzzintown. more>>

Engineer's Diaries

Sudarshan Kumar
Suneel Kulkarni Employer: FMR India Designation: Test Engineer more>>
Sudarshan Kumar
Althaf Mohammed Employer: Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab Designation: Systems Engineer more>>
Sudarshan Kumar
Prissie Basil Employer: EVLG Designation: Patent Engineer more>>
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