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December-2008 issue
Guru Talk
Author: Shombhit Sengupta
To become globally competitive, India can use extreme discipline and customize the world’s best management practices for its multi-diverse people. In this regard, the author have coined a term 'Jalebi Management' to indicate this new... more>>

Tech Buzz

ST Team
Find out about the different companies started by iPOTT more>>
Saheer Karimbayil
Research firm Gartner says that the data center industry of the country is projected to grow by 31 percent from 2007 to 2012. more>>
Saheer Karimbayil
There was a lot of food for thought on testing softwares at QAI's 8th Annual International Software Testing Conference (STC 2008). more>>
Saheer Karimbayil
Read about India’s role in designing AMD’s first 45nm quad-core Opteron processor, codenamed ‘Shanghai’. more>>
Saheer Karimbayil
Read about the IT major IBM’s newly launched storage hardware, software, and services. more>>
Saheer Karimbayil
The MathWorks, a developer of software for technical computing and model-based design, has opened an office in Bangalore with... more>>
Saheer Karimbayil
Nokia Siemens Networks will open its new R&D center in Bangalore next year. more>>

STARTUP CITY

Jayakishore Bayadi
This is a quick glance to Synovel, whose solution essentially provides a platform for collaboration onto which individual... more>>

Woman Achiever

Vimali Swamy
VN Saroja, Co-founder of 2 successful ventures, Naukri and now Movico Technologies shares her career journey and lessons learnt more>>

Technology

Sasi Kumar Srinivasan
The article speaks about the vulnerability of SaaS to the cyber attacks from any part of the world. more>>
A T G Srinivas
The author talks about the challenges of designing a mobile unified communications that meets individual as well as enterprise... more>>
Vimali Swamy
SAP's Community Network has over million and half members, a large of which are from India, and is growing. The web-based forum... more>>
Jayakishore Bayadi
Despite Windows' supremacy in the market, open OSes are catching up among techie types. Also, There are many efforts by several... more>>
Anand Anandkumar
Now, investments are starting to pour into the solar industry - and that presents opportunities for the chip and EDA industries. more>>
Vimali Swamy
A new breed of security solutions namely Unified Threat Management are quickly taking over the conventional firewalls. Read... more>>
Mahesh Subramanian
The author here comes across various applications that the organizations implement for the successful operation. more>>

Tech Tracker

Eureka Bharali
Canada based Research in Motion’s BlackBerry Storm is all set to give iPhone a run for its money. more>>
Eureka Bharali
CEO Jerry Yang has stepped out of Yahoo following its negotiations with Microsoft and Google failed to see an expected end. more>>
Eureka Bharali
Online advertisement is facing a slowdown amidst a stagnant revenue growth. more>>
Eureka Bharali
With the cyberpunks brewing life to the Srizbi Botnet, which begets half of all spams produced, cyber space will see an... more>>

Tech Product

Vimali Swamy
HTC has launched the latest HTC Touch Pro and the Touch Viva. more>>
Vimali Swamy
Read about MapmyIndia's new GPS and map solutions to make travel in India safer and secure. more>>
Vimali Swamy
Sony Ericsson has launched a smartphones - Xperia X1. Read on to know.. more>>
Vimali Swamy
Read about Intel's recently launched Nehalem Core i7 processors. more>>

Movers and Shakers

Vimali Swamy
Read about Sudip Nandy, a former senior executive with Wipro, who has recently joined Aricent technologies as its CEO. more>>
Vimali Swamy
This is a short account of Mohit Anand, who has joined Belkin Asia Pacific as its India Country Manager. more>>
Vimali Swamy
Read on to know about Vijay Srinivasan, who has recenly taken over as Managing Director of Invensys Process Systems (IPS) in... more>>
Vimali Swamy
Read about Dr. Sundeep Dronawat, who was recently appointed to e-sutra Chronicles' advisory board. more>>
Vimali Swamy
This is a short account of the 20 years' eventful career of Ranjan Sinha who has recently been appointed to Board of Directors... more>>

Engineer's Diaries

Saheer Karimbayil
Read about Harish Iyer, Co-Founder & Software Specialist, Signet Wireless. more>>
Saheer Karimbayil
Read about Shriram R Shivakumar Chief Technology Officer at Spire Technologies & Solutions. more>>
Saheer Karimbayil
Read about Vipul Mittal, a Software Engineer at Satyam Computer Services. more>>

Last Word

Sid Mookerji
The author talks about in order to be successful in the increasingly complex and competitive IT outsourcing industry, the... more>>

Cover Story

Jayakishore Bayadi
Since its entry into India in 2000, Citrix India revamped its channel program as well as its approach to sales and marketing as... more>>

Company Spotlight

Vimali Swamy
'We secure the Internet’. This is how the Israel based Tel Aviv headquartered, Check Point had positioned itself as a... more>>

Management

Nanda Ramanujam
The author talks about the rewards of measuring knowledge worker productivity and assessing how it contributes to an... more>>

In Focus

ST Team
India is ranked at 12th place in generating Internet attack traffic. more>>
ST Team
The 11th edition of the mega IT event BangaloreIT.biz gave opportunity for the ICT fraternity to update themselves on the... more>>
ST Team
The potential of women work force in Indian IT as said by leaders at Nasscom's Women Leadership Summit.. more>>

Editor's Desk

Pradeep Shankar
By saying 'it helps in the long run to be austere and survive than to be opulent and sink', The Smart Techie is putting forward... more>>
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