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February-2010 issue
Cover Story
Author: Eureka Bharali
The 1981 founded MentorGraphics is all set to establish its leadership in India leveraging on the country's automative, embedded and startup ecosystem. more>>

Guru Talk

Nick Sharma
The recent global downturn turned out to be a blessing in disguise for mid-sized IT companies. Now these firms revisit their... more>>

Technology

Vishak Raman
Enterprises will need to start thinking seriously about a mobile threat prevention strategy to ensure that their networks are... more>>
Donny Biddappa
A good domain model amplifies re-usability. When we say domain object or entity we are really talking about a context for rules... more>>
Viswanath Poosala (Vishy)
India's economic growth has prospered over the years thanks largely to the opening of markets to foreign companies and... more>>
Rene Penning de Vries
The CTO, NXP Semiconductors says that there is a shift from generic CMOS-driven technology convergence towards technology... more>>
Chandu Sohoni
The Founder-Director of Eterno-Infotech talks about how the mobile phone can be made more than a make-and-receive-calls device... more>>

Movers and Shakers

Sikta Samantaray
Sunir Kheterpal who is recently appointed as the new CEO of IN Entertainment of Hinduja Group, will be responsible to spearhead... more>>
Sikta Samantaray
IT professional Sanjiv Mital, with almost three decades of experience in technology and telecom sectors, has recently been... more>>
Sikta Samantaray
With over 19 years of IT experience, Subroto Das has been appointed as the Chief Operating Officer, EMC, India and SAARC region. more>>
Sikta Samantaray
A senior executive, Rajeev Singh-Molares has been recently tapped as the President of the Asia-Pacific region at Alcatel-Lucent. more>>
Sikta Samantaray
Rajan Kohli has been recently appointed as its Chief Marketing Officer, IT Business. He has held various leadership roles... more>>
Sikta Samantaray
With over 20 years of experience in business development and strategic marketing, Niraj Vedwa has now been appointed to the... more>>

VC talk

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

People Manager

C. Mahalingam
The Executive Vice-President and Chief People Officer of Symphony Service speaks about the models and frameworks of making... more>>

Company Spotlight

K.C.Deepika
Wirkle are the mobile experts who deal with companies from the Fortune 500. more>>
Sikta Samantaray
TranSwitch has more than a 100 award winning designs or subsystems around the world. more>>
Vimali Swamy
The mobile has become more than just a communication device with many value added services. Meet one among the top three VAS... more>>
Ojas Sharma
Orca Systems braved conventions to establish itself as a leading solution provider in the Rf/semi-conductor industry. more>>
K.C.Deepika
EVE has more than 300 systems installed worldwide at major semiconductor companies in the USA, Asia and Europe. more>>

Event

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

STARTUP CITY

Benny Thomas
The television viewer today has more on his plate than he can manage, forcing him to watch what comes first rather than what he... more>>

Tech Tracker

K.C.Deepika
What does the future hold for the good old PC? Find out. more>>
K.C.Deepika
Innovation at its best at CES 2010. Coming soon? 3D TV, more sophisticated tablets and mobile apps. more>>
K.C.Deepika
Will the iPad do Apple proud just like the iPhone? Maybe not. more>>
K.C.Deepika
LEDs are slowly overtaking other channels as the preferred mode of transmission. more>>

Woman Achiever

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

Engineer's Diaries

Sudarshan Kumar
Read about Pankaj Jain, a Sr Software Engineer at SonicWALL Infosecurity with 4 yrs and 6 months experience. more>>
Sudarshan Kumar
Read about Pradeepa Prabhakaran, a Sr Quality Engineer at Yahoo Software Development Corporation with 4 yrs experience. more>>
Sudarshan Kumar
Read about Abhilash Thomas, a Sr Systems Engineer at Siemens Information Systems with 4yrs 2months experience. more>>

Tech Buzz

Zoya Anna Thomas
Karnataka on her way to score another first in e-governance. more>>
Zoya Anna Thomas
Akai launches its first energy product in India. more>>
Zoya Anna Thomas
IIT-B students say Yahoo!as the web giant gives a boost to researchers. more>>
Zoya Anna Thomas
Virgin Mobile launches GSM services in India. more>>
Zoya Anna Thomas
Tesco is also planning to double the freshers’ strength in India by the end of 2010. more>>

In Focus

ST Team
The economy will move from recession to recovery and enterprises will transition their strategies from cost-cutting efficiency... more>>
ST Team
The IT capital tops another list, boasting of having five out of the country's 15 supercomputers. more>>
ST Team
India is the fastest growing SaaS market in Asia, with higher SaaS familiarity than the whole Asia Pacific region. more>>
ST Team
Bing gives Google a run for its money by replacing it as the default search engine in the iPhone. more>>
ST Team
Robots could soon become a member of your family. more>>
ST Team
The key challenge remains the disability to convert the potential demand into successful client engagement. more>>

Tech Product

Ojas Sharma
Now, get two PCs in one device. more>>
Ojas Sharma
LG brings the world's thinnest LCD TV panel. more>>
Ojas Sharma
Google launches its Superphone. more>>
Ojas Sharma
AMD launches graphics card that delivers up to 620 GigaFLOPS of compute power and GDDR5 memory. more>>
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