August-2004 issue
Cover Story
Author: Karthik Sundaram
In a recent Ventureblog, David Hornik, partner at August Capital, writes, “...but fanatical devotion to your company. That brand of single-mindedness has long been the linchpin of success for entrepreneurs. While the term fanatic is...
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In Focus
Karthik Sundaram
In a recent Ventureblog, David Hornik, partner at August Capital, writes, “...but fanatical devotion to your company. That...
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Karthik Sundaram
In a recent Ventureblog, David Hornik, partner at August Capital, writes, “...but fanatical devotion to your company. That...
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Featue:Tireless Wireless
Karthik Sundaram
In the following pages, we learn about the crowded 802.11 spaces, finding niches in the enterprise markets and exploring the...
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Jon Russo
Seemingly overnight, remote connectivity to corporate resources became a business imperative. And with each new access method,...
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Ambatipudi Sastry
A mobile mesh is a self-organizing wireless communications network in which every mobile device becomes a network router and...
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Pradeep Shankar
Dr. David Liddle, a pilot, finds it hard to access the online flight planning services from his Blackberry—possibly a driver...
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Leadership
Karthik Sundaram
Ram Mynampati, President, Satyam North Americas [NYSE:SAY, market cap: $2.72b], was the keynote speaker at the recent...
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Technology
Karthik Sundaram
Scotts Company implemented a big-bang ERP project in 2000, and realized that transaction-processing excellence alone would not...
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Andrew Sherman
How the times have changed! In days past, many businesses depended primarily on “old hands”—personnel with lots of...
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Rajesh Setty & Munwar Shariff
Any website needs to have fresh content to attract and retain visitors. While you can have plans to generate content, you need...
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Entrepreneur
Pradeep Shankar
It is 11 AM in New York. Chicago, IL-based trader, Vaibhav Dutta has just placed an order to buy 20 shares of the retail giant,...
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In My Opinion
Srikant Vasan
The retail industry has one of the worst reputations when it comes to managing employees – stories abound of high...
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Business
Harish Revanna
In 1895, the Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi was tweaking with an assembly of valves and brought to life the first...
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Robin Mathews & Harish Revanna
Power comes with responsibilities, but the greatest of human power in today’s context—the political...
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VC Chakra
si Team
No more mass worm attacks. That’s what Redwood City, CA-based Determina’s new product promises. Be it MS-Blaster,...
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si Team
Tacit Networks Inc. has garnered $16.9 million in a series B of venture capital financing, led by new investors J P Morgan...
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In Focus
si Team
Wealth in India is oozing. The second most densely populated country in the world is also a country with most many...
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si Team
European airline consortium Airbus Industrie recently said that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Vijay...
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si Team
Even as the Tata group software giant—Tata Consultancy Services—is on its way for an initial public offering,...
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si Team
Translation is elusive, sometimes decisive and some other times offensive, at all. To do away with this an Indian has joined...
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Editor's Desk
Harvi Sachar
After a long and earnest conversation, how many times have you heard the voice on the other side of the telephone instruct you...
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Last Word
Romi Mahajan
May 26th was the best day of my life—with no second even close. On that day my daughter Kimaya was born and I feel like a...
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