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January-2003 issue
Cover Story
Prabhus Project: Safeway.com
Author: Venkat Ramana
THE STOREFRONT WAS THE WEBSITE. THE STORE itself was a huge warehouse. Delivery was made by heavily decal-ed trucks. The model was so hot that one company, Webvan, went through a market-cap of $8 billion, before it crashed. Online...
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Entrepreneurship
Soffront: The old-fashioned startup
Pradeep Shankar
WHAT DO SANJIV SIDHU, CHAIRMAN AND CEO of i2 Technologies, and Manu Das, President and CEO of Soffront, have in common? Both...
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Webpanditji: Post-retirement startup
Pradeep Shankar & Venkat Ramana
THE FICKLE HINDU CALENDAR FOLLOWS sidereal time (based on the positions of stars) and changes festival dates every year....
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Technology
MPEG-4 and Digital TV
Ganesh Rajan
MPEG-4 IS BEING DEVELOPED UNDER THE AEGIS of the Motion Pictures Experts Group, an expert body within the International...
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The CIO Of Tumult
Karthik Sundaram
I DID NOT COME FROM THE TRADITIONAL MIS ranks. I don't believe IT should be viewed any differently from other business...
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Business
Leather that Weathers
Rahul Chandran
OVER TWO MILLION workers, many of them semi skilled, and nearly $2 billion in exports, summed up the carefully cultivated...
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Career
Mid-life Shift Was Good
Venkat Ramana
WAY BACK IN 1968, RICHARD BOLLES FRAMED a question that eventually led into a multimillion dollar publishing record. The...
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Finance
Internet money transfer
Rahul Chandran
PICTURE THIS. YOU NEED TO SEND MONEY HOME from the U.S. In the good old days, you would mail a check from your account in the...
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“DON’T TIME THE MARKET”
Karthik Sundaram
PRABHU PALANI IS A SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT and director of institutional strategies, and portfolio manager for Franklin Advisers,...
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Feature:2003 & Beyond
Enterprise Software : An Oracle
siliconindia Staff Writer
The application server market has matured. There were IBM, Sun and Oracle. We hear that Sun has moved out of the space. Does...
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Wireless Whispers
Rajeev Krishnamoorthy
THE NINETIES WAS THE DECADE IN WHICH mobile telephony became ubiquitous. The goal was simple—just let people make telephone...
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Carrier Routing: ROI knocking
Surya Panditi
FINANCE GROUPS AT MANY LARGE CARRIERS are increasingly driving technology-spending decisions. As carriers and vendors attempt...
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2003: Year of the Indian BPO company
P. V. Kannan
IT'S BEEN ROUGHLY THREE YEARS SINCE THIRD PARTY independents began providing remote services offshore from India. The same...
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VC Chakra
Nesamoney’s real-time venture
siliconindia Staff Writer
AT THE BEGINNING OF THE DOT-COM COLLAPSE Cisco wrote off $2.5 billion in excess inventory, as it did not have up-to-date...
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Encover secures another $6M
siliconindia Staff Writer
As the lead architect at Cisco Systems, Sridhar Krishnan built and launched the Service Contract Center that helped generate...
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Personal Finance
Investing for your child’s education
Priya Aggarwal
AS NEWLYWEDS, MY HUSBAND AND I HAVE BEEN socializing a lot with the ethnic Indian population in San Francisco. Slowly, word got...
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In My Opinion
India and the BPO boom
Jagdish Dalal
ABOUT A CENTURY AGO, GEORGE SANTAYANA noted that, “Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.” Today,...
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In Focus
Women on top
siliconindia Staff Writer
NAINA LAL KIDWAI AND Sulaja Firodia Motwani are the latest in a growing list of Indian women who have been selected winners of...
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Gates in India
siliconindia Staff Writer
MICROSOFT FOUNDER, WILLIAM GATES, THE world’s richest man, and the U.S. Ambassador in New Delhi, Robert Blackwill, were...
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I Manage By Instinct: H.K Desai
Gunjan Bhagla
By the numbers, QLogic Corporation (NASD: QLGC), which designs and sells storage network infrastructure for server vendors, is...
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Leadership
Women on top
siliconindia Staff Writer
NAINA LAL KIDWAI AND Sulaja Firodia Motwani are the latest in a growing list of Indian women who have been selected winners of...
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Gates in India
siliconindia Staff Writer
MICROSOFT FOUNDER, WILLIAM GATES, THE world’s richest man, and the U.S. Ambassador in New Delhi, Robert Blackwill, were...
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I Manage By Instinct: H.K Desai
Gunjan Bhagla
By the numbers, QLogic Corporation (NASD: QLGC), which designs and sells storage network infrastructure for server vendors, is...
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Editor's Desk
Are we Non...Indians?
Harvi Sachar
WE ALL KNOW HOW IMPORTANT it is to be called by the right name. As entrepreneurs, we spend a considerable amount of resources...
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Last Word
IIT: A framework for reform
Narayana N R Murthy
IF ONE WERE ASKED TO DESCRIBE THE aura of the Indian Institutes of Technology in the 70s, the answer would have been: A hotbed...
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