March-2004 issue
Cover Story
Author: Karthik Sundaram
But what about its sixty five other products? Two years ago, when siliconindia interviewed Arun Sinha, who had joined the 84-year-old company as the Chief Marketing Officer, he faced some pretty steep hurdles planted around him....
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Feature VOYP HYPE
Pradeep Shankar & Robin Mathews
Some time in the not-too-distant future, you are sitting at home playing your favorite game on your X-box when an intruder...
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Entrepreneurship
Venkat Ramana
A FRAMED WHITE TEE SHIRT HANGS IN Pawan Jaggi’s office at Richardson, TX-based Celion Networks, testimony to the...
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Leadership
Karthik Sundaram
K. Paul Singh is the Chairman, President and CEO of Primus Telecommunications [NASD:PRTL], a $658.6 market cap company that...
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In My Opinion
Ajit Gupta
Visit any major Indian city these days and you’ll find Silicon Valley’s biggest guns hoping to woo India’s best and...
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Technology
Anand Chandrasekaran & Dan Turchin
According to Julian Hewett, Chief Analyst at Ovum Research, “2004 will be a defining year for wireless data.” Data has...
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Venkat Ramana
Look at businesses. They are run by people,” observes Piyush Singh, CIO of the $1b market cap RLI Corp., based in Peoria, IL....
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Business
Arun Veembur
Jean Baptiste Tavernier, a 17th century traveler, was particularly impressed by a Mughal calico “so fine that when a man puts...
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Dr. Wendell Jones
While most of the books and research about IT outsourcing (ITO) are less than ten years old, ITO has actually been around in...
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Stephen Mathias
As companies worldwide outsource a large part of their software development work to Indian service providers, a key issue that...
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Pradeep Shankar
Vinod Khosla, General Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers recently visited India. In an exclusive interview with...
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VC Chakra
si Team
Liquid Engines, a cash flow and tax management software company, said it raised $9.2 million in Series C financing and named...
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si Team
Layer N Networks, a network security solutions company has raised $20 million in Series B funding. The new investors were...
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Letters
si Readers
Silicon Horizon
Your coverage of the semiconductor space has played down the importance of EDA. This much-maligned space has...
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Career
Manohar T. Reddy
California witnessed a tremendous upsurge in new laws, which took effect January 1, 2004, affecting employers and employees....
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Mark Bauhaus
There was a time not long ago when India was looked at as a destination for cheap labour. Companies saw the subcontinent as a...
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In Focus
si Team
Chris Harry is a model employee of the U.S. call centre industry. The 25-year-old arrives promptly at his cubicle, speaks...
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si Team
General Electric has won a $105 million contract from the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) of India to...
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si Team
Tata Motors has acquired Daewoo Commercial Vehicle Company for $102 million. This piece includes exclusive and perpetual rights...
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si Team
Muktesh “Micky” Pant, CMO and the No. 2 man in Reebok International, has quit to start off a yoga enterprise in India and...
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si Team
Western Union money transfer is going all out to tap the Non Resident Indian remittances market. A plan to increase the number...
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si Team
The Reserve Bank of India has allowed all resident individuals to remit up to $25,000 outside India for any purpose. The...
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Last Word
Romi Mahajan
Last month, I “cut through the fog” to offer my views on the inanity of the so-called “debate” on offshoring jobs to...
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