October-2006 issue
Cover Story
Author: Vidya Balakrishnan
Sashi Reddi’s look is unfazed of the professional listeners. His face contains a boyish grin as he walks to the podium and poses in front of the camera and media in a Mumbai press conference. Shuffling through some last minute papers,...
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Cover Feature
Aritra Bhattacharya
Vishal Gupta’s time in IIT-Bombay was coming to an end, almost. He was sad, but heck, his life was already stuff that most...
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Leadership
Harish Revanna
My connection with Gandhian principles
didn’t come from the pages of my school textbook. It was preached and followed by my...
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My Toughest Challenge
Subhash Menon
The year was 2001 and we were faced with one of the toughest challenges ever. A challenge that threatened to wipe us out from...
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Made in India
Sanjeev Jain
Naresh Chand Gupta, the managing director of Adobe India is ecstatic about PageMaker Version 7.0. It’s because he led the...
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Business
Sridhar Jayanthi
Breaking from the past where I have focused on all IT professionals, this one specifically addresses the managers in a high...
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Navneet S. Chugh & Olesia Boulaev
The sleeping elephant has woken up. Or is it another Asian tiger. Call it what you may, but the truth is that India is on the...
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Entrepreneurship
Sohini Bagchi
Hackers are moving beyond the corporate wireline networks. They are looking for fresh victims in the wireless sphere as well....
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Executive of The Month
Aritra Bhattacharya
Sherlock Holmes has a new address. In his latest avatar as Manish Sinha, the master of disguise, has taken up residence in...
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In My Opinion
Arun Jain
That a company can save 30 percent to 50 percent on software development and maintenance costs by outsourcing to India is a...
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People Tracker
si Team
Qwest Communications appoints Girish Varma as Vice President and CIO
Qwest Communications International Inc. appointed Girish...
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Tricks of a Good Manager
Aritra Bhattacharya
Taking a dig is probably our favorite pastime. It’s a malaise that affects even the upper echelons of the corporate world....
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Woman Achiever
Keerthana Venkatesh
To grow an organization that has charm, vitality, energy, and belonging,” was Chitra’s concern when she was deputed to head...
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VC Chakra
si Team
With a new investment of $12 million in the second round of fund raising, AllianceBernstein Holdings has added Exeros Software...
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si Team
Air2Web, a provider of mobile messaging and marketing applications has raised $25 million in a new round of investment led by...
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Career
Harry C.D.
The trend among techies today drifts between brand name, stability and money. They understand security without realizing...
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In Focus
si Team
The Indian software industry has a reason to smile. According to a joint study by International Data Corporation (IDC) and...
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si Team
Internet growth in India is often a mixed bag of achievements and failures. At one hand there is an increasing number of people...
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si Team
Two Indian-Americans have appeared in the Forbes 400 richest Americans list. They are Kavitark Ram Shriram, the first investor...
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Editor's Desk
Pradeep Shankar
Sashi Reddi, like several other Indian entrepreneurs, is steering his company—Applabs Technologies—towards global...
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Last Word
Chinnikrishnan Kommi
Just as members of an orchestra must play in harmony for their performance to succeed, all departments of an organization must...
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