October-2010 issue
Cover Story
Author: Vimali Swamy
Businesses and supply chains have become substantially more global over the last decade, but have manufacturers been able to cope up with this rapid growth? Between 1995 and 2007, the number of transnational companies more than doubled,...
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Cover Feature
Christo Jacob
‘Your pain is my gain’ - the software testing industry has evolved over the years based on this simple mantra. According to...
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In My Opinion
Girish N Basidoni
Software testing is omnipresent & the importance of software testing is undoubted. Testing process is one of the oldest forms...
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CEO Spotlight
Babu Thiagarajan
This might as well be the title of a hit reality TV show for such are the trends shaping the education industry around the...
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Venkatesh Kumaran
After a flat growth over the past two years, the embedded industry is at an inflection point now and I see several factors...
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VC talk
Jagannath Rao
Before Surya, Kallol and I founded Headstart Ventures LLP, we had seen many queer things in the startup land. But topping it...
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Business
Ganapathy Subramaniam
Abstract
The worldwide semiconductor market is around $275 billion, and the India market is around $8 billion. The world...
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Jaya Smitha Menon
In the year 2000, when Jassi Chadha told the CEO of his previous employer that he wanted to quit his job and create marketRx,...
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Technology
Shubha Sridhar
Software testing has evolved considerably over the last decade from single dimensional test approaches to multi-dimensional...
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Prashad Deshpande
How We Think Matters
The image of the Titanic sinking, immortalized in a movie is a defining visual of how the unimaginable...
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Ramesh Krish
The Background
Test automation has matured over a period of time; from the crude form of automated tests that were set up...
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Tushar Bhatnagar
About a year ago, I was trying to find software to automatically sync my Windows Mobile based Pocket PC to my computer using...
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CIO Profile
Jaya Smitha Menon
Divakar (Dave) Kamath was quite futuristic with his technology vision. In the times when business system platforms and...
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In Focus
SI Team
By 2020 India will become one of the largest players in global homeland security market, according to a recent study.
The...
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SI Team
Despite the Indian retail sector being in the high-growth mode, the country is losing $65 billion every year due to inefficient...
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SI Team
In a drive towards raising awareness about environmental issues, two teens, Sourabh Siyal and Tushar Agarwal, have developed a...
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SI Team
Mergers and acquisition had a major role in the post recession economy. But the Indian economy has also seen some major fall...
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SI Team
Innovation for a common good and cause is not everyone's cup of tea. But Ajit Narayan is one among those who thought of the...
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Entrepreneur 101
Gunjan Sinha
A lot has been discussed on opportunities at the bottom of the pyramid, originally a concept professed by late C K Prahalad....
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VC Chakra
SI Team
Apptio, a Bellevue, Washington-based provider of SaaS delivered Technology Business Management (TBM) solutions has closed a...
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SI Team
DataSphere, a provider of hyperlocal web technology and sales solutions for media companies, has raised $10 million in Series C...
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Editor's Desk
Christo Jacob
At times snakes are afraid of a sleuthhound army of ants. This reminds me of Google and Verizon’s current move on killing the...
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