September-2003 issue
Cover Story
Author: Karthik Sundaram
THEY JUST KEEP ON KNOCKING DOWN CUSTOMERS and so the board and investors thought it would be wise to open up the third round, give them more cash—an add-on, if you will—to continue sales and marketing efforts and continue to push,”...
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Cover Feature
Ganesh Rajan
DIGITAL MEDIA HAS UNDERGONE A REVOLUTION IN the last few years. From being the purview of a chosen few, it has now become the...
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Technology
Karthik Sundaram
ULTIMATELY, OUR CUSTOMERS’ EXPERIENCE with our wireless network and the ease in doing business with us determines their...
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Venkat Ramana
HAVE YOU EVER STOPPED TO CONSIDER THE NUMBER of emails you receive daily from your manager or colleagues that require a status...
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Robin Mathews
THE ROAD TO BIOCON INDIA LIMITED’S sprawling facility on the outskirts of Bangalore is clogged with traffic. Kiran Mazumdar...
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VC Chakra
si Team
Privately held optical networking solutions company Infinera Solutions has closed its Series D round with $53 million in new...
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si Team
Even as the crowded call center—BPO market in India looks to consolidate, Bangalore based 24/7 Customer.com has mopped up...
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Letters
si Readers
Chicago Entrepreneurs
Finally, siliconindia has moved out of the Silicon Valley and has covered entrepreneurs from the...
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In My Opinion
Dinesh C. Paliwal
Recently, his Excellency Mr. Huang Huahua, governor of Guangdong Province, China appointed me to an advisory board that will...
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Business
Pradeep Shankar
SRINI RAJAM CRISSCROSSES CONTINENTS WITH HIS new toy—the Digital Media Album that allows him to watch movies endlessly....
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Mahesh Rao & Arindam Banerjee
THANKS TO DISASTROUS MARKET CONDITIONS many software companies are surviving by the skin of their teeth. Global business has...
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Yatin Patel
EMAIL MARKETING IS THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL subject in the Internet world now and is linked with a more controversial subject of...
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Rajesh Setty And Munwar Sheriff
IT WAS JUST A FEW SHORT years ago that the Internet was viewed as a potential business Nirvana—a boundless realm of...
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Career
Venkat Ramana
CHANGING HIS MIND THE LAST MINUTE, Sunil Bhalla, now the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Voice Communications...
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Aparna Dave And Konica Ghosh
IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE SEPTEMBER 11th ATTACKS on U.S. soil, numerous precautions have been taken to ensure the safety and...
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Feature
Reza Moazzami
The headlines are still filled with the latest allegations against MCI/Worldcom. Incumbent operators are still shedding wire...
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Vic Kulkarni
SIGNS OF A ROBUST RECOVERY FOR SEMICONDUCTORS abound. Intel shipped a record number of microprocessors last year, demonstrating...
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David Jollie
PROMINENT IN THE THOUGHTS OF LEGISLATORS across the world at the moment, fuel cells have seen a sustained burst of development...
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Leadership
Karthik Sundaram
Sanjay Merhotra is one of the co-founders and the Chief Operating Officer of SanDisk Corporation [NASD:SNDK], the Sunnyvale,...
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Entrepreneur
Rahul Chandran
Why would a young vice president with GE capital Services decide to quit his job and strike out on his own, especially at a...
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In Focus
si Team
IBM Global Services, the IT services arm of IBM, is eyeing new business areas like business process outsourcing and human...
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si Team
In yet another instance of public-private partnership in India, luxury carmaker DaimlerChrysler has inked a pact with the...
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si Team
In a country like India where hundreds of labourers lose their limbs while working with dangerous machines, a robot developed...
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Editor's Desk
Harvi Sachar
So TIME did a story where it featured an American who had lost his job to an Indian in India. Stories abound of Americans...
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Last Word
Romi Mahajan
IN MANY WAYS, WE INDIANS STILL ACT LIKE colonized people. I mean this quite seriously. When the British ruled India for two...
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