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April-2011 issue
Cover Story
Author: Vimali Swamy
We are in an era where the amount of data being churned out is increasing multifold in corporate environment, thanks to undisputed connectivity of social networks and mobility devices like smartphones and tablets. more>>

Guru Talk

Naresh Shah
Technology leaders the world over maintain a high standard of technical competence along with diversity in their manpower. more>>

Technology

M.Girikrishna
The terrorist attacks of 26/11 and beyond have heightened the security concerns of the country and also highlighted the... more>>
Shantanu Ghosh
Most of us who watch action movies where a skilled hacker holds an organization or even a country to ransom will dismiss it as... more>>
Ambarish Deshpande
The rapid proliferation of smart devices such as smart phones, PDAs and laptops is more than just a marketing and technological... more>>
Anil Pochiraju
Recently I was in a conversation where someone seriously suggested that Web Application Acceleration and WAN Optimization... more>>
Amit Nath
Modern life is becoming more and more inseparable from cloud computing, the most obvious example of this being the widespread... more>>
Rakesh Goyal
Today, an alarming increase in crime rate and theft, along with the associated fear of terrorism, is forcing organizations to... more>>
Arvind Sharma
"Android has hit the world like a massive tsunami and with every passing day its appeal keeps getting stronger. more>>

VC talk

Rajeev Srivastava
According to Gartner, global IT Service spending in 2010 was approximately $800 billion but there seem to be very few, if any,... more>>
Suvir Sujan
The decade of the internet in India has arrived, approximately 60 – 80 million Indians use internet, of which 20 million are... more>>

Business

Lakshman Narayanaswamy
An insider’s view on the state of information management in the Indian Banking sector and the need for a strong Disaster... more>>

People Manager

C Mahalingam (Mali)
Organizations and managers invest a lot of time and effort in selecting and offering right candidates with the hope that the... more>>

Buyer's Perspective

ST Team
CDC Software India is the company’s biggest development center across the globe and with 75 percent of development work... more>>
ST Team
Indian IT industry is an exciting place to be and can be categorized in 2 parts: e-governance and private sector. more>>

Tech Product

Hari Anil
HTC unveiled its new phone, Desire Z, in India. This 3G touch phone also has a slide out QWERTY keyboard. more>>
Hari Anil
Logitech brought its cooling pad N120 to India. more>>
Hari Anil
Cyber Snipa comes to market with its new high end headset series, the SONAR 5.1 Championship gaming headset. more>>
Hari Anil
AMD launched the new Radeon HD 6990 graphic cards. more>>
Hari Anil
LG unveils a new phone in its Optimus One series, LG LP500. more>>
Hari Anil
Motorola’s tablet Xoom, which is also an inaugural Honeycomb tablet of Google, will hit Indian market by May 10th. more>>

Tech Buzz

Hari Anil
SAP Labs India launched a unique and compelling car policy to encourage its employees to Go Green, which will propel the... more>>
Hari Anil
Xilinx unveiled industry’s first Extensible Processing Platform (EPP) the Zynq-7000 family in India. more>>
Hari Anil
Social game developer Zynga launched their Zynga Studio-1 in Bangalore. more>>
Hari Anil
Financial software testing company Thinksoft Global Services opened a new sales office cum delivery centre at Andheri, Mumbai,... more>>
Hari Anil
NVIDIA launched their new graphics processor unit (GPU) the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. more>>

Events

Akanksha Ravindran
Siliconindia in keeping with the tradition and core philosophy of creating a platform for experts in the industry to share... more>>
Akanksha Ravindran
SiliconIndia Marketing Symposium was held in Bangalore on Feb 04th, an exceptional event which assisted marketers to approach... more>>
Akanksha Ravindran
Are you a Smart HR Manager? This was the theme of the one day Siliconindia HR Symposium held on Februrary 26 in Bangalore. more>>
Akanksha Ravindran
The history of women in leadership roles always speaks of struggle and hard work. more>>
Akanksha Ravindran
SiliconIndia organized the ‘WebApps 2011’- the Web Application Conference in Pune on Feb 26th. more>>

Venture Beat

ST Team
E-commerce firm Myntra.com raised Rs 62.3 crore in its second round of funding led by Tiger Global. more>>
ST Team
K12 Techno Services, a Hyderabad based, education service provider, raised Rs 25 crore from Sequoia Capital in its second round... more>>
ST Team
BankBazaar.com, an online provider of customized rate quotes on loans and insurance products, raised Rs 26.7 crore in a Series... more>>

In Focus

The Indian ecommerce industry is expected to grow by 47 percent and touch Rs 46,520 crore by end of 2011. more>>
Many Indians and Indo-Americans are included in the list of Young Global Leaders for 2011. more>>
University of Buffalo’s Provost Satish K. Tripathi is recommended by Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher of the State University of... more>>
In a bid to provide advice on implementing best business practices on matters related to federal government management and... more>>
Two Indian-origin professors are among the four to have been named 2011 MacVicar Faculty Fellows for their outstanding... more>>
A team at Sao Paulo State University in Brazil claims to have developed a more effective way to use fiber from plants to make a... more>>
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