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July-2008 issue
Guru Talk
Author: Rajendra K Misra
Rajendra Misra talks about how each one of can act as a catlyst to help change India and drive the growth and development as a nation. more>>

Technology

Sabapathy Narayanan
The author discusses why project management is important and how most of the product companies do not realize the need or value... more>>
Ameet Dhillon
As more and more employees are using company resources and data while from home or on the road, ‘endpoint security’ has... more>>
Ashutosh Parasnis
The author talks about the new frontiers that have been opened by Lean Product Development. more>>
Christo Jacob
Huawei Technologies with its new innovation in the caller ring back tones and other areas, the company is trying to forge a... more>>
Ashutosh Parasnis
Read to know about the lean approach in product development. more>>

People Manager

C Mahalingam (Mali)
The author talks about the serious handicap of managers when it comes to carrying the team along and getting them to deliver... more>>

Protocol@Work

Sridhar Jayanthi
The author discusses why and how technology managers must encourage their teams to take risks. more>>

Management

Rudra Mukherjee
The author discusses about the roles, responsibilities and management capabilities that make a good manager more>>

STARTUP CITY

Jayakishore Bayadi
A peak into the Automated Penetration Test (APT)technology from iViz solutions for proactive security risk management. more>>

Woman Achiever

Vimali Swamy
Jaya Jagdish, Verification Manager, AMD, has never been scared to chase her dreams. more>>

Engineer's Diaries

Saheer Karimbayil
An insight into the professional lives of IT engineers. more>>

Tech Product

Vimali Swamy
Check out Transcend's new stylish digital photoframe with a higher resolution TFT Panel display more>>
Vimali Swamy
Looking for Smart Phones? Read about HTC's latest HTC Touch Diamond before you embark on your hunt more>>
Vimali Swamy
Innovate Software Solutions has launched its Innovate PXA 270 Development Kit to be used as the system core in a wide range of... more>>
Vimali Swamy
Injoos has launched a a site for online groups. more>>
Vimali Swamy
Motorola unveils ROKR E8, the new addition to the ROKR family of phones more>>

Tech Tracker

Christo Jacob
IBM researchers chills chips by piping water. more>>
Christo Jacob
Apple set to create its footprint worldwide with its new array of 3G IPhones. more>>
Christo Jacob
AMD unveils its new notebook platform code-named 'Puma'. more>>
Christo Jacob
To have a rat race with Apple's MacBook Air,Hewlett Packard (HP) launched a new notebook, Voodoo Envy 133. more>>
Christo Jacob
With the new launch of Mozilla Firefox 3 is aiming at setting a new Guinness World Record for the most downloads. more>>

Movers and Shakers

Vimali Swamy
P.R. Chandrasekhar joins Hexaware as the CEO more>>
Vimali Swamy
R. Dhamodaran joins Cisco as Sr. Vice President, Channel Operations and Commercial Strategy, for India & SAARC more>>
Vimali Swamy
Anantara Solutions appoints Dr. L.S. Ganesh as an independent Director on Board of Directors more>>
Vimali Swamy
Kishan Karkal takes charge as the Head – Sales & Marketing Operations for India at Qualitree more>>
Vimali Swamy
Dexterity appoints Dr. Jayendra Ramesan as the Practice Head – Analytics more>>

Tech Buzz

Saheer Karimbayil
Biggies makes investments in India to set up research and development centers. more>>
Saheer Karimbayil
Royal Philips Electronics set up India's first High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) authorized Testing Center (ATC)... more>>
Saheer Karimbayil
Genpact has joined hands with NIIT to launch the 'NIIT Institute of Process Excellence'. more>>
Saheer Karimbayil
e-Cop, an info-security service provider, has extended its presence in India by opening its Global Resource Centre in Mumbai. more>>
Saheer Karimbayil
HP has opened a new testing lab at its Global Delivery Application Services (GDAS) India Center. more>>
Saheer Karimbayil
Amdocs's new Gurgaon facility will be charged with deployment of Amdocs systems, delivery of consulting and managed services... more>>

Cover Story

Pradeep Shankar
Virtusa represents an attractive alternative to the largest IT service providers when clients need a highly-responsive, agile... more>>

Cover Feature

Jayakishore Bayadi
India’s mid-tier IT service companies, sandwiched between global and domestic challenges like looming U.S recession and... more>>
Jaya Smitha Menon
Consulting is the new wave for Indian IT service companies. But do they have it in them to compete with global consulting... more>>

Company Spotlight

Aritra Bhattacharya
Based in Mysore, SPI a 100 percent export oriented unit is charged to take advantage of the outsourcing wave with its focus on... more>>
Vimali Swamy
Today, in the era of competency, Suksh is converging technology with real estate and betting high on new opportunities more>>

Leadership

Anoop Kulkarni
B V Jagadeesh, CEO and President of 3Leaf Systems talks about bringing in the best talent and building a team where you can... more>>

In Focus

ST Team
A Forbes magazine survey says that five of the seven largest outsourcing billionaires are Indians. more>>
ST Team
A new study clears the early misconceptions about IMs being interruptions in during work. more>>
ST Team
A survey reveals that Indian graduates are worried about finding jobs due to the weakening economy more>>

Last Word

Stephen J Felice
The author discusses the importance of virtualization in this era of connectivity. more>>

Editor's Desk

Pradeep Shankar
Outsourcing debate is back as election in the U.S. is fast approaching. Whatever may be its showdown, India stands to gain. more>>
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