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October-2010 issue
Cover Story
Author: Vimali Swamy
Founded in 2000, the test engineering firm STAG Software has pioneered Hypothesis Based Testing to make its strife for guaranteed clean software real. more>>

Cover Feature

Christo Jacob
‘Your pain is my gain’ - the software testing industry has evolved over the years based on this simple mantra. more>>

Guru Talk

Sashi Reddi
As companies focus on deriving added business value from their IT services suppliers, more and more enterprises are trying to... more>>

10 Most Promising Software Testing Companies

ST Team
The software testing market is growing both in size and complexity. more>>
ST Team
Ask a software engineer, which is the most boring job in the software development life cycle, you will quickly get an answer-... more>>
ST Team
Independent software testing has been witnessing a good growth in the past few years. more>>
ST Team
At $13 billion global market, the software testing industry today has grown to heights, unimagined a decade ago and Chennai... more>>
ST Team
Mobile today is one of the biggest and fastest growing markets, especially in India. more>>
ST Team
As IT has become more critical to business performance, the role of Independent Software Testing services has become... more>>

Buyer's Perspective

ST Team
The market for such solutions globally could be anywhere between 1-1.5 billion dollars. In India, the market would be about 5-6... more>>
ST Team
In India netbooks holds around 14 percent of the laptop market and this number is expected to grow further by Q4 2010. Industry... more>>
ST Team
According to Gartner, the BI is estimated to be a $14 billion market globally of which the Asia and India are expected to be $1... more>>

Business

Ganapathy Subramaniam
The worldwide semiconductor market is around $275 billion, and the India market is around $8 billion. more>>

Venture Beat

ST Team
Vriti Infocom, an exam preparation platform company based in Noida, has raised $5 million in Series B funding led by JAFCO Asia... more>>
ST Team
Gurgaon based education company iDiscoveri India has raised $10 million in private equity funding from India 2020 Fund in... more>>

Tech Product

ST Team
The DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 has a read speed of 80MB/sec.and a write speed of 60MB/sec. It is available in 16GB, 32GB and... more>>
ST Team
The PX 2370 is world's first LED Monitor to support RGB 100 percent thereby delivering nature-like picture quality. more>>
ST Team
Acer has tied up with Reliance Communications to offer the new range of 3G enabled netbook and the company plans to sign up... more>>
ST Team
With the F-series laptops FX600, FX400 and FR600, the Taiwanese laptop manufacturer Micro Star International (MSI), has... more>>

VC talk

Rajesh Subramaniam
A vibrant economy, 1.1 billion people, a burgeoning middle class, 8 percent sustainable growth, robust legal and regulatory... more>>

Tech Buzz

ST Team
As a part of the company's expansion plans for its India-based Research and Development (R&D) operations, LSI, a provider of... more>>
ST Team
General Electric (GE) is planning to increase the headcount for its India Technology Centre in the next three years by adding... more>>
ST Team
Jessy Paul founded Paul Writer, a B2B marketing hub, has unveiled a new community dedicated to B2B marketers. more>>
ST Team
PurpleLeap, an entry level talent management company, is venturing in the robotics education in the country. more>>
ST Team
EMC Corporation, an information infrastructure solutions provider, has inaugurated its second Global Command Center (GCC) and... more>>

In Focus

ST Team
By 2020 India will become one of the largest players in global homeland security market, according to a recent study. more>>
SI Team
Despite the Indian retail sector being in the high-growth mode, the country is losing $65 billion every year due to inefficient... more>>
SI Team
In a drive towards raising awareness about environmental issues, two teens, Sourabh Siyal and Tushar Agarwal, have developed a... more>>
SI Team
Mergers and acquisition had a major role in the post recession economy. But the Indian economy has also seen some major fall... more>>
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... more>>

People Manager

C Mahalingam (Mali)
In the earlier issues, we discussed various competencies needed to succeed in organizations. E-MBA or no MBA, being able to... more>>

Technology

Girish N Basidoni
Software testing is omnipresent & the importance of software testing is undoubted. Testing process is one of the oldest forms... more>>
Shubha Sridhar
Software testing has evolved considerably over the last decade from single dimensional test approaches to multi-dimensional ones. more>>
Ramesh Krish
Test automation has matured over a period of time; from the crude form of automated tests that were set up just to run specific... more>>
Pradeep C
Software Testing sure does present a great opportunity for growth for major Indian IT Service Providers. more>>
Bhaskar Bakthavatsalu
Data loss occurs every day through corporate email. In fact, given the sheer number of emails an organization sends every day,... more>>
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... more>>
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