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September-2008 issue
People Manager
Author: C. Mahalingam
Managers are the linking pins in any organization. With senior managers busying themselves with managing difficult business conditions, the onus of ensuring that people stay focused and deliver value to customers is squarely on the... more>>

Protocol@Work

Sridhar Jayanthi
The author focus on Socializing and the applicability of the same at work, especially to managers globally. more>>

Woman Achiever

Vimali Swamy
Malini Rao, Head - CAS, HP GDAS India Cluster, shares her career journey and shares the lessons she learnt on the way. more>>

STARTUP CITY

Jayakishore Bayadi
Read about iKen Solutions' novel approach to deliver the digital content to a mobile customer by applying several Artificial... more>>

In Conversation

Jaya Smitha Menon
Novell is a player in enterprise-class infrastructure software and services, offering flexible solutions that combine open... more>>

Tech Tracker

Christo Jacob
Reports indicate widespread problems related to Infineon chips in the iPhone. more>>
Christo Jacob
The struggle to build open source community still continues. As part of this effort, now they are looking to attract kids. more>>
Christo Jacob
The much-hyped ex-googler’s attempt of swinging and knocking its guru Google has stumbled. more>>
Christo Jacob
The University of Toronto and IBM have teamed up to build Canada’s most powerful supercomputer and the largest one outside... more>>

Movers and Shakers

Vimali Swamy
Giridharan Govindswamy has recently donned a new role as the India Country Manager of Corel. more>>
Vimali Swamy
Raghunath Vijayaraghavan has moved to India recently and has taken over as the Marketing Director at BayTalkitec. more>>
Vimali Swamy
EskoArtwork has recently appointed Dinesh Chandra as Managing Director for its India operations. more>>
Vimali Swamy
U.S. based Aurigo Software Technologies has brought Sheila Gulati to its advisory board. more>>
Vimali Swamy
Recently J Ramachandran has taken over as the CEO of Birlasoft. more>>
Vimali Swamy
AMD has appointed Dasaradha Gude, fondly known as ‘GD’, as the Managing Director for AMD India. more>>

Engineer's Diaries

Saheer Karimbayil
An insight into the professional life of Gargi Prasad working with Hewlett-Packard. more>>
Saheer Karimbayil
An insight into the professional life of Satheesh Ram who is working with Stream Processors. more>>
Saheer Karimbayil
An insight into the professional life of Harish Manoharan working with Cisco Systems. more>>

Tech Product

Vimali Swamy
Take a look at Xerox India's fastest yet continuous feed (CF) printing system Xerox 650/1300. more>>
Vimali Swamy
See this new Creative ZEN X-Fi digital media player. more>>
Vimali Swamy
Dell has unveiled five bold and contemporary Special Art Edition designs for the Dell Studio 15 and 17 laptops. more>>
Vimali Swamy
Read about the GIGABYTE United's new GIGABYTE EG45 Series motherboard. more>>

Tech Buzz

Saheer Karimbayil
India's IT major Infosys Technologies has made its second acquisition of an entire company. more>>
Saheer Karimbayil
The much-awaited Apple iPhone hit the Indian market exactly at 12 a.m. on August 22. more>>
Saheer Karimbayil
The 11th edition of Karnataka’s premier IT event BangaloreIT.in will be held at Palace Grounds from 6th to 8th of November... more>>
Saheer Karimbayil
‘TiE entrepreneurial Summit 2008’ will be held from December 16-18 in Bangalore. more>>
Saheer Karimbayil
Openstream has launched its multimodal browser Cue-Me for Windows Mobile, Symbian, and Blackberry phones. more>>
Saheer Karimbayil
Kingfisher Airlines has chosen IBS to provide software solution to its cargo business. more>>

Editor's Desk

Pradeep Shankar
Despite several attempts by the government and corporate vendors to encourage the use of legitimate software, piracy is on its... more>>

Cover Story

Jaya Smitha Menon
In its quest to solve how the world integrates software, Progress Software constantly augments its SOA portfolio. Read how the... more>>

Guru Talk

Ashish Gupta
Read Ashish Gupta discuss the question of not whether one must be an entrepreneur or not, but rather what are the downsides of... more>>

Career

Jaya Smitha Menon
IT industry is facing a tough weather since the U.S. economy went into recession. Companies are resorting to cutting cormers... more>>

Technology

Himanshu Sahu
The author tells that DTH and IPTV have their place of value for customers, and integrated service providers need them both to... more>>
S. Sundarajan
The author speaks of the automotive electronic industry, its trend, growth and complexities. more>>
Nanda Ramanujam
The article makes it clear that an organization needs to concentrate on a set of core competencies so as to generate a... more>>
Mehdi Quraishi
Nowadays many companies are failing to meet customer expectations, often because they simply do not understand or even realize... more>>
Sankaran Namboothiri
The author talks about the emerging opportunities in the area of speech technology more>>
Jayakishore Bayadi
It is fascinating to see how 3G will pan out in India and what could be the 'killer application' that could drive mass to go... more>>
Jayakishore Bayadi
The offshore delivery of Infrastructure Management Services (IMS) is gaining momentum nowadays, is creating plethora of... more>>

In Focus

ST Team
‘Is SaaS, an elephant in the room for outsourcing providers?’ or ‘SaaS being good for some of the successful companies? more>>
ST Team
Adobe’s CEO Shantanu Narayen and Cognizant's CEO Francisco D’Souza could make it into Forbes list of America’s 15... more>>
ST Team
Sanjay Jha has been snared by Motorola from Qualcomm to entrust its ailing mobile device business. more>>
ST Team
To counter the competition from foreign universities in the country, Indian universities also started vying for wooing foreign... more>>
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