August-1999 issue
Career Advice
Technology is flourishing in corporate America. Opportunity is abundant — but competition is intense. Companies face eroding market share, diminishing product life cycles, and consumer demands for added value, while seeking to...
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Cover
Long Terms View
First, put market volatility in perspective. Swings in the stock market over a few months or even a...
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The "battle for the last mile" is one of the most closely watched competitions in the communications business. Cable...
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For most Internet users, sitting in solitude behind their computer screens, privacy is not a concern. If no one is...
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Getting into Recruitment
I work for an outsourced human resources department in Seattle, WA. I have been a recruiter...
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Gateway’s Profile XL
This PC will not blow your mind, but it will definitely put a kink into your “monitor-here,...
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Endings bring special significance to bear on business-oriented IT systems. The end of the week is often payday,...
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Cover Feature
Daughter of a physicist, Jayshree Ullal always had a knack for physical sciences. In her nearly twenty-year career she...
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There are entrepreneurs who create a vision, and there are entrepreneurs who follow a vision, executing it to...
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Not a magazine given to patently dramatizing the achievement of Indians, siliconindia’s coverage of Indians has...
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In 1987 Suresh Nihalani co-founded ACT Networks, provider of hardware and software for the frame relay access segment...
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Vinod Khosla is very familiar with startups. At age 27, he was one of the original founders of Sun Microsystems. Though...
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Founder, CEO and CTO, of Chabi.com, Jai Rawat wants to make his mark. And he seems to have found a key to it. With a...
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A typical company in a non-technology sector such as banking, oil or consumer goods tends to make acquisition decisions...
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Raj Jain isn’t your ordinary academic. A professor of computer and information science at Ohio State University since...
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What does it take to be successful, and bring about meaningful change in the world and the people around you? In the...
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After a meeting with Naveen Jain, one comes away trying to shake off the shards of his explosive drive and aggression....
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It was tough deciding whether to put Piyush Patel in the corporate category or the entrepreneurship category -- in the...
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If the Latin proverb repetitio est mater studiorum (repetition is the mother of learning) is applicable to mergers and...
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A few months ago, the word on the street was that Nexabit Networks was not for sale. At least that was what Nexabit,...
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View From the Top
The mobile market, consisting of laptop computers, hand-held devices and a host of other peripherals, is large and...
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Wall Street View
This August, India celebrates 52 years of independence. This is a remarkable achievement. India has gone through over...
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Business
When most people think of Disney, they think "Mickey Mouse." However, the company is much more than that. Disney’s...
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Management crises are not unique to India; throughout the 1980s, most of American industry struggled to break out of...
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Openfile
When we started siliconindia two years ago, we only had a “whiff” of the phenomenon we were about to cover:...
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Inbox
Pradesh Plan a MSC Replay
I got a copy of siliconindia from a grocery store in Fremont, CA last weekend and my...
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Legal Advice
A short time ago, few US companies would have considered filing patent applications in India. But now, many of them do....
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Sam Pitroda Column
For 38 days, with over 42 games, the cricket World Cup held recently in the UK galvanized the entire cricket-playing...
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