February-2003 issue
Cover Story
Author: Karthik Sundaram
CAESAR, VINOD DHAM’S GOLDEN-HAIRED Labrador, is given to loping around Dham’s hilltop estates in Fremont, CA. He wears a collar with an embedded chip, and you wonder if it is to stop him from crossing over the estate boundaries....
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Cover Feature
Venkat Ramana
IN 1947, A TECHNOLOGAL INNOVATION WAS achieved at the Murray Hill, NJ facilities of Bell Labs; the first transistor was made of...
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Himanshu Singh
A FEW YEARS AGO DESIGNING A CHIP WAS A rather simple affair, since designers functioned almost independently. This was the era...
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Vivek Subramaniam
OVER THE LAST TWO DECADES, THERE HAS BEEN sustained interest among researchers in the development of a “3D”...
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Manoj Gandhi
COORDINATING ACTIVITY BETWEEN MULTIPLE millions of anything is non-trivial at best, and impossible without the right...
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Venkat Ramana
HAVE YOU TURNED ON YOUR COMPUTER TODAY? Maybe turned on your air conditioning or started your car? If you have done any of...
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Pradeep Shankar
EVEN AS THE PC CHIP MAKERS INTEL AND AMD are engaged in the so-called gigahertz wars, focus is now beginning to move away from...
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Vickram Swamy
THE MEDIUM OF COMMUNICATION IS BECOMING richer,” says Danial Faizullabhoy, general partner at Walden International, a $2...
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In My Opinion
Dr. Biswadip (Bobby) Mitra
Bobby Mitra is currently serving as the Worldwide Director, Industrial Systems at Texas Instruments . He posses an extensive...
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Leadership
Karthik Sundaram
When today’s road warriors swap gripes on the longer sales cycles and scarcer client dollars, one company in southern...
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Personal Finance
Gurudutt Baliga
WHO: GURUDUTT BALIGA, Senior Vice President, Alliance U.S., and Portfolio Manager. Guru Baliga has 17 years investment...
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Letters
si Readers
Dalal is right!
Jagdish Dalal's opinion on “India and the BPO boom” is indeed absorbing. It is, in fact, high time...
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Technology
Dr.Suresh Gopalakrishnan
“FASTER AND CHEAPER” ARE FREQUENTLY HEARD rallying cries from the supporters of the bandwidth revolution. At the...
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Pradeep Shankar
Alok Chaturvedi, CFO of a leading software firm in Bangalore, deposits a check for $ 90,000 at the HongKong and Shanghai Bank...
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Karthik Sundaram
WHEN HEWLETT-PACKARD INTRODUCED THE Compaq tablet-PCs, we took up 10 pieces to experiment with. The IT team held on to only...
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VC Chakra
si Team
Call Raju Gulabani, Chairman and CEO of TeleSym Inc., and though the telephonic conversation appears normal, you’d be...
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si Team
SOMERSET, NJ-BASED TACIT Networks, Inc., a provider of enterprise-class wide area network (WAN)-based storage consolidation...
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Career
Venkat Ramana
EVERY ONE OF US SHOULD think like an entrepreneur. We should be able to come up with ideas that would help in taking the...
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Business
Subhash Desai
BACK IN 1985, NOT MANY WOULD HAVE HEARD about contract research organizations (CROs). Thanks to the enterprise of Dr. Anand...
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Rahul Chandran
INDIA'S FIRST ELECTRIC CAR, REVA, IS ON AN expansion mode: a luxury version of the car, the product of a joint venture between...
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Jagdish Dalal
AS I WROTE IN MY LAST MONTH COLUMN, Business Process Outsourcing has become the Holy Grail for many services providers—in...
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Kris Ananthakrishnan
E-COMMERCE PUNDITS HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO claim that ‘if there exists a “perfect” market, it is the...
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Prof. Srikumar S. Rao
COPYEDITING IS A CHORE. EVERY MAGAZINE, every newsletter, every ezine, every book has—at some point—had someone go...
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Entrepreneurship
Pradeep Shankar
PROFESSOR MANJUNATH HEGDE IS BACK TO teaching at the Washington University in St. Louis. Only a few weeks ago, he was the Chief...
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Karthik Sundaram
BEFORE, I WAS EMBARRASSED TO GO UP THERE and say that what I have is an unbelievable opportunity,” she says....
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In Focus
si Team
PADMASREE WARRIOR, AN IIT DELHI GRADUATE in Chemical Engineering, is the first female technology officer for Motorola. As the...
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si Team
ARUN SARIN, FORMER CHIEF operating officer of AirTouch and chief executive of private equity firm Accel-KKR Telecom, has been...
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Editor's Desk
Harvi Sachar
SEMICONDUCTORS—IN THEIR MANY forms—still remain the foundation of the high tech industry; the basic building blocks...
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Last Word
si Team
“The innate cultural and economic strength of the people would ultimately provide the country with its rightful place...
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