January-2002 issue
Cover Story
Dinesh Mody’s office floor is neatly lined with different versions of the tool that he believes will redefine the way atrial fibrillation, or irregular heartbeat, is treated. They look like miniature golf clubs, with a pencil-thick...
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Cover
The timing seems to be just about right for Fidelica, a Milpitas, Calif.-based maker of fingerprint recognition tools for...
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Put it down to serendipity, even if it emanates from the tragic events of Sept. 11. Due to the apparent failure of the...
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Why do corporations remain fundamentally organized in the same way they were decades ago, even though their strategic models...
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The theory behind Ellison’s idea is that an ID card that is tamperproof and difficult to counterfeit. Combined with some...
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You are known to be the broadband guru. In the past you have said, “Bandwidth is like oil - just like the Industrial...
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Did you like my last three columns on how a new selling paradigm is taking hold? This new paradigm not only takes rejection out...
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In his preface to the book, Pitroda writes, “I have received an overwhelming response to my column from the readers of...
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Dan Reddy, president and CEO of Alliance Semiconductor, is bursting with energy on the Tuesday evening that I show up to...
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In 1982, the Tata Group gave seed funding to Elxsi, a mainframe computer company based in San Jose, Calif. The motivation...
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What’s the best way to stir up conflict in the high-tech industry these days? Just put a representative of Sun and...
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Sanjay Sethi’s offices are two blocks from the site of the World Trade Center. His IT services firm San Vision Technology...
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Robert Johnson believes that Michael Saylor, co-founder and CEO of MicroStrategy, and Sanju Bansal, its co-founder and COO,...
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What is the reasoning behind the .Net platform strategy?
There are a few dreams that are pretty important as driving factors...
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Hyderabad’s Chenoy Trade Center, which houses more than 25 software firms, is virtually cordoned off by piles of mud and...
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Career Wize
Several people have asked me how to find a job in this harsh economic climate. Some people are more effective in finding...
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Openfile
What did eBay have that let it not only survive, but flourish? What made it the highest valued pure-play ecommerce company...
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Cover Feature
A year after the economic slowdown really began to take hold, one by one, the new age buzzwords have been dropped from the...
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Where do companies go wrong with their financial engineering?
There are so many points that people grossly underestimate. Not...
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What is behind the financial success of eBay?
I think if you really go back to the essence of it, almost back to the origins,...
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The parking lots of one networking company’s newly built and shining white campus in the heart of Silicon Valley lie...
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Wall Street View
I’ve been a long-time admirer of Infosys and its outstanding management, specifically N. R. Narayana Murthy and Nandan...
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Business
Indian garment importers have been in the U.S. apparel business since the 1970s. Using cheap labor from developing nations...
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