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January-2003  issue
Cover Story
Author: Venkat Ramana
THE STOREFRONT WAS THE WEBSITE. THE STORE itself was a huge warehouse. Delivery was made by heavily decal-ed trucks. The model was so hot that one company, Webvan, went through a market-cap of $8 billion, before it crashed. Online... more>>
Entrepreneurship
Pradeep Shankar
WHAT DO SANJIV SIDHU, CHAIRMAN AND CEO of i2 Technologies, and Manu Das, President and CEO of Soffront, have in common? Both... more>>
Pradeep Shankar & Venkat Ramana
THE FICKLE HINDU CALENDAR FOLLOWS sidereal time (based on the positions of stars) and changes festival dates every year.... more>>
Technology
Ganesh Rajan
MPEG-4 IS BEING DEVELOPED UNDER THE AEGIS of the Motion Pictures Experts Group, an expert body within the International... more>>
Karthik Sundaram
I DID NOT COME FROM THE TRADITIONAL MIS ranks. I don't believe IT should be viewed any differently from other business... more>>
Business
Rahul Chandran
OVER TWO MILLION workers, many of them semi skilled, and nearly $2 billion in exports, summed up the carefully cultivated... more>>
Career
Venkat Ramana
WAY BACK IN 1968, RICHARD BOLLES FRAMED a question that eventually led into a multimillion dollar publishing record. The... more>>
Finance
Rahul Chandran
PICTURE THIS. YOU NEED TO SEND MONEY HOME from the U.S. In the good old days, you would mail a check from your account in the... more>>
Karthik Sundaram
PRABHU PALANI IS A SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT and director of institutional strategies, and portfolio manager for Franklin Advisers,... more>>
Feature:2003 & Beyond
siliconindia Staff Writer
The application server market has matured. There were IBM, Sun and Oracle. We hear that Sun has moved out of the space. Does... more>>
Rajeev Krishnamoorthy
THE NINETIES WAS THE DECADE IN WHICH mobile telephony became ubiquitous. The goal was simple—just let people make telephone... more>>
Surya Panditi
FINANCE GROUPS AT MANY LARGE CARRIERS are increasingly driving technology-spending decisions. As carriers and vendors attempt... more>>
P. V. Kannan
IT'S BEEN ROUGHLY THREE YEARS SINCE THIRD PARTY independents began providing remote services offshore from India. The same... more>>
VC Chakra
siliconindia Staff Writer
AT THE BEGINNING OF THE DOT-COM COLLAPSE Cisco wrote off $2.5 billion in excess inventory, as it did not have up-to-date... more>>
siliconindia Staff Writer
As the lead architect at Cisco Systems, Sridhar Krishnan built and launched the Service Contract Center that helped generate... more>>
Personal Finance
Priya Aggarwal
AS NEWLYWEDS, MY HUSBAND AND I HAVE BEEN socializing a lot with the ethnic Indian population in San Francisco. Slowly, word got... more>>
In My Opinion
Jagdish Dalal
ABOUT A CENTURY AGO, GEORGE SANTAYANA noted that, “Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.” Today,... more>>
In Focus
siliconindia Staff Writer
NAINA LAL KIDWAI AND Sulaja Firodia Motwani are the latest in a growing list of Indian women who have been selected winners of... more>>
siliconindia Staff Writer
MICROSOFT FOUNDER, WILLIAM GATES, THE world’s richest man, and the U.S. Ambassador in New Delhi, Robert Blackwill, were... more>>
Gunjan Bhagla
By the numbers, QLogic Corporation (NASD: QLGC), which designs and sells storage network infrastructure for server vendors, is... more>>
Leadership
siliconindia Staff Writer
NAINA LAL KIDWAI AND Sulaja Firodia Motwani are the latest in a growing list of Indian women who have been selected winners of... more>>
siliconindia Staff Writer
MICROSOFT FOUNDER, WILLIAM GATES, THE world’s richest man, and the U.S. Ambassador in New Delhi, Robert Blackwill, were... more>>
Gunjan Bhagla
By the numbers, QLogic Corporation (NASD: QLGC), which designs and sells storage network infrastructure for server vendors, is... more>>
Editor's Desk
Harvi Sachar
WE ALL KNOW HOW IMPORTANT it is to be called by the right name. As entrepreneurs, we spend a considerable amount of resources... more>>
Last Word
Narayana N R Murthy
IF ONE WERE ASKED TO DESCRIBE THE aura of the Indian Institutes of Technology in the 70s, the answer would have been: A hotbed... more>>