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July-2002  issue
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THE HISTORY OF civilizations is intricately linked to rivers. Egyptian settlements near the river Nile, Mesopotamians near the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, and the Indus Valley civilization along the rivers Saraswati and Sindhu, are... more>>
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WE HAVE BEEN FED MANY EXCITING scenarios that wireless can deliver. Everyday objects in our lives--in fact, any object that can... more>>
IN STAR TREK (V 1.0), CAPTAIN KIRK USED to say "Beam me up, Scotty", and then he'd dissolve into a kind of dot matrix cloud, to... more>>
Cover Feature
Intel tells us in advertisements that the Pentium processor is “The center of [our] digital world.” Apple has... more>>
ASK EXPERTS WHAT “telematics” stands for, and all you get is a blank stare. Ask them what it is capable of, and... more>>
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TiE Khumb Mela In view of the recent TiE annual event, I would like to bring out to your readers my experience at TiECon of... more>>
Business
This column builds on the two previous ones, so you might want to review them. We talked about how important it is for you to... more>>
IT SERVICES ARE struggling. Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is hot, insists Sanjeev Aggarwal, CEO of Daksh, a BPO firm in... more>>
LOOK AT THE BULK OF the Indian entries...a few gags. Extremely well executed. Simple enough to be understood by any global... more>>
B.V.R. MOHAN REDDY IS making good money with his firm InfoTech Enterprises at a time when others are finding it almost... more>>
IN 1984, HIREN PATEL AND AMBARISH Mahajan laid claim to history when they opened the Chicago-based National Republic Bank, the... more>>
Mr. Y Nayudamma, the Director General of CSIR is coming to the UK. He will be staying at the Hotel Savoy in London. You must go... more>>
Below the Radar
SINCE THE EARLY EIGHTIES, THE semiconductor industry has been considered to be the biggest driver of the technology economy.... more>>
Career Wize
MANY SAY I WOULD HAVE BEEN A BETTER mother if I had stayed at home. I think I make a better mom because I go to work. The... more>>
View From the Top
Afforded the luxury of hindsight, we can speculate endlessly on the causes of the great dot-com crash a few years back,... more>>
If the indian software industry could ever agree on a tag line for India's IT vision, the impulse would be to shy away from... more>>
Openfile
THE INDIAN RUPEE VALUE fluctuates on a moment-to-moment basis. Yet, it has shown a consistent long-term trend. The value of the... more>>
AS A SECOND-GENERATION Indian freshly graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, I thought I would take this... more>>
NEED TO CATCH THE next flight into Bangalore or Bombay? With a dizzying array of online travel sites from which to choose, it... more>>
INTEQ INSIGHT. SANTHANA KRISHNAN and Yash Shah dream of making their product as ubiquitous as Intel today. The duo from Boston... more>>
Wall Street View
ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE IN ANNAPOLIS, Maryland is an unusual place. Students are rarely lectured, they are never given any tests and... more>>