July-2003 issue
On The Cover
Author: Karthik Sundaram
In the 1850s, the booming railroad industry was facing severe shortage in manpower. The U.S. opened doors to Chinese immigrants, laborers who were glad to escape the stifling dragonland. The immigrants worked hard, accepted low wages and...
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Cover Feature
Pradeep Shankar
IT IS 8 A.M IN CALIFORNIA. ABOUT 200,000 knowledge professionals in India are still at work either answering customer calls...
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Atul Vashishtha
NO ONE EVER SAID OFFSHORE OUTSOURCING WAS easy. For some, the difficulties are just too much to overcome—culture, time...
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Feature
Pradeep Shankar & Venkat Ramana
“DID YOU SAY INDIA…OR INDIANA?” ASKED A TOP executive at Nationwide, three years ago, when Sushmita Goyal, Chief Strategy...
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Daniel A. Masur & Sonia Baldia
BUSINESS PROCESS OUTSOURCING (BPO) IS A burgeoning business market—it is predicted to grow to over $300 billion by 2004. The...
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Technology
Sanjeev Gupta
Upon readers’ requests, siliconindia asks Sanjeev Gupta CEO, Realization Technologies, Inc. to present a technology...
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Karthik Sundaram
TECHNOLOGY EXPERTISE IS A GOOD QUALIFICATION to become a CIO,” says Ashwin Rangan, himself the senior Vice President and...
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Venkat Ramana
SOMETIME SOON, ONE COMMON HARDWARE will be able to run multiple wireless services, with software defining their...
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Ajay Sravanapudi
Every enterprise is a source and sink of data. This data exists in databases, paper forms, email, web sites, etc. Organizations...
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VC Chakra
si Team
TWO valley companies, Speedera and etouch have teamed up to help the NASA in telescoping its 3000-plus websites into a single...
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si Team
The Series B financing brings the total capital raised to date to over $20 million and introduces new investor InterWest...
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Business
Pradeep Shankar
IN 1989, WHEN RAYMOND SPENCER, DILEEP NATH AND John Patterson mulled over what could distinguish their nascent company from...
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Manish Sarin
WHILE OUTSOURCING OF NON-CORE BUSINESS functions has become almost an essential aspect of modern business processes, there are...
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Yatin Patel
REMEMBER YOUR LAST CONVERSATION WITH THAT family relative who couldn’t talk enough of how much they saved on their last...
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Career
si Team
UNLIKE THE THEN TREND TO FLY OUT TO THE U.S. for a master’s program, I chose to begin work,” recalls Subodh...
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Aparna Dave
The Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (BCIS) plans to scrutinize the L-1 visa program to assess whether this visa...
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Entrepreneur
Venkat Ramana
REINVENTING IS A DISTRESSING EXPERIENCE for many entrepreneurs, who at times are so deeply mired in building their product or...
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In My Opinion
Romi Mahajan
During the heady days of the bubble, I toured India, visiting software companies, giving lectures on the “value-chain” and...
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Leadership
Karthik Sundaram
Balu Balakrishnan is the president and CEO of Power Integrations Inc. (NASD:POWI), the San Jose, CA-based $709.9m market cap...
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Letters
si Readers
Sidhu bit off more than he could chew?
I read your story of i2’s fall from grace (Icarus i2 Falls, June 03) with...
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Online Special
Rajesh Swaminathan
The current economic downturn, which has severely affected the technology sector, has been particularly difficult for...
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Personal Finance
si Team
WHO: ASHA JOSHI is a managing principal at Payden & Rygel, the $35b independent investment management firm at Los Angeles, CA....
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si Team
Mastek (NASDAQ: SLAB)
MASTEK Mumbai based IT services company Mastek Limited (BSE: MAST) has been on a high in recent days....
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Rahul Chandran
1.8 MILLION PEOPLE, 200,000 MILLIONAIRES, A MEDIAN income of $60,000 as against the national average of $38,885 equates to a...
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In Focus
si Team
CEO of the Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu-based company, Rao says, “India is only the fourth country in the world to have an...
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si Team
Sukumar's effort in saving the endangered Asian Elephants has won him the Whitely Golden Award. Both the international awards...
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si Team
TWO valley companies, Speedera and etouch have teamed up to help the NASA in telescoping its 3000-plus websites into a single...
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Editor's Desk
Harvi Sachar
In less than a twelve-month period, BPO has seen some much needed maturity. The same time last year, India was full of call...
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Last Word
The Honest Hindustani
Remember the last time you attended a dinner invitation at your friend’s? You had taken quite an expensive bottle of...
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