July-2005 issue
On The Cover
Author: Pradeep Shankar
In the book—The World Is Flat, the latest bestseller by Thomas Friedman; the New York Times columnist writes about his Dell notebook. He requested Dell to trace all the parts that went into his laptop, where it came from, including the...
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Feature
Priya Pradeep
According to an economic study by Goldman Sachs, India can manage a six percent plus growth rate for the next forty odd years....
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Pradeep Shankar
Prabhat Dubey is busy steering his company— TelASIC Communications —transitioning from product development stage to...
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Jim Feldham
We at Semico forecast that semiconductor revenue will increase by two percent in 2005 to $217.3 billion, a slightly more...
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Technology
Sanjeev Jain
Mehasana, a small town in the Western state of Gujarat, India is a little known place for use of Information Technology. At the...
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Venky Rangachari
Enterprise Application has gone through a rapid evolution over the last two decades. In the mid 80’s with the advent of...
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Business
Priya Pradeep
This is the era of re-mix music and mixing has been going on in other fields too. Earlier it was mixing of business and...
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Jay Srinivasan and Jay Dwivedi
About 5 years ago, in a panel discussion on the impact of eCommerce on global trade, a point discussed was related to...
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Dr. Sastry Putcha & Dr. Robert Van Engelen
In the inherent quest for identity establishment, humans constantly explore the aspects and features of their hereditary life...
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Vaishali Kirpekar
William T. Hewitt, the new Chief Marketing Officer of Novell, an infrastructure software provider, describes his strategy for...
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Entrepreneurship
Ashwini Kachapeswaran
Need directions to a restaurant? Movie listings? Stock quotes or just weather? Forget checking movie guides or the local radio....
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How I Saved the Day
S.Janakiraman
It was November 2001 and just two months after 9/11. The leadership team of R&D Services, a business unit of MindTree...
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Leadership
Ashwini Kachapeswaran
Led by innovation in financial products and services, the protected financial services industry is now going through a period...
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In My View
Murli Thirumale
The economy is regaining pace and growth; there are untapped opportunities in the market. Entrepreneurs are excited and ready...
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si100
si Team
Like a semiconductor’s conductivity that increases with temperature, Santa Clara-based Tripath Technology (NASDAQ: TRPH) is...
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si Team
Naveed Sherwani and his team at Open Silicon are developing solutions that ease the complex ASIC design and development...
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VC Chakra
si Team
SOMA Networks, Inc., a provider of last-mile broadband wireless access technology delivering multi-megabit broadband access and...
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Tranzyme Pharma, a developer of novel mechanism based therapeutics for the treatment of gastrointestinal (GI) disorders, has...
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Career
Priya Pradeep
At the age of five, I wanted to be an engine driver,” muses Shankar Kodumudi, Technical Director–Quality Assurance, America...
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In Focus
si Team
With a steady flow of dollar from the U.S. to India, non-banking financial firms are lining up alternatives to regular banking....
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si Team
As family businesses move from one generation to the next, relationships between various members sour due to family infighting...
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si Team
Tata Steel has emerged as the world’s best steel maker in a study carried out by World Steel Dynamics (WSD). Tata Steel is...
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In the wake of terrorist attacks across the world, governments have considered introducing ID cards that include biometric...
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Stock, cash, bonds, assets and women were the focus of the Financial Management seminar organized by The IndUS Women Leaders....
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Editor's Desk
Pradeep Shankar
Last month, the semiconductor industry lost the microchip pioneer Jack Kilby, co-inventor of the integrated circuits to cancer....
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Last Word
Abhi Shah
August 13, 1995- It’s my first day as a high-school student in America, having just moved to Texas from Ahmedabad. When I...
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