October-2005 issue
On The Cover
Author: Pradeep Shankar
Speeding on South Korean roads? If you think no one is looking, you’d be sure to get a ticket, for every fifth or sixth intersection will have a camera. You will never know when the camera will capture you! But here is the idea; your...
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Cover Feature
Pradeep Shankar
Wireless continues to be one of the most active areas of venture capital investments. The year 2004 saw $951 million dedicated...
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Eswar Priyadarshan
This is not one of the many articles about the emergence of the “sleeping giant” India or China. Instead, this article will...
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Praphul Chandra
“Tumbling prices and a fivefold increase in volumes of wireless LAN chipsets is expected to create a market worth $1 billion...
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Sanjeev Jain
Miten Mehta went to meet Naveen Jain of InfoSpace on a November morning in 1999, after a siliconindia annual event where he was...
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Technology
Ajei Gopal
The rapid growth of email threatens to overwhelm today’s enterprises. While email plays an essential part in improving...
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Ashwini Kachapeswaran
In the world of IT clutter, CIO’s worry about high costs and even higher expectations.
A complex IT infrastructure that...
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Business
Aprajaya Makkar and Pooja Yadava
As India continuously asserts itself by being the most preferred destination for outsourcing, it also had to bear the brunt...
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Priya Pradeep
They are glitzy islands in a sea dominant with moderate architecture. Within their steel and glass façade a heightened...
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Michelle Messina
This is the second and the concluding part of entering the U.S. market series. The first part appeared in the August edition of...
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Entrepreneurship
Robin Joseph Mathews
Greyhound Lines, the largest operator of intercity bus services across North America, serves more than 3,100 destinations with...
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In My Opinion
Vamsee Tirukkala
The mantra of modern day companies is to outsource, both to save costs and to make use of local talent. India is not immune to...
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People Tracker
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Ronnie Vasishta named CEO of eASIC
Being a CEO of a mid-sized firm is akin to maneuvering a plane on low ground and is...
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Career
Ashwini Kachapeswaran
One should be able to order anything online at Walmart.com, pick-up at any nearby Wal-Mart and return for full cash back if not...
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VC Chakra
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Mobile phone voice application service provider Kodiak Networks co-founded by Kris Patel has closed a $15 million Series B...
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Molecular Imprints, Inc. a maker of imprint lithography, raised $17 million in the first closing of a planned $25 million...
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Editor's Desk
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Indian scientists in the U.S. have created history by making the world’s tiniest transistor entirely made from carbon...
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Four Indian Americans have been named among the world’s top 35 young high-tech innovators by the Massachusetts Institute of...
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In July 2005, ABI Research estimated the mobile video market to grow to 250 million viewers with $27 billion in revenues by the...
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Bandwidth rates in India are among the highest in the world despite boasting of having the world’s cheapest mobile tariffs....
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Deploying classic marketing strategies, U.S. based budget hotels in India are ready to target budget travelers in the nation....
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Pradeep Shankar
Communication is power. Communication for long has enabled a whole new chapter in a nation’s history. As we reach the end of...
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si Team
A severe effect on the U.S. economy post hurricanes Katrina and Rita is likely to hit hard India’s burgeoning offshore BPO...
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A recent survey reveals that about 60 percent of the ‘real rich’ population in India lives in small cities. This has in...
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In Focus
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Indian scientists in the U.S. have created history by making the world’s tiniest transistor entirely made from carbon...
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si Team
Four Indian Americans have been named among the world’s top 35 young high-tech innovators by the Massachusetts Institute of...
more>>
si Team
In July 2005, ABI Research estimated the mobile video market to grow to 250 million viewers with $27 billion in revenues by the...
more>>
si Team
Bandwidth rates in India are among the highest in the world despite boasting of having the world’s cheapest mobile tariffs....
more>>
si Team
Deploying classic marketing strategies, U.S. based budget hotels in India are ready to target budget travelers in the nation....
more>>
Pradeep Shankar
Communication is power. Communication for long has enabled a whole new chapter in a nation’s history. As we reach the end of...
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si Team
A severe effect on the U.S. economy post hurricanes Katrina and Rita is likely to hit hard India’s burgeoning offshore BPO...
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si Team
A recent survey reveals that about 60 percent of the ‘real rich’ population in India lives in small cities. This has in...
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Last Word
Sanjyot Khare
Like each worker in India pays some contribution to Provident Fund from their earnings, each worker in the U.S. pays Social...
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