October-2011 issue
Cover Story
Author: Vimali Swamy
Almost one fourth of the back end operations for financial transactions and customer support across the world happen from India. The billion dollar BPO industry has in many ways strongly shaped the Indian IT industry, and provided...
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In My Opinion
M. R. Pamidi, Ph. D.
The Past
The United States and India are the world’s richest and largest democracies, respectively. Democracy has survived...
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CEO Spotlight
Girish Ramdas
The magazine publishing industry has been witnessing a downtrend over the past few years and the advent of Smartphones and...
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Technology
Saurabh Khetrapal
They used to be called call centers – in-house or outsourced organizations that handled incoming and outgoing phone calls....
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Mohan Vellanki
Wireless connectivity with Wi-Fi®, has become pervasive across many applications, from wireless devices, to medical devices,...
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Vineet Jain
In both the consumer and business worlds, there is a thunderous stampede to adopt the cloud. The cloud products and services...
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Atulya Nath
Information Technology (IT) has emerged as a key sector of the Indian economy in terms of its contribution to export earnings,...
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Ruchit Patel
Mobile applications have become a technological battlefield today. The market has "exponential growth" phenomenon and downloads...
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Krishna Yarlagadda
Consumers and Enterprise users are both eagerly waiting for the high resolution, good quality, 2-way, video and voice-chat for...
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Amit Chawla
A major change is brewing in the mobile industry—the advent of the personal cloud. Mobile users, of which there are now more...
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Ash Patel
Overview – The semiconductor design services industry is a growing field, due to rising costs and shortage of engineers in...
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Startup of the month
si Team
Be it a multinational corporation, a medium sized organization or a tiny startup, if there is one challenge that transcends all...
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VP Profile
Jaya Smitha Menon
Kamesh Nagarajan is a Senior Vice President in Morgan Stanley Smith Barney’s Global Wealth Management Division with over 12...
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VC Chakra
si Team
InMobi, a mobile advertising company, raises $200 million fund from Japan based Softbank. The investment will take place in...
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si Team
Adchemy, an advertising technology company, completed a $61 million Series E financing round with Microsoft, August Capital and...
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In Focus
Hari Anil
What if the IT industry goes down? Yes, it is a highly unlikely, but is it an impossible scenario? No, in the present business...
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Editor's Desk
Christo Jacob
The act of tithing, is one of the greatest acts of obedience a Christian can practice. The purpose of tithing was to teach the...
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