In Part-2 of our conversation Senthil Sundaram, business head of MSN Mobile India explains how they plan to do reach out to their mobile customers. They plan to roll out their direct to consumer initiative and make MSN’s mobile portal to the users in a big way. At the ...

What is human computer interaction? Prof John Canny of UC Berkeley explains that human computer interaction is making computers (technology) available to people. Macintosh is an early example of this. According to John Steve Jobs of Apple was a key entrepreneur and agent in making this happen, but lot ...

How is human computer interaction different in emerging economies like India? Prof John Canny of UC Berkeley discusses some of the projects that he had his colleagues are working in India using mobile phone for real time video and location based services (LBS). John talks at length about ...

Prof. Tapan Parikh is a teacher, an innovator and a social entrepreneur, who currently teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. He was recently named as the Humanitarian of the Year by MIT’s Tech Review. While at graduate school in Seattle, Tapan took some time off and travelled ...

We continue our conversation with Krishna Prasad (KP), Executive Producer, MSN India about their content strategy, future plans and what kinds of content drives traffic to their site. MSN India is working on introducing new rich media content for their audience like video on demand. Expect to see more ...

Meet Vishal Maheshwari, head of Yahoo! India mobile, who provides strategic direction to his company’s mobile business in India. India has one of the fastest mobile subscribers in the world. Every month millions of new mobile subscribers are added by various Indian telcos. In this interview Vishal talks about the ...

MSN India is getting ready to unveil its video feature for its audience next week. I caught with Krishna Prasad, aka KP, executive producer at MSN India’s office in Bangalore to find out more about MSN India’s business and content strategy for India and its global Indian audience? Recently ...

Kreeda, a gaming startup located in Mumbai, the epicenter of India’s nascent gaming industry. Earlier this year Kreeda received an undisclosed amount of money from IDG Ventures India and Bodhi Softbank Holdings.

In Part-2 of the conversation we talk to Quentin about doing business in India vs. doing business in ...

Gaming is fast gaining track in India and Mumbai is the epicenter for the industry. I finally caught up with Quentin Staes-Polet, CEO of Kreeda in Bangalore to find out about Kreeda, doing business in India and the challenges of doing business in India. Kreeda bills itself as India’s ...

“We want to be on a billion phones,” says Ojas Rege, VP of Yahoo’s global mobile products. So, imagine the challenge that Ojas and his team have in order to achieve that goal. You need to have an entrpreneurial bent of mind to do make the internet fit your phone ...

How does Yahoo! access the power of the Internet on the mobile phone? They way a user uses Yahoo! on their desktop is vastly different from the way they use it on their mobile phones. Delivering a seamless, oneclick experience on the mobile phone is a key component of what ...

Where is the market for the yet to be released HSPA or mobile broadband PCs that GSM and Microsoft are promoting. In Part-2 of our conversation Ken Pawlak of the Unlimited Potential Group of Microsoft talks about where those markets. Unsurprisingly the Asia Pacific region and specifically India ...

How do you make the GSM network relevant to millions of PC users around the world? Simple. Plug in a mobile broadband or High Speed Internet Access (HSPA) chip into the laptop and you are good to surf the internet. What is the target market for these mobile ...

Asia has the largest and fastest growing mobile users in the world. Yahoo! mobile has a pretty significant presence in Asia. David Ko, Vice President and General Manager of Yahoo! Connected Life Asia talks about Yahoo’s strategy and plans in the Asian market. David is responsible for the deployment ...

Cisco, the networking giant is bullish about doing business in India and that was the central message delivered by John T. Chambers, Chairman and CEO of Cisco in India. So far Cisco has invested $1.1 billion in India.

In Part-2 of the interview with Shantanu Narayen, President and COO of Adobe describes his company’s India strategy. What about mobile strategy in India? Tune in to find out.

Adobe established its India office in Noida about 10 years ago.

Helping people engage with ideas and information is how Shantanu Narayen, President and COO of Adobe describes what his company does best. Adobe recently completed 25 years and is expected to about $3 billion in revenue this year.

I caught up with Shantanu, who was on a ...

Steve Sanghi, CEO of Microchip Technology, talks about how the company went from a small, struggling outfit to a successful one. What made Steve believe in Microchip Technology? How did he do it?

He also talks about the connection between the U.S. housing market and Microchip Technology. And then ...

Arizona-based Microchip Technology is an important player in the microcontroller and analog semiconductor space. The company registered $1.039 billion in net sales for fiscal year 2007.

Yesterday, I spoke with Steve Sanghi, the CEO and the chairman of the board of directors of Microchip Technologies, in Bangalore, to find ...

Velu Shankar is head of content strategy at the India office of WorldSpace Satellite Radio, the 24-radio station. I recently caught up with Velu at his downtown Bangalore office to find out on how WorldSpace started its India operations, and the potential and future growth of radio in India. ...

This past weekend, Bangalore was the place to be if you were a hacker. More than 100 hackers from different parts of India participated in Yahoo’s open hackday session, held at the Taj Hotel in Bangalore. The 24-hour marathon session started late Friday evening (October 5th) ...

Right now, a bunch of hackers are huddled over their laptops in a downtown hotel in Bangalore. This 24-hour Open Hack Day marathon session is organized by Yahoo India R&D. Similar Open Hack Days were organized in Sunnyvale, Calif. and London. Bangalore is the third city. I ...

Sybrant is an unique company that helps startup companies develop product. It’s what its CEO, V.Thiagarajan, describes best as, “Come in with an idea, Walk out with a product.”

The company has been conceived and established to take up the challenging environments of “Product Development” with a focused approach that ...

CyberMedia is South Asia’s largest specialty media company that was founded in 1982, when IT and tech industry was still in its infancy in India. Earlier this year I caught up CyberMedia’s chairperson Pradeep Gupta at the Pan-IIT Global Conference in Santa Clara, Calif. CyberMedia’s mix of publications includes ...