Green IT: To increase data center energy efficiency at one of our older data centers in India, Intel IT’s Data Center Services group collaborated on a technology study with the IT compute organization and Intel Facilities Management to develop a [See the full post…]

Aloke Bajpai is the founder-CEO of Travenues, a travel-technology startup based in Gurgaon, India. Travenues is building a ‘Travel 2.0’ planning & search engine named iXiGO for web & mobile consumers in India. IXIGO was one of the products to [See the full post…]

Ashish Kashyap has over 12 years of experience spanning internet, television and radio businesses. He has created many innovative consumer applications, and also launched successful businesses from scratch. Prior to his appointment with MIH-Internet (India) as CEO, Ashish was the [See the full post…]

Rohit Agarwal is the founder and CEO of techTribe Networks, a software company pioneering the use of social networking for innovation through ideas, networking and mentorship. techTribe’s goal is to enable Indian technology professionals in software and services to connect [See the full post…]

A professional-turned-entrepreneur, Deep Kalra promoted India’s most successful online travel company, MakeMyTrip in April 2000. MMT is a comprehensive travel services provider for leisure travel to, from and within India. Over the past 5 years, MMT has grown rapidly to [See the full post…]

It’s freezing cold in Dharamsala, India, in the mountain state of Himachal Pradesh. Clouds chase the sun away, and rain shatters the sky with numbing regularity. But something about this place has a special meaning to everyone who comes here. [See the full post…]

Iqbal Gandham has been involved with internet startups since before the days of Yahoo and Hotmail, when the coolest thing to do with a webpage was to make the text blink. Initially based in the UK, Iqbal setup several ISPs, [See the full post…]

Driving in Karachi is an exercise in confusion, damped-out road rage and sheer fun. The roads are mostly quite wide, but the combination of a large variety of vehicles and quaint driving styles makes for what the ancient Chinese legendarily [See the full post…]

Last Monday, Veer Bothra (seen here on the left) asked me to join in the monthly mixer he organises, called Mobile Monday. It’s loosely tied in with an eponymous event held around the world, an opportunity for mobile platform stakeholders [See the full post…]

PixSense launched its new, wide range of installables for cellphones at DEMO/fall in San Diego on Monday September 25, 2006. I met with Adnan Agboatwala, who captains the development of this remarkable new application and service as managing director of [See the full post…]

Something is happening that could bring about a fundamental shift in the Indian IT industry: A new pricing model that may improve quality could make India more than just a low-cost outsourcing destination. As per this report, India’s largest software [See the full post…]

Kolachi is one of the traditional names for the port city of Karachi, in Pakistan’s coastal southern province of Sindh. The city too is a peculiarly South Asian blend of old and new, crowded marketplaces competing for space with massive [See the full post…]

Back in February this year at Robert Scoble and Shel Israel’s book launch of “Naked Conversations”, John Furrier engaged Kaboodle CEO Manish Chandra in a fascinating discussion about the history of the entrepreneurial culture in India, and how that culture [See the full post…]

The senior police officer, currently director, cybersecurity, at NASSCOM, India’s IT industry heavyweight association, talks about bringing about awareness on security issues to various stakeholders, including law enforcement, commerce and industry, users and foreign organisations outsourcing work into India.

Web 2.0 is at a fairly nascent stage in India. There are a bunch of India centric Web 2.0 products (or applications) that currently exist but that bunch is steadily growing. So, now you have a, not too insignificant number [See the full post…]

About Manish Chandra: Manish Chandra arrived in Silicon Valley in 1989. His passion for growing small ideas took shape very early when he left Intel to join a small start-up called Sybase (with less than 80 people) while the valley [See the full post…]

About Amit Ranjan: Amit Ranjan is a techie turned marketer turned entrepreneur. He heads the Delhi office of Uzanto (a Silicon Valley user experience startup), where he drives the company’s product development team. He tracks emerging trends in the Indian [See the full post…]

About Vickram: Vickram Crishna, a graduate of IIT Delhi and IIM Calcutta, has worked in and around the Indian technology sector for three decades, including ten years spent in mainstream media. His stint as deputy editor at the fortnightly Business [See the full post…]

About Amit Agarwal: Amit Agarwal is a professional blogger based in Agra, the city of The Taj Mahal. He writes for Digital Inspiration and also provides one-to-one professional consulting to both companies and professionals. Amit’s professional interests include technical writing, [See the full post…]