by Sriram Vadlamani 
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was here in Bangalore for BangaloreIT.biz. Modi has called for a Nano of IT.
Indians are working at the low-end jobs of the outsourcing sector and they should move up the value chain to become a formidable force. The industry should come out of its comfort zone and and create value for the company and also to the manpower working for the company. Modi wants a Google or a Windows coming out of India.
Mr. Modi has a point. India has been back office of the world for a while now and yet to come up with a world class product. Only just recently was a chip produced in India. But that was with the help of Intel. Without taking anything away from the chip makers, India do not have any thing big to compete with the likes of Google or Microsoft. Not yet.
November 6, 2008 Continue Reading → by Arun Prabhudesai 
I had set up a poll a fortnight back on this to understand why Indian Internet penetration is lagging behind so much so that a country of size of Hong Kong beats India, even when we out number them in population by over a billion people. Obviously, one of the basic reason is that more than 70% of Indian still live in villages and are dependent on farming with no need of internet as yet what so ever.
But what about urban Indians? India has more than 250 million people living in cities, then why is it that we have only 3.5 million broadband connections to show?
Here is the Poll Verdict:
Out of total of 156 poll participants around 44% felt that Internet connections are expensive. I feel so too.
May 12, 2008 Continue Reading → 
