VenSat

VenSat Tech Services, Pvt. Ltd. was founded by Venkatesh Roddam and Satyanarayana Mudunuri, in 2009. Mr. Roddam is a veteran of 20 years in international banking, including almost a decade with Deutsche Bank, last serving as Managing Director responsible for the business operations of the Corporate Trust and Securities Services business for 31 markets globally, based in Frankfurt. Mr. Mudunuri has is the former Executive Vice President, Finance, for ITC, Ltd.,Both were with Satyam. The production team, now over 100 artists strong, in two animation/VFX studios in Chennai and Hyderabad. Newly established, VenSat America will develop innovative co-production arrangements linked to the company's animation, VFX, motion comics and 2D-to-3D conversion services.

Top 10 technologies identified by Gartner

Gartner, Inc. analysts highlighted the top 10 technologies and trends that will be strategic for most organizations in 2010. Gartner defines a strategic technology as one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years. Factors that denote significant impact include a high potential for disruption to IT or the business, the need for a major dollar investment, or the risk of being late to adopt.The top 10 strategic technologies for 2010 include:Cloud Computing, Advanced Analytics, Client Computing, IT for Green, Reshaping the Data Center, Social Computing, Security – Activity Monitoring, Flash Memory, Virtualization for Availability and Mobile Applications. Reading this together with Gartner Hype cycle 2009, I see some of our start-ups working in hot & promising topics like Speech recognition, Location aware applications, Wikis, Idea Management, Web 2.0, Mobile phone payment systems, RFID, Home Health monitoring. They would do better if enlightened users offer to test & adopt their products.

Red Herring Global Finalists

The list contains few Indian start-ups. See list at:

http://www.redherring.com/Home/26265

Firms with Indian connections are: Ampelion Networks, AppLabs Technologies Pvt. Ltd, Ayushveda Informatics (India) Pvt Ltd, BrickRed Technologies, Cellcast India Pvt. Ltd, Click India, Consim Info Pvt Ltd, Crederity Info Services Pvt Ltd, Dhama Apparel Innovations Pvt Ltd, Elina Networks Pvt. Ltd, Enable Mobile Technologies Pvt. Ltd, Harbinger Knowledge Product, Intellicus Technologies Pvt. Ltd., MAIA Intelligence, Mann India Technology, Ltd., Newgen Software Technologies Limited, Paladion Networks Pvt Ltd, Pinstorm, Planet41 Mobi-Venture, Proteans Software, RateGain, SunTec Business Solutions, Suvidhaa Infoserve Private Limited, Upside Learning Solutions, Voicetap Technologies, Zycus Inc

Dubzer

Dubzer works in sync with customers existing website and allows them to choose the content that should be modified, define the translation process at a webpage level, and publish all updates on demand. The founding team ( Anjali Gupta, Santosh Dawara )has in its past introduced innovative award-winning products in the Web and Natural Languages domain. These include products such as Lipikaar (www.lipikaar.com) a patented content creation product that has been used by over 25,000 content writers in 18 languages. Lipikaar won the Manthan Award South Asia 2008 for it’s simplicity and mass-appeal, and was featured by the Times of India, DNA, and CNBC TV18.

Benchmarking IT competitiveness 2009

The report from Economist Intelligence Unit on global ranking of nations competitiveness places India at 44 of 66 nations. India does not figure in top 20 in any category other than Human Capital. As expected India scores 2nd lowest on IT infrastructure, a shade better than Bangladesh. Can be seen as opportunity area for investors due to low penetration of broadband / internet. Also known but generally ignored is our limited strength in R&D-India's 2nd lowest score is on R&D environment.
Any suggestions on improving our ranking in this critical area?

Finalists of NASSCOM innovation awards

The NASSCOM Innovation Awards, currently in its fifth edition, is a key initiative by NASSCOM to highlight the true innovators in the Indian IT industry. The list of finalists can be seen at NASSCOM blog. Winners will be selected from presentations made at Cheenai, Delhi, Bangalore and Pune.

Prof Girish creating waves with WiLCOM

Wilcom Pvt Ltd is a start-up promoted by Professors of IIT Mumbai. Leading the charge is Prof Girish Kumar, who has more than two decades experience in designing antennas and microwave circuits. His book Broadband Microchip Antennas is a standard text book. Mobile phone jammer, radiation shield are some of consumer products.