Archive for October, 2007

By Kamla Bhatt • Oct 31st, 2007 • Category: Bangalore, Events, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, Technology, Video, YouTube Videos

Cisco unveiled its new campus in Bangalore yesterday (Oct 30th, 2007)  and in this video clip you can catch a quick glimpse of the campus.
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By Kamla Bhatt • Oct 30th, 2007 • Category: Bangalore, Business, Events, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, Technology, Web 2.0, Wi-Fi

Earlier today, Cisco’s (CSCO) new campus on Outer Ring Road in Bangalore was inaugurated by President APJ Kalam and John Chambers, Cisco Chairman and CEO. This is a state-of-the art, green campus that is home to Cisco’s Globalization Center East that is currently headed by Wim Elfrink.
A couple of key announcements were made by John […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Oct 30th, 2007 • Category: Bangalore, Bollywood, Diaspora, Ideas, India, Technology, User Generated Content, Web 2.0

Here is part-2 of the interview with Shantanu Narayen, President and COO of Adobe, who was in Bangalore last week.  In this episode Shantanu talks about Adobe’s strategy in India, especially the mobile strategy.
Shantanu was born and bought up in India and in the early 1980s left for the USA for higher studies. After completing […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Oct 30th, 2007 • Category: Bangalore, Business, Diaspora, Events, Ideas, India, Technology

Right now the Fortune Global Forum is underway in New Delhi (Oct 29-31st), where over 300 global leaders are participating in the event. John Chambers, head of Cisco was at the even yesterday and flew down to Bangalore this afternoon to inaugurate Cisco’s new campus on Outer Ring Road. (I have quite a few video […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Oct 29th, 2007 • Category: Bangalore, Business, Events, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, Mobile, Technology, Web 2.0, Wi-Fi

For the next two days it is Cisco time in Bangalore when John Chambers and his people will be in town to inaugurate Cisco’s new globalization center campus and I guess outline Cisco’s new plans for India. Mr. Chambers is bullish about Web 2.0 and collaboration in general and about the wireless opportunity in India.  Just a […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Oct 29th, 2007 • Category: Bangalore, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, Mobile, Only in India, Podcast, Technology

Microsoft Research India (MSR) in Bangalore does some fascinating research about how technology is used in India. Last week I spent some time at MSR’s office in Bangalore and spoke with Kentaro Toyama about what kind of work MSR is doing in India.
Here is the link to the podcast interview with Kentaro Toyama of MSR.
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