Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Chennai/Madras’

By Kamla Bhatt • May 27th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Chennai/Madras, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, Internet and Telecom, Start-ups, Technology, User Generated Content

Local search is the new battle ground for startups and VCs in India. “But, local search is an oxymoron,” says Deepak Srinivasan, Internet marketing guru. “There is no such user experience called local search. It is a local directory business,” he adds. “Local search is often used as a proxy for local points […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Dec 6th, 2007 • Category: Business, Chennai/Madras, Electronic gadgets, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Mobile, Technology

Nokia, the world’s largest handset manufacturer has some pretty ambitious plans for India and the US.
First India. Nokia is an enviable position in India, where it dominates the handset market. Over the past few years the Finnish telecom company has sharpened its focus in India and has set up a manufacturing unit in the […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Oct 22nd, 2007 • Category: Chennai/Madras, Electronic gadgets, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, Start-ups, Technology, Wi-Fi, YouTube Videos

Simputer
Prof. Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is a low-cost computer that is now available to different parts of the world. Originally priced at $100 the price of OLPC has almost doubled. India’s Anil Ambani group of companies, ADAG, recently joined the OLPC initiative in India and a pilot project is already underway in the state […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Oct 8th, 2007 • Category: Chennai/Madras, Electronic gadgets, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, Mobile, Technology

There is a lot of action and high drama in the Indian telecom space between the CDMA and GSM operators. India is one of the few countries where both mobile standards (GSM and CDMA) are deployed. GSM operators have corned a huge chunk of the global market share and they appear to have the same edge in India too. […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 28th, 2007 • Category: Chennai/Madras, Electronic gadgets, India, Mobile, Technology

It should come as no surprise that India has emerged as the second largest market for Nokia the Finnish telecom company  It should also not come as a surprise that Nokia’s forecast about India emerging as the second largest market for its products came earlier than expected. Nokia had estimated that India would emerge as the […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 27th, 2007 • Category: Business, Chennai/Madras, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Infrastructure, New York, Podcast, Technology

 
In the second part of our conversation Gopal Srinivasan of TVS Group of companies talks about the growth of the economy of Tamil Nadu and the inclusive approach required to help India grow.
Gopal systematically outlines the various plans and programs that are in place in Tamil Nadu to help grow the state’s economy. […]