Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Internet and Telecom’

By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 5th, 2009 • Category: Americas, Bombay/Mumbai, Business, Diaspora, Internet and Telecom, YouTube Videos

The American National Anthem: The Star Spangled Banner was written in the early 19th century by Francis Scott Key, a lawyer. Key’s wrote the song aboard the ship HMS Minden, which has an India connection. HMS Minden was built in Bombay by the Wadias, a famous ship-building family, for the British and is supposed to [...]



By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 1st, 2009 • Category: Bangalore, Business, Ideas, India, Infrastructure, Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, Technology, YouTube Videos

Networking giant Cisco Systems is aggressively pursuing smart energy or green tech initiatives through its concept of Smart Connected Buildings.Cisco announced today that it is introducing the first of its product in the smart energy category called Network Building Mediator that was incubated in Cisco’s Globalization Center East in Bangalore, India. This is the first [...]



By Kamla Bhatt • Nov 6th, 2008 • Category: Business, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Interviews, Technology, Web 2.0

 Thanks for your continuing support and encouragement without which we would not be able to move forward. We are doing  a 12-part online radio series with Mint for their LiveMint Radio Show that is launching next week. The series is titled “Tune In To The Future.” The first 3 guests on the show are Yogen [...]



By Kamla Bhatt • Sep 23rd, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Interviews, Podcast, Start-ups, Technology, Venture Capital

TeliBrahma headed by Suresh Narasimha received $2 million as its Series A funding.  Inventus Capital Partners, a VC firm headed by Kanwal Rekhi invested $1 million and with this investment Kanwal and his team make their first investment in India.  I have an interview with Kanwal, where he talks about his new company Inventus and [...]



By Kamla Bhatt • Sep 12th, 2008 • Category: Diaspora, Ideas, Internet and Telecom, Interviews, Podcast, Technology, Venture Capital

Earlier today I spent a couple of hours talking to Yogen Dalal, Managing Director, Mayfield Fund. Yes, I was there to interview him,  and he was such a gracious host and spent an extra hour talking on a whole range of topics not directly related to the interview. Yogen is a fascinating conversationalist and I [...]



By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 20th, 2008 • Category: Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Infrastructure, Internet and Telecom, Interviews, Life, Mobile, People, Start-ups

We have a nice mix of interviews that spans life, people and ideas. Murli Wanchoo is a retired Indian government official, who lives in Silicon Valley and he looks back at India in the early days. Then we have Anusuya Devi (88), who is known as  the “Queen of Folk Music” of Andhra Pradesh. Age [...]