Deep Purple live - in Bangalore

Come December 17, Bangalore will become the only Asian city to host Deep Purple during their current tour.

Formed in 1968, the Band is one of the enduring symbols of rock music. Presently, Deep Purple includes Ian Gillian, Steve Morse, Roger Glover, Don Airey, and Ian Paice.

Offshoring turns a new leaf...

Offshoring is moving up the value chain. The newest trend is not call centers or back-office processing. It's not even software development.It's Rand D, Product design, etc.

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Jay, from Bangalore

Bangalore is fast turning the IP capital of the world...

Bangalore used to be called the world's back office. Now, the "Garden City" is going through an interesting metamorphosis - into the IP capital of the world, with over 5300 patents filed.

Bangalore Tigers

Indian companies are now inspiring business best-sellers

The Indians deliver sophisticated services globally with the right people,in the right place,and at the right time, says Steve Hamm in "Bangalore Tiger", a McGraw-Hill book on Wipro.

And Azim Premji agrees - “We’re pioneers in establishing the global delivery model,which the whole services world is adopting today,”says Premji.“This model gives customers more value for their money.It will make the world more competitive,to the advantage of the customer."

Read the Introductory chapter here.
Read the BusinessWeek article here.
Access the Bangalore Tiger blog here.

Warriors of the flat world

The World is flat, observes Tom Friedman, foreign affairs columnist of The New York Times.

His inspiration ? Infosys, the Indian Company.

And Infosys agrees. "Outsourcing is just one dimension of a much more fundamental thing happening today in the world", Nilekani (Infosys CEO) explained. What happened in the last few years is that there was a massive Investment in technology, especially in the bubble area, where hundreds of millions of dollars were invested in putting broadband connectivity around the world, underseas cables, all those things".

At the same time, he added, computers became cheaper , and dispersed all over the world, and there was an explosion of software - email, search engines like Google, and proprietary software that can chop up any piece of work and send one part to Boston, one part to Bangalore and one part to Beijing, making it easy for anyone to do remote development.

When all of these things came together around 2000, added Nilekhani, "they created a platform where intellectual work, intellectual capital, could be delivered from anywhere. It could be disaggregated, delivered, distributed, produced, and put back together again- and this give a whole new degree of freedom to the way we do work, especially work of an intellectual nature...And what you are seeing in Bangalore today is really the culmination of all these things coming together."

Read the Infosys take on the flat world here and here.


Jay, from Bangalore

Bangalore Tigers

Indian companies are now inspiring business best-sellers

The Indians deliver sophisticated services globally with the right people,in the right place,and at the right time, says Steve Hamm in "Bangalore Tiger", a McGraw-Hill book on Wipro.

And Azim Premji agrees - “We’re pioneers in establishing the global delivery model,which the whole services world is adopting today,”says Premji.“This model gives customers more value for their money.It will make the world more competitive,to the advantage of the customer."

Read the Introductory chapter here.
Read the BusinessWeek article here.
Access the Bangalore Tiger blog here.

Warriors of the flat world

The World is flat, observes Tom Friedman, foreign affairs columnist of The New York Times.

His inspiration ? Infosys, the Indian Company.

And Infosys agrees. "Outsourcing is just one dimension of a much more fundamental thing happening today in the world", Nilekani (Infosys CEO) explained. What happened in the last few years is that there was a massive Investment in technology, especially in the bubble area, where hundreds of millions of dollars were invested in putting broadband connectivity around the world, underseas cables, all those things".

At the same time, he added, computers became cheaper , and dispersed all over the world, and there was an explosion of software - email, search engines like Google, and proprietary software that can chop up any piece of work and send one part to Boston, one part to Bangalore and one part to Beijing, making it easy for anyone to do remote development.

When all of these things came together around 2000, added Nilekhani, "they created a platform where intellectual work, intellectual capital, could be delivered from anywhere. It could be disaggregated, delivered, distributed, produced, and put back together again- and this give a whole new degree of freedom to the way we do work, especially work of an intellectual nature...And what you are seeing in Bangalore today is really the culmination of all these things coming together."

Read the Infosys take on the flat world here and here.


Jay, from Bangalore

Bangalore becomes Bengalooru

The change in name was announced in conjunction with the state's 50th anniversary.

However, the official English spellings have not yet been finalized. The new Karnataka capital may be spelled Bengalooru or Bengalaru.

Apart from Bangalore, Mysore will also change it's name - to Mysooru!

Teflon Bangalore

The muck doesn't stick. Read all about it here.

Jay, From Bangalore

All The Google Goodies, In One Place!

Just found all the Google goodies in one place.
http://www.google.com/literacy/

Jay, From Bangalore

Bangalore Shuts Down For A Day

The IT Capital of India went offline today. A Statewide 12-hour bandh affected normal life here and most parts of the State. Most of the IT Companies and shops remained closed. The streets were deserted, except for the stray dogs who roam the streets.

The bandh, called by Karnataka Border Agitation Committee, an umbrella body of pro-Kannada outfits on the Maharashtra-Karnataka boundary issue, began at 6 a.m. today.

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Jay, From Bangalore

Surviving Birdflu

Bangalore needs to know a few facts about Birdflu.

Because, the chances are very, very high.
Because knowledge might be our only defence.

Please don't take this lightly. Because life, like freedom,
doesn't come free!

Jay, from Bangalore

Wet October!

Late October came with incessant downpours that drowned even the pretence of infrastructure in this city. And then we, the dreamers stood up to be counted.

We waited 3 hours in the clogged "Highways" to reach our offices.
We worked even when our children failed to reach home at the usual time.
We stood our ground when our feet got wet.

And Bangalore worked like "normal"! And the world too...

Jay, from Bangalore