Infosys Technologies has rolled out a new managed information service called ShoppingTrip360 to let retailers and consumer packaged goods companies gain greater visibility into in-store activity through the use of wireless sensor-based applications. Infosys described ShoppingTrip360 as a platform that enables a suite of managed-information services to create a 360-degree view of real-time in-store shopper […]
Manu Thapar has joined social networking web site MySpace as Senior VP of Engineering. At MySpace, Manu is responsible for overseeing the company’s infrastructure, security and high priority projects, as well as creating an offshore development team for MySpace. Before joining MySpace, Manu served as VP of Engineering for Yahoo, where he was responsible for software infrastructure […]
Philadelphia-based life science venture capital firm Quaker BioVentures has promoted Geeta Vemuri to Partner. Vemuri was earlier a Principal at the firm. Geeta Vemuri Before joining Quaker in 2003, Vemuri was an associate at Toucan Capital, responsible for investments in seed and start-up biotech companies. She’s also worked as an associate analyst at Salomon Smith […]
Like most Indians, there are two things we’re passionate about – Bollywood and food (no, cricket is not that hot on our list). In a long life, we’ve watched several hundred Bollywood movies (Hindi and Tamil) and dined at scores of Indian restaurants in Asia, Europe and North America. North Indian or South Indian, Gujarati or […]
Anil Ambani’s Reliance Globalcom (a division of Reliance Communications) intends to provide content delivery network (CDN) services in India and has partnered with a U.S. company Internap Network Services for the underlying technology. The CDN services will let Indian businesses add graphics, audio, streaming video and live events to their Web sites and Internet applications. […]
The Visitor Actors: Richard Jenkins, Haaz Sleiman, Danai Jekesai Gurira and Hiam Abbass Written & Directed by: Thomas McCarthy Language: English Running at: Cinema Village, E.12th St, New York City (as of July 26, 2008) There is drama in every human life. Not high drama in all cases, but every life has some interesting moments. […]