HP’s executive VP of Imaging and Printing group Vyomesh Joshi may have lost out in the race to head one of Silicon Valley’s storied computer companies.

But the man has not been not standing still.

On Tuesday, HP’s Imaging and Printing group, headed by Joshi, rolled out 17 new printers as well as a $300 million global marketing campaign called “What do you have to say?” that lets users to mash up their content with free content from singer/fashion designer Gwen Stefani, Burton Snowboards founder Jake Burton and graphic designer Paula Scher.

The new printer lineup for consumers include five compact photo printers, five Photosmart single-function and all-in-one printers and two Deskjet printer models.

For businesses, HP launched two new inkjet printers and three laser printers.

Unveiling the new printers, Joshi said:

Today we’re igniting growth across every single part of our business and introducing market-leading imaging and printing solutions for consumers, small and medium businesses, the graphic arts community and enterprise customers.

The new printers are part of HP’s Print 2.0 strategy of delivering a digital Continue Reading…

We were perhaps the first to write about German enterprise software house SAP’s ambitious plans for the Indian market back in the mid-1990s when our ship was still anchored in Bangalore.

So it’s gratifying to note more than a decade later SAP’s significant presence in, and committment to, the Indian market. 

During the current visit of SAP’s entire Executive Board to India, the company said on Tuesday that it had doubled its customers in the country to 2,000 in just one year.

It took nine years for SAP to hit the first thousand customer mark.

Describing SAP’s growth in India as “unprecedented for the company around the globe”, SAP executives reaffirmed a $1 billion investment committment to the country by 2010, a committment originally made in 2006.

At a press conference in New Delhi on Tuesday morning, highlighting the 4,200 SAP employees in the country and rapid growth in the Indian market, SAP CEO Henning Kagermann made clear the importance of the region for the company:

India is strategic for us.

As growth opportunities slow down in the mature American and European markets, SAP is paying more attention to the developing markets, a point hinted at by Kagermann:

Markets like India are at an inflection point when it comes to the adoption of technology by businesses of all shapes and sizes.

The significant chunk of SAP’s investment in India will go towards Continue Reading…

Oh, my god…this is one of the funniest videos we’ve seen on YouTube in a long time.

Living in USA, you can’t but help notice this “issue” of why Asian guys don’t seem to get White girls. It’s always the other way around.

There’s even an Indian angle to this video towards the end.

We hope you enjoy this video as much as we did.

The goal of developing easy-to-manage desktop computers and reducing total cost of ownership (TCO) has been the cherished dream of several Silicon Valley entrepreneurs for more than a decade. 

Oracle’s Larry Ellison tried and failed in the late 1990s with his network computers (remember the famous NCs?). Ellison’s buddy Scott McNealy of Sun failed to make much headway too. As did many others in Silicon Valley because for all their promise thin clients or network computing devices offered a lot less than desktop computers.

Now comes a start-up called Pano Logic that swears it’s conjured up a new way of making desktops easy to manage for IT managers through the combination of an all hardware, no software device and server virtualization.

Pano also claims its architecture will slash the TCO of desktops by 70%.

The privately held start-up Pano says its palm-sized hardware device will Continue Reading…