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Stories by John Ribeiro

Article | 10/10/2008 Netbooks will boost adoption of Linux, says Novell CTO

A surge in demand for netbooks is helping drive business for Linux, as the devices are designed to be low-cost with smaller storage, according to Nove...

Article | 17/09/2008 India wants to secure Wi-Fi hotspots, citing terror threat

Security experts and other citizens in Mumbai, India, are planning a drive to make people in the city and the rest of the country more aware of the ne...

Article | 25/09/2008 IBM launches four new cloud computing centers

IBM opened up cloud computing centers in four countries on Wednesday to let enterprises, universities and governments test Web-based services and appl...

Article | 12/09/2008 IBM testing voice-based web

IBM is testing a voice-based web to make information accessible to users who may not be able to read or write, or who do not have access to the Inter...

Article | 29/08/2008 Dell puts Linux and Atom in Vostro PCs for emerging markets

Dell unveiled this week two new laptops and two desktops in its Vostro range designed to meet the needs of small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), g...

Article | 19/08/2008 HP draws Greenpeace ire in India

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has been targeted by Greenpeace in India for not offering a service there for recovering used equipment from consumers.

Article | 15/08/2008 Microsoft, Google, Yahoo sued for sex selection ads

Microsoft, Google and Yahoo were issued notices by India's Supreme Court on Wednesday, following a complaint that they were promoting techniques and p...

Article | 31/07/2008 India's '$10 laptop' to cost US$100 after all

A low-cost laptop being developed by the Indian government in tandem with two leading Indian education and research institutions will cost US$100 when...

Article | 30/07/2008 India developing US$10 laptop

India is developing a laptop to be sold at US$10, that will target higher education applications, a minister of the federal government said Tuesday in...

Article | 3/07/2008 IBM develops audio-masking technology

IBM's India Research Laboratory (IRL) has developed technology that automatically detects and masks sensitive information in audio recordings.

Article | 4/06/2008 Yahoo sued by Indian music company for copyright infringment

The Delhi High Court in India passed an interim injunction on Friday that prohibits Yahoo Video from streaming copyright content from Indian music com...

Article | 29/05/2008 Watch the Windows 7 'multi-touch' demo

Microsoft demonstrated the multitouch interface for its upcoming Windows 7 operating system on Tuesday. The interface provides a touchscreen input for...

Article | 27/05/2008 RIM says it can't provide e-mail interception in India

Research In Motion (RIM) has said it is unable to give the Indian government access to messages sent by its enterprise clients over the BlackBerry ser...

Article | 20/05/2008 Google defends helping police nab Indian defamer

Google said Monday that it complied with Indian legal process when it gave police information about a user of its Orkut social networking site. With t...

Article | 26/02/2008 YouTube blames Pakistani ISP for global site outage

Many users around the world could not access the YouTube site for about two hours on Sunday. The company blamed the outage on erroneous routing inform...