Stories by John Ribeiro

Vodafone India introduces solar powered phone

Vodafone Essar, the Indian subsidiary of Vodafone Group, launched a solar powered mobile phone in India on Tuesday, aiming to address problems with the unstable electricity supply in many parts of the country.

Indian ISP to offer cloud computing to masses

Sify Technologies, a large Indian internet service provider, has launched a suite of cloud-based applications targeting the large number of people in India who do not own computers or have access to the internet.

Satyam seeks new extension to file financial results

Indian outsourcer Satyam Computer Services informed the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) on Monday that it has applied to India's Company Law Board (CLB), seeking an extension to Sept. 30 for filing its 2008 and 2009 financial results.

Huawei plans to manufacture in India

Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies plans to start having some equipment manufactured in India, a company spokesman said on last week. The company also plans to invest US$500 million over the next five years to expand its research and development (R&D) facility in Bangalore.

New Microsoft technology reduces network redundancy

Researchers at Microsoft Research India have developed a compression and redundancy elimination technology that can operate as a host service in enterprise systems, without the use of accelerator devices over a WAN.

Report: Steve Jobs returning to work this month

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is on track to return from medical leave this month, and there is even speculation that he may be present at the company's annual software developers' conference next week at San Francisco, The Wall Street Journal <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124415751596986965.html">reported</a> Friday, quoting people familiar with the matter.

Data Domain accepts new NetApp offer

NetApp has claimed victory in the bidding war with EMC over Data Domain, a vendor of deduplication storage systems, though EMC insists its all-cash offer is superior to NetApp's, which combines cash and stock.

IBM confirms North America layoffs

Amid reports that it is moving thousands of jobs from the US to India, IBM said Thursday it is notifying employees that some jobs are being eliminated.

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