Leslie D'Monte &Amp; Priyanka Joshi In Mumbai

Stories by Leslie D'Monte &Amp; Priyanka Joshi In Mumbai

The movie screen in your home

The movie screen in your home

Rediff.com   25 Aug 2007

Most home projectors promise to take home cinema to its ultimate limits.

Now pay for music downloads!

Now pay for music downloads!

Rediff.com   23 Aug 2007

The country's leading music companies are grappling with a new problem: how to sell their music. Sale of cassettes and CDs are on the decline, while online sales have been severely undercut by free downloads.

Sub-prime fear now haunts BPOs

Sub-prime fear now haunts BPOs

Rediff.com   20 Aug 2007

The US sub-prime lending crisis forced Mumbai-based WNS Holdings to revise its net income guidance by 60 per cent, and this is worrying the $8 billion business process outsourcing sector players and analysts.

Subprime woes not to hit IT firms

Subprime woes not to hit IT firms

Rediff.com   16 Aug 2007

IT-BPO firms offer end-to-end mortgage origination services and manage servicing activities.

Trouble in Second Life

Trouble in Second Life

Rediff.com   13 Aug 2007

Anuj, a resident of Second Life since November 2006, is angry. He recently bought a poker table for around 25,000 Linden dollars

Virtual lines of control

Virtual lines of control

Rediff.com   11 Aug 2007

The Indo-Pak rivalry is set to move onto the cyber-world with the World Cyber Games in Mumbai.

'These are very exciting times to be in India'

'These are very exciting times to be in India'

Rediff.com   9 Aug 2007

Nortel President and CEO Mike Zafirovsky is scheduled to visit India shortly, his first since taking over in November 2005. In an email interview with Leslie D'Monte, he explained his company's strategy for India and more.

Indian IT sector steps up M&As

Indian IT sector steps up M&As

Rediff.com   8 Aug 2007

With organic growth slowing down due to the appreciating rupee and rising wages, Indian information technology companies have taken the acquisition route to add marketing muscle and win clients in Europe and the US.

Google follows Apple with GPhone

Google follows Apple with GPhone

Rediff.com   4 Aug 2007

The reports suggesting that the nearly $13.5 billion Internet giant Google is finally developing a 'GPhone' are growing stronger in the foreign media and cyberspace.

Indian techies log in to elite global R&D

Indian techies log in to elite global R&D

Rediff.com   3 Aug 2007

Making a name for themselves as they 'drive innovation' in giants like IBM, Microsoft.

Linux makes inroads into Microsoft's domain

Linux makes inroads into Microsoft's domain

Rediff.com   2 Aug 2007

Linux has over 300 variants, of which the offerings from Red Hat and Novell are the most popular because the firms provide support and maintenance -- the OS is free.

Indian solar market lures global players

Indian solar market lures global players

Rediff.com   30 Jul 2007

India is becoming an attractive solar market and firms such as Moser Baer and US-based Signet Solar are confident of the growth in this market.

Click and buy, the cheap way

Click and buy, the cheap way

Rediff.com   28 Jul 2007

Don't be a Net-phobe. Online shopping throws up many exciting deals and discounts.

The communicator is a niche proposition

The communicator is a niche proposition

Rediff.com   24 Jul 2007

The Nokia E90 is a larger than the more 'standard' mobile phones at 132 mm x 51 mm x 21 mm, and at 210 gram, the large size seems worth it, given the extra capacity.

Investors in top IT firms lose Rs 77,500 cr

Investors in top IT firms lose Rs 77,500 cr

Rediff.com   24 Jul 2007

Indian IT firms are learning to cope with the appreciating rupee, according to Pradeep Udhas, global head (sourcing advisory), KPMG.

PCs can be your classmate from August

PCs can be your classmate from August

Rediff.com   23 Jul 2007

Digital learning with personal computers will soon become a mass reality with Intel and HCL Infosystems planning to introduce the Intel-powered Classmate PC in India from August. Wipro and Zenith Computers will soon follow the suit.

India morphs into global R&D hub

India morphs into global R&D hub

Rediff.com   21 Jul 2007

Technology research in the country is the next big thing.

PDF spams give security tools the slip

PDF spams give security tools the slip

Rediff.com   17 Jul 2007

An escalation in similar stock market spams in the garb of PDF mails highlights vulnerabilities of security tools in weaning out illegitimate PDF files.

HP close to gesture-based keyboard deal

HP close to gesture-based keyboard deal

Rediff.com   16 Jul 2007

The gesture-based keyboard, priced at Rs 2,500, is an electronic pen-based device that can be used to create texts in languages that use phonetic scripts, rather than the Roman alphabet that's common in Western languages.

India's tryst with the millennium

India's tryst with the millennium

Rediff.com   13 Jul 2007

As the world trembled in anticipation of the Y2K disaster, India awoke to outsourcing.