Stories by John Ribeiro

Microsoft to invest $400 million in India over three years

Microsoft Corp is to invest US$400 million in India over the next three years in areas including computer literacy, localization of its software products, and increasing the size of its software development center, according to an announcement made T...

Stallman: Disk, I/O issues delay GNU OS

The release of a production version of the free GNU operating system (OS) has been delayed beyond the end of the year, as the current development version of the system does not support large disk partitions and high speed serial I/O (input-output), ...

MS India migrating Java to .NET

Microsoft's software development subsidiary in Hyderabad, South India, has announced it is developing JUMP to .NET, the company's Java User Migration Path (JUMP) for Microsoft .NET, consisting of a set of tools and technologies that will enable Java ...

HP eyes PICO system to reduce design time

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has begun tests of a new system that dramatically cuts the design time, cost and power consumption of devices such as Internet appliances, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and printers.

Intel Hikes India Investments to Over $100 Million

Intel Corp. is increasing ten-fold its investments in Indian companies this year, to over US$100 million, as part of a plan that includes both acquisitions of and equity investments in high-tech companies in a range of specialties.

SGI Plans 64-bit Overlay to Linux

Silicon Graphics Inc (SGI) plans to develop an overlay to Linux that will enable the operating system to scale up to 64 Intel IA-64 processors in a multiprocessing environment.