Leslie D''Monte

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Indian professor in US plans $300 house for the poor
Rediff.com7 Oct 2011

Indian cities need more than 20 million homes.

IT Act may police 3G services
Rediff.com20 Sep 2011

The exercise is ostensibly for security reasons and to prevent misuse of the freedom of...

Telcos, social media sites get a conscience call
Rediff.com25 Feb 2011

Facebook has over 600 million users worldwide while Twitter has slightly over 175...

Orchestrating global symphony in real-time
Rediff.com11 Feb 2011

TablaNet, an online musical collaboration system by Mihir Sarkar, may soon become a...

Kill Switch is soon becoming a reality
Rediff.com4 Feb 2011

Blocking internet access with a simple flip of the switch, called 'kill switch', is...

Fun 'n' games converge with movies, devices
Rediff.com10 Jan 2011

Recession-hit tech companies believe 2011 will be a promising year. But they are not...

Smartphones are merging digital with real world
Rediff.com3 Dec 2010

Called Augmented Reality or AR, it is defined as the overlay of graphics onto a video...

Tug 'O' war continues for Internet freedom
Rediff.com1 Oct 2010

Who will own the Internet? The question is an oxymoron since no one owns cyberspace.

ISB forms 'Ivy League' with 3 Asian B-schools
Rediff.com23 Jul 2010

The Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, has tied-up with three top Asian B-schools to...

Google intensifies war with Microsoft
Rediff.com1 Jul 2010

Google's Chrome OS will soon challenge the software giant's stranglehold in the...

It's time for 'green' banking
Rediff.com21 May 2010

India's leading banks are seizing opportunities in an emerging low-carbon economy.

MS Office 2010 takes fight with Google
Rediff.com17 May 2010

The beta version has seen over 1.3 mn downloads; over 2,000 firms in India are moving...

Computing in your own language is now a breeze
Rediff.com1 Apr 2010

Solutions from major players like Microsoft, Google and Intel suggest that computing in...

Ads in cyberspace find their mark
Rediff.com18 Mar 2010

The fledgling online advertising industry is expected to grow four-fold by 2014.

Cutting-edge tech for all from Indian labs
Rediff.com11 Mar 2010

Imagine this scenario. Pyarelal Shankar a grocery store owner in Haryana is not...

How Nasscom made software sector a superpower
Rediff.com10 Feb 2010

National Association of Software and Service Companies had a humble beginning.

Why Google dumping China is good for India
Rediff.com15 Jan 2010

The country has comparatively fewer Internet connections but is the second-largest...

Cloud computing: Opportunity for Indian IT firms
Rediff.com5 Jan 2010

Cloud computing is helping corporations create new, cost-effective business models

India's first entrepreneur to sell solar power
Rediff.com9 Dec 2009

Inderpreet S Wadhwa, a former Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur, sets up India's first...

Facebook to get rid of India network
Rediff.com3 Dec 2009

Almost 50 per cent of all the 350 million-odd active users on the social networking...