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Stories of the month - March 2007

India, iPods, Google phone rumours and a chat with the 'Father of Java'...

By Tim Ferguson

Published: 30 March 2007 16:25 BST

Improving your bowling, pod-slurping corporate data and even listening to music... Whoever knew just how much fun could be had with a humble iPod?

Along with Google phones and iPhones, our story listing 10 unusual uses of iPods proved popular with the readers of silicon.com this month.

Stories of the month - March

Click on the links below to read the stories everyone is talking about...

Q&A: James Gosling, 'father of Java'

Top 10 uses of an iPod you'd never expect

Is Google creating a Gphone?

Photos: Satyam's IT campus

Photos: First look at Microsoft's NHS software

Apologetic Virgin hammered by Sky switchers

French MPs pick Ubuntu for Linux switch

Upwardly Mobile: How the iPhone changed the world

VoIP threats to watch out for

'Vista rip-off': UK customers cry foul over US prices

And sticking with Apple, our story discussing the future of the iPhone - which explained how the gadget has the potential to change the world - also drew many readers, while Google's rumoured entry into the mobile world also got tongues wagging.

Everyone's favourite web phenomenon is branching out these days but a Google mobile would be a big departure. A Gphone might just be pie in the sky but you never know...

Also big this month - our interview with Sun's "father of Java", James Gosling, giving us an insight into why the company is planning to take Java open source and why Microsoft still rules the desktop waves.

Talking of open source, we reported that the French government is to start using the Linux-based Ubuntu operating system on their parliamentary PCs.

Throughout the month we've also been running a silicon.com India special report looking at how outsourcing is changing the country.

silicon.com's Steve Ranger visited Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore to investigate the Indian technology industry and discovered some interesting developments taking place.

On the first leg of his trip he checked out Satyam's luxury campus in Hyderabad - from the photos it certainly beats working on an industrial park in Slough.

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