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Article | 15/06/2011 Wipro manufactures the products it designs for customers

Indian outsourcers have been typically known to develop enterprise software or offer IT services. But India's third largest outsourcer, Wipro, is taki...

Article | 15/06/2011 Indian voting machines with paper trails to be field-tested

India's Election Commission plans to test in July new electronic voting machines (EVMs) that will offer a voter a verifiable paper trail, following cr...

Article | 14/06/2011 VMware to buy Digital Fuel to simplify cloud economics

VMware is to acquire Digital Fuel Technologies, a vendor of IT financial management software that helps companies determine the cost of IT services.

Article | 13/06/2011 PlayBook OS updated after Adobe Flash security issue

A new version of the BlackBerry Tablet OS will soon be available to all BlackBerry PlayBook tablet users, to address a security issue raised by Adobe ...

Article | 11/06/2011 Anonymous withdraws Indian hack under pressure

The fledgling Indian operation of hacker group Anonymous attacked the <a href="http://indianarmy.nic.in/Index.aspx?flag=LfcULYFlbeQ=">website of the I...

Article | 9/06/2011 Indian outsourcers' quality hit by staff issues

The service quality at top Indian outsourcers is dropping as they scramble to hire staff to cope with an unexpected surge in demand, analysts said.

Article | 8/06/2011 YouTube, Intel team to offer free blockbuster Indian movies

YouTube has introduced a new channel in India that offers blockbuster Indian movies for free to viewers, and landed Intel as a major sponsor.

Article | 8/06/2011 Twitter rolls out automatic URL shortening

Twitter rolled out an automatic link shortening feature on Tuesday that enables users to paste long URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) directly into mes...

Article | 7/06/2011 Anonymous hacks Indian site in fight against corruption

Hacker group Anonymous has come out in support of a civil movement against corruption in India by hacking one of the websites of a government IT organ...

Article | 7/06/2011 Microsoft Research virtualizes idle desktops to save power

Finding that people do not use "stand-by" and "hibernate" when going away from their PCs, for fear of disrupting running network connections and backg...

Article | 6/06/2011 LulzSec claims it hacked FBI linked organization

Hacking group Lulz Security claimed it had hacked and defaced the web site of the Atlanta chapter of InfraGard, an organization affiliated to the U.S....

Article | 5/06/2011 Syria Internet service said to be restored

The Internet in Syria was back on Saturday, a day after it was reported that two-thirds of Syrian networks had been cut off from the rest of the world...

Article | 3/06/2011 YouTube sets up Creative Commons library

YouTube has set up a library of videos carrying the Creative Commons license, that creators can easily reuse and incorporate into their work, the Goog...

Article | 3/06/2011 Foxconn reopens polishing facilities, other than Chengdu

Foxconn has reopened all its polishing workshops, other than the one at Chengdu in China, which <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/228387/three_d...

Article | 2/06/2011 Sony to restore Thursday all PlayStation Network services

Sony will fully restore PlayStation Network services on Thursday in all regions other than in Japan, Hong Kong, and South Korea, the company said.