Indian outsourcer Satyam Computer Services plans to train over 1,500 staff over the next two years on software and technologies from business software vendor SAP in a move to meet growing demand worldwide for consultants certified on SAP software.
Accenture has opened its tenth delivery center in India, as part of its strategy to locate its services delivery facilities close to where there is good quality staff in the country.
Volunteer hackers still play an important role in open-source software development despite the many companies that pay developers to work on open-source products, according to Michael Tiemann, Red Hat's vice president of open source affairs.
Large offshore Indian vendors of IT services continue to make gains and have begun to pose a serious threat to the top global players, according to research firms IDC and Forrester Research.
An application to help doctors diagnose anxiety disorders won this year's Imagine Cup, an annual contest sponsored by Microsoft that promotes innovation among technology students.
Agitar Software plans to ship a software testing product next year that will test a developer's code and, if necessary, automatically generate alternate bug-free and more efficient code, according to an executive of the company.
Marvell Technology Group will need around 18 months to make money from its proposed acquisition of Intel's loss-making communications and application processor business, according to the company's president and chief executive officer, Sehat Sutardja.
India may not go in for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program led by Nicholas Negroponte, which aims to deliver laptops priced at US$100 to school students, according to reports this week in Indian media.
Pervasive Software, a U.S. vendor of data infrastructure software, this week announced it closed down its software development subsidiary in Bangalore, India, citing complexity of management of the operation, and increasing employee cost and turnover.
India's exports of software and services such as call centers and back office operations totalled $US23.6 billion in the year to March 31, up by 33 percent from a year earlier, the National Association of Software Companies (Nasscom) in Delhi announced Thursday.
CollabNet may put some of its core software under an open-source license, or under a dual licensing model, to promote its adoption by users, an executive said.
Indian software and services outsourcer Satyam Computer Services Ltd. crossed US$1 billion in revenue in its fiscal year ended March 31, riding a boom in offshore outsourcing.
NetCustomer Tuesday announced customized support services for users of Oracle's PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards enterprise applications.
Web browser company Opera Software is setting up a development center in Chandigarh in north India, the company announced Monday.
IBM has opened a new lab in Bangalore, India, where it will work with customers on advanced IT deployments that involve high levels of scale and performance, the company announced Thursday.