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Indian state looks to open source for education
News The Indian state is partnering with Red Hat to train the technical staff of various government organisations as well as school teachers on desktop Linux and other open source applications. Kerala is the latest Indian state to widely support the use... [29 Jun 2007]
Globalisation is a two-way street, says e-minister
News Globalisation is a two-way street, with Indian companies creating jobs in the UK as well as UK companies sending jobs overseas, according to e-government minister Pat McFadden. This weekend McFadden is flying to India to visit Hyderabad and New... [05 Apr 2007]
Microsoft makes new friends in China
News The Chinese press is also reporting that Microsoft is soon to form a new alliance in the country with Indian outsourcing heavyweight Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), as well as local firms. The new investment by Redmond is intended to help the... [05 Jan 2006]
Offshore call centre terror threats set to increase
News Ashish Sonal, ex-Indian special forces and country manager of risk management consultants Hill & Associates in India, told silicon.com: "Based on the assessment and fact finding done by us, we assess the report regarding the terror threat to IT... [09 Mar 2005]
Wireless broadband comes to Indian state
News The kiosks can be used to, among other things, send bill payment to various government departments, file complaints and follow up on passport applications.n-logue, a wireless company incubated by the telecommunications group at the Indian... [17 Aug 2004]
Only a consumer backlash can halt call centre offshoring
News The report also puts into perspective the size of the Indian market - the country only currently employs around 92,000 contact centre agents. A consumer backlash is the only thing that will prevent UK firms moving call centres to offshore locations... [06 May 2004]
2004 is the year of Linux in India, says Oracle
News To counter the growing influence of open source software, Microsoft is considering sharing source code for its Windows operating system with Indian government agencies, as it has done in China. A number of other Indian state governments are... [13 Feb 2004]
MPs to investigate health of UK tech industry
News We want to see to what extent that optimism was misplaced as well as the seepage of jobs that we thought we were going to be good jobs in the UK to places like the Indian sub-continent. The House of Commons Trade and Industry select committee will... [18 Aug 2003]
All aboard for broadband
News According to a report in the news daily The Hindustan Times, Railtel Corporation of India, the communication arm of the Indian Railways, is planning to experiment with high-speed internet access from train cabins later this year. [30 Jun 2003]
Virus Top 10: Klez still clinging on
News Yaha came to prominence as a politically motivated virus, launching a rudimentary denial of service attack on the Pakistan government's website and encouraging Indian hackers and virus writers to join forces and attack Pakistan. [01 Aug 2002]
Post Office signs multi-million pound EDS deal
News EDS has also clinched a deal with ABN AMRO to provide a full range of application hosting and data processing services for its Indian operations. Under the eight-year deal with the Post Office, EDS will develop and host online benefit payment... [28 Mar 2002]
US e-gov problems sound strangely familiar
News A federal judge recently shutdown the web servers of the Department of the Interior because security vulnerabilities could have allowed cybercriminals to loot trust funds managed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. [06 Mar 2002]
Indian IT giant targets UK government contracts
News Infosys' NHS contract could be the first of many UK government wins for the Indian IT giant, according its president and COO, Nandan Nilekani. The company became the first Indian firm to pick up an IT contract from the British government when it... [30 Nov 2001]
NHS turns to India for electronic patient records
News Infosys is the first Indian technology company to have won a contract with the UK government and the NHS. Indian IT firm Infosys has been called in to help National Health Service doctors unravel the complexities of electronic patient records. [06 Nov 2001]
An e-minister abroad (part 3): silicon.com joins Patricia Hewitt in Bangalore
News Patricia Hewitt is here to take part in the opening of IT.com, an exhibition billed as 'Asia's biggest IT fair', attracting Indian government and industry luminaries, the American ambassador and the minister of IT for Japan. [02 Nov 2000]
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