Saturday, March 19, 2011

1)IBM Is Said to Pay $10 Million to Settle SEC Foreign-Bribery Allegations.
2)Rising costs in Bangalore, the center of India’s software industry, are prompting some in the U.S. to look more favorably on Hyderabad and other smaller tech hubs there.
3)Microsoft announced today their latest version of Internet Explorer 9 reached 2.3 million downloads in 24 hours.
4)Facebook blamed for eating disorders among girls
5)A former Goldman Sachs Group Inc computer programmer was sentenced to eight years in prison for stealing secret code used in the Wall Street bank's valuable high-frequency trading system.
6)Google employees' '20% time' goes to Japan to crafting Digital Age tools for handling the crisis.
7)Japan's next nightmare-serious health problems if too much radiation is released into the atmosphere.
8)United Kingdom which has one of the world's most reputed educational institutions is also looking forward to send its students to study in India in the areas of science and technology and software development.
9)IBM said it has bagged a 10-year outsourcing deal from Caparo India to provide enterprise resource planning and data centre infrastructure services.
10)HCL Infosystems has bagged an order from the IAF to deploy Wideband CDMA-based portable wireless network at a cost of over Rs 300 cr.
11)Four days into Japan's crisis, India's top tech firms have started bringing back employees and moving work to their centres outside Japan.

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