InfoPrint boosts solutions developer program with support for InfoPrint ProcessDirector partners

May 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - InfoPrint Solutions Company, a joint venture between IBM and Ricoh, announced the appointment of Christopher Reid as Vice President and General Manager of its Asia Pacific operations headquartered in Singapore. Previously, the Director of Global Solutions, Reid takes over this role from Benoit Chatelard, who was recently appointed Senior Vice President and General Manager of Europe, Middle East and Africa for the company.

June 11th, 2009 BANGALORE - BMC Software is well known as the leader in providing Business Service Management (BSM) solutions to the world's largest enterprises. For nearly a decade, BMC Software India has been contributing to the development of BMC's software products.

February 3rd, 2009 HYDERABAD - Given the growing international profile of the Indian software industry, Sun Microsystems is organising its global annual developer conference here Feb 18-20 for the third time in as many years. James Gosling, the father of Java programming language and Matt Thompson, senior director, cloud developer platform, will be the keynote speakers at the three-day event, designed to showcase how developers can leverage Sun technologies, services and products.

May 28th, 2009 BANGALORE - Global software major Wipro Technologies has set up a virtual innovation centre for testing services on Second Life, the popular virtual world, the IT bellwether said Thursday. The innovation centre, a replica of the original lab at our campus in the electronics city will provide a one-stop virtual view of our Internet Protocol (IP)-powered solutions, the company said in a statement.

October 5th, 2009 CDC to acquire business intelligence providerATLANTA — Business software developer CDC Software Corp. said Monday it has agreed to an all-cash purchase of a provider of business intelligence solutions for manufacturing intended to help expand its presence in the food and beverage, consumer packaged goods and automotive markets.

March 31st, 2009 KING OF PRUSSIA - Devon IT Solutions India Pvt Ltd today announced its new line of thin client solutions, orderable with IBM part numbers. Devon has worked directly with IBM to launch this complete line of thin client solutions that complements IBM's Virtual Client Solutions (VCS) infrastructure.

February 26th, 2009 BANGALORE - IT infrastructure solutions and services firm Frontier Business Systems has set up a $4-million (Rs.200 million/Rs.20 crore) green data centre here to expand its operations across the country, the company said Thursday. 'The data centre's green virtualisation solutions will enable enterprises to reduce cost while improving business service availability, agility and performance,' Frontier chief executive Ravi Verdes said in a statement.

August 25th, 2009 YouTube's new sales pitch: join our ad programSAN FRANCISCO — YouTube hopes to convert more amateur videographers into capitalists as it strives to show more advertising on its Web site and reverse years of uninterrupted losses. The Internet's top video channel will try to widen participation in a 20-month-old advertising program by actively recruiting the makers of widely watched clips.

August 20th, 2009 NuGrowth buying subsidiary of State Auto FinancialCOLUMBUS, Ohio — Software sales and development company NuGrowth Solutions has inked a deal a buy a subsidiary of State Auto Financial Corp., a property and casualty insurance holding company. Terms of NuGrowth's deal to acquire Strategic Insurance Software were not disclosed Wednesday.

August 20th, 2009 Unify names shareholder representative to boardROSEVILLE, Calif. — Unify Corp., a provider of data management and e-mail archiving software, said Thursday it named Tim Bacci to its board of directors.

March 24th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Bangalore-based software giant Infosys will pick up most of IBM Global Services' multi-million dollar applications support contract with Australian software giant Telstra, after the latter's deal with the former was scrapped following TELCO reducing its outsourcing partners from four to two. According to The Australian, the decision to shift from IBM to Infosys could result in hundreds of job losses locally and in Bangalore, where IBM operates outsourcing centres.

March 31st, 2009 To help customers face the most challenging visual computing problems, NVIDIA has come with its set of Quadro(R) professional GPU solutions. This new lineup, with the flagship Quadro FX 5800, will surely set the path of next generation graphics card designs and their powers to show extremely rich in visual graphics easily.

February 9th, 2009 MUMBAI - IT major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has tied up with networking and communications infrastructure provider Cisco Systems Inc. to jointly develop and deliver IT services and solutions.

September 9th, 2009 SAN JOSE/CALIFORNIA - Roamware Inc., a global leader in mobile roaming solutions, announced that it has completed the acquisition of Macalla Software Ltd, a leading developer of mobile financial services (MFS) solutions. Macalla's m-commerce and mobile banking solutions are successfully deployed by banks and operators around the world; these solutions include credit transfer, international remittance, person to person transactions, top-up and bill payment.

March 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - HCL Technologies, a leading global IT solutions major, Monday announced a $350-million deal from Reader's Digest spread over seven years to provide a wide range of outsourcing services. The scope of the deal with Reader's Digest Association includes development of software applications, infrastructure support, network security, data storage, disaster recovery and support for data centres, a company statement said.