Proteans expands in Northern Europe

September 30th, 2009 BANGALORE - Proteans today announced its inclusion on the Software Magazine's Software 500 ranking of the world's largest software and service providers, now in its 27th year. Proteans participating for the first time in this survey was ranked 461, with an impressive growth rate of 62.7 per cent.

September 16th, 2009 On the Call: Oracle President Safra CatzOracle Corp. managed to meet Wall Street's profit forecasts in the fiscal first quarter despite a drop in sales that was caused in large part by weakness in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, a region where revenue was down about 10 percent from last year to $1.64 billion.

July 23rd, 2009 Africa-Europe fiber optic cable laidJOHANNESBURG — Telecoms companies SEACOM and Cisco Systems say an undersea fiber optic cable linking Africa to Europe has been laid and will help Africa develop better high-speed Internet services. The companies said in a statement Thursday marking the completion of the project — and the start of service — that the cable will make fast Internet cheaper and more accessible in places like Tanzania, Uganda and Mozambique.

May 14th, 2009 MOSCOW - A teenager was murdered in northern Armenia after an argument with a girl on a popular social networking site, according to a news report Thursday. Tigran Tadevosyan, 17, was attacked by four youths outside his residence in Shirak province's Gyumri city, the Tert newspaper reported.

October 2nd, 2009 America's Cup challenger opposes venue choiceSAN DIEGO — Citing "grave safety concerns" for its U.S.-based crew, challenger BMW Oracle Racing is asking a New York court to reject Ras al-Khaimah, United Arab Emirates, as the venue for the 33rd America's Cup and replace it with Valencia, Spain. BMW Oracle Racing said in a statement late Thursday night that defending champion Alinghi of Switzerland cannot select a Northern Hemisphere port without mutual consent of BMW Oracle Racing.

July 23rd, 2009 Wal-Mart expands PC offeringsNEW YORK — A move by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to offer more and lower-priced laptops could give it an edge over key rival Best Buy Co.

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.

September 2nd, 2009 Sony sells PCs with Google Web browser installedTOKYO — Sony Corp. is giving Google Inc.'s fledging Chrome browser a boost by installing it as the primary browser on Vaio-brand computers sold in the United States and Europe.

June 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Mahanagar Telecom Nigam Ltd (MTNL) Tuesday launched its third-generation (3G) telephony services in the national capital and Gurgaon as part of its second phase of expansion in this area. The state-run company also extended the 3G services to the pre-paid subscriber segment.

December 28th, 2008 JAKARTA - At least 10 people were killed, 17 rescued and an unspecified number reported missing after a small boat capsized on the sea off Indonesia's main island of Java Monday morning, officials said. The accident took place at about 10 a.m.

June 12th, 2009 Microsoft is to strip its Internet Explorer browser from the new version of its Windows 7 operating system that it sells in Europe, the company announced Thursday. Microsoft said the move was designed to meet criticism from European Union (EU) regulators who have launched an investigation into whether bundling the browser with the operating system is in breach of European anti-trust rules.

May 13th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Software piracy cost companies more than $50 billion last year, according to a study by the Business Software Alliance, an industry trade group. The report released Tuesday said that worldwide losses totaled $53 billion, an 11-percent increase over the previous years.

February 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - China is unlikely to overtake India in outsourcing business anytime soon and it would take not one country but a lot of small ones to knock it off the top, according to a US expert. 'China is pretty far behind India and even places like the Philippines and Eastern Europe.

May 6th, 2009 BANGALORE - The Indian IT industry is set to witness a single-digit growth in software and services exports in 2009-10 because of global recession and lower technology spending in the US and Europe, a top industry body official said Wednesday. 'Software exports of Indian IT industry are projected to grow in single digit this fiscal due to economic slowdown and lower tech budgets in major markets like the US and Europe.

September 23rd, 2009 Dell wins EU OK to get €54.5 million Polish aidBRUSSELS — Dell Inc. won EU approval Wednesday to receive a €54.4 million ($80.4 million) subsidy from the Polish government to build a new plant there, replacing Ireland as the computer maker's new European manufacturing hub.