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Outsourcing shifts beyond Bangalore, Mumbai

Jo Best — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:00:50 GMT

India's traditional outsourcing centers appear to be falling out of favor.

According to Pierre Audoin Consultants, outsourcing companies are increasingly looking outside Bangalore and Mumbai when choosing bases in which to set up shop.

PAC found that while India remains popular with the top 50 outsourcing companies--11 of the ...

Intel warning casts cloud over CES

Brooke Crothers — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:45:00 GMT

Intel's fourth-quarter warning is not only bad news but bad timing. With the Consumer Electronics Show kicking off Thursday adorned by all those bright, shiny gadgets, Intel effectively said: gadgets maybe, but not so bright and shiny.

And for an Intel warning, this one was particularly dire. The biggest ...

Intel expects fourth-quarter revenue to drop 23 percent

Dawn Kawamoto — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:03:00 GMT

This post was updated at 11:16 a.m. PST with comments from a Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co. analyst.

Intel warned Wednesday that its fourth-quarter revenue will fall $2 billion short of its original forecast, due to PC makers curtailing chip orders.

The announcement comes less than two months ...

Satyam chairman resigns amid accounting scandal

Dawn Kawamoto — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:56:00 GMT

Satyam Computer Services announced Wednesday its founder and chairman, B. Ramalinga Raju, has resigned, following an admission that he inflated its financial performance.

Satyam, one of India's six largest IT outsourcing companies, counts such Fortune 500 companies as Sony among its customers.

The company said it received a letter ...

Windows 7 beta: First impressions

Renai LeMay — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:09:18 GMT

Windows 7 could be one of Microsoft's greatest operating systems, if it fulfills the promise shown by the unofficial beta version (build 7000) we have been testing for the past couple of days.

Let me preface these quick impressions of Redmond's latest opus by saying that I came

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Sun acquires cloud company Q-layer

Jonathan Skillings — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:55:00 GMT

Sun Microsystems announced Wednesday it has acquired Q-layer, a Belgium-based cloud-computing specialist.

Q-layer's technology adds automation to both public and private clouds, allowing companies to simplify the management and deployment of data center applications. Its software will give customers greater flexibility in areas such as servers, storage, and bandwidth, ...

AMD chipmaking spinoff gets OK from U.S.

Brooke Crothers — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:10:00 GMT

Advanced Micro Devices' manufacturing spinoff got an all-clear from the U.S. government on Tuesday.

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), part of the U.S. Treasury Department, gave the green light to AMD and the Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC) to create The Foundry Company, ...

SanDisk, Samsung tout new Netbook, server SSDs

Brooke Crothers — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Both SanDisk and Samsung announced solid-state drives on Tuesday--though that's where the similarity ends. SanDisk's SSDs are aimed at Netbooks, while Samsung's new SSDs are for the high-performance server market.

SanDisk Gen 2 pSSD drives for Netbooks are available in capacities up to 64GB

(Credit: SanDisk)

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Tech layoffs: The scorecard

Rafe Needleman — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:36:00 GMT

With the overall economy slumping, the tech industry is taking its fair share of hits. We'll keep updating the chart below as news of company changes comes in. See our complete coverage of how the tech sector is faring here: Tracking the tech downturn.

Know of a layoff not listed here? Let us know on this form or e-mail us.

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Small Indian firms buying their first computers

Sol E. Solomon — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:32:00 GMT

More than half a million of India's small businesses that have never owned PCs before will acquire their first computers this year, according to a new study released Monday.

According to Access Markets International Partners (AMI-Partners), nearly 22 percent of small businesses, or companies with up to 99 employees, ...