NComputing lands big India deal
The PC sharing start-up, headed by former eMachines CEO Stephen Dukker, announces it has begun wiring 5,000 schools in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

S'pore seeks proposals from 2FA operators
The country's infocomm regulator issues call for bids to enable two-factor authentication to secure Singapore's online services.

Indian state gives all schools IT access
Most populous Southern Indian state, Andhra Pradesh, is the country's first to provide ICT education to all its 1.8 million school-going children.

Global financial crisis halts Huawei deal
Huawei Technologies said it had suspended the auction of a stake in its terminal unit to foreign companies because of the global financial crisis.

Dell recycles obsolete IT products in Shanghai
For three days, the vendor paid local residents US$0.15 a kilogram for products including desktops, laptops and printers, for disposal according to environmentally-friendly methods.

Infosys Q2 results buck economic downturn
The outsourcing company's revenues grew 19 percent year on year, with second-quarter revenues of US$1.2 billion.

'Skeptical' Asians use Splunk as safeguard
Splunk co-founder says Asian IT administrators use the log analysis tool to verify if outsourcing vendors uphold the quality of their service level agreements.

HR issues to affect Philippine BPO
While country's robust outsourcing market will remain unaffected by financial crisis, it will have to deal with talent crunch and employee demand for higher pay.

SAP inks Philippine SMB deals
Enterprise software vendor signs two BusinessOne licensing agreements worth over US$105,500 with Philippines-based oil company and motorcycle manufacturer.

Philippine community tapped for map building
Country's population encouraged to use Google Map Maker and contribute content to plug lack of "comprehensive, high-quality" maps in the Philippines.