John Ribeiro

The Indian state of Kerala has decided to promote free and open-source software in education, although it will not make it compulsory, a minister in Kerala's communist government said Wednesday.

Nortel Networks Corp. is setting up a product design, development and testing center in Bangalore, India, in a move to take advantage of lower staffing costs in the country.

Large offshore Indian vendors of IT services continue to make gains and have begun to pose a serious threat to the top global players, according to research firms IDC and Forrester Research Inc.

SAP AG is to invest US$1 billion in India over the next five years, Henning Kagermann, the company's chief executive officer told reporters in Delhi on Wednesday.

Electronic Data Systems Corp. (EDS) has decided to merge its Indian services subsidiary with MphasiS BFL Ltd., a listed Indian outsourcer in which EDS acquired a majority share in June, the companies announced Wednesday.

The Indian government told ISPs (Internet service providers) there to stop blocking entire blog Web sites such as Google Inc.'s www.blogspot.com.

The Indian government has blocked about 20 Web sites and blogs in India, following suspicions by the country's intelligence agencies that the sites were likely being used by terrorists to communicate with one another.

Pervasive Software Inc., a U.S. vendor of data infrastructure software, this week announced it closed down its software development subsidiary in Bangalore, India, citing complexity of management of the operation, and increasing employee cost and turnover.