Infrastructure

Microsoft Corp. has tied up with the government of the Indian state of Orissa to support computing in the local Oriya language, under a program called Project Bhasha. Bhasha is the Oriya word for language.

Gateway Inc. on Tuesday made its entrance into the networking equipment market with the launch of nine LAN switches and two wireless access points, however the company is not officially entering the Canadian market with its enterprise products, according to a spokesperson.

The 2006 Australian national census will be among the many beneficiaries of a new government database that helps translate addresses into geocoded locations.

EMC Corp. on Monday announced a data-archiving device that offers the speed and file-level granularity of disk storage but looks like a tape library to application servers.

Hewlett-Packard Co. will begin offering low-cost Fibre Channel disks in July that will cost about one-half the price of current Fibre Channel storage, according to HP.

In health care, efficient communication of information can be a tricky thing

Indians voting for federal and state legislators next month will press buttons on electronic voting machines (EVMs) rather than stamping ballots.

Corporate governance and government accountability are twin buzzwords that have left ranking decision makers walking on eggshells.