John Ribeiro

Chinese Linux developer Red Flag Software Co. Ltd. is likely to bundle key Java technologies from Sun Microsystems Inc. with its Linux offering, according to an executive of Sun. A formal announcement of this deal, if finalized, is likely to be made at Sun's JavaOne conference in San Francisco in June.

Cable and Wireless PLC (C&W) will hire at least 100 extra staff in Bangalore to keep pace with demand for its network services from customers around the world, a company executive said Wednesday. The staff will be added during this year and will also allow C&W to roll out some new types of services, said Raj Metrani, director of the Indian operations of C&W, a communications service provider based in London. He would not say what new services C&W plans to offer.

Former employees of a call centre in Pune, India, were arrested this week on charges of defrauding four account holders in New York of Citibank N.A., a subsidiary of Citigroup Inc., to the tune of US$300,000, according to a police official in Pune.

Unisys Corp. is exploring setting up global service centres in Eastern Europe and China as part of its strategy to offer customers multishore, outsourced services, according to an executive of the Blue Bell, Penn.-based IT services company.

India's software and services outsourcing industry is a likely target for a terrorist group operating in the country, local police warned on Sunday. But Indian outsourcing and software companies said they are prepared to cope with the threat.

Sify Ltd., an Internet service provider (ISP) based in Chennai, has deployed Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) on its network in perhaps the first move by an Indian ISP to adopt the next-generation Internet protocol.

India's Supreme Court has begun discussions with the federal government, five mobile operators and several banks in response to litigation brought by a Delhi-based activist who complained that his family has been harassed by unsolicited marketing calls over mobile phone networks.

European travel giant TUI AG is expanding its IT outsourcing in India and will also add some business functions to the mix, part of an effort to reduce its costs, an executive at the company said.