John Ribeiro

Dell Inc. is setting up a third customer contact centre in India, in the Chandigarh metro area in the north of the country, the company announced Wednesday. Operations at the centre are likely to begin by March next year with about 300 employees.

As the cost of engineers goes up in Israel, Ness Technologies Inc. of Tel Aviv plans to increase its software development staff through acquisitions in India and Eastern Europe, according to an executive.

The Indian government is making it easier to register Internet addresses with the ".in" top-level country domain, with a view to strengthening India's identity on the Internet.

IBM Corp. has partnered with a computing and an educational institution in India to promote the development of open-source software in the region, the company said Thursday.

Indian professionals, venture capitalists (VCs) and entrepreneurs of Indian origin helped promote India as an outsourcing destination, according to a study conducted for the World Bank Institute in Washington, D.C., by Evalueserve Inc., a business intelligence and research firm.

Microsoft Corp. will introduce the Windows XP Starter Edition in India early next year, the company said Wednesday, two days after announcing similar plans for Russia.

Red Hat Inc.'s Enterprise Linux 4 products, scheduled for release early next year, will support five Indian languages, reflecting the growing importance of the Indian market, according to an executive of the Raleigh, N.C.-based Linux company.

I2 Technologies Inc. has set up a software development operation in Beijing, according to an executive of the Dallas-based vendor of supply chain management software.