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After a rough year of layoffs, lawsuits and lackluster revenue, Electronic Data Systems Corp. officials say the worse is behind them, and plan to grow the company by offering business transformation services led by a management team made up of ex-CIOs.

A bill recently passed by the U.S. Senate restricting federal government contractors from outsourcing work overseas is unlikely to have a significant impact on India's software and services companies, according to an executive of the National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) in Delhi, India.

Network Appliance Inc., a vendor of network storage products, is increasing its software development and support centre staff in Bangalore from 65 employees to 300 by the end of next year, the company said recently. The additional staff will shore up the centre's software development and global support operations.

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The upcoming year will mark a return to growth for the struggling IT sector, IDC Canada Ltd. said during its yearly predictions teleconference on Tuesday, offering a grain of hope to an industry that has seen two years of sub-zero growth, and lost nearly $1.5 billion dollars in the process.

Fear of China's and India's growing strengths as outsourcing and development centres permeated a recent enterprise conference put on by the U.K. government in London, where top technology executives and government leaders met to discuss strategies for developing more business at home.

For centuries, philosophers and economists have been captivated by the question of how and why humans share resources and information.

The Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada (BGCC) is ready to expand its computer centres and implement a technology training curriculum, thanks to a donation of software and funds from Microsoft Canada Co.