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The Andhra Pradesh government Thursday said the state has posted a 24.5 percent growth in information technology export revenues during 2008-09, higher than the projected national growth of 20.65 percent, but this includes the inflated figures submitted by the scam-tainted Satyam Computer Services.

Blizzard Entertainment has announced work on a new faction change service for its popular MMO, World of Warcraft .

Boeing Co. will have to compete for work on part of the Army's modernization plan following the service's decision to break up the giant contract that the company managed.

Would you like toast with that? Microsoft showed its edgy side this week with some innovative marketing moves aimed at the internet savvy, though the company backtracked quickly from a new video ad in which a woman vomits after finding a disturbing surfing history on her husband's laptop computer.

The CLB will pass an order next week asking two government-appointed directors to remain on the board of Mahindra Satyam NEW DELHI, INDIA: Four of the six government nominated directors will be withdrawn from the board of Indian outsourcer Mahindra Satyam Ltd, the chairman of India's Company Law Board said on Friday.

French unions for the software company Oracle Corp. say the company has told them it plans to cut between 850 and 1,000 jobs in Europe in response to slowing growth.

After a few months of informal moves on it, the U.S. Justice Dept is now investigating an anti-trust inquiry into Google's book settlement with the authors and publishers over its online book scanning and repository project.

A new piece of malicious software has been discovered that cheats Google and potentially other search engines out of money.

Hyland Software has made an acquisition aimed at further strengthening its presence in the health care field.

Microsoft promised that by purchasing the pricey Ultimate edition of Vista users would get all kinds of extras.

Microsoft has added a feature to Bing that allows the search engine to query the Internet for so-called real-time data, including postings from Twitter users.

Computer security firm Sophos issued a warning on Thursday about an Internet virus transmitted from a mass email claiming to contain secret songs and photos of Michael Jackson.

In the kingdom of business productivity, Microsoft Office reigns supreme. Its dominating position atop the word processing, spreadsheet, and presentations heap seems virtually unassailable.

Tech Mahindra Ltd. plans to raise its stake in Satyam Computer Services Ltd. to about 44 percent as it tightens control and reorganizes the Indian software-services provider following a $1 billion fraud.

The creditors committee of Midway Games and the company's majority shareholder, Mark Thomas, have settled their court dispute related to the video-game makerA's bankruptcy, with Thomas accepting just a fraction of his initial claim.

Melbourne, July 1 : Tech Mahindra, the new owner of troubled Indian IT services firm Satyam, has for the first time confirmed its continued commitment to a 75 million dollars software development project in Geelong, Australia.

An anonymous reader sends news from The Washington Post's Security Fix blog of a new Trojan horse program that takes click fraud to the next level .

Technology Microsoft's Bing search wins share from Google Microsoft Bing search site Bing garners 8.23 percent of market, as Google falls to 78.48 pct in June from 78.72 pct in May LONDON/SEATTLE - Reuters Last updated on Wednesday, Jul.

Quality Systems , Inc. announced today that its QSI Dental Division Vice President Kathleen Noll has been named to serve as chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the National Dental EDI Council .

Salesforce.com Inc. CEO Marc Benioff reportedly downplayed the possibility that Oracle Corp.