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One of India's key advantages as an offshore outsourcing location was its lower cost. But it may be losing this advantage to countries like Pakistan and Vietnam, which now offer staff at far lower costs than in India.

The collapse of Wall Street may prompt financial services firms to increase their use of offshore outsourcing and cut more jobs in the US on top of the layoffs they have already announced.

Microsoft Wednesday confirmed months-long speculation that the first service pack for Windows Vista will be out sometime in the first quarter next year, along with a third and final service pack for its hardy predecessor, XP.

A technical committee in India unanimously rejected Microsoft's Office Open XML file format as a standard, ahead of a vote on Sept. 2 by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) on whether to approve Open XML as an international standard.

Scotland aims to get Indian outsourcers to set up call centers and business process outsourcing (BPO) centers in the country, by offering staff with multilingual capabilities.

Cisco Systems placed a help-wanted ad for a network consulting engineer in the Chicago Tribune on Sunday, June 3, and David Huber, a networking professional who lives in Chicago, was interested in the job.

Indian IT services company, HCL Technologies Ltd is expanding its presence in Australia with the opening of a new office in Canberra.

U.K. bank Barclays will move 10,800 jobs to India following a giant merger announced Monday with ABN Amro, part of an effort to generate billions of euros in annual savings.

Infosys Technologies, India's second largest software and services outsourcer, announced Friday that it expected its revenue to grow by 28 to 30 percent to about $US4 billion in its current fiscal year ending March 31 next year.

IBM this week said it has added about 35 developers and engineers who will work on autonomic computing technologies to its India Software Laboratory operation. That barely amounts to a ripple among the 53,000 employees IBM now has in India -- a total that represents 15 percent of its global workforce of 356,000 people. But it's another indication of India's growing importance to IBM.

India's largest software and services outsourcer, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), on Tuesday inaugurated its outsourcing joint venture in China, which is likely to have Microsoft as a minority investor.