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Microsoft sees the ultra-low cost PC market as a significant opportunity and plans to pursue it with vigor, according to Kevin Turner, Microsoft's chief operating officer.

Local system integrators and independent software vendors (ISVs) are playing significant roles in the ability of service-oriented architecture vendors to penetrate four major domestic markets in Asia, according to Springboard Research. This is especially evident in the Chinese market, which is dominated by local players. These are the findings of Springboard's latest research covering Asia's SOA market, and based on a survey of 354 CIOs and IT managers of large and mid-market enterprises in China, India, Singapore, and Australia.

The recent rise in the rupee against the US dollar is expected to continue for some time to come, barring any political crisis or natural disaster, according to the Indian press.

Australian IT services company, Tripoint Corporation, has won a three year contract with the Victorian Department of Human Services (DHS) as a member of its panel to develop the PeopleSoft CRM/Tibco EAI environments.

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.

Brocade Communications Systems has established a research and development (R&D) center in Bangalore, India. The new center will focus on the development of infrastructure software, and software for storage applications, and data mobility applications, Zahid Hussain, Brocade's vice president of engineering, said Wednesday.

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

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.

Looking at Sun's brand-new sun Fire x4600 M2, most would figure it for a quad-socket system. After all, at 4U it matches the profile of the four-way HP ProLiant DL585 and Dell PowerEdge 6850. A quick peek under the hood tells a different tale, however: The Sun Fire x4600 M2 holds eight (eight!) easily swappable sockets.

Adobe Systems will contribute source code to the Mozilla Foundation as the two organizations aim to establish a standard scripting language that developers can use to create interactive applications for Adobe's Flash Player and Mozilla's Firefox browser.

This week we take a look into an audit report of Australian government agencies, wrap up the latest telco and browser news and look at Schneider Electric's plans to acquire American Power Conversion.