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• Offshoring: Preparing for India's proposed privacy rules

  The Indian government has finally taken a step toward creating a comprehensive set of data protection rules to safeguard privacy, but the proposed regulations released this spring are likely to have a major impact on the global enterprises doing business with Indian outsourcers.

• Nokia setting up enterprise mail servers in India

  Nokia will set up servers in India by November for its push e-mail service in the country to comply with government regulations, the company said Monday.

• Small Indian outsourcers become more attractive to customers

  Second-tier outsourcers in India can provide specialized services and domain expertise in areas which their larger competitors such as Tata Consultancy Services and Infosys Technologies may find too niche to address, according to a report from Forrester Research.

• Massive rise in Asia Pacific social media posts

  If you think big brother is watching your every move, he probably is, according to a leading online researcher, with Australia leading the world in social media engagement

• More than one in four use Internet worldwide, says ITU

  About 26 per cent of the world's population were online at the end of 2009, and mobile telephony is booming with the number of mobile subscribers likely to reach the 5 billion mark this year, according to a report released Tuesday by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

• India’s wireless broadband auction starts Monday

  India's auction of spectrum for wireless broadband starts Monday, with 11 bidders in the contest, the country's Department of Telecommunications (DoT) said on Friday.

• Capgemini adding 4,000 staff in India

  French IT services company Capgemini plans to add 4,000 more staff in India during the current quarter, seeing an improvement in business, the company said on Friday.

• In India, a BPO center coming up in a jail

  The Cherlapally Central Jail in Andhra Pradesh state in south India is setting up a business process outsourcing (BPO) center, with the aim of giving the prisoners skills that will help them better integrate into society after their release, a senior police officer said on Wednesday.

• Software piracy rate up 2% in 2009, study finds

  Expanding PC sales in emerging market is increasing the rate of software piracy, according to a recent study by industry watchers.

• National 3G license in India to cost over $US2.5 billion

  Bidders for 3G spectrum and licenses in India have pushed up the cost of a nationwide license on Thursday to more than 113 billion Indian rupees ($US2.52 billion), further raising doubts about how quickly operators will be able to make money out of the service.

• IT managed services market in India to hit $US3.8 billion in 2013

  The IT managed services market in India is growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22.8 per cent, according to IT market research specialist Springboard Research's newly released report 'Indian Managed IT Services Market'."

• Indian security startup offers free software

  Wep Solutions, an Indian security software and services startup, is offering its unified threat management appliance software free to small businesses around the world.

• Tata set to expand presence in Africa

  India's Tata Communications is set to expand in Africa with plans to invest in more companies following the arrival of new submarine cable systems in the region.

• India adds IT jobs despite recession

  India added 487,000 jobs in its IT and BPO (business process outsourcing) export industries in the quarter ended Dec. 31, despite the global recession, according to a Quarterly Quick Employment Survey by the country's labor bureau.

• NASA: Millions of tons of water discovered on moon

  A NASA radar system onboard India's lunar orbiter has spotted evidence of water -- a lot of water -- on the moon's north pole.