With International Financial Crisis having hit nearly all commercial sectors including the IT industry, the announcement made by Rajendra B Vattikutti, President Computer Science Corporation (CSC), a US based IT company, to increase its workforce in India by 2000 people may have brought a smile on the faces of many un-employed youths in India.

The company has centers in Noida, Indore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Mumbai, Bangalore and Vadodara, all dealing in three major businesses i.e. business solution and services, global outsourcing services and the North American Public Sector.

PC maker Dell India has made announcement about the opening of its first Dell exclusive stores in India at New Delhi and Coimbatore.

These newly launched Indian stores would sell the company's consumer range of products, which includes Inspiron, Studio and XPS.

The main feature of the new Dell exclusive stores is that it keeps on offering the benefits of Dell’s direct model with the added benefit of retail availability to browse, touch and feel the product, and then place an order for the favored model.

One could not avoid a virtual billboard for the Obama campaign this week, during an online session of the racing game Burnout Paradise on the XBox 360. 

The reporting of a billboard was first confirmed on Thursday to the people at GigaOM by the game's publisher who sent an email related to it on Monday. This indicates to one thing, that for the very first time, video games have been chosen by a major political campaign to advertise. 

Bharti Airtel, India's leading integrated telecom company, has entered into an innovation and technology partnership with IT giant Infosys Technologies Ltd (Infosys), to offer cutting-edge interactive applications to the customers of Airtel digital TV - its DTH TV service.

As part of its Digital Convergence Platform, Infosys will provide a suite of products including devices, application servers and interactive applications that will concentrate on providing an enhanced digital lifestyle to Airtel digital TV customers.

Anil Ambani managed Reliance Communications, country’s second biggest wireless operator, has announced a mobile plan christened ‘Rs 550 Jaadu Pack’ that is set to re-define the mobile telephony market in Indian market. 

With this newly introduced plan, pre-paid subscribers with lifetime validity would now be able to make local calls at just 50 paise per minute and STD calls to any phone anywhere in India at just Re 1 for lifetime by making a one-time payment of just Rs 550.

Moser Baer, world's second largest manufacturer of Optical Storage media, has set up a modern digital video processing facility in Chennai. 

The newly opened facility provides real-time video restoration of content, apart from audio restoration, editing, graphics, content repurposing and high quality and high throughput DVD compression and authoring services.