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Vodafone Essar, the Indian subsidiary of Vodafone Group, launched a solar powered mobile phone in India on Tuesday, aiming to address problems with the unstable electricity supply in many parts of the country.

Adobe Systems has agreed to buy Web software maker Day Software Holding in a deal worth US$240 million, the company said in a statement Wednesday.

British outsourcer Xchanging is setting up a business process outsourcing (BPO) center in a town in India, hoping to tap into the low-cost, skilled staff available outside the country’s cities.

Contract manufacturer Foxconn International Holdings said on Monday that it has suspended operations at a production facility in India after workers experienced giddiness and nausea.

India unveiled a prototype of a tablet PC it hopes to sell for $35 or less. Assuming India can find a partner to mass-produce the tablet and can get anywhere near its price target, what can you expect to accomplish with a practically-disposable tablet PC?

The government of India has unveiled a prototype of a touchscreen, tablet computer which it expects to sell for $35 initially. As more companies migrate server applications and data storage to the cloud, a simple, Web-enabled platform such as this will replace the bloated desktop and laptop hardware architectures in use today.

More than a fifth of the revenue generated by India’s IT industry comes from the Indian subsidiaries of multinational companies, which continue to expand their presence on the Asian subcontinent, according to a new report.

Nokia reported flat sales for the second quarter, with a 40 percent year-on-year drop in earnings. The company is still seeing customers shun its high-end smartphones.

Indian telecommunications equipment makers are demanding that the local telecom regulator, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) should make it compulsory for Indian telecom service providers to buy at least 30 percent of their supplies locally.

President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that he can’t intervene in the long-running case of a British hacker charged with breaking into U.S. military computers.