Calculate Linux Desktop (CLD) is a Gentoo-based operating system for PCs and notebooks. Alexander Tratsevskiy has just announced a new version of its KDE editiom, 9.7. Main changes: "Support for Italian and Polish has been added. System installation on USB

Patrick Volkerding has announced that Slackware "Current", the distribution's development branch, has reached release candidate status: "The to-do isn't entirely empty here, but it's pretty much down to minor nits, and so we're going to call this release candidate 1

Onur Küçük announced the availability of the release candidate of Pardus Linux 2009: "Highlight of this release is the new International Pardus 2009 ISO. You can now choose any of the 11 languages to install and enjoy Pardus 2009, all

Red Hat has announced the availability of the beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.4: "Red Hat is pleased to announce the availability of the beta release of 5.4 (Linux kernel 2.6.18-155.el5) for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux

EdServ Softsystems has bagged the Letter of Intent (LoI) from Mother Teresa University, Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu to implement the in-campus academic and placement support program

Facebook has launched a competition for Indian techies. It has called on techies to submit their web development skills by creating Facebook apps or Facebook Connect Integrations. The entries can be submitted in either Hindi or English

Cisco's Network Building Mediator allows building operation managers to monitor, measure and act on energy systems while adding renewable technologies to reduce capital and operating expenditures

India Infoline is allowing its clients online access to trade in global securities in a strategic alliance signed with Interactive Brokers (USA)

MphasiS today announced the appointment of Ganesh Murthy as chief financial officer effective July 15, 2009. Murthy takes over from Susanto Banerjee, who has been acting as interim CFO since January 2008. Banerjee has decided to pursue opportunities outside of

Indian Bank, which has deployed Tata Consultancy Services' TCS BaNCS core banking solution across 1,647 branches, has emerged as a model bank for doing everything right with today's technology, in a study conducted by research firm Celnet

Some of India's leading IT companies voice their expectations from Budget 2009

Parmeet Ahuja has joined Agilent as GM, India. Prior to this appointment, he was the controller of Agilent's Global Infrastructure Organization (GIO) at the corporate headquarters in Santa Clara

Himanshu Parekh, executive director (tax and regulatory services) at PricewaterhouseCoopers, speaks on the expectations from the Union Budget 2009-10, including STPI, tax anomalies, and issues related to computation of tax deduction in the IT/ITeS sector

Intel's partnership with Nokia to develop a new class of mobile devices would take a few years to see if it succeeds, Craig Barrett, former chief executive and chairman of Intel Corp, said at a news conference in Helsinki

Blue Coat is refocusing on the enterprise market with the Application Delivery Network (ADN) infrastructure promising visibility, security and acceleration for the enterprise network infrastructure

The Union Budget for 2009-10 is nearing. Let us take a look at the top expectations of the Indian IT industry from Pranab Mukherjee and his team

Vipul Jain, CEO & MD of Kale Consultants, gives his views on what Budget 2009 should provide the IT industry

Mithi, one of the players in the email and collaboration market in India, is developing a business intelligence solution to manage unstructured data in emails

Symantec Corp has launched two new versions of its security solutions, Norton Internet Security 2010 and Norton AntiVirus 2010 betas, together codenamed Quorum.

Google's Linux-based mobile operating system — Android — has become a popular choice for phonemakers worldwide. Now, if Firefox developers , we may finally see the combination of Google's power OS with Mozilla's groundbreaking browser