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Intel has acquired OpenedHand, a London, UK-based mobile Linux development and services company, for an undisclosed sum.

India-based call-center services provider Caretel Infotech has been awarded a five-year, INR 3bn ($67.8m) outsourcing contract from the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, R-ADAG.

UK-based outsourcing company Capita has won a 10-year 140m pound ($257m) contract from the UK's Health and Safety Executive to operate a new gas installer registration scheme from April 2009.

Telekom Malaysia has divested its 60% stake in Societe des Telecommunications de Guinee, Sotelgui, to the government of Guinea for a token amount of just $1. The government will also pay $2.04m to Telekom Malaysia in settlement of outstanding debts.

GOOGLE will today launch its own web browser called Google Chrome in another expansion by the search giant.

THE federal Government will tomorrow reveal november 26 as the deadline for national broadband network tenders.

THE NBN's funding is back to $4.7 billion after the Prime Minister mistakenly upped the taxpayer's contribution by $300 million.

Under the terms of the reseller agreement, Brookcourt Solutions will sell Breach Security's WebDefend web application security appliance as part of a tailored technological solution to its enterprise customers.

IT departments must establish a "green baseline" for their operations, according to new advice from Forrester Research.Without a well-defined environmental baseline, IT leaders will not be able to respond effectively to demands to "go green" and will not be able to invest effectively.[ Keep up on green IT trends with InfoWorld's Sustainable IT blog and Green Tech newsletter. ]The fact that many IT departments still do not pay for their own energy should not deter technology leaders from taking the initiative on the carbon footprint of their organization."If you don't pay for the energy-related costs of IT, but believe green IT can positively impact the bottom line, talk to the business," advises Forrester analyst Doug Washburn, in a report, Is Green IT Your Emperor with No Clothes?"Even if the financial benefits of your greening effort accrue to the facilities group, the company overall is profiting and aligning IT operations with the business."W

Nearly 100 domains related to Hurricane Gustav have been registered in the past 48 hours, security experts said Sunday, some of which may be used by bogus charity and relief scams after the storm strikes the U.S. Gulf Coast.According to television station KTAL in Shreveport, La., the office of Louisiana's Attorney General Buddy Caldwell has warned residents of Gustav phishing attacks already in progress.[ Learn how to secure your systems with Roger Grimes' Security Adviser blog and newsletter, both from InfoWorld. ]On Saturday, Marcus Sachs, the director of the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center (ISC), noted that numerous domains containing the word "gustav," "charity," "hurricane," and "relief" had been recently registered."On the day [Hurricane] Katrina hit New Orleans [in 2005] hundreds of donation sites appeared online, many if not most were scam sites," said Sachs in a post yesterday to the ISC research blog. "Well this ti