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On-demand software provider SuccessFactors has added people Sciences' skills-management content to its Performance and talent management Suite.

Bull and SAP Research, the research unit of SAP, have announced a joint R&D initiative to to align SAP business software with new datacenter energy-efficiency policies.

Hewlett-Packard India has won a 10-year contract from India-based Godrej Industries and its consumer products arm to provide application services, consulting, and outsourced services. Datamonitor estimates the value of the contract to be approximately $60m.

Nokia Siemens network has set up a new manufacturing facility in Chennai, India to manufacture and distribute mobile communications infrastructure. The company plans to invest $70m over three years and generate 400 new jobs.

TELECOMMUNICATIONS company Optus says it will cut 115 jobs within its engineering and technical division.

Computer keystrokes can be snooped from afar by detecting the slight electromagnetic radiation emitted when a key is pressed, according to new research previewed on Monday.Other security experts have theorized keyboards were vulnerable to such detection, wrote Sylvain Pasini and Martin Vuagnoux, both doctorate students with the Security and Cryptography Laboratory at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland.[ Learn how to secure your systems with Roger Grimes' Security Adviser blog and newsletter, both from InfoWorld. ]But Vuagnoux and Pasini believe theirs is the first set of experiments showing such spying is feasible. They faulted cost pressures on keyboard manufacturers for not making keyboards more snoop proof.Keyboards "are not safe to transmit sensitive information," they wrote in an entry on the school's Web site. "No doubt that our attacks can be significantly improved since we used relatively inexpensive equipment."The research

AUSTRALIA'S No 2 telco yesterday announced a big organisational restructure that will result in 115 job cuts.

FINANCE Minister Lindsay Tanner has backed recommendations from razor gang chief Peter Gershon to cut wasteful spending on IT

AAPT boss Paul Broad has called for an independent review of Australia's broadband needs

THE NSW Government has decided to consolidate its 130 data centres into two facilities, according to the state's CIO.