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Australian businesses, it seems, are making more rapid progress than their counterparts in other countries, particularly the UK, in planning ahead for the effects of carbon pricing.

In a deal worth more than $350 million, Indian IT global services provider, HCL Technologies has entered into a seven year outsourcing services contract with Reader's Digest.

Strong growth in the managed print services (MPS) market is forecast for the Asia Pacific region, excluding Japan, with the market value in 2011 expected to be US$825 million compared with just a US$392 million market value in 2007.

The heady rates of growth in outsourced and in-house software and systems testing services that characterised the market over the past four years are over, but there’s still growth, albeit at a much slower rate.

The Asia Pacific region is forecast to achieve growth valued at $US11.8 billion in the enterprise software market by 2012, with China and Australia respectively holding their place as the largest software markets in the region.

MOKO.mobi (ASX: MKB) a mobile web service that enables people to easily chat and share over their mobile device, says it has signed an agreement with Reliance Communications, India's second largest wireless carrier with over 61.3 million customers.

Majitek, Australian headquartered provider of software platforms for next generation service providers, today confirmed completion of a US$7.5 million round of equity funding with global networking company, Cisco Systems, coming into the company as a shareholder.

A worldwide study of 34 IT and professional services firms has concluded that the sector in general remained resilient to pressures of the world economic downturn despite slowing growth rates in their businesses.