That's the lesson businesses and governments are learning as they seek to modernize their information technology assets for the 21st century.

Carnegie Mellon University’s Nadine Aubry and colleague Pushpendra Singh of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) are leading a research team to develop a manufacturing strategy that could improve technologies used in tissue engineering and information technology.

India's Information Technology industry is set to post another year of healthy growth. But as Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, the industry is also confronting new challenges.

India's biggest engineering company Larsen&Toubro Ltd. reported a better-than-expected fiscal third- quarter profit after winning more orders in the Middle East.

The Minor Group of companies, including Minor International, Thailand's premier hospitality, leisure and restaurant operator, and Minor Corporation, Thailand's exclusive distributor of lifestyle products and contract manufacturing business, announced a multi-year deal for information technology (IT) outsourcing and application management services with leading global IT service provider, IBM.

A comprehensive volume authored by three Virginia Tech professors of Interdisciplinary Studies (published by AK Peters, Ltd.), “Reconfiguring the Firewall” addresses the global challenge of recruiting girls and women into majors and careers in information technology.

A study of Fortune 1000 companies shows that investments in information technology carry higher risk than other capital investments, according to the Management Insights feature in the current issue of Management Science, the flagship journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®).

Trolltech released the first technology preview of Qt 4.4 to its commercial customers and open source users for testing and feedback. Qt 4.4 is the upcoming feature release of Trolltech's leading cross-platform development framework. The technology preview will be followed by a beta release early next year, with a final release currently scheduled for late Q1 2008.

AUSTIN, Texas, November 9, 2007 -- The International Association of Software Architects (IASA) [www.iasahome.org], a 6,000-member association focused on defining and supporting the professional duties of IT architects, today announced the first training curriculum for practicing Infrastructure, Software and Business architects.

Global spending on information technology will create 7.1 million new jobs and 100,000 new businesses over the next four years, according to a new study by IDC. The research predicts that in 2007 Microsoft-related activities are responsible for 14.7 million jobs from an IT industry total of 35.2 million people — 42 percent of total IT employment globally in 2007 — and more than $514 billion* in tax revenue worldwide.

A project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council on a South London housing estate has developed ways of teaching people the skills they need to make the most of today’s information technology.

Having bagged 70 pc of the total formal approvals for setting up SEZs, IT and ITeS firms continue to rush for Special Economic Zones and the sector will dominate the agenda for the next Board of Approvals meeting this week.