02 July, 2009: After freezing salaries, bonuses and various compensation plans, Adobe, the world's biggest maker of graphic-design software has finally shut down its operations in North America this week, to cut down operating costs. In December, the company had fired eight percent of the workforce to help rein in costs during the economic slump, but could not overcome the losses...full story.

03 July, 2009: Swedish mobile phone network supplier Ericsson won contracts to supply broadband Internet to millions of users in China by a deal with three operators there, it said Friday...full story.

03 July, 2009: SAP has announced the availability of SAP Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) across Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region...full story.