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Next generation e-banking version of Finacle from Infosys
- Infosys on Friday announced the launch of Version 11 of its Finacle e-banking software solution at the 2011 BAI Retail Delivery Show in Chicago.
- The solution is a comprehensive offering that empowers banks to achieve quick global rollouts of online banking services.
China backs Nalanda project
- The Governing Board, led by Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, was invited to hold a board meeting in China by Premier Wen Jiabao following last year's meeting of the East Asia Summit, which had earlier declared its support to the project.
- China has already announced it would donate $1 million to the project.
- The members of the Governing Board spent this week in Xian, an ancient Chinese capital and centre of Buddhist learning.
Father of C programming language passes away
- Dennis Ritchie, a computer czar who wrote the popular C programming language and helped develop the Unix operating system, has died.
- Ritchie, 70, was found dead on Wednesday at his home in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey.
