Hewlett-Packard Co is looking into the facialtracking software used in its personal computers, after a customer calling himself “Black Desi” said the program was racist because it was unable to follow his movements.“I think my blackness is interfering with the computer’s ability to follow me,” Desi said in a YouTube video. In the clip, the software fails to follow the movement of his face — something it’s designed to do — while easily tracking the face of his co-worker , referred to as “White Wanda” .

Software giant Microsoft today launched a security solution for its Windows operating system in the Indian market.'Microsoft Security Essentials', which was launched in September globally, would be available free of cost to all genuine Windows users and provide anti-virus, anti-malware and anti-spyware solutions.

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About a month back one e-mail did the rounds of inboxes worldover: Don't click on this item about Obama’s steamy sex video.Many were tempted to take their mouse over the link. But sanity prevailed and PCs were saved.It was nothing but an old Windows malware repackaged with an Obama tag to it. But those who didn’t can take cover at the White House. Or seek help from an anti-virus software.

Business software customers such as Siemens are questioning heavy product maintenance fee paid to companies such as SAP and are exploring third-party maintenance with Indian tech firms.As reported by the Economic Times, "Siemens is trying to negotiate hard with SAP and is discussing a deal wherein some 200-300 of its internal support staff could move to an outsourcing vendor such as IBM or HCL," said a source.