Computing giant IBM has hit back at a recently published report claiming that the company’s mainframe business practices in India are strangling competition in the country. The research paper, released by the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) in conjunction with IT forum OpenMainframe.org, claims that IBM is undercutting its competitors in terms of price, while also bundling operating systems with its mainframes that are purposefully difficult to migrate to other servers. “The applications get tied to an IBM operating system (z/OS) that cannot run on other servers because of IBM’s restrictive licensing practices,” the 90-page report alleged.

Reuters – The Federal Communications Commission will submit a 10-year plan to Congress on Tuesday that would establish high-speed Internet as the country’s dominant means of communication, The New York Times reported in Saturday editions.

Reuters – China warned Google, the world’s largest search engine, against flouting the country’s laws on Friday, as expectations grow for a resolution to a public battle over censorship and cyber-security.

AFP – China on Friday warned Google it would face “consequences” if it stopped filtering its search results, after the firm threatened to leave the country over cyberattacks and web censorship.

PC World – The roll-out in India of mobile number portability (MNP) is likely to delay beyond a March 31 deadline, because operators have not yet upgraded their infrastructure, the country’s minister of state for communications and IT, Gurudas Kamat, said on Thursday.