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Intel Corp. last week disclosed plans to shut down its Glasgow, Scotland, development operation and lay off the facility's 17 employees by September. The Glasgow unit develops Ethernet media access control protocols, which control the flow of data through LANs. Intel tried to transfer the workers but couldn't find another home for them, a company spokeswoman said.

East African countries, including Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda, are coordinating their efforts to pass cybercrime laws that would be similar to ones now being put into effect in the Southern African Development Community region. The SADC countries started harmonizing their cybercrime laws last year to deal with cross-border criminals. Work in that region is expected to be completed by the end of 2007.

Wipro Ltd. in Bangalore, India, last week said it's acquiring Quantech Global Services LLC in Okemos, Mich., for about $10 million in cash. The acquisition will add mechanical design to the list of IT services offered by Wipro. Quantech, which has offshore facilities in Bangalore and the Indian city of Hyderabad, does computer-aided design and engineering work for the automotive, aerospace, consumer goods and heavy engineering industries.

Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd. said a computer glitch left customers unable to withdraw money from its automated teller machines on May 13. The trouble began when a suspected disk-drive problem disrupted cash withdrawals at some 21,000 ATMs. Service was restored after about eight hours, according to Bank of Tokyo.