IBS ties up with British firm to develop transport solutions

February 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Britain-based IT and consulting firm Invensys Process Systems (IPS) Monday signed a deal with China's Shandong III Electric Power Construction Corp (SEPCO), which is setting up a 3,300-MW power plant in Gujarat, for providing software solutions. IPS will implement its Foxboro I/A Series distributed control system (DCS) technology in SEPCO's plant, being built in Kutch district of Gujarat, a company statement said.

July 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Investment in information technology (IT) by airlines the worldover this year is likely to be the lowest since 2002, says SITA, an air transport communication provider. The 2009 Airline IT Trends Survey report by SITA and Airline Business magazine released Wednesday in Cannes, France, has forecast that spend on IT and telecommunications is likely to be just 1.7 percent of airline revenue.

February 26th, 2009 BANGALORE - IT infrastructure solutions and services firm Frontier Business Systems has set up a $4-million (Rs.200 million/Rs.20 crore) green data centre here to expand its operations across the country, the company said Thursday. 'The data centre's green virtualisation solutions will enable enterprises to reduce cost while improving business service availability, agility and performance,' Frontier chief executive Ravi Verdes said in a statement.

November 26th, 2005 Smart cards are used for applications including access control, banking, and mobile-phone subscriber identification. Typically the size of a credit card, they contain an embedded microprocessor with a secure operating system that can establish an encrypted connection with a card reader.

February 9th, 2009 MUMBAI - IT major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has tied up with networking and communications infrastructure provider Cisco Systems Inc. to jointly develop and deliver IT services and solutions.

July 29th, 2009 LONDON - A decision to recruit at least 100 Indian workers, if not more, to fill finance and IT posts at the British Council in New Delhi and other parts of India has infuriated unions, who fear that this could be the blueprint for Whitehall. Final decisions about which jobs will go to India will be taken in the next few weeks, but they are expected to include 58 finance posts, up to 40 IT posts and 15 posts for a new centre of excellence, The Times reports.

August 10th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), US, have demonstrated sustained, reliable information processing operations on electrically charged atoms (ions), thus raising prospects for building a practical quantum computer. The new work overcomes significant hurdles in scaling up ion-trapping technology from small demonstrations to larger quantum processors.

February 16th, 2009 NOIDA - Two suspects have been arrested from Kolkata for the Rs.4 million fraud by a BPO employee who allegedly diverted insurance funds into accounts opened in Britain under false names, the police said Tuesday. The latest arrests were made a month after key accused Edward Burns, senior executive of a leading BPO firm here, was arrested Jan 17.

February 16th, 2009 NOIDA - Two suspects have been arrested from Kolkata for the Rs.4 million fraud by a BPO employee who allegedly diverted insurance funds into accounts opened in Britain under false names, the police said Tuesday. The latest arrests were made a month after key accused Edward Burns, senior executive of a leading BPO firm here, was arrested Jan 17.

January 6th, 2007 Nigeria's aviation minister has accused British airlines of treating Nigerian passengers with the "utmost contempt". Mr Fani-Kayode said he "would not sit by and allow our people to be treated like animals by anybody or for any reason".

July 21st, 2009 CHENNAI - Direct-to-home (DTH) service provider Sun Direct has tied up with software major IBM India to implement and manage customer relationship management services, it was announced Tuesday. "As we continue our aggressive growth plans, we will rely on IBM to help us tackle key issues surrounding billing and customer relationship management, as well as develop ways to get better insights to customer behaviour," Tony D'Silva, chief operating officer of Sun Direct, said.

January 26th, 2009 BANGALORE - The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has given security clearance to British telecom major Cable & Wireless (C&W) to roll out voice, data and Internet services in India, a top company official said. 'We are the first overseas telecom service provider to secure the DoT approval for launching our multi-services platform (MSP) in India's booming telecom market,' C&W India operations Managing Director Sunanda Das told IANS from Mumbai.

August 25th, 2009 UK Chinook choppers languish after software errorLONDON — A British newspaper says eight high-tech military helicopters have been out of service for eight years because defense officials tried to save money by installing homemade software in the aircraft. The Times of London reported Tuesday that the eight Chinook Mk3s cost 259 million pounds but have been in storage since they were delivered to Britain in 2001.

July 2nd, 2009 BANGALORE - Israeli IT firms will partner with Indian vendors to jointly bid for the ambitious unique identification (ID) card project of the Indian government, a visiting Israeli IT industry official has said. "Israeli IT firms with domain expertise in e-governance and homeland security will bid for the unique ID card project jointly with Indian vendors, as local participation is key to such projects dealing with critical mass," Katrin Melamed, business development manager for the Israeli software industry, told IANS here.

January 29th, 2005 I was reading http://jroller.com/page/mlconnor/20050129#genetic_algorithms_routing, which talks about using GA for choosing between algorithms. Wondering if we could develop a GA based program to run 100+ Open Source CMS systems through paces and picks the best one, based on our provided criteria.