Barix IP Control Solutions Monitor Power Substations Across Singapore

September 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Speaking yesterday at the biennial U.S.-Africa Business Summit in Washington D.C., Paul Hinks, Symbion Power CEO, announced plans for training initiatives that will act as the cornerstone of the company's foray into Africa. Symbion Power, an American engineering and electrical infrastructure construction company is best known for the work it has done in Iraq for the United States Government at the height of the insurgency and for its signature of training inexperienced indigenous people to build their own infrastructure.

August 18th, 2009 SAN RAMON, California - - Enhancements to standard help create smart homes The ZigBee(R) Alliance, a global ecosystem of companies creating wireless solutions for use in energy management, commercial and consumer applications, today announced the certification of 17 devices from 10 manufacturers using ZigBee Home Automation, plus enhancements to the public application profile. ZigBee Home Automation is a standard offering control for home appliances, lighting, environment, energy use, and security.

August 10th, 2009 NEW YORK - - Ranking to be Unveiled at Top 250 Global Energy Companies Awards and Leadership Dinner during Singapore International Energy Week Platts, the world's leading global energy information provider and a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies (MHP), will announce its annual Platts Top 250 Global Energy Companies ranking on November 16, 2009 at a recognition dinner in Singapore. Now in its eighth year, the Top 250 measures financial performance, ranking companies globally, regionally and by industry sector.

August 3rd, 2009 SEBASTIAN, Florida - PHM International, Inc. a worldwide healthcare consultancy raised the issue of healthcare pressure on IMF and EU economic stabilisation funds in the July 2009 issue of its PHM Emerging Markets Healthcare Monitor.

July 27th, 2009 EXTON, Pennsylvania - - Bentley Substation V8i Provides Intelligent Information Models, Broad Range of Tools, and Integrated Electrical and Physical Design Workflows for Substations Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our world, today announced the release of Bentley Substation V8i, the first intra-operable software product for intelligent electrical and physical substation design. This highly productive software speeds project delivery and reduces costs by providing: -- Intelligent substation information models that allow distributed users to work efficiently with federated data in a single environment; -- The most complete set of substation engineering and design tools available with a common graphical user interface, making the software easy to learn; -- Integration with the ProjectWise system for connecting people and information to facilitate engineering content management and team collaboration in support of streamlined workflows.

June 23rd, 2009 BARCELONA, Spain and DALLAS - - Innovative NTRadmin Bots Make IT Easy to Automate Daily IT Tasks From the enterprise to SMBs, NTRadmin - NTRglobal's software-as-a-service (SaaS) for automating IT tasks, monitoring, diagnosing and securing hardware and software assets via remote control - is doing more than simplifying the workload for IT. (Logo: www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081111/NTRGLOBALLOGO) "NTRadmin and its Bots are game-changers for the business side, which is trying to save money and increase efficiency, and for IT managers and staffers being asked to do more with less," said Luis Font, CEO of NTRglobal.

June 1st, 2009 ZURICH - Barix AG, a pioneer in IP-based audio, intercom, control and monitoring, today announced that Bosch Security Systems is now shipping an IP Audio Interface based on Barix technology for use with Bosch Praesideo and Plena Voice Alarm digital public address and voice evacuation systems. The Barix OEM device, labeled PRS-1AIP1, is used for distribution of supervised audio and control signals over standard IP networks according to the EN 60849 standard for voice evacuation in Europe and other regions.

May 21st, 2009 PSKOV, Russia - REFOG announces the release of Refog Employee Monitor, a software-only solution to monitor employees' activities. REFOG employee monitoring software logs keystrokes, records applications being used and Web sites being visited, keeps track of instant messenger conversations and takes periodic screenshots.

May 14th, 2009 LONDON - XP Power, one of the world's leading developers and manufacturers of mission critical power control solutions to the electronics industry, is today issuing an update on trading for the four months ended 30 April 2009 in line with its normal practice. Trading in the first four months of the current financial year has been satisfactory and in line with expectations, with revenues being in line with those achieved in the same period of 2008.

May 7th, 2009 NAGOYA, Japan - Dr. Hidenari Tanaka, president and CEO of Menicon Co., Ltd.

June 8th, 2009 PARIS - AREVA's Transmission and Distribution (T and D) division has recently won four orders worth approximately 3500 MINR to supply Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. (PGCIL), India's main transmission utility, with four extra high voltage (765 kV) substations.

August 24th, 2009 Indo-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE MUMBAI - Engineering and infrastructure major Larsen and Toubro (L&T) has bagged orders worth $217.45 million (Rs.1,044 crore) from Gulf-based firms to build electrical substations, the company said Monday. L&T in a regulatory statement said it would construct substations for Qatar Petroleum, Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), Oman Electricity and Transmission Co (OETC) and Kahramma.

June 10th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Bosch Automotive Electronics India, a 100 percent subsidiary of the Bosch group, will supply brake solutions for the world's cheapest car, the Tata Nano, the company said Wednesday. The firm will open a small unit in Gujarat to supply the brake solutions to Tata Motors, which is setting up a plant in Sanand, about 45 km from here, to manufacture the Rs.100,000 car, Sanjay Chakravarty, head-corporate communications of Bosch Group India, told reporters here.

June 16th, 2009 Washington, June 16 (ANI): A scientist of Indian origin has designed a tool that takes into consideration all feasible solutions for decreasing non-point source pollution for the amount of money available. The scientist in question is Indrajeet Chaubey, an associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering, Purdue University.

March 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - As a networking platform, 17th Convergence India 2009 was a resounding success with solid business discussions emerging out of conference sessions and interactions between participants. One of the most relevant issues for the communications industry was taken up at the international conference today i.e.

December 27th, 2008 NEW DELHI - With the demand for renewable energy solutions going up in the industrial world, Luminous Teleinfra, engaged in manufacturing packaged electrical power and power conditioning products, is offering green solutions for telecom base stations that promises to help operators reduce pollution as well as operating expenses. The base station subsystem (BSS) is a section of a traditional cellular telephone network that is responsible for handling traffic and signalling between a mobile phone and the network switching subsystem.

July 27th, 2009 Correction: Detroit-Police Monitor storyDETROIT — In a July 25 story about the resignation of a court-appointed Detroit Police Department monitor, The Associated Press reported erroneously where monitor Sheryl Robinson Wood works. Wood works for Venable LLP in its Baltimore office, not Kroll Inc., which she left in 2007.

February 26th, 2009 SINGAPORE - Giving in to a natural urge in public proved costly for a Singapore taxi driver. The cabby was fined the maximum 1,000 Singapore dollars ($655) Wednesday for urinating on a road, a news report said.

June 24th, 2009 BANGALORE - Power and automation technology major ABB has bagged orders worth Rs.220 crore from Tata Projects to provide power solutions for a super-critical coal-fired power plant in Andhra Pradesh, the company said Wednesday. The 2x800 MW Krishnapatnam thermal power plant will deploy super-critical technology to ensure more efficient power generation and lower carbon dioxide emissions, ABB said in a regulatory statement.

July 10th, 2009 Rep. Frank: Congress to clamp down on derivativesWASHINGTON — The chairman of the House Financial Services Committee says that Congress will "substantially" increase the power of federal regulators to monitor derivatives, a type of financial instrument that contributed to the economic turmoil. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., said at a hearing Friday that he cares less about which agency will be given the task than about making sure that it's done.