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India’s public debt rises to Rs 26,97,940 cr (Rediff)

India’s public debt increased by 4.1 per cent to Rs 26,97,940 crore (Rs 26.97 trillion) during the first quarter of the fiscal, according to the latest data.

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Posted: September 4th, 2010
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HR Process Manager, £Six Figure Package – Singapore, Asia

Outstanding HR Process Manager to drive Global SAP Process Design.

Our client is one of the world’s largest and most respected natural resources companies.
The company has embarked on a major transformation programme to standardise its global business processes through the implementation of a single SAP platform. The Global Process and Data Owner is building a team of process experts …

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Head of Employee Relations and Payroll / HR at Pharma International Company

Employee Relations:

•Promote employee relations that enhance loyalty, commitment, co-operation and productivity, recommend and implant programs to improve the work environment.

•Study Jordan Labor law, its legislation and ensure the rules and regulations are adhered to.

•Ensure the implementation of the appropriate, safe file management for all employee documents.

•Undertake annual staff evaluation and procedures directives concerning promotions, transfer of service, leave etc.

•Supervise and Monitor the attendance management system for all employees.

•Mediate between benefits providers and employees, such as by assisting in handling employees’ benefits-related questions or taking suggestions.

•Oversee and administrate the completion of any decided in-house employee survey, analyze employee survey, distribute results to all employees and develop specific action plans for improvement.

•Manage the conducting of the employee events on an annual basis and the communication meeting, social gatherings, recognition program and other organization functions as and when required.

•Manage, supervise and organize all process related to employees medical insurance, passport and visa renewal, business visa issue, leave management, termination / resignation, end of services, retirement and death.

•Conduct exit interviews to identify reasons for employee termination and leave.

Payroll Management:

•Ensure the timely and accurate payment of employee remuneration and allowances, leaves, and final settlements, ensure the transfer of the same to employee banks.

•Ensure and effective monitoring of the employee attendance program.

•Ensure the prompt and accurate calculation of all employee remuneration and allowances within agreed timetables, whilst maintaining complete and accurate records of and to support, those payments.

•Ensure that the computerized payroll system is fully understood and to be aware of/act upon future changes to the software affecting payroll processing.

•To ensure the provision of professional advice on payroll related matters to employees, managers and outside bodies whilst at all time paying due regard to security of information and the Data Protection Act.

• Perform other responsibilities associated with this position when appropriate.

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HR Admin Associate/ Specialist at Nestlé NEAR

Payroll Data Maintenance

1. Manages HR information in SAP

2. Maintains employee life events: hire actions for new employees, end of employment employees as well as hire action and end of employment for externals

3. Maintains employee movements: changes in personnel action and position

4. Ensures payroll for employees: maintain basic pay information upon promotion and confirmation, change in bank details (Payroll and Travel and Expense)

5. Ensures proper payroll income and deductions: computes, prepares and reconciles where appropriate all cash compensation, benefits, allowances and advances, e.g. 13th month, 14th month and 14th month adjustment upload list, prepares and reconciles Entertainment Allowance/ Clothing Allowance and Executive Perks upload list, VL and SL conversion activities, Staff Shop deductions, Rent Subsidy encoding, etc..

6. Safe keeps and manages 201 files of Nestle Business Services AOA Market

7. Time management: leave quotas

8. Attendance monitoring

Reports Generation, Certifications and Administrative Tasks (May vary from Market to Market)

1. Generate employee Master List for Requesting units

2. Generate Wage Type reports to check for corrections

3. Prepares monthly report of employee changes

4. Generate List of External Employees

5. Review, validate, and consolidate head count – regular & probationary employees

6. Review, consolidate, and validate headcount – non regular employees

7. Prepare employee productivity report

8. Generate remuneration statements

9. Prepare summary of loan availers for the period/year

10. Prepares certificate of employment, certifications of medical/health contributions/ housing loans.

11. Maintenance of 201 Files.

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Forex & Commodities: Major Currencies Drift Ahead of US Payroll Data

[at CNBC] – Major currencies drifted in a narrow range ahead of Friday s key U.S. employment figures.

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Posted: September 3rd, 2010
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Verizon Joins the Prepaid Mobile Data Party

Verizon Wireless joined a growing trend on Thursday by announcing prepaid data plans for most of the smartphones and feature phones it sells.

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Posted: September 3rd, 2010
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Botnet Takedown May Yield Valuable Data

Researchers are hoping to get a better insight on botnets after taking down part of Pushdo, one of the top five networks of hacked computers responsible for most of the world’s spam.

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Posted: September 2nd, 2010
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British Pound Under Pressure Amid IMF Debt Concerns, Weak Housing Data

[DailyFX] – During the overnight trade, the IMF warned that Portugal, Italy, and Greece are amongst the countries with the highest risk of unsustainable debt.

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Posted: September 2nd, 2010
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Now, a satellite traffic cop to prevent space collisions

Although space collisions are rare, when they do happen, they leave a long-lasting impact. A coalition of satellite traffic cops, however, aims to prevent these episodes from occurring at all.

Tobias Nassif is the vice president of satellite operations and engineering for Intelsat and a director of the newly formed Space Data Association,

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Head Geophysical Data Processing, Very Attractive + Tax Free – Musandam Peninsula, South of the Strait of Hormuz

My Client is the foremost exploration and production company in the Sultanate. It accounts for more than 90% of the country’s crude-oil production and nearly all of its natural-gas supply. My clients require a ‘Head of’ to lead and manage the geophysical data processing team responsible for processing of all geophysical data in support of my clients exploration and development activities. …

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MCS – Services Region Business Analyst at GE Energy

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Energy – Energy Services

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Role Summary/Purpose

Essential Responsibilities
-Maintain & Analyze regional operating metrics, including Backlog, Orders, Sales, CM for all Product Groups.
-Set up standard operating procedures to increase efficiency and effectiveness in SAP.
-Weekly / Monthly preparation of Region Data for Growth Calls & Operations calls.
-Extracting data from various management reporting / ERP systems. e.g. SAP , WORP, CMS , OFA.
-Region support during Op Plan, SI & SII cycles.
-Lead monthly calls with SAP coordinators to review and implement new procedures.
-Liaison with Business Warehouse team. Ensuring BW roll out meets regional requirements, and new SAP role outs.

Qualifications/Requirements
-Strong business background and SAP experience. -Well versed in Microsoft applications- MS Word, Excel, Power point & Exchange. -Well versed in English language and commercial/logistics procedures. -Expert in Data analysis and reporting.

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

Desired Characteristics

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Assistant Planning and Business Development Manager at Confidential Company

To control, manage, and organize all financial related issues of the Global Marketing Network as per local regulations

2.TASKS PERFORMED

a)Manages the activities of the GNS Coordinator

b)Prepares and monitors Global Marketing Network financial budget

c)Supervises and controls Global Network Offices’ operational actual expenses against the approved budget

d)Supervises, monitors and follows up all book-keeping activities of the Global Marketing Network

e)Coordinates and participates in financial audits for the Group and Global Marketing Network for all external auditors, State Audit Bureau, Client’s Auditors and any other Auditors as per the defined policy

f)Supervises, compiles and furnishes all financial data of Global Marketing Network to Finance Group for any periodical closings

g) Conducts financial feasibility studies for establishing new Global Marketing Network with complete analysis

h) Coordinates, supervises, communicates and creates financial setup for business partners (Q-Chem, QATOFIN, etc)

Verifies documents and arranges payments with Finance Group for Global Marketing Network including stock movement to Overseas Warehouses and office expenses in accordance with contractual rates for individual supplier, in addition to all group related service fees or commissions for other than normal sales

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Roaming iPhone glitch continues (BBC – Technology)

Mobile operator O2 and Apple are still resolving a months-old data roaming issue, with customers complaining of charges they didn’t incur.

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Posted: September 1st, 2010
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Salesforce.Com Rolls Out Contact-Data Service

Salesforce.com rolled out a new service on Wednesday that integrates business-contact information with its own CRM (customer relationship management) application and Chatter collaboration software.

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Mobile Data Traffic Set to Soar

Ericsson exec expects there will be 30 times more data than voice on the network by 2015, and predicts volume-based billing will be needed.

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Posted: September 1st, 2010
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India seeks ‘lawful access’ to all telecom data

India has asked companies that allow users to make voice calls over the Internet to provide security agencies access to their encrypted data, a day after BlackBerry maker Research in Motion agreed to do so.

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Posted: September 1st, 2010
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HR Advisors (Oil & Gas) at Oman Oil Company Exploration & Production LLC

Oman Oil Company Exploration & Production LLC (OOCEP) is currently experiencing significant organisational change due to the addition of new operated assets in Oman. To support the business in this time of transition, OOCEP is seeking to appoint HR Advisors (Omani nationals) with generalist HR experience, preferably from within Oil & Gas.

Reporting to the Business Support Manager, the HR Advisors will assist with the implementation of a broad range of HR initiatives and will participate in day-to-day HR activities that will ultimately ensure OOCEP sources, attracts, weards, retains and develops talent at the right skill level to enable the Company to achieve its strategies and develop its Human Capital base.

Key Accountabilities:

* Recruitment – run end-to-end recruitment processes for positions at a range of levels across the organisation and covering various disciplines. Specific activities include proactive candidate sourcing, online/press advertising, candidate screening, participation in interviews, interfacing with relevant stakeholders, recommendations on candidates, offer management and reporting. Candidate and job tracking will need to be kept up to date in the recruitment system.

* Onboarding – provide colleagues in Administration with relevant HR inputs to facilitate efficient onboarding of new employees.

* Induction – coordinate the HR elements of new employee induction in association with Administration and IT colleagues.

* HR Data Management – ensure that personnel files and other data repositories (paper-based or electronic) are kept fully updated with a range of administrative and HR inputs, and that the confidentiality and integrity of these files is maintained at all times.

* Compensation & Benefits – involvement with inputs for offers as part of the recruitment process, and related to existing staff as required for increments and promotions.

* Job Evaluation – participate as required in job evaluation and job analysis processes.

* Job Descriptions – help to ensure Job Descriptions remain up-to-date and relevant for all positions (staffed and forecast) across the organisation.

* Learning & Development – participate in L&D processes such as training needs analysis and the selection of training interventions in line with career ladders and succession principles/policies.

* Omanisation – activiley contribute to Omanisation initiatives transcending various HR disciplines.

* Reporting – generation of a range of reports on HR activities.

* HR Advisory – act as relationship/interface manager between HR and assigned departments/units.

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HR Data & Systems Analyst at Oman Oil Company Exploration & Production LLC

Oman Oil Company Exploration & Production LLC (OOCEP) is currently experiencing significant organisational change due to the addition of new operated assets in Oman. To support the business in this time of transition, OOCEP is seeking to appoint an HR Data & Systems Analyst (Omani national).

Reporting to the Business Support Manager, the HR Data & Systems Analyst will be assume the critical role of maintaining and analysing critical HR data for the organisation and manage various paper-based and electronic repositories of HR data.

Key Accountabilities:

* Recruitment System – manage candidate and position data in the recruitment system and ensure data is properly classified to ensure efficient processes and the minimisation of re-work scenarios. Act as System Administrator and super-user of the recruitment system.

* HRMS – play a crucial part in the implementation of the new HRMS by being the focal point in HR for this implementation. After implementation, assume a super-user role to ensure consistency and maximised utilisation of relevant modules.

* Manpower Planning – consolidate and analyse inputs from various stakeholders to ensure manpower plans are kept up-to-date and impactful. Assist colleagues with inputs for related activities (such as recruitment and succession planning).

* Organisation Charts – ensure organisation charts are correctly maintained and contribute to modelling and change scenarios as required.

* New Staff Data – ensure new staff details are correctly entered into master data repositories, and that all existing staff data remains updated. Provide data as required to other parts of the business (such as Administration, IT and Finance).

* Miscellaneous HR Data – ensure that personnel files and other miscellaneous data is managed in a structured and effiicient manner and assume ownership for data management practices.

* Compensation & Benefits – participate in modelling and scenarios as required, and manage confidential C&B data as required.

* Budgeting & Cost Tracking – participate in the preparation of HR budget. In addition, track HR costs centrally and participate in cost allocation to units.

* Reporting – act as the focal point for HR data to be used in reporting both within and outside the organisation.

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Broker’s Notes: Data on US manufacturing is of little help to dollar fortunes

Manufacturing activity in the Chicago region in US continued to grow at a slower pace

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Posted: September 1st, 2010
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NetApp, Syncsort Team Up on Data Protection

NetApp and Syncsort are bringing storage and data protection together in a single product, NetApp Syncsort Integrated Backup, to offer quick backup and restoration of an enterprise’s data.

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Posted: August 31st, 2010
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OTR Regional Manager 2-HC at GE Technology Infrastructure

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Technology Infrastructure – Healthcare

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Role Summary/Purpose
The OTR Regional Manager 2 leads Regional backlog management execution and drives Equipment delivery and sales transfers.

Essential Responsibilities
· Lead Regional Backlog Management Execution and Drive Equipment Delivery and Sales Transfers.
· Ensure Equipment Delivery Quality to Our Customers.
· Coach All OTR Related teams (Project Management Coordinators, Installation Specialists, Installation Leaders, Quotation and Tender specialists) in keeping them highly motivated to high performance in ED.
· Ensure Equipment delivery Quality to our customers.
· Coach and manage OTR teams (Pjm, installation specialists, quote & tender specialists).
· Ensure order entry compliance – implement Project management process to improve backlog management efficiency for customer satisfaction.
· Lead tender creation and ensures regular product long description updates are communicated to the Sales teams.
· Define Equipment sales forecast and drive OP Equipment sales.
· Ensure on time order quality and reliability.
· Ensure site planning documents are provided to customers.
· Primarily responsible for installation and warranties monthly cost control.
· Lead Equipment transfer calls and updates to HQ.
· Drive all Equipment related inventories.
· Manage transportation costs, customers and duties productivity with high quality standards.
· Control margin erosion in the backlog.

Qualifications/Requirements
· Business School or Engineering degree· 9 to 12 years experience· Customer/Field experience.· People Management.· Team Player.· Leadership & Coaching.· Green Belt trained.· Fluent in English.· Committed to deliver.· Knowledge of GE Healthcare Products & Equipment Sales business.· Customer Satisfaction Oriented.· Able to work in matrix environment.· Problem Solving expertise.· Understanding of Financial Data.

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

Desired Characteristics
· Project Management.· Third language.· Transportation & Customs business knowledge.· Ability to implement Change to increase team performance.· ISO knowledge to lead local procedures for Equipment Business.· Best Practices Sharing.· COBRA, FORCE, CALYPSO.

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Posted: August 31st, 2010
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Organizing Sensitive Data in the Cloud

What does a cloud vendor do to properly segment various types of sensitive data within its cloud? Gregory Machler discusses how to capture the metadata you’ll need.

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Posted: August 30th, 2010
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Moving a Data Center? Avoid These Four Career-Limiting Mistakes

Moving a data center is a major undertaking for most organizations. And a successful move is a nice resume builder for any IT professional. A successful move will showcase skills in large-scale project planning, project management, technology integration and interpersonal communications. The process provides a chance for exposure across the company, as virtually every department is touched by the IT organization (and affected by a data center move) in some way.

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Broker’s notes: US data continue to disappoint; oil declines after last week’s gain

Data from the US Commerce Department revealed that consumer spending in the US rose more than forecast in July

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Posted: August 30th, 2010
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With 8 gizmos in a case, Nilekani sets out to give 1.2 bn people an identity (The Indian Express)

Packed into what look like two medium-sized suitcases are eight essentials – an iris scanner, a fingerprint machine, a camera, a laptop, a computer screen linked to the laptop, an Internet data card, a pen drive and a printer….

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Phones are getting smarter

Look around and it’s not hard to notice that there are more smart phones now than before. And the reasons aren’t hard to find. Besides the umpteen models of various manufacturers, what has driven the surge is the innovation in operating systems (OS). And, in what could be a new trend, customers are also looking at the new OS-driven features while picking up a new phone.

An operating system (OS) is a software platform, which determines the type of programs, applications and features that can run on a mobile. There wasn’t much focus on OS until a few years ago, mainly because the technology then didn’t allow many innovations on mobiles.

The R&D in various OS is now focused on open platform. An open platform is a software system that is flexible in terms to usage and integration with functions that were not originally intended by the programer. This innovation in OS, is one reason for the spurt in smart phone usage. A major open platform OS is Android that has been adopted by a number of handset manufacturers like HTC, Samsung and Motorola. One of the latest open platform releases is Bada from Samsung, this year. Nokia is developing MeeGo and phones running on it are expected to be available this year-end. 

Canalys, a technology market analysis firm, says world over the smart phone market grew by 64 per cent in the second quarter of 2010. Gartner, another IT research firm, corroborates the trend with figures showing that smart phone sales accounted for 19% of worldwide mobile device sales, an increase of 50.5% from Q2 of 2009.

Among operating systems, Symbian (of Nokia) is still the leader. The Q2 2010 figures from Gartner show Nokia has a worldwide market share of 41.2% with the nearest competitor Research In Motion having 18.2%. The ranking by vendor classification, put out by International Data Corporation (IDC) too shows that Nokia has a market share of 38.1% with RIM a distant second at 17.8%.

ANDROID IMPACT

What is remarkable is the effect Google-backed Android operating system, which is just over two years old, has had on the smart phone segment. In Q2 2009, Android was at the 6th place with a market share of 1.8%, behind Symbian, RIM, iOS, Windows Mobile and Linux. But in a year’s time, Android leapt to the third position with a market share of 17.2%, pushing Apple’s iOS to the 4th place. In the US, Android is now at the top spot after overtaking RIM.

According to Canalys, shipment of smart phones running on Android OS registered a whopping 886% growth year-on-year in Q2 2010. IDC corroborates the trend with figures showing that shipment of HTC and Samsung smart phones which run on Android posted the highest-ever year-on-year growth — 128.6% and 172.7% respectively.   

Android is an open platform, and Alok Goel, head of the mobile products, Google, India, says, "Google is now particularly focused on Android, because it enables a lot of functions that aren’t possible on other phones." In India there are at least a dozen manufacturers offering the Android, some of them being HTC, Sony Ericsson, LG and Motorola. The prices too have dropped: from what was around Rs 30,000, when it hit the market some two years back, to around Rs 12,000 now.

Says Goel, "The average daily sales world over of Android-based phones in February this year was 60,000; in June it was 160,00; and in August it’s 200,000. That’s a phenomenal increase. And in the in the last two years, as many as four versions of Android have come out." He says Android phone users access the internet eight-times more than a feature phone user. Also an Android phone user carries an average of around 40 applications, compared to an average of three or four on a feature phone.

ATTRACTIVE APPLICATIONS

If one were to go by retailers, customers are looking at, besides price, the operating systems which was not the case before. "Look at the mobile phone ads; there is now mention of Android, Bada etc. This is unusual, because earlier no one sold a mobile saying it runs on Windows or Symbian. And, now we have some customers asking us to show sets that have Android platform," says Jagadeesh, a retailer in Bangalore.

He says one of the reasons could be the large number of interesting applications that an Android phone offers. Google Goggles is one such, in which a picture taken with the mobile phone can be used to search the web. It’s ideal when one can’t recognise a landmark. All that one needs to do is open the application, click a photo of, say Vidhana Soudha, and just wait for the search result.

Another interesting application that runs on Andoid 1.6 and above is "Gesture Search". This is an easy tool to search on a mobile phone for a particular contact, a bookmark, an application or a music track. The user has to just write out the word on the touchscreen and the search launches and zooms into the closest options.

Google Sky Map that runs on Android helps a user explore the sky. Point the phone at the sky, and the user can see starts, planets, constellations etc. Interestingly, the application works even when the user is inside a closed room.

Clearly, mobile phones are getting smarter and buzzing louder. A new phase mobile telephony evolution seems to be dawning before the better-informed consumer who now has plenty of options by way to models and features to choose from.

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HEAD OF GEOPHYSICAL DATA PROCESSING MUSCAT OMAN

HEAD OF GEOPHYSICAL DATA PROCESSING MUSCAT OMAN Job Details Company InfoOur client is the premier exploration and production company in the Sultanate accounting for almost 90% of crude oil production and all of its natural-gas supply and has been in this business for almost 50 years Job BackroundReporting to the Chief Geophysicis

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Tears may hold key to fighting anthrax

Scientists have suggested that an antibacterial enzyme found in human tears and other body fluids could be applied to certain foods for protection against intentional contamination with anthrax.

“Data from this study could be used in developing safer foods for human consumption,” said Saeed A. Khan.

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Network Services Director (SDP IPTV Mobile Broadband)

My client is looking for a Director level professional to oversee the Network Services Department for a large organisationbrbrThe applicant will oversee the NSS department which includes SDp (Service Delivery platform) IpTV Data Mobile broadband BB Mobile TV pCRF pCEFbrbrThey will be responsible for the manage (more) p SJ

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British Pound Looks To Manufacturing Data For Support (DailyFX)

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Posted: August 28th, 2010
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Dell, HP Bidding War for 3Par Heats Up

HP’s latest bid of $2 billion for 3Par is a 10-fold increase over what 3Par earned last year. But market value has little to do with this war, experts say. While 3Par would highly complement HP’s offerings, Dell needs the company to get into the high-end data center space.

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Posted: August 28th, 2010
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Garmin Edge 800 New Touchscreen Bike Computer

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Garmin has announced a great looking new Edge 800 GPS based touchscreen bike computer that looks to be a big step up in capabilities, notable adding Birdseye satellite imagery and touchscreen capabilities. The Edge 800 interacts with Garmin Basecamp software where you can plan rides and then download them to the Edge 800. If your ride partners have a wireless capable GPS, you can then beam the route to them via Garmi’s wireless sharing feature. Compatible Fitness units include the Edge 705 and 605, along with the Garmin Oregon series, Dakota 20 and the older Colorado series handheld units.

I use a Colorado 400t when biking to which I have added City Navigator NT maps so I can navigate roads. Sure it’s big, but it handles on and off road biking nicely. With a heart rate monitor and a handlebar mount I can ride, explore and always navigate home. This summer I have been using the Birdseye satellite imagery when I ride and have found that I have come to depend on it. The experience is much better when I can navigate across roads with the satellite imagery versus the regular City NT street maps. The context gives you a better sense of what’s around you and where you are in your ride. I see the addition of the Birdseye imagery as a positive step for the Edge series.

On top of the Birdseye satellite imagery, the Edge 800 will come with a long list of capabilities that people have come to expect on a bike computer. The Edge 800 accurately tracks speed, distance, time, GPS position, elevation, calories burned, climb and descent. The Edge 800 syncs with garmin Heart Rate Monitors, and cadence sensors plus third party power meters all through their ANT+ wireless technology. Further, the Edge 800 has a barometric altimeter for extra sensitive ascent and descent readings.

You Mountain bike? Add TOPO maps for a good offroad look and feel of where you are going. Yea it will work and bring back all the data you’d come to expect.

Available for $449 in a standalone model, and a $649 bundle that adds City Navigator NT street maps, their new Heart Rate Monitor strap and cadence sensors.

Read an early review by BikeRadar and see the Garmin Product Page for the Edge 800


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APC by Schneider Electric establishes dedicated software business for data center monitoring, planning and modeling

APC by Schneider Electric, a global specialist in integrated critical power and cooling services, recently announced the formation of a new specialized Data Center Software business to focus and drive a leadership position across all aspects of the data center environment.

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Du and Injazat to provide networked IT services

UAE’s Injazat Data Systems and Du have announced a partnership agreement to provide business customers with state-of-the-art networked IT services. In March last year, the two firms signed a three year deal under which Injazat provides managed collocation services for Du’s systems through its Abu Dhabi-based Tier IV data centre.

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Data Center Switch Maker Teams with VMware to Optimize Gear for Virtualization

Data center switch maker Arista Networks this week is unveiling software designed to improve visibility, configuration and provisioning in virtual environments.

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Posted: August 24th, 2010
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COT Data is US Dollar Bullish (DailyFX)

The Euro and British Pound have turned from bullish extremes following last week’s USD turn from a bearish extreme. The Australian Dollar remains at a bullish extreme.

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Posted: August 24th, 2010
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Data Points: A Big Change in Emerging-market Spending

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Posted: August 23rd, 2010
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Leica Geosystems Updates GNSS Quality Control and Data Analysis Software

Leica SpiderQC v4.0 is now part of a new reference station software update that also includes Leica GNSS Spider and Leica SpiderWeb, Leica Geosystems said. SpiderQC (previously known as GNSS QC) adds a range of advanced features for multi-frequency, multi-GNSS data analysis, visualization, and numerous other new features, improvements, and optimizations.

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Surveys show pace of euro zone recovery moderating (at Reuters)

* Euro zone flash PMIs slip slightly in August * Germany and France set the pace, but rest of bloc lags * Data consistent with euro zone growth of 0.7 pct in Q3

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Posted: August 23rd, 2010
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Injazat Data Systems’ service desk resolves one million tickets

United Arab Emirates: Injazat Data Systems, the leading information technology and business process managed services provider in the UAE, has announced that its Injazat Service Desk has recently resolved its one-millionth ticket. The Service Desk is Injazat’s central point of contact for handling customer concerns and providing technical support. The Service Desk is also co-responsible for achieving Injazat’s mission of constantly exceeding customer expectations, particularly through swift and quality service delivery. [AMEInfo.com]

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