| Hughes to Acquire Helius for IPTV Data Broadcasting Solutions
Hughes Communications, which provides broadband satellite network services, agreed to acquire privately-held Helius, Inc., which specializes in business-class data broadcasting solutions.
Hughes said the acquisition will combine the skills of Helius, a leader in providing business IPTV solutions for applications such as training, corporate communications, and digital signage, with its own extensive broadband networking experience and customer base. Hughes plans to deploy Helius' IP video technologies to enhance its existing HughesNet service offerings.
Helius is a portfolio company of Canopy Ventures. The acquisition is expected to be completed on or about February 4, 2008. Financial terms were not disclosed. Upon completion of the acquisition, Helius will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Hughes and will operate closely with Hughes' North America and International enterprise businesses.
YeungJin College Launched IT Global Training Program
YeungJin College (President Jang Young-chul) opened a training program to send its students to partner companies overseas and have them experience local corporate culture and learn professional techniques.
The college sent 86 students with excellent academic records to Japan and China, and conducted trainings for 5 sectors including imbedded, 3D automobile design, and IT project. It invested 130 mil KRW in the 5-day or 1-month program.
On Feb 4th, 21 trainees for automobile design took 3-week program through which they learnt 3D CAD design for automobile parts from local engineers at Asia Solution in Fukuoka, Japan. They plan to upload video clips of their project results on U-Tube.
Another 32 trainees took 5-day Imbedded training at Hasama in Tokyo last month, and were put into an on-the-job training for ITRON, imbedded software.
Exporters see rupee gaining against dollar
Yes Bank president financial markets and institutions Ajay Mahajan said, “The rising rupee has posed a question of survival for several exporters, especially belonging to industries which offer lower margins. Hence, it is natural for these players to think of hedging their longer-term exposures. There have been instances of exporters using dollar forwards or currency options like STRIPS to cover positions over a two-to-three year period."
For a large part of 2007, the rising rupee had proven to be a nightmarish experience for exporters. The rupee rose by a whopping 11% to the 39.16 level from over 44.25 a year ago. Of late, the Reserve Bank of India has been intervening strongly in the forex market to curb the rupee from growing strong against the greenback.
In fact, the Centre had to revise the limit for issuance of bonds under the market stabilisation route several times in 2007, in a bid to soak up the excess foreign inflows.
Nader Runs, Obama Responds Wisely
Ralph Nader is running again for president. After four previous bids, mounted in varying forums and with varying goals, Nader is used to the slings and arrows that will be tossed his way. He is conscious and committed. He will not back off. He knows how to campaign in the face of a firestorm of criticism. Above all, he knows how to make himself heard — even when almost everyone who guides the political processes of the nation wants to shut him up. The latter knowledge will serve him well in a 2008 contest where the man who is either a national treasure or a national frustration, or perhaps both, may find himself more marginalized than ever before. Nader is running for the same reason he has run in the past: Because the likely nominees of the two major parties do not begin to meet the standards that might reasonably be asked of progressive contenders in 21st-century America.
IPSA Selects Video Game Executive to Head Intellectual Property ...
VANCOUVER, Canada, Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- IPSA International, Inc., (IPSA) an international risk advisory firm, is pleased to announce that Robert L. Hunter "Beau" has joined as the firm's Director of Intellectual Property Investigations. In this role, Mr. Hunter will be looked upon to provide consulting and investigative services, training and will be a client/government liaison with an emphasis on Intellectual Property rights enforcement and solutions. Prior to joining IPSA, he served as Manager of Intellectual Property Enforcement for Entertainment Software Association (ESA), the advocate and voice of the entertainment software and video game hardware industries in North America and around the world. During his tenure with the ESA, Mr. Hunter created and managed domestic and international IP enforcement programs involving retail and Internet piracy.
Blue-eyed son set to farewell SCG
There are times when you think, 'Gee, we could have done with him at NSW', but your brief in cricket administration is to give players the best chance to represent Australia." Gilchrist was in the Australian one-day side within three years of going to Perth. Back in Sydney, he would have spent most of that time playing second fiddle to Emery, whose Test came in 1994. Bernard is now Australian manager and will be with Gilchrist in the SCG dressing room today. "It's been a privilege to see him [become] the kind of player and man he is now. There are some very good qualities there." Gilchrist's first NSW match was forgettable. While McGrath stormed onto the first-class scene with 5-79 off 30 overs, and an 18-year-old Ponting cracked 125, Gilchrist batted at No.7 and made 16 before being trapped lbw by Tasmanian Shaun Young.
Is Homeland Security Too Focused on “Guns, Guards and Gates”?
September 11th was a brutal reminder that there are people out there who have the desire and means to kill us in a mass attack, and we have to stop them. "The best defense is a good offense", we like to say, but in this case it's a little trickier than that. We need an offense mindful of long-term gains and a defense more nuanced than smash-mouth football. "Guns, guards and gates," our bulwark against external threats, remains an essential part of our defense. Yet consider this: attacks attempted or carried out in the UK involved insiders, young Brits willing to kill their fellow citizens. It's hard to employ a simplistic "us vs. them" strategy, when "they" are living and working alongside us. To better understand this quandry, I recently caught up with Juliette Kayyem, Undersecretary of Homeland Security for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and a former adviser with the National Commission on Terrorism.
Adelaide hosts solar congress
The mayors are getting together, talking about how they've done it, learning from each other and taking these initiatives back home," she said. "What we're aiming for is to get the per capita emissions down. "In order to do that we must have a big transition to renewable energy so at the congress there will be a bit on the new technologies that are available, including solar thermal and geothermal plus pv (photovoltaics or solar panels). "We will hear from cities that have long had programs in reducing emissions, like Copenhagen and even South Korean cities. "It's easier if you start from scratch but older cities have to retrofit and learn from others that are doing it right." Premier Mike Rann says SA is one of the leaders.
January 2004 - December 2004
Alan Caruba has had it up to here when it comes to the press, some scientists and the environmentalist movement over the issue of global warming and predictions about the future
They say Trevor made a mockery of MLK Day: Every year at Westside High School in Omaha, Nebraska a student is picked to win the Distinguished African American Student Award. David M. Huntwork wonders why it's wrong to award a white student who happens to be a native of Africa
Homage to the Count: P. David Hornik has been listening to the great William "Count" Basie for decades but it was only recently that it struck him why the jazzman was one of the greatest ever in his field
Privatize the space program: Rather than spend hundreds of billions of dollars putting humans on Mars, writes Robert Garmong, George W.
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