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Sunday 13 January 2013

Think Positively and Make Your Project a Success


Think Positively and Make Your Project a Success
There are a lot of technical skills needed in order to make a success of the project manager role. However, among the skills which are perhaps less difficult to ...
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Quality Assurance And Software Testing


Friday 11 January 2013

Colorado One Stats



Colorado One Stats


Release Date: August 22, 2012

Process Time: 8 Days

Number of People: 35 over 3 shifts

Total Gallons of Paint: 74

Premask: None



One of the largest challenges was laying out the “C” design free hand while keeping the circle perfect with the contour of the plane and only using the mylar as a guide. This aircraft is 100% clear coated to ensure paint longevity. Clear coat alone was 32 gallons.






Meet the Rest of  Specialty Fleet

Shamu One - May 23, 1988

Shamu Two - May 30, 1990

Shamu Three - Sept. 7, 1990

Lone Star One - Nov. 7, 1990

Arizona One - May 23, 1994

Triple Crown - June 9, 1997

California One - Sept. 19, 1998


Nevada One - June 12, 1999

New Mexico One - Sept. 18, 2000

Maryland One - June 14, 2005

Illinois One - April 14, 2008

Florida One - April 23, 2010




Cloud Computing ROI Tools are worthless


Consumer knowledge of cloud still vague, says new survey
CloudTech
With the analysts predicting cloud computing to rise and rise in 2013, it can be refreshing to get a consumer perspective on how they use the cloud and their overall knowledge of it. Yet the signs don't appear to be good – a new survey from UK-based ...
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Cloud Of Iron: DARPA Hardens Cloud Computing Against Cyber Attack
AOL Defense
"Moving to the cloud" is the trend du jour, even in the intelligence world, but the recent attacks on the nation's banking system has raised uncomfortable questions about how to make cloud computingsecure. "The cloud" may seem amorphous, but in ...
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Small businesses accelerating growth in 2013 with cloud computing
Fox 54
(BPT) - Small businesses seem optimistic about increasing sales and hiring in 2013 and are looking to squeeze more productivity out of limited time, staffing and resources. For these reasons, finding the right business tools that can grow with you but ...
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Why cloud computing ROI tools are worthless
InfoWorld (blog)
With the rise of cloud computing comes a rise in tools and models that estimate the cost benefit of the technology. Most are created and promoted by cloud providers that sell their services, and a few come from analysts and consulting organizations ...
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Cloud shines bright in Infosys' Q3 results
InformationWeek India
The latest Q3 results of Infosys show that the focus on cloud continues to yield results. Infosys said in the press release that the business has more than 190 engagements and 3,500 experts. Over the last quarter, it won more than 15 engagements across ...
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Cloud Computing: Schmidt Tells North Korea to Drop Internet Barriers
SYS-CON Media (press release)
When Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt returned to Beijing Thursday from his controversial three-day "private visit" to North Korea he said that he told officials in Pyongyang that they must open the country up to Internet access or it would be ...
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SYS-CON Media (press release)
Cloud Computing: Top EC Regulator Thinks Google Abuses Its Monopoly
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Cloud Computing: Top EC Regulator Thinks Google Abuses Its Monopoly. He's not talking about Google's sacred algorithms but “the way they present their own services.” By Maureen O'Gara. Article Rating: Select rating, Give it 1/5, Give it 2/5, Give it 3 ...
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SYS-CON Media (press release)
Cloud Hosting PITB Offers Cloud Computing Service in Karachi
Greatresponder.com
11, 2013: The cloud hosting provider PITB will offer all required services of a Tier-III (International Standard) compliant data centre and cloud computing to host applications and services of public and private sector at the Arfa Software Technology ...
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Thursday 10 January 2013

Kingfisher Aims to Restart Flights by End of March




Kingfisher Airlines Ltd.'s 532747.BY +9.70% chairman has finally put dates to promises, saying in a letter to employees that it is looking to restart operations by the end of March with a cash infusion of more than $100 million from parent UB Group 507458.BY +1.18% and "other associates."

Dr Vijay Mallya said also that the company is still in talks with several investors to sell a stake and raise funds to revive the now-grounded Airline.



European Pressphoto Agency
A Kingfisher Airlines Aircraft taking off from Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai, Feb. 20, 2012.

"Investors need to be convinced about the long-term prospects of their proposed investment in Kingfisher, and this takes time" Mr. Mallya said in the letter, which was seen by The Wall Street Journal.

It comes one day after some Kingfisher employees met to plan legal action against the airline because they haven't been paid in months.

Dr. Mallya, who has been criticized by some employees for not speaking to them despite the crisis, said operations will be restarted with seven planes, which will be ramped up to 21 in four months.

"The second part is a full-scale rehabilitation of our airline, growing to 57 aircraft within 12 months of recapitalization," he said, adding that the initial restart would require 6.50 billion rupees ($118.94 million), which would come from the UB Group and "other associates".



He didn't Elaborate.

He added that the airline will submit additional data to the country's aviation regulator to get back its license and that it is in the process of getting no-objection letters from its vendors.

Kingfisher stocks surged on news of the plan, recently trading up 7.51% at 14.46 rupees in a Bombay Stock Exchange market down 0.18%.

It will, however, be an uphill task for Kingfisher to start and sustain operations, given that it hasn't solved most of its problems.

Kingfisher's flights have been grounded since Oct. 1, first due to a strike by its employees over non-payment of salaries and then because of the suspension of its license.

The airline's license expired on Dec. 31 with the civil aviation regulator refusing to renew it because it wasn't satisfied with Kingfisher's plans to restart operations.

The airline can, however, reapply for the permit within two years.

Kingfisher has made losses since its inception in May 2005 and now owes more than $2.5 billion to its lenders, suppliers, leasing companies, airport operators, other airlines, employees and to the government in taxes.



Thursday, Mr. Mallya said the airline's banks are not looking to recall loans or make the airline sell its assets.

Mr. Mallya has said before that he is in talks with several investors, including Abu Dhabi-based carrier Etihad Airways, to sell a stake in the airline.

Another Indian airline, Jet Airways, 532617.BY -1.57% is also trying to sell a stake to Etihad.

Meanwhile, a senior Kingfisher engineer said employees are planning legal action against the airline for not paying their salaries.




"We are in talks with our lawyers and will decide on the legal notice soon," another employee said.

An official at the civil aviation ministry recently said Kingfisher still owes its employees about 1.2 billion rupees in salaries.




International Business Times
Kingfisher loss seen as gain for Jet, SpiceJet
Livemint
New Delhi: The grounding of Vijay Mallya-controlled Kingfisher Airlines Ltd for the entire October-December quarter has benefited India's two other publicly traded airlines, with both Jet Airways (India) Ltd and SpiceJet Ltd expected to have broken a ...
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Livemint
No new loans for Kingfisher, says SBI Chairman
Hindu Business Line
State Bank of India (SBI) Chairman Pratip Chaudhuri has said that there is no question of committing fresh loans for the ailing Kingfisher Airlines. Asked to comment on the latest revival plan proposed by the airline, Chaudhuri said the window ...
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Hindu Business Line
Kingfisher Air Plans Revival With Parent UB's Funds, E-Mail Says
Bloomberg
Kingfisher, the only Indian carrier to order Airbus SAS superjumbos, has been seeking cash for more than two years and was in talks with possible investors such as Etihad Airways PJSC for its revival. The airline lost its operating license on Jan. 1 ...
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In letter to Kingfisher employees, Vijay Mallya shares revival plan
NDTV
Kingfisher Airlines chairman Vijay Mallya has told employees that the grounded carrier is aiming for a limited re-start utilizing seven aircraft. In a letter to employees, the first since Kingfisher'soperating license expired, Mr Mallya detailed the ...
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Kingfisher Aims to Restart Flights by End of March
Wall Street Journal
MUMBAI—Kingfisher Airlines Ltd.'s chairman has finally put dates to promises, saying in a letter to employees that it is looking to restart operations by the end of March with a cash infusion of more than $100 million from parent UB Group and "other...
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Wall Street Journal
Service Tax Dept notices Kingfisher, `impounds' all aircraft
Economic Times
MUMBAI: In more trouble for beleaguered Kingfisher Airlines, Service Tax Department has issued a notice to the carrier, "impounding" all its aircraft, department sources said here tonight. According to the notice, the airline cannot fly outside the ...
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Economic Times
Mallya outlines revival plan for Kingfisher, shares surge
Reuters India
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Shares in grounded carrier Kingfisher Airlines(KING.NS) jumped as much as 9.7 percent on Thursday after a letter sent to staff from Chairman Vijay Mallya outlined plans for a revival to be funded with 6.5 billion rupees from his UB ...
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Kingfisher Airlines Chairman Vijay Mallya Writes To Employees, Lists Out ...
International Business Times
Caught off-guard by the employees' decision to move court to seek the closure ofKingfisher Airlines, the private Indian air carrier's Chairman, Vijay Mallya, wrote a letter to them giving the details of the revival plan. Kingfisher Airlines Chairman ...
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Microsoft Prepares Cloud OS Updates



Cloud computing growing in the UAE
gulfnews.com
Dubai: As cloud computing gains traction in the Gulf, especially in the UAE, the key challenge for organisations in the region is optimise and fine-tune the infrastructure to best take advantage of the new technology. “It is an interesting market and a ...
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Global Government Cloud Computing Market 2012-2016
PR Newswire (press release)
TechNavio's report, the Global Government Cloud Computing Market 2012-2016, has been prepared based on an in-depth market analysis with inputs from industry experts. The report covers the Americas, and the EMEA and APAC regions; it also covers the ...
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The Perils of Cloud Computing
E-Commerce Times
We are still early in this cloud revolution, but there are reasons to tread carefully, whether you are an individual saving your personal data and files, or whether you are a company using the cloud to interact with all your employees or customers ...
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Cloud Computing Services in Russia Offer Huge Growth Potential, Finds Frost ...
MENAFN.COM
Jan 10, 2013 (Menafn - M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) --Cloud computing has the potential to improve many aspects of business process. The availability of affordable IT infrastructure will have a positive impact on both small and large enterprises, while ...
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Live Blog: Tech Data TDCloud Partner Summit
Talkin' Cloud
At Tech Data (NASDAQ: TECD) TDCloud Partner Summit, nearly 100 VARs and managed services providers (MSPs) are set to discuss cloud services strategies, revenue models and marketing initiatives. TDCloud Director Bharath Natarajan just keynoted, ...
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Talkin' Cloud
Microsoft Prepares Cloud OS Updates
Talkin' Cloud
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) will bang the drum for its Cloud OS initiative on January 15. The software giant plans to discuss new management products and services that "deliver against Microsoft's Cloud OS vision." When Windows Server 2012 launched in...
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OpenStack Brain Trust Gains $10M In New Funding
InformationWeek
Mirantis, a cloud consulting firm and one of the few OpenStack brain trusts outside of Rackspace, announced Thursday that it has received $10 million in funding from Intel, Dell and WestSummit Capital. The latter is a global investment firm with ties ...
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Talkin' Cloud
Cloud servers: Leading the pack in Linux VPS
CloudTech
Although Microsoft Windows still dominates the desktop operating system popularity, Linux has become a dominant force in cloud servers and virtual private servers (VPS). Linux is not only a cheaper way to host cloud applications, but it also comes in ...
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Consumer Electronics Recession




Walmart Defies 


Consumer Electronics are experiencing an uncharacteristic moment in the dog house as shoppers eschew hardware and entertainment devices, opting instead for mobile practicality. This trend is hitting retailers hard as the most popular products are easily obtained direct from manufacturers, service providers or less expensive online outlets. There is of course an exception — Walmart, it seems, is defying the CE recession.

We’re hearing a lot about new technology this week. With International CES underway in Las Vegas there’s plenty to marvel at, but precious little to drive shoppers into stores. CES is hot, but CE sales are not. Best Buy, GameStop, hhgregg, are all suffering from CE sales doldrums this holiday season.

But discounter Walmart is bucking the trend. According to this research note from Janney Capital Markets David Strasser:

We had a chance to learn more about WMTs CE business at CES, and we are impressed with what WMT is doing and where the company is going in this critical category. Our conversations with manufactures lead us to believe that WMT had a solid or a better holiday season in CE. We believe this holiday will show WMT is gaining share and traction in CE.

It makes sense as trends are decidedly in the discounter’s favor. Products are fully commoditized as HDTVs, Blu-ray players, sound bars and computers are well into their technology life cycles. Shoppers are making decisions based on price and Walmart has long been the low-price leader.

Future trends could also benefit Walmart as pre-paid smartphone sales heat up and contract based plans get a boost from lower-priced handsets. Even Apple is rumored to be developing a lower-priced iPhone. “The next phase of smart-phone adoption/penetration will likely come from the low end consumer which is WMT’s sweet spot – allowing them to grow the wireless business dramatically over the next few years,” wrote Strasser.

Target too, stands to benefit from these trends in the next couple of years. Today, Target announced it was extending holiday price matching through the year, promising to match competitors advertised prices on products found both in stores and online. Its move that could help establish price parity between big box retailers and Amazon.com.

But Walmart is even better positioned than Target to gain share in consumer electronics. It’s willingness to accept compressed margins across categories make it particularly adept at navigating the razor thin margins in CE whereas Target has been less reluctant to sacrifice margin for sales and share.

None of this bodes well for the specialists and Best Buy’s future remains grim, fraught with problems both of its own making and those of the industry at large. The CE industry is cyclical and eventually new technology will reach the market at compelling price points to keep retailers in business. But for now, Walmart looks to be sitting pretty.





Stranded Motorist Photos Are Metaphor for Hurricanes, Recession and Loneliness
Wired
If you're ever broken down on the side of an American highway and a woman with a light meter around her neck stops her car and approaches you, don't be afraid. She's not there to rob or hurt you. It's just Amy Stein, and all she wants to do is take ...
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France is in a mild recession, says central bank
Telegraph.co.uk
The latest estimate from the Bank of France differs from data from the national statistics office which suggests that France has just averted recession this year by showing marginal intermittent growth. Together the sets of data suggest that the ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Study: Degrees a hard-times buffer
Boston Globe
It was a defining image of the Great Recession: floundering college grads stuck back home, living in mom and dad's basement. But while rooted in some truth, that picture doesn't show fully how the prolonged downturn affected people in their early 20s, ...
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Europe's recession puts Italian women's workplace gains on ice
Christian Science Monitor
Later, she was hired as a teacher of Italian as a second language, but the recession hit, and her hours were cut back. When she had her second child, her position wasn't extended, again leaving her without maternity benefits. Now, in her early 30s, she ...
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Fewer Americans saw docs during 'Great Recession'
NBCNews.com (blog)
Americans made fewer trips to their doctors' offices during the Great Recession than they did earlier in the decade, according to new research. "These are not dramatic drops, but in our healthcare system we're used to our numbers going up... So just ...
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Orphanides Says ECB Should Cut Rates to Fight Worst Recession
Bloomberg
Former European Central Bank Governing Council member Athanasios Orphanides said ECB officials should cut interest rates today as the euro area battles the worst recession in its history. “The ECB should cut rates,” Orphanides said in a telephone ...
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Gaithersburg Business Property Vacancy Rates Lowest Since Recession
Patch.com
Gaithersburg's commercial real estate vacancy rates reached a post-recession low in Q4 2012, the city's Director of Economic Development Tom Lonergan said at Monday's mayor and City Council meeting. Of the 163 class A and B office spaces housed ...
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Walmart Defies Consumer Electronics Recession
Forbes
Consumer Electronics are experiencing an uncharacteristic moment in the dog house as shoppers eschew hardware and entertainment devices, opting instead for mobile practicality. This trend is hitting retailers hard as the most popular products are ...
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Graduating from recession?
ChicagoNow (blog)
The annual Harvard Crimson survey of seniors showed in 2011 that just under two-thirds of students planning to work after graduation had a job lined up -- up from 58% the year before, but still down from 73% in 2007, just as the economy started to dip.
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Young college grads fared better than peers in recession
Today.com (blog)
“Having a college degree really helped individuals weather the recession at much better rates … than for those with lesser credentials,” Diana Elliott, research manager with the Pew Economic Mobility Project, said in a conference call with journalists ...
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