| 'Dozens' of Palestinian militants begin weapons amnesty
WANTED Palestinian militants have begun turning in their weapons to the Palestinian Authority (PA) as part of an amnesty deal with Israel that could boost the moderate president, Mahmoud Abbas. Zakaria Zubeidi, the head of the al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades militia in the northern West Bank town of Jenin, said fighters were handing in weapons to the PA after signing a pledge to halt attacks on Israeli targets. .
Cognos and GBM Announce Regional Partnership in Central America and the Caribbean to Deliver Integrated Performance ...
Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN) (TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, and General Business Machines Corporation (GBM) today announced a regional partnership that will help customers integrate business processes across the enterprise and gain greater insight into company performance. .
StorNext Raises the Data Management Stakes
Since its acquisition of ADIC in 2006, Quantum Corp. of San Jose, CA, appears to have done a better job than many other storage vendors in integrating the products of the acquired company into its portfolio. ADICs Scalar and StorNext products, in particular, are being marketed heavily since the deal and appear to be front and center in the companys product development roadmap. Most recently, Quantum released StorNext 3.0. This latest version extends data sharing to servers on the LAN and integrates data de-duplication into the software. Three Areas of Upgrade StorNext has been upgraded in three core areas. Data Reduction Storage (DRS) is a specialized disk tier that incorporates de-duplication. DRS tunes data reduction to a specific data set and increases the likelihood that very high levels of data reduction can be achieved.
Distinguished Korean Businessman and Scholar Tae-Hee Yoon Joins NeXplore Advisory Board
FRISCO, Texas, BUSINESS WIRE -- NeXplore Corporation (OTC:NXPC), today announced the addition of the distinguished Korean businessman and scholar Tae-Hee Yoon to the NeXplore advisory board. Tae-Hee Yoon, senior vice president for Projects International, a Washington-based advisory firm that facilitates joint-venture projects for clients in foreign countries, has many decades of experience in international business and finance, including a distinguished twenty-three-year tenure as a senior official with the World Bank. Mr. Yoon is a founding chairman of Korea Economic Intelligence (KEI), a New York-based business consulting firm serving U.S. clients interested in doing business in Korea, and a senior advisor to the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in Washington, DC, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group focused on promoting sustainable private sector investment in developing countries.
Leadership Through Business Intelligence and Performance Management Examined in New Cognos Podcast
BI Radio interviews Patrick Lencioni and authors of The Performance Manager business book. Ottawa, Ontario (PRWEB) August 1, 2007 -- Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, today announced the availability of the fifth episode of BI Radio, its innovative new podcast program. Dubbed "Perspectives on Leadership," the episode explores the different ways organizations use business intelligence and performance management software to deliver outstanding business results. The 30-minute episode features interviews with authors Patrick Lencioni, Roland Mosimann, and Patrick Mosimann, as well as with consumer packaged goods leader Fiskars Brands. In the show's first segment, Lencioni describes the "four obsessions" of the extraordinary executive and the role of performance management software in helping executives build a high-performing team.
EMS Technologies Announces Second Quarter Earnings Growth
ATLANTA, Aug. 1, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- EMS Technologies, Inc. (NasdaqGS:ELMG - News) today announced second-quarter revenues of $72.1 million and earnings from continuing operations of $3.6 million, or $.23 per share. These 2007 earnings were over 50 percent higher than the results for the comparable period one year earlier, when EMS earned $2.2 million from continuing operations, or $.15 per share, on revenues of $65.0 million. The Atlanta-based developer and producer of advanced communications products reported continued revenue growth momentum in all segments of its business. Commenting on the Company's performance, Paul Domorski, president and CEO, stated, ``EMS Technologies executed well in the second quarter, marking our sixth consecutive period of quarter-over-comparable-quarter earnings increases.
Business Objects Moves to Master Its Data-Product Portfolio
Business Objects yesterday launched Universal Data Cleansing, a product aimed at eliminating duplication and discrepancies in product- and region-specific data. The move expands the vendor's Enterprise Information Management (EIM) portfolio and brings the firm another step closer to master data management. Offered as an optional add-on to Business Objects' Data Quality XI Release 2, Universal Data Cleansing (UDC) is available at $25,000 per CPU (with a minimum of two CPUs), and extends the customer data quality and data cleansing capabilities developed by Firstlogic, which Business Objects acquired in April of 2006, into the product and region realms. "Our offerings, and the data quality market in general, [have] always done a great job of helping companies parse, correct, standardize, enhance, and match customer information," says Kristin McMahon, product marketing manager of Business Objects' EIM unit.
Richard Aster Jr Buys Darden Restaurants Inc., Global Payments Inc., Quiksilver Inc., Sells Tuesday Morning Corp., ...
Richard Aster Jr, the Guru who plays both value and growth side of Wall Street, runs both growth fund and value funds. His growth fund averaged 13.2% during the past 10 years, and his value fund avareged 18.3%. Richard Aster Jr owns 132 stocks with a total value of $3.8 billion. These are the details of the buys and sells during the second quarter. Richard Aster Jr buys Darden Restaurants Inc., Global Payments Inc., Quiksilver Inc., American Medical Systems Holdi, Electronic Arts Inc., Mgi Pharma Inc., Corinthian Colleges Inc., Hanesbrands Inc., Albany International Corp., Hewitt Associates Inc., Caci International Inc., Transaction Systems Architects, Fmc Technologies Inc., Friedman Billings Ramsey Group, Chemtura Corporation, Briggs & Stratton Corp., Bp Plc, International Coal Group, Inc.
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