Despite presiding over the largest U.K. initial public offering to be pulled last year, the chief executive officer of Misys Group Ltd. is keen for the company to return to the public market. Misys CEO Nadeem Syed said in an interview that he still hoped to list the company, however he declined to comment on potential timing.
Day: January 30, 2017
REFILE-UPDATE 1-Sony takes $976 mln charge on movie segment as DVD market shrinks
The company logo of Sony Cooperation is seen at the CP+ camera and photo trade fair in Yokohama, Japan, February 25, 2016. ) said it booked an impairment charge of 112.1 billion yen on the goodwill value of its movie segment in the quarter ended December, as online streaming services sapped demand for movie DVDs.
This Malware Is Targeting Attacks on Mobile Devices
As you likely already know, the number of mobile users continues to grow, and search engines have become increasingly mobile-focused/inclusive. As search engines adapt and account for the shift in user behavior to mobile, so do websites and advertisers.
An Effective Git And Org-Mode Based Workflow For Reproducible Research
To insert individual citation into a bibliography in a word-processor, select your preferred citation style below and drag-and-drop it into the document. In this paper we address the question of developing a lightweight and effective workflow for conducting experimental research on modern parallel computer systems in a reproducible way.
Siemens chairman to nominate Snabe as successor: Manager Magazin
Siemens logo is pictured on a CT scan in the manufacturing plant of Siemens Healthineers in Forchheim near Nuremberg, Germany, October 7, 2016. Siemens’ chairman plans to put forward ex-SAP co-Chief Executive Jim Hagemann Snabe as his successor at the company’s annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday, German business monthly Manager Magazin reported.
Xamarin IDE (Win10) – Your Opinions?
Hey guys, I thought I’d ask what you feel about the Xamarin IDE for C# projects. I’d appreciate all input, but if you have experience with VS 2015 and want to share the Pros and Cons of Xamarin compared to VS, that’d be super as well.
Half-marathon runners to learn if race route was short
HUNDREDS of leading runners are to find out today if their personal best times at a major half-marathon are to be scrubbed after an investigation into whether the route was too short. Thousands of athletes, both amateur and semi-professional, took part in the Great Scottish Run’s half-marathon cheered on by crowds lining Glasgow’s streets in October last year.
This space radio could help track every flight in real time
Washington, Jan 30 – Researchers have developed a reconfigurable radio that could help air traffic controllers see in real-time the location of every plane in the air — even those flying across oceans. To design and develop the new reconfigurable, higher-bandwidth radio, NASA worked with Palm Bay, Florida-based Harris Corporation.
New Chancellor has great plans for Nalanda University
Pune, Jan 30 – Vijay Pandurang Bhatkar, the new Chancellor of Nalanda University, plans to explore collaboration with ancient abodes of learning, especially in Asia, as he prepares to take charge next month. Nalanda was a renowned place of learning and it was amazing how such universities of great repute were created in the great golden days in our country, technocrat Bhatkar said.
Today in the press
Sales at the company behind the One4all gift card brand surged by more than a fifth last year, boosted in part by firms giving bonuses to staff in the form of vouchers. Gift card sales for the final three months of last year – the busy Christmas shopping months – saw sales surpass 96m in Ireland and 37m in the UK, says the Irish Independent.
We should have no beef with bureaucracy if it keeps food safe
LOCALS were startled last week when thousands of Skittles were found on a road in Wisconsin. But they were even more startled when the fruity sweets turned out to have fallen off a truck carrying them as cattle feed .
A commuter’s dream: Entrepreneurs race to develop flying car
Even before George Jetson entranced kids with his cartoon flying car, people dreamed of soaring above traffic congestion. Inventors and entrepreneurs have long tried and failed to make the dream a reality, but that may be changing.
Augmented & Virtual Reality Content & Application Market: (2016-2022) – Research and Markets
The basic difference between AR & VR is the user experience and user involvement in a situation. Augmented reality is a technology that layers computer-generated enhancements atop an existing reality in order to make it more meaningful through the ability to interact with it whereas Virtual reality can be defined as an artificial, computer-generated simulation or recreation of a real life environment or situation which immerses the user by making them feel like they are experiencing the simulated reality first-hand, primarily by stimulating their vision and hearing.
Job loss can be a positive sign that the economy is growing
When the president speaks of closed factories scattered like “tombstones” across America, has he noticed the shuttered stores in shopping centers and entire malls reduced to rubble? He promises protection to prevent foreigners from destroying manufacturing jobs by exporting to America things that Americans want to import. Does he know that one American company might be destroying more American jobs than China is? And that this supposed destruction is beneficial? The company is Amazon , created by Jeff Bezos.
TSMC DTC: Reverse Costing Analysis – Research and Markets
Thanks to TSMC, Integrated Passive Devices are back in mobile industry. Information about the Apple A10 integrated in the latest flagship of the firm, the iPhone 7, mentioned the use of the first PoP Wafer Level Packaging for consumer developed by TSMC named inFO-PoP .
Another close call! Earth buzzed by asteroid yet again this year video – CNET
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Businesses Have Their Heads In The Cloud with This
You’re digital picture frame is getting a major upgrade. No longer reserved for a collage of family snaps, big business wants in.
Party on: Beach-goers enjoy MyKoolBox, invented by Arran Campbell
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Nielsen Delays Total Content Ratings; Google Struggles With Its Liberal Identity
“Nielsen won’t release a syndicated product of its Total Content Ratings as it originally planned on March 1,” writes Ad Age, after a chorus of TV broadcast execs Nielsen to pump the brakes last week. Though, to be exact, Nielsen originally planned to syndicate the metric a year ago, but was rebuffed then too by broadcasters who considered the ratings unfit for prime time.
Lofty ambitions: Apollo 1 module tells a story of dreams, sacrifice
Fifty years ago Friday, the nation suffered a tragedy that could have derailed the space program before it accomplished its goal of landing humans on the moon. On Jan. 27, 1967, a flash fire enveloped the Apollo 1 capsule containing three astronauts.
Soft robotic sleeve developed to aid failing hearts
A soft robotic sleeve placed around the heart in a pig model of acute heart failure. The actuators embedded in the sleeve support heart function by mimicking the outer heart muscles that induce the heart to beat.
Diana Nelson Jones’ Walkabout: Citizen Science Lab closing education gap
Science education, always crucial, is now urgently needed to overcome ignorance about how and why Earth’s climate is changing and what we can do about it. God, have mercy if we fail at this.
Online platform adds recommendation tool
Roadster, the company that last summer launched its Express Storefront platform for dealership websites that allows consumers to complete transactions online, has added a new feature to its in-store iOS app that can help salespeople recommend vehicles for people who choose to come into the store. Salespeople using the tool can walk a customer through a “needs assessment” on an iPad and search a store’s inventory based on the features, make, model, price and other options that a customer is interested in.
Could supplier jobs move back to America?
Suppliers are waiting to see whether President Donald Trump will challenge the fundamental assumption that some auto parts can’t be profitably produced in the U.S., even with a 35 percent tariff. Products with high labor content, such as wire harnesses, small motors, cut-and-sew seat components and electronics, typically are produced in low-wage countries such as Mexico.
NASA’s fermi sees gamma rays from ‘hidden’ solar flares
VIDEO: On three occasions, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has detected gamma rays from solar storms on the far side of the sun, emission the Earth-orbiting satellite shouldn’t be able to… view more An international science team says NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has observed high-energy light from solar eruptions located on the far side of the sun, which should block direct light from these events. This apparent paradox is providing solar scientists with a unique tool for exploring how charged particles are accelerated to nearly the speed of light and move across the sun during solar flares.
NASA’s fermi discovers the most extreme blazars yet
VIDEO: NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered the five most distant gamma-ray blazars yet known. The light detected by Fermi left these galaxies by the time the universe was two… view more NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has identified the farthest gamma-ray blazars, a type of galaxy whose intense emissions are powered by supersized black holes.