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BANGALORE, India, June 19 /PRNewswire/ --
- Establishes Itself as the Leader in F&A Outsourcing Category for the Second Consecutive Year
Infosys BPO, the business process outsourcing subsidiary of Infosys Technologies, has been awarded the Provider of the Year 2008 award in the Large Enterprise Category by FAO Today. This is the second consecutive win for the company in this category, thus establishing Infosys BPO's thought leadership in the F&A outsourcing space. The other contenders in this category included Genpact, HP, IBM, and Cap Gemini.
The nominees were selected based on the…
Bacteria survive everywhere. Under the sea, in the air, even in some of the hottest environments on Earth.
How are microbes seemingly so smart? Bacteria don't just react to changes in their surroundings, say Princeton University researchers, they anticipate and prepare for them. The findings, reported in the June 6 issue of Science, challenge the prevailing notion that only organisms with complex nervous systems have this ability.
"What we have found is the first evidence that bacteria can use sensed cues from their environment to infer future events," says Saeed Tavazoie, an associate…
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SAN DIEGO, June 18 /PRNewswire/ --
- Sophisticated Infrastructure and Skilled Manpower Support Cutting-Edge Manufacturing Activities
Singapore has firmly established itself as a leading manufacturing hub in Asia with its strong track record, sophisticated infrastructure, superior IP protection and reliability. Its biomedical sciences manufacturing output expanded four-fold from US$4.4 billion in 2000 to US$17 billion in 2007 at a compounded annual growth rate of 21%, far surpassing the industry's global growth rate.
Singapore is now host to 11 (Note 1) global pharmaceutical and biotechnology…
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SAN JOSE, California, June 18 /PRNewswire/ --
- Offers seamless migration to CAP7 customizable MCUs for ARM7-plus-FPGA designs
Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) today announced the AT91CAP7E, the industry's first ARM7(TM)-based MCU with a direct FPGA interface. The AT91CAP7E is a standard microcontroller with an FPGA interface that makes the FPGA look and work like it is on the internal bus of the MCU. It provides customers with a two-chip, no-NRE, FPGA-plus ARM7 solution and offers an engineering-free migration path to a lower cost, and a lower power customizable MCU.
The CAP7E includes a…
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DALIAN, China, June 18 /PRNewswire/ --
- Neusoft Park (Hekou, Dalian) Officially Opens
Neusoft Corporation, the largest offshore software and service outsourcing provider in China, inaugurated another software park at the Dalian High-tech Industrial Zone today. Designed to expand its operations and accelerate its globalization process, this facility, the second of its kind invested in by Neusoft in Dalian, may house 10,000 engineers and will become, combined with the previous one, a software & service global delivery center to facilitate its fast-growing offshore-outsourcing operations.…
We like to think that newer ideas are always better and indoor plumbing may be one newer idea that should be reconsidered in the developing world, according to Michigan researchers.
Clean water scarcity is not as critical an issue as often thought say Michigan Technological University Associate Professor David Watkins, Professor James Mihelcic and PhD student Lauren Fry of the University's Sustainable Futures Institute. But installing water-guzzling appliances such as toilets can actually promote unsanitary conditions when the effluent is discharged untreated into once-clean rivers and…
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PAVIA, Italy, June 16 /PRNewswire/ --
- New International Design Center to Focus on Analog Semiconductor Devices
Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL), a leader in storage, communications and consumer silicon solutions, announced the official grand opening of its analog semiconductor design center in Pavia, Italy. The grand opening celebration and ceremony was held at the new facility on June 16.
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"Pavia is an excellent location for the design center because it will enable us to draw talented chip designers from the University of Pavia and…
Bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley in a new study published in Nature say they have identified two key regulatory pathways that control how well adult stem cells repair and replace damaged tissue. They then tweaked how those stem cells reacted to those biochemical signals to revive the ability of muscle tissue in old mice to repair itself nearly as well as the muscle in the mice's much younger counterparts.
Because the findings relate to adult stem cells that reside in existing tissue, this approach to rejuvenating degenerating muscle eliminates the ethical and medical…
Lockheed Martin's Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Weapon System successfully detected, tracked and intercepted a short- range unitary ballistic missile target in the terminal phase of its trajectory during a test at the Pacific Missile Range off the coast of Hawaii.
In the test mission, the SPY-1B radar on the Aegis BMD cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70) detected and tracked the ballistic missile target, and computed a targeting solution to guide two SM-2 Block IV missiles to a successful endo-atmospheric (within the atmosphere) intercept. Once the SM-2s were launched from the ship’s…
An important component of early genetic material found in meteorite fragments is extraterrestrial in origin, say scientists from Europe and the USA. They say their research in Earth and Planetary Science Letters provides evidence that life’s raw materials came from sources beyond the Earth.
The materials they have found include the molecules uracil and xanthine, which are precursors to the molecules that make up DNA and RNA, and are known as nucleobases. The team discovered the molecules in rock fragments of the Murchison meteorite, which crashed in Australia in 1969.
They tested the…