| GoQuo opens new US offices
Online and dynamic packaging technology specialist GoQuo is now offering its solutions direct to the North American travel marketplace. Building on its existing US customer base (Flights.com, Shakiba Travel and Options Travel.com), GoQuo has opened a sales and marketing office in New York, with customer support provided from its Silicon Valley office in Santa Clara, California. GoQuo, established in 2004 and winner of a prestigious 2006 World Travel Market technology award in the Dynamic Packaging Tools Online category, now has over 70 customers worldwide in the travel agency, air consolidator and tour operator markets. It will offer its GQDynamic, GQAgent, GQConsol and AirlineDP solutions, as well as GQHotel, GQMailer and GQGate products. The company will soon launch its latest solution designed specifically for tour operators, and will shortly announce its latest win in Canada.
Honda revs up IT operations by ditching software upgrades
Honda Australia Motocycles & Power Equipment Pty Ltd (MPE) IT manager, Craig Bassett, has just completed a massive data cleansing exercise which was central to implementing a new two phase business strategy. The goal, he said, is to drive customer retention and identify new revenue opportunities but this meant taking the company's marketing campaigns to a new level. He couldn't do this with the company's seven year old contact database. Honda MPE has a database of approximately one million contacts, but only around 250,000 of those are qualified. Of the remaining 750,000, Honda MPE has little insight into details like their age, gender, occupation, customer purchase history, or even if the customer still owns a Honda MPE product. Bassett had run direct mail and e-mail marketing campaigns in the past, but was not sure he had targeted the right demographic, and had no way to measure the campaign's success.
Multimedia Tutorial Services Featured on the Wall Street Journal Radio ...
Program Highlights Company's TutorialChannel.com Website as Affordable Solution to High-Cost Tutoring Centers. Multimedia Tutorial Services, Inc. ("Multimedia" or the "Company) (OTC Bulletin Board: MMTS), a leading developer of educational content, was recently highlighted on The Wall Street Journal Radio Network, a leading provider of business-news programming for radio stations across the United States. .
Virtual Prototypes Form ESL Bridge
Electronic-system-level (ESL) development suffers the same semantic burden of any technical phrase containing the word "system." While everyone uses the word freely, each person has a slightly different idea of what it means. Still, there has been a convergence on the general meaning of the process that's most frequently related to ESL development (i.e., "virtual prototyping"). In an effort to better understand the ESL process, I asked a broad range of professionals in the EDA and semiconductor community to share their insights as to the meaning of virtual prototypes. Here are their unvarnished and only slightly edited responses listed in the order in which they were received: "In the ESL Landscape 2006, we [Gartner-Dataquest] will have three virtual-prototyping categories: 1) Silicon Virtual Prototype and Software Virtual Prototype - the new HOT area, all at the Architectural Level, and 2) Architects Workbench at the Behavioral Level." --Gary Smith, Chief Analyst at Gartner Dataquest (www.gartner.com) "The most common definition of "virtual prototypes" is a complete, bit-accurate model of a board or SoC that is sufficient for software developers to use as a target.
The road to homelessness
The road to homelessness By Michael A. Radcliff, Contributing Writer
January 14, 2008 By 7a.m., the mechanism of this metropolis that we call New Orleans had begun to slowly churn. The temperature the night before was said to be in the 30's, last night maybe only in the 40's. The sounds of motorists impatiently blowing their horns; cars coming to a screeching halt; the noise of the streetcar ringing its bell and that occasional "pop" as it races down the rails, could be heard several blocks away. But I guess you get used to the sounds of traffic when you live under a freeway. At first glance, most of the residents of the Claiborne Avenue underpass still seemed to be cloaked head to toe in blankets and clothes - at first glance.
SPIEGEL Interview with Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn:
Winterkorn: No, because reaching these goals isn't entirely up to us. The European auto industry made a commitment to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by an average of 140 grams per kilometer. But then there was a significant change in what customers wanted in their vehicles. We couldn't predict that. They want cars with more powerful engines, air-conditioning and all kinds of electronic gadgets to enhance comfort and safety. They are buying high-roof cars with higher air resistance values and SUVs. These segments have experienced the biggest boom in recent years. SPIEGEL: Has the industry become a slave to its customers? Winterkorn: No, but it happens to be our job as manufacturers to satisfy our customers' needs. When I became head of Audi five years ago, the business press wanted to know why we hadn't come out with a real SUV yet.
Election year features more than caucuses
Nevada's Jan. 19 presidential caucuses are getting lots of attention as the 2008 election year opens - but there's more going on in the political sphere than the state's new, high-profile role in the battle for the White House.
True, the upcoming election cycle won't include contests for Nevada governor, lieutenant governor or other statewide elective constitutional officers. Races for four-year terms in those offices were decided in 2006.
And while there are no U.S. Senate contests this year, the state's three congressional seats are up for grabs.
Voters also will decide two state Supreme Court seats, consider numerous ballot questions, which may include a plans to boost taxes on Nevada's casinos, and elect members of the state Legislature.
Nevada voters will be asked to decide contests for all 42 state Assembly seats and 10 of the 21 state Senate seats.
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