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1 million Classmates headed to Venezuela

Portugal recently announced it's intention to purchase and deploy half a million Classmate PCs to students in the country. Intel developed the Classmate as a reference design in the hopes that local OEMs would customize it and then handle production and distribution. In the latest success for this...

Tags: Venezuela, OEM, Intel Corp., Government, Linux, Vertical Industries, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-09-30

Praxair Venezuela S.C.A. Standardizes Financial Procedures With an Integrated IT Infrastructure

Praxair Venezuela S.C.A. wanted to integrate all systems in a flexible, scalable infrastructure to unify its financial information in South America and centralize information in an easy-to-access database for solid, consistent, secure access. The challenge was to unify financial and operating procedures among Venezuela, Colombia, and Peru to achieve operating...

Tags: Venezuela, IT Infrastructure, Oracle Corp., Financial, Information Technology, Praxair Venezuela S.C.A., Financial Accounting, Databases, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2008-07-01

Venezuela - and possibly Denmark - file appeals of OOXML

This really can't come as much of a surprise, but the list of countries protesting the ISO approval of OOXML is getting longer. Venezuela's appeal has been accepted by the IEC International Electrotechnical Commission but the jury is still out on Denmark. Friday, the IEC said that...

Tags: Venezuela, Appeal, Office Open XML, Denmark, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-06-02

Follow the money, it may lead to more green energy

Exxon is the world's largest oil company. By some measures it's simply the world's largest company. The U.S. is the world's biggest military power, energy user and debtor nation. Together they think they can out-muscle a Latin American leader who may not even have the loyalty of...

Tags: Venezuela, Green Technology, Exxon Mobil Corp., Sales Strategy, Sales, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-02-13

"Alternative energy" gets a boost from oil country

Venezuela seems determined to make America's alternative energy companies into successful greentech ventures. Today the Venezuelan national oil company "stopped all sales" to Exxon. This is just the latest salvo in the Exxon v. Venezuela heavyweight match. It began when Venezuela's government took control of all oil plants...

Tags: Venezuela, Alternative Energy, Exxon Mobil Corp., Venezueal, Sales Strategy, Asset Management, Sales, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-02-12

Exxon v. Venezuela and you're the loser in this battle

Exxon claims it's won a round in its court battle against Venezuela. Venezuelan assets are now frozen in Britain and Netherlands. A lawsuit is in court int he U.S. as well. Exxon claims total Venezuelan assets valued at $36 billion dollars are now frozen. ...

Tags: Venezuela, Lawsuit, Exxon Mobil Corp., Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-02-10

Venezuelan Bank Saves $3 Million Per Year With a More Efficient Claims Management Process

A leading provider of financial services in Venezuela, Banco de Venezuela, a subsidiary of Spain's Grupo Santander, provides a full range of banking services to more than 2 million customers. The bank wanted to improve the time to resolve customer claims and address new regulatory requirements designed to regulate customer...

Tags: Venezuela, Bank, Microsoft Corp., Venezuelan Bank, Banking, Financial Services

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Canadians get a taste of American medical system with IMS Health buy

Oh the ironyJust another ironic investment made on behalf of Canadians over the years. As far as I know CPP is not investing using an ethical or green model, so there are probably lots of examples of very "un-Canadian" companies receiving investment via CPP.Not sure what your point is,...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, IMS Health Inc., CPP, Dana, drug company, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Copenhagen countdown

"climate debt" is BS. It's wealth transfer.From countries that work, to countries that don't work.And Harry. This is a TECH SITE. Go somewhere else with your anxious alarmist nonsense.AMEN!THIS IS A TECH SITE!Well, I think going to Copenhagen is too political and he should skip it.Better to do some behind...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, sea surface temperature, wealth transfer, tax

Discussion threads 2009-10-25

Let's blame addictive oil

The blame game is getting grimmer as the global warming warnings get more strident. Now comes a book pointing to petroleum as "the devil's excrement." Damn, wish I thought of that epithet. This book is Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil. Says Knopf's marketing text,...

Tags: Oil, Iran, Consumption, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-28

Big Oil greening up--is this a good thing?

"Newsweek" would like you to believe it's a happy sign of the times to see global oil companies putting serious money into alternative fuels. They site investments by major oil companies in ehtanol. The "Newsweek" piece refers to more nations putting taxes or caps on carbon emissions,...

Tags: Oil Company, Newsweek, Oil, Litigation, Personal Finance, Business Operations, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-20

iNoticiero 1.1 (Mobile)

iNoticiero is an application that lets you keep up to date will all the latest and news from all over Latin America. The Cities covered include Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

Tags: Mobile, LucidOne Communications, iNoticiero, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-09-09

Is $400 billion a lot of money?

One U.S. Senator says we spend that much every year importing petroleum from our friends in Saudi, Nigeria, Canada, Mexico, Russia and Venezuela. I use the term "friend" advisedly. They are in fact pushers for the American addiction former President George W. Bush called out so pointedly. ...

Tags: Car, Solar Energy, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-24

Bolivia:lithium=Saudi:oil?

What's a poor country with rich resources to do? There's the Nigeria model: tribal hatred and long-running civil war. There's the Saudi model: bribe your own people, hire aliens to do the dirty work and execute any dissenters. There's the West Virginia model: give the mining companies...

Tags: Lithium, Bolivia, Battery, Engineering, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-14

Regicide and some possible greentech solutions

Long live the king? Hardly, he's been hung by the neck until dead. His crime: nest-building in a city park. And gathering manmade nesting material that is lethal unless you read the directions. This Western Kingbird could not read the directions. Anyway, they'd...

Tags: Bird, Nano-chip, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-14

Climate WARS in WARShington

Climate WARS in WARShingtonI vote he also turnsoff his computer, disconnects his house from the grid and sells his car and goes and lives in a cave somewhere.But it will never happen. You see, he's too important to the cause. You and I must suffer, but, sadly, no doubt, he...

Tags: Warshington

Discussion threads 2009-05-12

RIM delivers solid Q4 on BlackBerry sales; shares soar

updated: Research in Motion reported strong fourth-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street's expectations and sent shares soaring in after hours trading. For the quarter ending Feb. 28, the company reported net income of $518.3 million, or 90 cents per share, on $3.46 billion in revenue. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters...

Tags: Revenue, Research In Motion Ltd., RIM BlackBerry, Sales, Storm, Operational Accounting, Handhelds, Finance, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-04-02

Roy Tanck helps make this recession different

Roy Tanck helps make this recession differentSo, is he making moneyWork without money coming in is useless.And the idea that the solution to this recession are different than any other is bunk. Technology has made implementing the solution easier, but the solution is the same. Find work or create a...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Roy Tanck, recession, tool

Discussion threads 2009-03-31

Here's one view of a green future: more jobs and healthier planet

Here's one view of a green future: more jobs and healthier planetThe luddite denialists will do everything to prevent it from happeningThey will deny it, they will call it a hoax, they'll claim they have "scientific" evidence on the contrary, etc."The report sees nearly eight million green energy jobs by...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job, healthier planet, green future, SQC, cleaner energy, hoax

Discussion threads 2009-03-12

Where cheaper is not better

Where cheaper is not better$2,500 -v- $40,000The cost of an PET/CT or MRI scan was about $2,500 when I had mine and a round of radiation or chemo is going to be at least $40,000. Identifying the efficacy of a treatment early can save some major dollars when the...

Tags: Financial Planning, HEALTHCARE, PET/CT, insurance

Discussion threads 2009-03-06