Showcase for the best of home-grown delicacies.
The News Review:
- Showcase for the best of home-grown delicacies.
- Enterprise apps, Web drive growth
- Japan’s ANA considers budget airlines
- Dog days
- Colonel Gaddafi’s Libya
- Film funding ‘shocking’ says Ross
Showcase for the best of home-grown delicacies.
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Showcase for the best of home-grown delicacies. | Europe Intelligence Wire (May, 2006).
Enterprise apps, Web drive growth
Express Computers – May 15, 2006
Maria Anthony Irudhay, EDP Manager, Aban Loyd
Chiles Offshore says, “We use VSAT as our offices are spread in remote
areas and no other connectivity works there. ” Seema Sridhar, EDP incharge,
Premier Explosives, which use VSAT connectivity agrees. DGP Hinoday Industries which have two factories in Pune use
two home-grown RF links and Tulip for factory inter-connectivity. P Srinivas
Dutt, IT Manager, Hinoday says, “We have gone in for home-grown links as
we don’t want to depend on anyone for service and maintenance. ” Their
branches are connected using broadband links. Dutt explains, “We use broadband as it is cheaper and
provides higher bandwidth. It is not reliable, but as we don’t transfer
data and use it only for searching purposes it suffices.
Japan’s ANA considers budget airlines
Channel News Asia – May 15, 2006
The ANA spokeswoman said the budget carrier plan was not definite. “We have to examine the plan from now on but nothing official has been decided yet,” she said. Home-grown budget airlines have already limited domestic service, including Skymark Airlines Co. which in February slashed fares on some of its routes in Japan by another 50 percent. The launch of budget carriers would be another step up for ANA in its rivalry with JAL, which has been stung by a series of safety scares. Both Japanese airlines have seen their bottom line suffer due to high oil costs. JAL plunged into the red in the financial year to March, although it expects to return to profit this year.
Dog days
New Statesman – May 15, 2006
Amores Perros had a seismic impact in its homeland. A structurally and aesthetically audacious film, woven from three separate stories and spanning the social strata of Mexico City, it was nominated in the Best Foreign Film category at both the Golden Globes and the Oscars, and eventually accumulated more than 30 international awards. The film appeared at a time when home-grown cinema in Mexico was struggling to establish itself in the face of the Hollywood imports that dominated the country’s multiplexes. However, it would be a mistake to think that Amores Perros emerged from a vacuum. Mexico has a long and proud history of film production dating back to the end of the 19th century, when the nation was prosperous and politically stable. The projectors and pioneering films produced by the Lumi