| SAP making a play for on-demand e-tail CRM?
Business software giant SAP has acquired Praxis Software Solutions as it attempts to weave on-demand applications into its offerings. Technology from Praxis will be incorporated into SAP Business One, a business management product aimed at small and medium-sized companies, to help them set up online stores and deploy customer relationship management software via the internet. The two key elements that SAP is gaining from its long-time partner are Praxis' NetPoint Commerce and NetPoint Focus applications. The first is an ecommerce package that offers customisable shopping-cart and customer support functions, designed to handle data access for both business-to-business and business-to-consumer needs on a single website. It integrates pricing and inventory data originated from the SAP Business One System.
Transporters kill Sankranti spirit
Since Friday evening, the rush increased with families of government employees in the state capital and software professionals returning to their native places in the coastal districts. The extended weekend brought cheer to people as well operators.
According to conservative estimates, over five lakh people took RTC buses to reach their destinations across the state in the last three days.
Normally 80,000 passengers travel from MGBS everyday to different destinations in the state. "During the Sankranti festival time, it peaks to 2.2 lakhs," APSRTC regional manager (Rangareddy) S Nagaraja Rao said.
The Corporation has put 4,100 buses, including 1,300 special buses, on the roads to ferry passengers.
"All tickets for Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam were booked a month ago.
Total, Suez, Areva propose nuclear plant
He told French business daily Les Echos he expects Total to diversify into both fields within 20 years. Monday's announcement coincides with French President Nicolas Sarkozy's Middle Eastern tour, which takes him to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. Discussions on nuclear cooperation topped the French leader's agenda during the trip. In Saudi Arabia on Sunday, Sarkozy offered King Abdullah the services of France's Atomic Energy Commission to explore the possibilities of a civil nuclear energy program in the country in the next few weeks. Though he left empty handed, the French president promised "big contracts" will be signed in coming weeks and months. France is also expected to sign a nuclear cooperation accord with the United Arab Emirates during Sarkozy's visit there Tuesday.
Lindsay Lohan Checks In And Out Of Jail; Plus Alicia Keys, Amy ...
I was forced to slow down, look at my life and decide who I wanted to be. It all got very low at first because I was very depressed and I didn't understand why." After taking a monthlong trek across Egypt — during which she was only accompanied by a tour guide — and returning to the States, she promised herself that she "was going to be courageous enough to tell whoever is in my life what was going on. I became brutally honest. I would go straight up to people and say, 'Guess what? This is over. So what's gonna happen from now on is this: If you're feeling that, great. If not, bye.' Some people didn't like it, and they didn't like me being so clear and set on what I wanted. But I found that I took their power away." The issue hits newsstands Monday. ... With her husband in jail, accused of trying to obstruct an investigation, the last thing Amy Winehouse needed was to have fans turn their backs on her.
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