Siemens (SI) has obtained orders worth €1 billion for energy infrastructure projects in South Africa. Around 80% of the order value is made up of projects catering to the expansion of energy infrastructure in the run up to the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Siemens has already built new power plants in Capetown and Mossel Bay which will help in channeling peak load in the national power grid system.

In addition to a large number of solutions in the area of power generation and transmission, Siemens is designing efficient traffic management solutions for mass transit systems. Siemens Healthcare has won a project to provide a hospital information system to 37 hospitals and about 300 clinics throughout the Gauteng Department of Health in South Africa.

The order volume is about €18 million and the system will be implemented within the next three years. In addition, lighting systems

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Consorteum Holdings, Inc., a growing company in the financial services, payment and transaction processing industry, prides itself in providing clients with customized and highly creative answers to unique payment challenges. Its management and consulting team bring over 70 years of payment and transaction processing experience, and provide a complete range of consulting services, including needs analysis, project planning, execution, and final delivery. They work closely with clients throughout the entire project lifecycle to ensure timely and successful deployment, and can develop outsourced or fully integrated turnkey business solutions.

As an unencumbered partner company, Consorteum has the ability to access and utilize a wider range of technological solutions than other companies, resulting in smarter and faster deployment, competitive pricing, and the potential for new revenues and other benefits. For example, Consorteum has established relationships with several large card processors, allowing reduced merchant

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The 200+ year history of government in the United States has essentially revolved around two questions: What is the government responsible for and what should it be able to control? In one form or another, these two questions have been debated at every level of government, every working day, right up to the present time. It’s the essential question of democracy. But, during all of this time, there is one point that politicians and citizens have always agreed on. Regardless of how big or how small people think the government should be, virtually all of them believe that the government is responsible for national defense.

Defense is, after all, the reason most governments were formed in the first place. Today the word “defense” has increasingly been replaced with “homeland security”, reflecting a sense that the threats to America are changing. America now sees

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President-elect Barack Obama has made no bones about wanting to jump-start the renewable energy markets – pledging $150 billion for the development of biofuels, solar and wind power, other alternative energy sources during his first term.

But what might the new administration mean for more traditional – and more reliable –energy sources?

Oil is always the first energy source to spring to mind. But it’s hardly a solo act – coal and nuclear make up the other two-thirds of the top fuel trio. Coal delivers 50% of U.S. electricity needs, and nuclear power brings another 20% to the table.

The cold truth is that demand for energy of all types – and especially electricity – is going to keep advancing, domestically and worldwide. And developing alternatives to coal and nuclear will take time. For instance, tying wind and solar into the existing power grid will be enormously expensive and is likely

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SkyPostal Networks, Inc., (SKPN.OB), the biggest private mail network in Latin America, got to be that way by faithfully obeying the first rule of business (and the first rule of their mission statement): Listen to your customers, know your market.

SkyPostal’s primary market is Latin America, and they know it. Combine that with an in-depth knowledge of mail delivery, based upon over 100 years of combined management-team experience, and it helps explain why SkyPostal (www.SkyPostal.com) consistently beats its competitors and even government delivery services in cost and efficiency, offering a delivery success rate approaching 100%.

At the top of that management team is President and CEO Albert P. Hernandez. Born in Havana, with over 40 years of mail and delivery service experience, Hernandez is considered a pioneer in the development of mail delivery service in Latin America. Hernandez immigrated to the U.S., where he received a BBA

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