E-laad wins highest award in the category of Environment, Energy and Agriculture in IDG’s Computerworld honors program.

E-laad won the award for their electric vehicle charge point interactive system in the Netherlands, which was jointly developed with Logica. Through the system, electric car owners will get easy, quick and national access to the stations, including access to a range of value added services.

World markets up; BP stock plunges to 13-year low

European stocks rose moderately Thursday as an upbeat economic report from the Federal Reserve outweighed worries about the debt crisis and BP's stock plunge to 13-year lows. Investors were also preparing for an interest rate decision by the European Central Bank, with special focus on the bank's outlook and details of its bond-buying program. read more
Source:economictimes

virtualization key to sucess, survey finds

IT market research firm AMI-Partners says 2009 was the turning point in which medium-size businesses moved fully into the virtualization  space. Interest in server virtualization  among US medium businesses (MBs, firms with 100-1000 employees) increased significantly in the past year, according to Access Markets International (AMI) Partners’ latest MB tracking study. The survey found the percentage of U.S. MBs that consider server virtualization strategically important has increased from 46 percent to 75 percent.
Source:eweek