Archive for June, 2007

French high speed trains

June 21, 2007 at 4:18 pm · Filed under Business Tools

The high speed trains have changed the face of regional transportation in Europe. As les trains à grande vitesse reduced the amount of time need to travel from one city to the other.For instance, it takes only two hours from Paris to Strasbourg and fours hours to Frankfurt, instead of 6 hours.

The TGV command unit at Pagny sur Mosselle is a computer department with numerous workstations and an electronic board that depicts the movement of trains along the network in real time. Its from here that officials communicate with each high speed train driver and the technology powering the IT infrastructure of the TGV control department is the European Traffic Management System. ERTMS is the standardized cross-border rail network signalling system and at the tgv command office there is nine rows of IT servers.

Source : Micro Hebdo, 14 Juin 2007

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Technology as part of public campaign strategy

June 15, 2007 at 9:26 am · Filed under Institutional

 Technology as a pr strategy

Parliament, its elected representatives and committees are the main features of any democratic country. As the law regulates the working system of the society through political parties, pressure groups and the elected representatives of all citizens. Early this month, the United States citizens demonstrated the essence of democracy by using e-mail messages, web blogs and radio stations to put pressure on their elected representatives to finally stop the highest law making organ in the U.S from passing the bill on immigration. In one case, 700 000 signatures were delivered to senators in Washington, to express the discontent and the disapproval of citizens.

Source : IHT June 11, 2007

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Technology and the major hospital information systems

June 2, 2007 at 4:59 pm · Filed under Institutional

Hospitals use technology to manage their finances, organize patient medical records, as well as the day to day planning of the medical team. Siemens Health Service, Cerner, www.mckesson.fr, www.agfa.com and www.medasys.fr are the main hospital information system providers.

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