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The challenge for public-sector organisations lies in maintaining the right balance between the serviceability of the asset portfolio and the levels of expenditure allocated to purchasing, installing, maintaining and retiring it. Difficult assetsEfficient management of assets is one of the most critical financial challenges facing public-sector organisations, because of the sheer cost incurred in maintaining and managing the asset portfolio. In many countries, governments are the largest property owners in the land, responsible for housing, schools, offices and public buildings. For many public-sector organisations the purchase, deployment and upkeep of assets is the second largest cost item after payroll. Asset management in the public sector has traditionally been fraught with inefficiency, due to two mutually influential factors.
Jacobs Receives Independent Consultant Contract from AERI
PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE: JEC) announced today it's subsidiary, Jacobs Consultancy Inc., received a contract to provide study services including technology evaluation, cost estimating, project development, and project management to the Alberta Energy Research Institute (AERI) in Canada. Officials did not disclose the contract value. The Province of Alberta has committed funds over the next five years to develop and demonstrate clean upgrading technologies as they apply to hydrocarbons such as oil sands, coal, and petroleum coke to sustainably develop Alberta's vast resources. The HUDP combines the efforts and investments of the public and private sectors to focus on developing key technologies to address environmental challenges.
Broadcom Announces High Definition PVR Satellite System-on-a-Chip ...
Broadcom Announces High Definition PVR Satellite System-on-a-Chip Solution for Direct Broadcast Satellite Set-Top Boxes New Cost Effective 65 Nanometer SoC for High Definition Set-Top Boxes Supports Watch-and-Record Capabilities, Multiple Video Formats and a 50% Reduction in Power Consumption IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM) , a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced a new single-chip, multi-format high definition (HD) satellite set-top box solution that enables manufacturers to develop low cost satellite set-top boxes (STBs) with personal video recorder (PVR) functionality. The new Broadcom(R) satellite system-on-a-chip (SoC) is manufactured in 65 nanometer (nm) process technology that features the highest level of functionality, fully integrating a dual tuner/demodulator, and the latest generation of AVC (advanced video coding) decoder that supports multiple video formats.
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