| Fluor wins $334M contract with Kuwait Oil Co.
Fluor Corp. has won a five-year $334 million consultancy services contract to provide program management for Kuwait Oil Co. Irving-based Fluor (NYSE:FLR) will provide project and construction management and other services for new facilities and upgrades of existing facilities. It plans to book the first two years of the contract, about $90 million, in the first quarter 2008. "This contract award enables us to provide comprehensive services and continuity to KOC while leveraging the extensive experience of our 400-person project team located in both Kuwait and (the) U.K.," said David Seaton, president of Fluor's Energy & Chemicals Group. The Fluor project team resides in Ahmadi, Kuwait, with engineering performed from the firm's Camberley office in the United Kingdom.
Recruiters press 457 visas action
DRACONIAN 457 visa regulations introduced two months before Saturday's federal election rout may be scrapped after pleas from industry to drop the rules that have all but killed off applications for temporary IT work permits. The Information Technology Contract and Recruitment Association has claimed Labor immigration spokesman Tony Burke made a late pledge to address the problem that flows from changes to 457 visa rules introduced on October 1. Mr Burke stopped short of agreeing to dump the controversial changes, however, stating only that Labor may suspend the regulations while consultations with the contract labour industry take place. A spokeswoman for Mr Burke yesterday declined to comment on immigration matters before Prime Minister-elect Kevin Rudd appoints his ministry later this week.
Review: MacBook Core 2 Duo/2GHz and 2.2GHz
While there's little to visually distinguish these MacBooks from their May 2007 counterparts, there has been a slight keyboard update. New media control keys are now located along the function key row, the same as in the new iMac keyboards. There's no embedded keypad, and the Apple symbol is now gone from the Command key. The unit is slightly lighter at 5 pounds, as opposed to 5.1 pounds. Otherwise, the new MacBooks have most of the same components as their older counterparts. All models ship with 1GB of RAM, a 13.3-inch glossy widescreen display with a 1280 x 800 resolution, built-in iSight camera, built-in stereo speakers and microphone, one FireWire 400 and two USB ports, 802.11n-enabled AirPort Extreme, Bluetooth, Gigabit Ethernet, Apple Remote, and the usual slate of Apple software, including the new Leopard operating system and iLife ‘08.
A Look at Dell's Wall, And How it Will Work
Let's get down to the nuts and bolts of "The Wall," or the technology that Dell will use to keep its direct sales organization from getting anywhere near solution providers' customer data.
"The Wall" (our name) is the Dell partner portal, developed by Dell with the assistance of Salesforce.com, and it goes live with the Round Rock, Texas-based company's formal channel program launch. CRN Test Center engineers looked at a sandbox copy of Dell's Deal Registration partner portal. After navigating and testing the Deal Registration portal, we carefully examined the internals of the partner deal evaluation system.
Why is this a critical piece of the puzzle? Because this is where partners will submit deals to Dell for registration and where those deals -- with sensitive customer data -- will enter a workflow involving Dell executives that will lead to approval or rejection.
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