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BUSINESS
Commercial operations of the first 1,000 MW unit of Kudankulam nuclear
power project is now expected to start by January 22, 2015, as an earlier
deadline could not be met due to technical problems.
The Nuclear Power Corporation, which is implementing the 2,000 MW
plant, has received permission from the Central Electricity Regulatory
Commission (CERC) for extending the deadline for commercial operation.
The plant, having two units of 1,000 MW capacity each, is being set up
with technical cooperation of Russia. The first unit could not start commercial
operations by the earlier specified date of October 22 on account of certain
technical problems.
Nuclear Power Corp submitted before the CERC that technical problem
relating to the turbine would be resolved by December 22, 2014 and sought one
month time “for eventualities” during the rectification work.
Taking into consideration the technical problem, the regulator in an
order dated November 10 has allowed Nuclear Power Corp to inject infirm power
into the grid for the commissioning tests including full load test of the first
unit till January 22, 2015.
Infirm power refers to supply that is not committed and mainly fed into
the grid as part of testing purposes.
At Unit-I, the first and second stage turbine blades and diaphragm have
been damaged which are being replaced by taking from Unit-II, according to
Nuclear Power Corp.
BUSINESS COMMUNICATION
Microsoft
has announced the next version of Lync will be known as Skype for Business.
Available in the first half of 2015, it will have new client experience, server
release and updates for the Office365 service.
“We’re
really excited about how Skype for Business takes advantage of the strengths of
both Skype and Lync,” says Gurdeep Pall, corporate vice president, Skype.
It is said Skype for Business will showcase the familiar experience of Skype
and the enterprise security, compliance and control of Lync.
In
order to make the interface similar to Skype, Microsoft is changing various
elements including the addition of ‘icons’ for calling, adding video and
enabling a call.
There
will also be a ‘call monitor’ window, similar to that used in Skype, so the
call remains visible in a smaller window when users are also focusing on
another application.
Some
existing elements of Lync have been updated, including content sharing and
telephony.
FINANCE
Taxi-hailing
app Uber plans to
set up national level operations in India, a shift from its typical model
operated across different countries where a skeletal workforce operates
city-centric business, even as it expands its footprint into new cities in its
largest and fastest growing market outside the US. The popular app, which
introduced a mobile wallet for cashless payments on Wednesday, now plans to add
a managerial layer on top of its existing operations in 10 cities where it
offers high quality taxi rides, while it plans to hire hundreds of people on
city-level operations across the country.
"We're
a start-up but increasingly as the number of cities grow, there is so much that
our teams in each market are working on," Allen Penn, head of Asia
operations at Uber, told ET. "It makes sense to add some extra levels, so
that the core remains at the city-level where the action is," he said,
while adding that Uber will be looking to hire strategic finance managers and
community operations managers who would oversee city operations across India,
which is growing at 40% month-on-month. "We want to make sure that India
retains that crown."
INTERNATIONAL
BUSINESS
The Finnish company is not closing its door for
renewed success and is thinking of strategies on how to revive its brand name
after it was acquired by Microsoft
for $7 billion. Nokia's chief executive Rajeev Suri revealed the company's plan
to make a comeback to the consumer world. In an investor's presentation in London,
Suri shared the company's aim to have the brand licensed to other firms. He
said that to start up with a new handset will not be feasible enough for them.
Apparently, licensing is the best opportunity that the company is looking at
and the potential of other tech companies paying Nokia to use its brand name on
their products, Reuters reports. Last week, Microsoft
has officially dropped the Nokia name on its latest Lumia 535 smartphone.
This year the company's brand ranking fell to an extremely low, sinking at
number 98 among the world's best known corporate names. According to a
survey by market researcher Interbrand, this year's ranking is very low
compared to its fifth rank back in 2007.
MANAGEMENT
The
Docker container virtualization technology has proved to be such a hit with its
users that Amazon Web Services has created a new management tool for handling
large scale Docker deployments, though observers worry it could lock customers
more tightly into the Amazon ecosystem. On Thursday, Amazon Web Services
debuted the EC2 Container Service, now
available as a preview, which provides a way for AWS users to easily deploy
and manage up to hundreds of thousands of Docker containers.
The
EC2 Container Service is "a highly-scalable, high-performance, container
management service," said Amazon Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels,
who introduced the EC2 Container Service at the company's annual Re:Invent user
conference, being
held this week in Las Vegas.
A
Docker container can be used to package applications so they can be easily
moved across different servers. Introduced last year, the technology has
already proved to be an immense success--the software has thus far been
downloaded over 50 million times, according to the company Docker, which
oversees the open source software of the same name.
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Compilation
Sabita
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Junior
Librarian
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