Kronos® Incorporated today announced the March release of the Kronos Retail
Labor Index™, a family of metrics and indices that analyze the relationship
between the demand and supply sides of the labor market within the U.S.
retail sector, and provide a distinct and early indicator of the overall
state of the economy. The March 2010 release includes data for February 2010.
The report is available on the Kronos Retail Labor Index website.
News Facts
The Kronos Retail Labor Index: (This metric is defined as the percentage of
job applications that result in a hiring, normalized within a scale of 0 to
100. A level of 3.00 percent means that for every 100 applications received,
three hirings occurred). The Kronos Retail Labor Index increased to 3.26
percent this month up 1.84 percent (on a relative basis) from 3.20 percent
for February 2010. Retail Hiring Level: The 68 re... (more)
Security is a major component of application development and must be tailored
to the environment and audience of the system. In many respects, the more
widely available an application is, the more important security becomes.
Properly testing and securing Web Services applications is a challenging
task. A tool that facilitates this process and provides visibility into
application vulnerabilities is the AppScan product from Watchfire.
AppScan is an application testing tool that performs security scans on Web
applications and Web Services applications. In support of Web applications,... (more)
BURBANK, Calif., Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The International Animated Film
Society, ASIFA-Hollywood has announced the Winsor McCay Award recipients for
2009: Tim Burton, Bruce Timm and Jeffrey Katzenberg (see bios below). Named
in honor of animator Winsor McCay, best known as a prolific artist and
pioneer in the art of comic strips and animation, the Winsor McCay Award
stands as one of the highest honors given to an individual in the animation
industry in recognition for career contributions to the art of animation.
The 2009 Winsor McCay Award Recipients are:
Tim Burton, thou... (more)
Web 3.0 is a different way of building applications and interacting on the
web. The core model of web 3.0 states that entire World Wide Web will be seen
as a single database. Many tools are being developed through which
interactivity between different websites with different data can be enhanced.
Prediction is that Web 3.0 will ultimately be seen as web applications which
are pieced together.
There are a number of characteristics of these applications: they are
relatively small, the data is in the cloud, they can run on any device- PC or
mobile phone, they are fast and customiza... (more)
OSIsoft (www.osisoft.com), provider of the PI System, the industry standard
enterprise infrastructure for management of time-series data and events,
announced today that it has completed testing integration of the PI System
with SAP AMI Enhancement Package 4 web services.
OSIsoft has been working with SAP AG to achieve integration of end-to-end
processes between the meter and the back office systems and to reduce a
company’s total cost of ownership for an advanced metering infrastructure
(AMI). For the past year the SAP AMI Lighthouse Council, comprised of seven
power companies... (more)