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MONEY & BANKING (The Hindu)
FOREX 6 States account for 50 pc of remittances Six States, Kerala, Punjab, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, would be accounting for 40-50 per cent of the $23-billion annual remittances to India, Mr Anil Kapur, Managing Director of Western Union for South Asia, said. The ...

Syscon Justice Systems Standardizes on AccuRev SCM for Global Software Development Collaboration (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
LEXINGTON, Mass.----AccuRev Inc. today announced that Syscon Justice Systems, the world leader in Offender and Community Corrections Management software, has standardized worldwide on AccuRev® for process-centric software configuration management .

Tender: Oxford: medical software (PublicTechnology.net)
NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S): Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust, Churchill Hospital, Procurement Department, Block 10, Old Road, Headington, Attn: Mike Potter, UK-Oxford OX3 7LJ. Tel. 01865 226042. E-mail: mike.potter@orh.nhs.uk . Fax 01865 225623.

Job vacancy: Servite Houses - Technical Support Analyst (PublicTechnology.net)
Servite Houses is one of the largest Housing Associations and we keep on growing. With 16,000 Homes and a turnover approaching Ł74m, we aim to be the best. Servite Houses is a charitable organisation committed to providing high quality housing options to a wide range of residents.

Royal Free Hospital launches text appointment booking (Computer Business Review)
The UKs Royal Free Hospital is launching a text messaging service enabling appointments for its genito-urinary medicine and sexual health clinics to be booked confidentially and out of hours.

Travelport relies on diversity to beat online booking rivals (Daily Record)
NEW YORK -- Without a trace of irony, president and CEO Jeff Clarke wastes no time in describing Travelport as a travel-services conglomerate. Just a year ago, the term "conglomerate" was an epithet within former parent company Cendant Corp.

MPs criticise government roadblocks to Open Source adoption in schools (PublicTechnology.net)
UK Members of Parliament have identified Department of Education and Skills (DfES) and Becta policies as favouring proprietary software vendors thereby blocking the adoption of Open Source software by schools and colleges.

Convention center seems destined for conflict (Galveston County Daily News)
GALVESTON ? Two years after it opened with a mandate to bolster traditionally low hotel occupancy rates, the city?s $30 million seawall convention center mainly is filling rooms owned by the company that manages it, some hoteliers say.