Planning for an event of the magnitude of the Ryder Cup takes a long time. Indeed, initial consultations for the 2006 event started as early as August 2005. However, where major golfing tournaments are concerned, everything is on a grand scale. The

ABB has won a contract worth $56 million from Bombardier Transportation to supply AC traction motors for new trains that will run on the London Underground.The 190 new trains are part of Metronet Rail’s $30 billion program to upgrade nine of the

A year after taking twelve graduates through a six month development programme, Schneider Electric has recruited seventeen people to take part in this year’s scheme. Schneider Electric is committed to developing its employees to deliver high standards of customer service and the

Seaward Electronic has made progress in the its fight against illegal online sales of its specialist software.At the end of 2006, the company obtained a judgement against a Nottinghamshire man for the sale of one of its programs on eBay, infringing Seaward’s

All of Britain’s four transmission and four gas distribution network companies have accepted the price controls proposed by Ofgem on 4 December 2006.The proposals come into effect in April this year, and will apply for five years for the transmission companies and

CNES’s Corot mini-LEO (Low Earth Orbit) satellite, launched at the end of December 2006 by a Soyuz 2-1b launcher in Kazakhstan, is powered by Saft rechargeable lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries as it searches nearby stars for rocky earth-like planets. The batteries will be