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IBM has published its Q1 results. Highlights are:
* Diluted earnings of $1.65 per share, up 36 percent;
* Total revenues of $24.5 billion, up 11 percent;
* Global Technology Services revenues up 17 percent; pre-tax income up 45 percent;
* Global Business Services revenues up 17 percent; pre-tax income up 23 percent;
* Software revenues up 14 percent; pre-tax income up 22 percent.
Read results press release.
The US Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has heard testimony about the consequences that would face the US in the aftermath of a terrorist nuclear attack on a major US city. In the third of a series of hearings Senators heard that medical facilities would be so overwhelmed, approximately 90 percent to 95 percent of burn victims would receive no treatment. However, they also heard that beyond the initial blast zone and the narrow plume of nuclear fallout that would be carried by the wind, most of the city and its residents would remain intact and unharmed. Rather than trying to evacuate on gridlocked transportation arteries, the witnesses testified, the best course of action for most residents might well be to shelter in place. More details.
Xinhua has reported that Typhoon Neoguri, the first to approach south China this year and the earliest since the founding of new China in 1949, is expected to make landfall on Friday 18 April. Businesses and residents in Hainan, Guangdong and Fujian provinces and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region have been told to make preparations. Neoguri is expected to drop 40 to 90 millimeters of rain on Hainan and Guangdong provinces.
One of the largest data centres in Europe, with redundant power and communications links, is being built in Newport, Wales. Next Generation Data Ltd is investing almost £200 million to convert and upgrade a former semiconductor plant in Newport. The centre, to be called NGD Europe 1, has 400,000 square feet of space that can be divided into 15 separate facilities for individual clients. Geraint Jones, head of IBW North America, said "The new centre will be of special interest to our growing financial services sector, offering business continuity and providing smaller businesses with cost effective access to high quality, robust and secure data-centre services." www.ibwales.com
FEMA daily SITREP
World weather impacts
•Date: 18th April 2008• Region: Various
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