ASML raises outlook for bookings
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Dutch chip equipment maker ASML   ASML.AS said on Wednesday it had raised its outlook   for its third-quarter new orders to 93 from its previous   outlook of more than 62.
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Business & money: British Airways warns of fall in leisure bookings as it reports a 34.9% increase in pre-tax profits to Â£788m
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PeopleSoft Inc.  on Monday forecast third-quarter revenue would exceed Wall Street expectations, helped by an increase in customers making larger orders for its business software.
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This software company helps companies boost revenues and has caught the attention of IPO investors.
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The company offers a range of predictions. Lots of folks are keying on the guess that Apple will double their U.S. share, but I'm intrigued by other predictions, including forecasts that we'll be traveling without laptops and renting our business software
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The PHP London conference has officially released their schedule for this year's event. It includes speakers like Wez Furlong, Rob Allen and Derick Rethans and combines several different talks into one day of PHP goodness.   This year's event is happening at the headquarters of Inmarsat Limited (location and maps can be found on the venue page). Registration is now open and you can still get in on the Early Bird discount of &pound;90.   Be sure to check out the list of talks they have planned and the rest of the details on their site and be sure to reserve your spot today!
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European shares edged higher in opening  trade on Wednesday, boosted by a solid performance on Wall  Street overnight but chip equipment maker ASML fell after  issuing a cautious outlook.
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American Airlines is the latest carrier to upgrade its website to make shopping for frequent-flier seats easier. AA.com now has an interactive calendar that shows AAdvantage seats over four-week periods through a "dates flexible" tab and a color-coded system showing how many miles are needed for each flight.
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Business demand for PCs will result in higher than anticipated growth of the sector for the second half of the year. Analyst IDC has revised its predictions having witnessed strong commercial demand for PCs
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A major facelift and a lot of great new functionality!  The Sugar Team is excited to bring you the 2.0 release.  As you can see, hiring a UI engineer has taken the application to a whole new level of usability and appeal.  Who else has a pink UI?  We're also pleased to bring you the Leads module and significant improvements to the Contact module with vCard support and a simplified way of entering a contact, account and appointment in the single "Create from Business Card" screen.   You can send us an email any time with your feedback at contact@sugarcrm.com.  Our goal continues to be to build the sales automation system that you have always wanted, so your input is vital.  Check out http://www.sugarcrm.com for more details on the latest product roadmap, support forums, detailed product information and much more.  We hope you find this a useful tool for building your business.  Enjoy!  The Sugar Team    -=Included Features=- An overview of the features in this release.   Leads New to 2.0, put standardized processes into practice to make sure all sales reps use the same, consistent lead qualification methodology. With the click of a button, quickly turn leads into opportunities. With the Sugar Sales Leads module, you can also easily manage rented lists and prospect data separate from your customer data.  Import and Export Import contacts and accounts from CSV (comma separated values) files.  Users can also easily export data from the system to CSV files.  Opportunities Sugar Sales provides a complete, yet easy-to-use Opportunities module.  From deal size to each contactâs role, from listing the competitors to tracking the lead source, sales reps can easily manage each sales opportunity to completion.    Accounts & Contacts With the Accounts & Contacts module, you can easily enter and update key account and contact information. Tracking and staying in touch with your customers is simply a click away.   Activity & Task Management Managing your customer interactions is at the heart of a sales automation application. Sugar Sales provides a simple and clean set of tools for quickly tracking tasks, phone calls, emails and meetings.   Notes & Attachments Easily keep notes on every contact, opportunity or account. New to v1.5, add file attachments to notes.    Home Screen  Focus on the right activities with a quick view of your top opportunities, pipeline, today's appointments and task list.  Dashboard  A picture is always worth a thousand words.  With the dashboard module, you can graphically view how your opportunities breakdown by sales stage or industry.  New to v1.5, you can customize the charts to display the data you want.  Administration  Easily manage all the users in the system, their passwords, user interface themes and more.    -=Future Planned Features=- What we're working on next.   Internationalization  Support for local and localized date and time display.   Accounts & Contacts Easily sync customer contact information between Sugar Sales and MS Outlook and Palm devices.   Activity & Task Management Plug-ins for PDAs and email applications that deliver a best-in-class open source solution for tracking key customer information in your PDA quickly and easily.  Notes & Attachments Ability to enter HTML notes. Also provide for full-text searching across text or HTML notes as well as most file attachments.  Dashboard  More dashboard charts including the ability to customize the charts by time ranges, deal size and more.   The latest release can be found here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=107819&package_id=116411
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Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide  Inc.  on Thursday posted better-than-expected  second-quarter profit on gains from the sale of some hotels and  higher room rates, and raised its outlook for the year.
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Company expanding its reach after introducing the hosted service in the U.S. last year .
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Interest in orders for Airbus intensifies as the Paris air show gets under way, industry sources say.
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Many travel agents â or travel specialists, as they are now known â say they have seen an increase in business in the last year or so.
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Business & money: Â· Weather-related delays rose by 500,000 minutesÂ· Regulator may impose fine over signalling upgrade
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Software, hardware, and sea fare will color in the week that lies ahead.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- Mobile operator Mmo2 on Thursday said it was lifting its service revenue forecast in Britain after a strong first half.