The British government is about to test a new system for tracking vehicles and charging drivers when they use toll roads.
Exchanges and execution venues in coordination with trading firms and clearing members have (or at least should have) an ethical obligation to create test environments and standards for system run-off tests, where all manner of market and technological scenarios bombard each system to verify its robustness.
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Detroit would pose a stiff test for Michigan's emergency-manager system, a controversial tool for municipal overhaul that hasn't had many successes yet.
Customers will go to its lab, called Iforce, where engineers will build and test a custom system that users pay for only when they are satisfied.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) last week announced that five companies, including America Online, will participate in a test bed for a new domain name registration system designed to end Network Solutions, Inc.
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It makes perfect sense for the Federal Government to conduct a real-life test of a new public system using an up and running company that currently accounts for about 5% of the health care market in the United States.
Insiders say that this is a test run for a much larger cashless-payment system.
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The firm said it would analyse the data and prepare for another test flight aimed at demonstrating the system to regulators in "coming days".
Friday was meant to be the busiest day so far for the transport system and its biggest test.
Dr David Blowers worked as an assessor on the appeal panels for more than two years and says the test system does not work.
Craig Quigley, who denied charges that conditions for Friday's test were much too controlled and that the system is not capable of discerning real warheads from decoys.
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The test system includes the six DNA markers previously used in a test for eye colour known as Irisplex, combining them with predictive markers for hair.
Citing sources close to the matter, the report notes that Microsoft will begin to test a new version of its operating system, Windows 7, tailored for tablets.
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Under state law, all of New York's roughly 700 school districts must develop a system for evaluating teachers based on a mix of standardized test scores, classroom observations and other measures.
The S430 Consumer Reports used for its own test came with a broken "back" button on the navigation system.
Of the following four adjectives that might plausibly be applied to the snow leopard, the animal appropriated by Apple for the name of its latest operating system, which do you think test well with focus groups?
The EU test results will be fed into the 27-nation bloc's rapid alert system for food safety.
It is hierarchical bureaucracy that has created a test-driven education system that is hugely expensive yet is not equipping our young people for the world of continuous learning that lies ahead.
Of all the new regulations being implemented for 2009, the Kinetic Energy Recovery System (Kers) presents constructors with the biggest test.
Over the decades, its system has helped countless students improve their test scores, and Kaplan wants to take its reputation for success to broader fields.
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"Schools under increasing pressure due to the banding system, often opt for qualifications which are easier to pass rather than qualifications which build and test young people's knowledge and skills, " he said.
We do know that Microsoft has been working on IPTV stuff for years now (they already offer a set-top box-based system that's being test marketed by a handful of telcos around the world), so it wouldn't be a shock to see them try and leverage the Xbox 360 as a platform.
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