It is uncertain how FM Vuk Jeremić’s decision not to send the Serbian ambassador to the Nobel ceremony would affect his credibility in the country and abroad.
The Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo was attended by Serbian Ombudsman Saša Janković.
Microsoft’s week revolved around rumors of employee layoffs, reportedly small in comparison to the 5,000-plus cut from the company rolls in 2009. At the same time, Microsoft also dealt with fallout from the demise of its Kin social-networking phones. – Rumors of employee layoffs dominated Microsofts week, along with discussion
about the short life and brutal death of the companys Kin phone.
Microsoft officials declined to officially comment on rumors that the
company is laying off a small number of employees, following the July 1
beginning of…
The people of Concepcion are still struggling to come to terms with the aftermath of last week’s earthquake. A series of aftershocks, one with a magnitude of 6.6, rocked Chile’s second largest city, damaging more buildings and frightening residents.
Australian Olympic swimming great Ian Thorpe has taken a hit from the effects of the global financial crisis but is confident his business empire will not go under, reports said on Saturday. Thorpe, 27, a five-time Olympic gold medallist, said he had suffered serious cashflow problems after
A recent attack on the private e-mail account of an administrative employee at Twitter led to company data being compromised. But despite the focus on password strength and cloud computing, the security risk lies in the area of password recovery and security best practices.
– In the
aftermath of the latest
Twitter breach, much has been written about password strength and the risks
of cloud computing. But when it comes to the two most recent hacks targeting
Twitter employees, there are other issues involved.
After all,
password strength in and of itself means no…
The aftermath of riots in western China, and other stories
• VICIOUS riots in Urumqi, the capital of the autonomous province of Xinjiang, caused the deaths of over 150 people. It was the bloodiest known incident of unrest in China since the massacre that ended the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. The violence embarrassed China’s president, Hu Jintao, into skipping the G8 summit in Italy. The authorities responded by imposing a curfew on Urumqi, closing mosques, sending soldiers on to the streets and detaining hundreds of people. China’s leaders may fear that several smaller incidents that have occurred since the main rioting are the prelude to bigger confrontations caused by tension between Han migrants and (mostly) Muslim Uighurs.
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