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Verizon Executive Calls CDMA iPhone Inevitable

News Analysis: Michael Maiorana, a Verizon Wireless regional president, tells eWEEK the introduction of a CDMA Apple iPhone for the Verizon network is a matter of when, not if. While Apple didn’t announce a Verizon iPhone at the Worldwide Developers Conference in June as was widely predicted, rumors continue to circulate from a number of sources that such a mobile device is in the works. Other rumors say T-Mobile will soon make a deal with Apple to sell the iPhone in the United States. – WASHINGTON The
introduction of a version of the Apple iPhone for the Verizon Wireless network
is not only possible, it is quot;inevitable, quot; according to a Verizon regional
president.
In an interview with eWEEK at the National Press Club on
June 14, Michael Maiorana, Verizon president for …


State phone calls

Further to yesterday’s missive about the German Federal office’s offer of talking to Chancellor Merkel, I spent the rest of the day looking anxiously at the phone wondering if the next ring would herald the head of state being patched through.

I’d also given my mobile number to the Federal Government department, so was rather hoping the Chancellor wouldn’t ring as I was settling down to watch the World Cup preview or was chopping up the vegetables for the evening’s victuals.

Well, I needn’t have worried. My evening was secure as a despatch came through from Berlin from the Chef vom Dienst, which, even with my schoolboy German I think means head of service.

“Thank you for your request,” it intoned. “Unfortunately, Chancellor Merkel cannot give the requested interview due to her tight timetable. We hope for your understanding.”

Well, yes of course I understand. Mrs Merkel must be er, a little busy right now to rush and phone me, but flushed with this initial contact at the highest level, I might now turn to the heads of State of Spain and the UK, the other principal countries involved with the current Opel situation.

I’ve never spoken to David Cameron or Jose Luis Zapatero – I wonder what cars they like – maybe that’d be an icebreaker – but if I can come so close to La Merkel who knows?

Addendum: Instead of being politely sidestepped in today’s call to the German economics ministry the phone simply rang and rang – a new departure. I turned – perhaps hopefully – to the ministry’s website – minister Bruderle still beaming eerily into the ether – wondering if there would be an Opel update.

But no, in place of single scrap of information about Opel, there was an earnest piece on electric mobility.

The rest of Europe is talking about the German economics ministry and Opel. Except it seems, the German economics ministry.

 

 

Google Calls for U.S., Europe to Crack Down on China Web Censorship

Google Chief Legal Officer David Drummond wants the U.S. and European governments to nudge China to cease its censorship of the Internet because it restricts free trade. The Internet sector is vital to Google’s hopes for international expansion. China boasts more than 400 million Web users and Baidu is the leading search engine in mainland China. Censorship in the form of the Great Firewall of China has been a long-standing complaint about China from Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and other companies looking to extend their tendrils in Asia. – Google wants the U.S. and European governments to nudge
China to cease its censorship of the Internet, the search engine’s lead lawyer
told the Associated Press in Brussels.
David
Drummond, chief legal officer and senior vice president of corporate
development at Google, June 9 said that China…


Israel rejects calls for international probe

Israel is resisting international pressure over the flotilla raid this week in which nine people were killed while trying to run the blockade of the Gaza Strip. Israel has rejected demands by the United Nations for an international investigation into the deadly raid on the flotilla carrying pro-Palestinian activists.

Clinton calls on China to help punish N. Korea

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has met with South Korea’s president and other top officials. VOA reports that the meetings came as efforts get underway to rally global support for measures against North Korea.

France calls for N. Korea to be punished

France has joined the chorus of voices calling for North Korea to be punished for firing a torpedo that sunk a South Korean naval ship. The UN Security Council has indicated that it is likely to intervene.

Salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff Calls Microsoft ‘Alley Thugs’

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff used strong language during a recent earnings call to describe a patent-infringement lawsuit leveled against his company by Microsoft, which he equated with "alley thugs." Microsoft alleges that Salesforce infringed on nine of its patents related to cloud-based applications. Benioff also hinted that Microsofts lawsuit could grievously affect other cloud vendors. Although Microsoft has traditionally focused on hybrid and on-premises solutions, its increased attention to the cloud brings it into competition with companies such as Salesforce. – Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff minced no words in
describing the recent patent-infringement lawsuit leveled against his company
by Microsoft, using the pulpit of a May 20 earnings call to compare the legal
action to a late-night mugging.
“The reality is that these patent trolls are unfortunate…


Isis Calls It Quits

VENERABLE PROGRESSIVE METAL BAND ENDS

Isis

Isis issued the following statement yesterday:

Isis has reached an end. It’s hard to try to say it in any delicate way, and it is a truth that is best spoken plainly. This end isn’t something that occurred over night and it hasn’t been brought about by a single cataclysmic fracture in the band. Simply put, Isis has done everything we wanted to do, said everything we wanted to say. In the interest of preserving the love we have of this band, for each other, for the music made and for all the people who have continually supported us, it is time to bring it to a close. We’ve seen too many bands push past the point of a dignified death and we all promised one another early on in the life of the band that we would do our best to ensure Isis would never fall victim to that syndrome. We’ve had a much longer run than we ever expected we would and accomplished a great deal more than we ever imagined possible.

We never set any specific goals when the band was founded other than to make the music we wanted to hear and to play (and to stay true to that ideal), so everything else that has come along the long and winding path has been an absolute gift. As with any momentous life-changing decision (which this certainly is for the 5 of us), we feel a very dynamic range of emotions about this and cannot express all of it within the space of a few sentences, and perhaps it’s best to do what we’ve always done and let our music speak for us. It is and has been the truest expression of who we are as a collective and in some ways who we are as individuals for the 13 years in which we’ve been together.

The last and perhaps most important thing we might say in relation to all this is how grateful we are for the people that have supported us over the years. It is a lengthy list that would include those who put out our records, those that played on them and put them to tape, the many bands with whom we shared the stage, all of our family, friends and companions who supported us in our individual lives and thus made it possible for us to continue on in the band, and most importantly those who truly listened to our music whether in recorded form or by coming to out to our shows (or both). It is quite true that we would never have done what we have without those people, that is many of you who are reading this. Our words can never fully express what we feel, but we hope that our music and the efforts made to bring it into being can serve as a more proper expression of gratitude for this life and for everyone in it. Thank you.

In more immediate and practical terms the tour we are about to embark upon is indeed our last. We are hoping that these final live rituals can help us bring a close to the life of this band in a celebratory and reverent way, and also provide us with a chance to say goodbye to many of those that have supported us over the years. While there is a measure of sadness that comes with the passing of this band, we hope that the final days can be joyous ones during which any and all that wish to come and join us will do so. It seems fitting that the last show of the tour and of our active existence will take place in Montreal, the site of the very first Isis show in 1997 (though that was an unintentional move when booking the show initially). After the tour we also plan to follow through with other projects set in motion some time ago – pursuing the completion of a final EP, compiling live audio and visual material for future releases, and generally doing whatever we can to make our music available for as long as there are people who wish to hear it.

Thanks again to any and all,

Isis, May 18 2010

Ipecac Records founders Mike Patton and Greg Werckman issued the following statement:

“It has been a complete honor to be a part of the Isis team. Isis is a major part of our label’s foundation. Those 5 talented guys are our friends and we look forward to see and hear what they each do in the future.”

Isis’ final tour begins May 26 in San Diego. Full tour dates can be found here.

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Kosovo minister calls for peace, dialogue

Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanović called for reconciliation between Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo. He said that dialogue is the only way to solve all of Kosovo’s problems.

Medvedev calls on Hamas to release Israeli soldier

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called on the Palestinian radical Islamic group Hamas on Tuesday to release captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. This is according to Kremlin spokeswomen Natalia Timakova, RIA Novosti reported.

Tadić calls on Norwegian companies to invest

President Boris Tadić called on Norwegian companies to invest in Serbia, reports from Oslo, Norway, said this Tuesday. He said that custom-free exports to a market of 800 million people are possible from Serbia.

DS calls for protection of B92 journalist

The ruling Democrats (DS) say that they expect that competent bodies will do everything in order for B92 TV journalist Brankica Stanković to be safe. DS Spokeswoman Jelena Trivan told Beta news agency that Serbia needs to be a country where everyone was safe, “and especially journalists”, where they are not threatened and where their freedom of expression is not jeopardized.

Wireless health care: When your carpet calls your doctor

The coming convergence of wireless communications, social networking and medicine will transform health care

IS IT possible that amid all the hoopla about Apple’s iPad, one potential use has been overlooked? Larry Nathanson, head of emergency-medicine “informatics” at one of Harvard Medical School’s hospitals, has experimented with using the device in the casualty ward. He writes that “initial tests with our clinical applications went amazingly well…the EKGs look better onscreen than on paper. It was great having all of the clinical information right at the bedside to discuss with the patient.”

Dr Nathanson’s enthusiasm hints at the potential of wireless gadgets to improve health care, and to ensure more personalised treatment in particular. Pundits have long predicted that advances in genetics will usher in a golden age of individually tailored therapies. But in fact it is much lower-tech wireless devices and internet-based health software that are precipitating the mass customisation of health care, and creating entirely new business models in the process. …

President Tadić calls for peace and understanding

Serbian President Boris Tadić called for peace and understanding after attending the Easter liturgy in the Bukovo monastery. “This is an opportunity to send a message of peace and understanding. It is a chance to solve problems we faced in the last year and to offer help to one another because it is a joyous day. I wish to greet all of our people with the traditional greeting—Christ has risen,” Tadić said.

Obama calls Medvedev to condemn Moscow blasts

US President Barack Obama telephoned Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Monday to offer condolences following the suicide attacks on Moscow’s metro system that left at least 38 people dead.
Obama pledged US cooperation in assisting the Russian government track down those responsible for the attacks and bring them to justice, the White House said.
Authorities believe two female [...]

PM calls for change in economic structure

Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković said that a change in the Serbian economic structure must be made in order to see serious economic progress. “The projected growth of the GDP of two percent this year shows that the economy is recovering, but the prerequisite for faster economic growth is a change in the economic structure,” Cvetković said at a conference in Belgrade this Monday, organized by the National Council for Competitiveness.

Outsourcing to Africa: The world economy calls

Will improved communications attract call centres to Africa?

THE arrival of three international fibre-optic cables in Kenya in the past six months, the most recent this week, has sparked hopes of an information-technology boom. The Kenyan government reckons that business-process outsourcing (BPO) can provide work for the country’s many unemployed graduates. As established outsourcing companies in India take on ever more complex and lucrative work, firms elsewhere spy an opportunity at the lower end of the BPO market, in prosaic jobs such as operating call centres and keying in data. Can Kenya win some of that business?

Four undersea cables will have made landfall in east Africa by the end of the year, enormously increasing the availability and reducing the cost of telecoms links with the rest of the world. Kenya also boasts a decent workforce: educated, hard-working, closer to customers in Europe and America than Asian call-centre workers, and, some say, more comprehensible too. High unemployment should help limit turnover of workers—a big headache for outsourcing firms elsewhere. One of the government’s advisers, Gilda Odera, who runs a school to train call-centre employees, says warm customer service will also give Kenya an edge: “It’s the way Kenyans deal with people, the tone, the manner.” …

Erdogan calls for Turkish schools in Germany

German officials have rejected calls by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to introduce Turkish schools in Germany. “In Turkey, we have German high schools – why shouldn’t there be Turkish high schools in Germany?” Erdogan asked in an interview with German weekly Die Zeit.

Appetite for S-REITs’ cash calls may wane, says CIMB

Investors’ willingness so far this year in meeting funding needs of Singapore REITs bodes well for sector’s refinancing, acquisition plans, but interest may not last too long, CIMB says according Dow Jones.

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