A total of 5,200 people are competing for 2,453 openings for judges in a competition announced by the High Judicial Council.
Justice Ministry Secretary Slobodan Homen said that the Council has until December 1 to select the judges for the general and special courts in Serbia.
Competition regulators in America and the EU are preparing to scrutinize a joint-venture planned between two mighty powers in the computing world. Microsoft and Yahoo have struck a ten year internet search-engine deal to challenge the runaway market leader Google.
What’s wrong with experts? Nothing, as long as they don’t monopolize control over decisions, resources, and information. Experts – people with special skills, a…
Not bad after almost a year off. Not bad at all.
Olympic champion Nastia Liukin returned to competition for the first time since the Beijing Games on Saturday night, and it looked as if she’d barely been away. She posted the second-best score on balance beam, her only event, and her 14.5 was only .1 points [...]
The National Security Guards team stood first in both English and Hindi debates while SSB and BSF were declared first and second runners up respectively in a debate organized by NHRC to create awareness about human rights.
The NHRC Delhi Zone Inter CPMFs Human Right Competition was held on Friday at National Security Guard’s campus in [...]
Microsoft has made a new proposal to European competition regulators that it hopes will end their row over the firm’s Internet Explorer web browser.
Last month the US giant said European buyers of its new Windows 7 operating system will have to download and install a web browser for themselves.
That move followed the European Commission’s ruling in January that pre-bundling Explorer hurt competition.
Microsoft now proposes Windows 7 will offer a list of potential browsers.
It said users would be able to "easily install competing web browsers, set one of those browsers as a default, and disable Internet Explorer" from a "ballot screen" of alternative browsers.
Commission competition regulators said they welcomed the proposal and "will now investigate its practical effectiveness in terms of ensuring genuine consumer choice".
Last year Microsoft was fined 899m euros ($1.4bn; £680.9m) by the Commission for separate anti-competitive practices. </p
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President Barack Obama is set to announce on Friday a competition for $4 billion in federal grants to improve academic achievement in US schools, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. Obama wants states to use funds from the competition, dubbed the “Race to the Top,” to ease limits on
Banks which receive state help must show they have a viable future without further support under new guidelines published by the European Commission.
Aided banks must pay some of their restructuring costs, the commission said, and may have to sell assets and hold back on acquisitions.
"We need to make banks viable again without state support and re-invigorate competition," said an EU statement.
It has so far cleared 70 rescues by European nations.
‘Working seriously’
There may be constraints imposed on acquisitions or on aggressive pricing and marketing strategies funded by state aid, it said, in order to limit distortions of competition.
"The financial crisis may not be over yet, but we need to start working seriously with member states to restructure European banks," added Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes.
The new rules will be in force until the end of December 2010.
The commission – which oversees competition issues in the 27-member European Union – also said it would take account the financial crisis when assessing bank restructuring plans.
It comes after the commission had agreed to restructuring plans by Germany’s Commerzbank and WestLB that included reducing their balance sheets. </p
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Microsoft’s earnings are forecast to meet or exceed analyst predictions, but to be lower than the numbers it posted a year ago. In the midst of a global recession, Microsoft has faced declines in revenue from core divisions as the worldwide market for PCs evaporates, and it faces increased competition from Google, Apple and other IT giants. Microsoft is hoping that the refresh of its flagship products, including Windows 7 and Office 2010, will boost its fortunes despite the economic environment.
– Microsoft’s
earnings call on July 23 may not be the happiest for investors, as the company
continues to battle considerable economic headwinds and increased competition,
but it could highlight more than ever the need for its upcoming operating
system, Windows 7, to be a considerable hit.
While…
A group of the best 200 Serbian students selected in the Travel Through Europe 2009 competition, have left for their month long trip around the EU. A farewell cocktail party was held before the students left at the Belgrade City Hall. The winners of the competition received Inter Rail tickets, multi-Schengen visas for 30 days, EUR 150 spending money and EURO26 and SIC student cards.
Good grief. It’s only my second Big Brother posting, and already I have had to break my vow to base this column only on what…
Goldman Sachs’s record profits owe more to lack of competition than market recovery
TO THE survivors, the spoils. That is the cry going up at Goldman Sachs after it chalked up recession-defying—nay, record-breaking—quarterly profits on Tuesday July 14th. Minting more than $3 billion in as many months, so soon after its own near-death experience in the wake of Lehman Brothers’ demise, will enhance Goldman’s reputation as Wall Street’s overachiever. But it will also strike some as faintly obscene given the scale of public support needed to keep the firm and its peers from buckling last year.
The first half of 2009 was fertile for investment bankers as markets rebounded and companies (not least banks themselves) rushed to raise debt and equity. But none of the banks still due to report, not even a resurgent JP Morgan Chase, is expected to come close to Goldman’s blow-out performance. Having incurred smaller losses than rivals, it is still prepared to deploy risk capital where others fear to tread. …
Destiny’’s Child star Kelly Rowland has no plans to follow in the footsteps of former bandmate Beyonce Knowles and open her own clothing line, after she has hosted a cutthroat fashion competition.
The singer was the host of Bravo’’s U.S. reality series ”The Fashion Show” with celebrity designer Isaac Mizrahi, and has gained a newfound respect [...]
By Phil Mercer
BBC News, Sydney
Australia has launched a multi-million dollar competition to build a new generation of military robots.
The winning design must help soldiers fight by remote control in urban combat zones, defence officials say.
The aim is to reduce casualties in urban areas where fighting is unpredictable and treacherous.
The competition is being run by Australia’s Defence Science and Technology Organisation in partnership with the US military.
‘Dirty work’
The government wants to develop an "intelligent and fully autonomous system" capable of carrying out dangerous surveillance missions.
Senior officials in Canberra have said they hope that unarmed robotic vehicles will do some of the army’s "dirty work" in such hazardous theatres.
The ultimate plan is for groups of these sophisticated machines to be sent into battle to help neutralise the enemy.
Research grants of $1.6m (£984,000) have been offered in this joint Australian and American competition. Five shortlisted applicants will be invited to present their ideas at a Land Warfare Conference in Brisbane in November next year.
Before they get to that stage they will have to prove that their prototypes can do the job at a defence base in South Australia, where they will be judged by an international panel of military experts. </p
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HP is looking to focus the debate around its networking equipment competition with Cisco around price. HP ProCurve officials say they are pleased about reports that Cisco may be asking some partners to match prices with HP. However, Cisco officials deny any such program is in place, saying instead that they are competing based on value and not price. If HP can keep the focus on price, it could help it gain ground against Cisco now that the global recession has put a tight squeeze on IT budgets.
– The friction between Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems is continuing, this time in the area of networking equipment.
Specifically, the issue is the pricing of the networking equipment. HP officials are pointing to comments some Cisco officials made during the companys Partner Summit in June as an i…
AMDs release of two new models of its six-core Opteron processors is not only expanding the markets for its“Istanbul” Opteron family, but also putting the industry on notice that AMD is pushing its competition with rival Intel. The new Opteron processors offer better performance and energy efficiency than their quad-core predecessors, and AMD officials are aiming them at HPC and cloud computing environments.
– With the release of two new models of its six-core Opteron processor, Advanced Micro Devices is not only expanding the reach of its “Istanbul” family of chips, but also is putting more pressure on larger rival Intel.
AMD officials are looking to their six-core Opteron to compete not only with Intel…
In September of 1960, J.F. Kennedy engaged Richard Nixon in the first presidential candidates’ debate. Kennedy’s opening statement in that debate has now become the famous “I am not satisfied†speech. What Kennedy’s team rightly strategized was that in any competitive environment, political or businesses, sustainable success starts with focusing on your own house. You will not win the race by focusing on the competition. There are a number of reasons for this…
