Russian Ambassador to Serbia Aleksandr Konuzin has stated that there is no reason for NATO’s further expansion because it will create new divisions.
“Expansion policy of NATO, which represents not only a political but also a military alliance, creates new lines of division and it’s a question of security for us,†he told Novi Sad-based daily Dnevnik.
KARACHI – A Russian cargo plane crashed in KarachiÂ’s Dalmia Naval Colony in the wee hours of Sunday, killing at least 11 people including all eight crewmembers on board and three on the ground.
The Sudan-bound four-engine plane took off from Quaid-i-Azam International Airport at 1.55 am and crashed after five minutes of its flight. Eyewitnesses said they saw planeÂ’s right engine was on fire before it plunged towards the ground and crashed causing a huge explosion.
Several residential buildings caught fire after the explosion. Rescue and relief teams rushed to the crash site. So far rescue workers recovered four bodies from the wreckage of the plane.
It is learnt that these cargo planes were normally used by NATO forces for shifting of cargo to Afghanistan. It was not immediately known what kind of cargo this plane was carrying from Karachi to Khartoum.
Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) spokesman Pervez George said first reports indicated it was a Russian cargo plane with eight crewmembers and it came UAE. He further said that normally such planes carry three or four people as crew. All the crewmembers were foreigners, he added.
The cause of the crash was not yet established by the CAA authorities. When contacted, airport authorities told this correspondent that it was too early to draw any conclusion. Replying to a question, they said apparently it was a technical fault that caused the crash. He, however, did not respond when asked if there could be a possibility of terrorist activity.
Dalmia is a thickly populated area near Gulistan-i-Johar.
Hundreds of people have gathered at the spot arrived on the spot while the crash site is on fire and thick smoke emitting from the scene, eyewitnesses said.
The local authorities declared emergency in all the Karachi hospital putting the staff on high alert. Meanwhile, a number of injured people were shifted to these hospitals. Condition of some of the injured was stated to be serious. A large number of ambulances were seen at the crash site ferrying injured to the hospitals.
It may be recalled that a small plane carrying 22 people crashed near Karachi Airport on November 5 last. The two pilots and all 20 passengers were killed.
On July 28, an Airblue plane crashed outside Islamabad, killing 152 people. It was the worst crash on Pakistani soil.
IT service provider CSC’s online forum lets health care IT professionals share notes on how to achieve meaningful use of electronic records to qualify for incentives under the Obama administration’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. IBM’s Initiate software arm is also focused on providing software for health care information exchanges to help them adhere to the federal mandate on EMRs. – IT
service provider CSC launched its Meaningful
Use Community Website July 21 to provide an online forum for the health
care industry in which people can share ideas and learn from experts on how to
achieve meaningful use of electronic health records.
According
to David Hampshire, CSC’s seni…
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center says it has created an app doctors can use to receive important patient data via their BlackBerry smartphones. In addition, the health care organization has completed a proof-of-concept of a technology platform that helps doctors and patients share information.
– The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is teaming up with technology
partner dbMotion to create ways of making electronic medical records more
readily available to both physicians and patients.
UPMC officials on March 2 announced that the partnership had
created an application enabling phys…
Juniper Networks is establishing a $50 million venture capital program to back startups working on products that would help Juniper encourage adoption of its Junos networking OS platform. The program will focus on companies with products that touch on such areas as secure and green networking, mobility, videos, virtualization, and network automation.
– Juniper Networks is establishing a $50 million venture capital initiative to
further the company’s efforts to create an ecosystem around its Junos
networking software platform.
The Junos Innovation Fund, announced Feb. 23, will target early
and growth-stage venture-backed companies, the vendor s…
CompTIA faces backlash from technology certification holders after informing those with supposedly lifetime A+, Network+ and Security+ certifications that they would have to retroactively pay for renewals. CompTIA has since retracted the changes for anyone who receives one of those certifications in 2010, but come 2011 the renewal process will be in place.
– In December, the Computing Technology Industry Association decided
lifetime A+, Network+ and Security+ certifications were going to retroactively
require renewal every three years. The response from the
IT community was particularly thorny, and rightfully so. Why the changes?
According to Ars Te…
Microsoft forms a group that will focus on cloud computing and moving the lessons learned in the cloud into Microsoft’s server products and vice versa.
– Microsoft has announced the formation of a new group focusing on cloud
computing and moving the lessons learned in the cloud into Microsoft’s server
products and vice versa.
In a Dec. 8 post on the company’s Windows
Azure team blog, Microsoft announced quot;a new organization within the
Server…
Yesterday, I pointed out that a study by one of the leading economic modeling companies shows that military spending increases unemployment and decreases economic growth.I have located a paper by economist Robert Pollin published in 2007 by The Politic…
My computer has pretty fast windows startup, around 60-70 seconds most of the time. Sure that is not newsworthy but a lot of my friends (the ones who won’t follow my advice) tell me that their computers take upwards of five minutes to start. To me that seems nuts, but I know it is more common than microsoft wants to admit. What prompts the computer to take so long booting up and what can be done to fix it?
Kate Price a.k.a Jordan has covered the walls of her entire house with snaps of ex-hubby Peter Andre, it has emerged.
Jordan, who lives in her former marital home with new lover Alex Reid, has even placed Andre’’s statues all over the house, much to the bewilderment of her cage fighter boyfriend.
Insiders reveal that Jordan has [...]
Zoho Discussions is an online community application that lets users create forums in which colleagues and customers can bandy about ideas and nourish them with conversation threads in the cloud. Zoho Discussions is rich in much of the functionality found in Zoho’s messaging and collaboration apps. Zoho Discussions builds on idea management platforms from Salesforce.com, Spigit and Brightidea.
– Zoho’s first new application of 2009 is Zoho Discussions,
a software-as-a-service online community application that lets users create
forums for colleagues and customers in which to bandy about ideas and nourish
them with conversation threads.
With Zoho Discussions, businesses can create interna…
The departure of longtime executive Pat Gelsinger to EMC and the reorganization of its internal operations, Intel is opening up opportunities not only for the company but also for executives, analyst said. The reorganization falls in line with Intels goals of growing beyond its traditional PC roots, and also gives other executives the chance to put their marks on the company. It also will enable Intel CEO Paul Otellini a change to focus more of his attention on corporate strategy.
– With a week to go before their annual developer conference, Intel officials are having to deal with a major internal reorganization and the departure of longtime executive Pat Gelsinger.
Intel announced Sept. 14 that Gelsinger, who had been senior vice president and general manager of its Digital E…
With the departure of longtime executive Pat Gelsinger to EMC and the reorganization of its internal operations, Intel is opening up opportunities not only for the company but also for executives, analysts said. The reorganization falls in line with Intels goals of growing beyond its traditional PC roots, and also gives other executives the chance to put their marks on the company. It also will enable Intel CEO Paul Otellini a change to focus more of his attention on corporate strategy.
– With a week to go before their annual developer conference, Intel
officials are having to deal with a major internal reorganization and
the departure of longtime executive Pat Gelsinger.
Intel announced Sept. 14 that Gelsinger, who had been senior vice
president and general manager of its Digita…
With the departure of longtime executive Pat Gelsinger to EMC and the reorganization of its internal operations, Intel is opening up opportunities not only for the company but also for executives, analysts said. The reorganization falls in line with Intels goals of growing beyond its traditional PC roots, and also gives other executives the chance to put their marks on the company. It also will enable Intel CEO Paul Otellini a change to focus more of his attention on corporate strategy.
– With a week to go before their annual developer conference, Intel
officials are having to deal with a major internal reorganization and
the departure of longtime executive Pat Gelsinger.
Intel announced Sept. 14 that Gelsinger, who had been senior vice
president and general manager of its Digita…
Google, which had refused to create a privacy policy for Google Book Search unless and until it was approved by a court, bowed to public pressure from the FTC. Meanwhile, Denny Chin, the judge weighing whether to approve the Google Book Search settlement for a U.S. District Court in New York, has extended the deadline for parties to support or oppose the deal from Sept. 4 to Sept. 8 because of computer maintenance in the court.
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Where privacy advocates failed to achieve, the Federal
Trade Commission succeeded. Google Sept. 3 bowed to public pressure from the FTC,
creating a formal privacy policy for its Google Books service before its Google
Book Search settlement with authors and publishers is even approve…
Rackspace is launching its Cloud Tools portal, designed to bring together the various tools built using Rackspace’s cloud API to make it easier for customers to find what they want and for partners to gain better access to Rackspace’s customer base. The move comes a few weeks after Rackspace, which competes against the likes of Amazon.com in the burgeoning cloud computing space, rolled out a public API for its cloud computing platform.
– Just weeks after releasing a public API
designed to make it easier for customers to manage their cloud deployments,
Rackspace is rolling out a portal that better organizes the myriad tools and
applications built by partners for its cloud computing service.
The Cloud Tools portal not only will ma…
The Symbian Foundation, which launched in June, has created Symbian Horizon, an application publishing program to help get more Symbian-based apps to market. A healthier app catalog may help Symbian maintain its OS dominance as the iPhone and Android grow their market share.
– The
newly formed Symbian Foundation has created Symbian Horizon, an
application-publishing program for better distributing applications for the
open-source smartphone platform, which is the most widely used in the world.
“The core idea behind Symbian Horizon is making the business and distribu…
An Indian researcher along with a colleague has developed a camera that takes photos with an invisible flash of infrared and ultraviolet light points to a smarter way to take photos in the dark.
Dilip Krishnan and Rob Fergus at New York University made the camera to do away with intrusive regular flashes.
In order to make [...]
