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Chip Shot: Intel Tops Chart with Action Film

January 27th, 2011 | No Comments

Intel’s action-packed “Chase” mini-movie has topped the Visible Measures Top 10 Viral Video Ad Chart. The 105-second-long film had 1.13 million views last week, meaning more people watched a cunning heroine get the upper hand on a couple of thugs than Evian’s roller-skating babies and ads from BlendTec, DC Shoes and Verizon, which also made the Top 5. “Chase,” which debuted Jan. 5, illustrates the performance and advanced features of Intel’s new 2nd Generation Core i5 processors. The spot demonstrates the performance capabilities of the new processors by creating an action-movie style chase sequence that takes place through a wide variety of program windows on a computer desktop. Filmed on location in Prague, Czech Republic, the video features a multitude of programs and sites, including Apple’s iTunes, Facebook, YouTube, Microsoft Office and the Adobe Creative Suite.

Skoda Auto reports record sales in 2010

January 7th, 2011 | No Comments

Skoda Auto, the Volkswagen-owned Czech carmaker, said Thursday that its sales rose 11.5 percent in 2010 year-on-year, in what amounted to the firm’s new record. The firm said in a statement that it sold 762,600 cars last year compared to 684,200 cars in 2009. “In almost all markets, we have had significant growth and increased [...]

“Czech Republic Serbia’s reliable partner”

November 16th, 2010 | No Comments

Prime Minister Mirko CvetkoviÄ‡ says the Czech Republic is Serbia’s reliable partner in the process of integration in the European Union.
Good political relations should be the basis for fostering bilateral economic cooperation further, he said after meeting Czech Prime Minister Peter Necas.

PM starts two-day Prague visit

November 15th, 2010 | No Comments

Serbian Prime Minister Mirko CvetkoviÄ‡ started on Monday his two-day official visit to the Czech Republic.
CvetkoviÄ‡ met in Prague with Czech President Vaclav Klaus.

NetSuite Opens Cloud Development Center in Czech Republic

November 3rd, 2010 | No Comments

The new development center is located in Brno, Czech Republic and will focus on marketing NetSuite’s cloud application services — and partners’ products — to global companies. – Cloud services provider NetSuite announced Nov. 3 that has opened
Europe’s first IT development center dedicated to building cloud
ERP-based business management software packages.

The new development center is located in Brno, Czech Republic and naturally will
focus on marketing NetSuite’s clo…

“Serb-Albanian heroin smuggling ties”

October 26th, 2010 | No Comments

Police in the Czech Republic are looking for suspects in connection to the recent seizure in Serbia of 120 kilograms of heroin. Czech police are running checks on several companies on a request received from their Serbian colleagues, Belgrade daily VeÄernje Novosti writes today, and says that one of the suspected traffickers arrested in Serbia last week was “selling drugs along with Albanians for years”.

Serbian, Czech FMs meet in Belgrade

October 26th, 2010 | No Comments

Foreign ministers of Serbia and the Czech Republic, Vuk JeremiÄ‡ and Karel Schwarzenberg, met on Tuesday in Belgrade. They said that the Council of the EU decision to allow Serbia to move forward with its EU integration was very important for Serbia, and that the two countries saw it as their joint success.

Czech court jails neo-Nazis for attack on Roma

October 21st, 2010 | No Comments

A court in the Czech Republic has sentenced four neo-Nazis to up to 22 years in prison for an arson attack on a Roma family. The group had planned the act to coincide with the anniversary of Hitler’s birthday.

Google Street View Banned in Czech Republic

September 23rd, 2010 | No Comments

Google’s Street View service has been shuttered in the Czech Republic for taking too high of a camera angle. Street View is also triggering privacy changes in Germany.

" – Google’s controversial Street View service has been shuttered in the Czech
Republic and has sparked privacy
changes in Germany.
A feature of Google Maps, Street View provides photos of city streets taken
by cars strapped with cameras and computers. The photos are stored on Google’s
servers.
S…

Serbia reach first Davis Cup final

September 19th, 2010 | No Comments

Serbia’s Davis Cup squad has reached this year’s final of the tennis competition after defeating the Czech Republic team 3-2.
The Czechs started the day with a 2-1 lead, but both Novak ÄokoviÄ‡ and Janko TipsareviÄ‡ came through in their respective matches against Tomas Berdych and Radek Stepanek.

Katrina Kaif walks ramp during Mumbaiâ€™s Jewellery Week

August 17th, 2010 | No Comments

Actress Katrina Kaif walked the ramp at the inaugural session of India International Jewellery Week (IIJW) that started here on Sunday. Kaif walked the ramp wearing a peach ruffled lehenga, a traditional ensemble with a small blouse and rich, flowing skirt, with a jewel-encrusted top created by fashion designer Neeta Lulla. The actress also sported [...]

ÄokoviÄ‡ out of Wimbledon tournament

July 2nd, 2010 | No Comments

Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic beat Serbia’s Novak ÄokoviÄ‡ in straight sets at Wimbledon this Friday.
Berdych previously eliminated six-time champion Roger Federer in the quarterfinals.

Another foreign babe in Bollywood movie

June 14th, 2010 | No Comments

After Giselle Monterio, Barbara Mori and Sarah Thompson, another foreign girl Candice Bourcher is set to make her first appearance in Bollywood film, which is yet to be named. She comes from South Africa and has appeared nude in Playboy magazine of April issue.
She will be cast in Prashant Chadhaâ€™s new film and [...]

Czech election looks set to end political unstability

May 30th, 2010 | No Comments

Center right parties favouring tough austerity measures look set to form the Czech Republicâ€™s next government following a closely fought general election. Petr Necas, leader of the rightwing Civic Democrats, thanked voters for giving the party the opportunity to create a coalition capable of tackling the countryâ€™s budget deficit and introducing necessary economic savings.

Elections underway in Czech Republic

May 29th, 2010 | No Comments

The Czech Republic has been voting in a closely fought two-day general election against the backdrop of a looming economic crisis. Voters will have to decide which party they think will be best able to sort out the countryâ€™s growing budget deficit.

“Investors want to build thermoelectric plants”

May 29th, 2010 | No Comments

Energy Minister Petar Å kundriÄ‡ said that foreign companies are very interested in building thermoelectric plants in Serbia. â€œWe talked, and some talks are ongoing, with potential investors and companies from Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Russia, Austria, and China,â€ Å kundriÄ‡ said.

Google Faces More European Investigations into Street View

May 21st, 2010 | No Comments

Google will be investigated by more European countries, including France and Czech Republic, after revealing that it accidentally collected data from unsecured WiFi networks while photographing streets around the world for its Street View application. British regulators have asked that the data, which potentially includes passwords and browsing history, be deleted as soon as possible. In the United States, a pair of lawmakers asked the FTC to investigate whether Google violated any laws when its Street View cars snatched information from those WiFi networks. – Google has found itself facing additional controversy in Europe, as Spain,
France and the Czech Republic all announced investigations May 20 into the
inadvertent collection of data by the search engine giants Street View cars.
That follows news that Germany
and Italy will launch
their own inqui…

Six dead Eastern, Central Europe flooding

May 19th, 2010 | No Comments

Parts of Eastern and Central Europe succumbed to heavy flooding as emergency services scrambled to rescue stranded people and minimize damage in towns. Areas in Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Serbia were reportedly hit by the flooding caused by heavy rains. The Vistula River broke its banks at Krakow reaching a height of nearly 10 meters (33 feet), its highest level in 40 years.

Single supplement

May 11th, 2010 | No Comments

The average single worker takes home less than his married counterpart

BRINGING up children is a pricey endeavour, but most governments offer some form of tax breaks or cash benefits to ease the burden. In all but one of 30 OECD countries, a married one-earner couple with two children takes home more money than a single person with no children on the same average annual salary. Measured at purchasing-power parity, a family in Luxembourg has the highest overall net income of $50,482 and the highest average gross wage of $50,960. Families benefit little in Turkey, and get nothing at all in Mexico. But the best country for families is the Czech Republic, where net incomes end up higher than gross earnings.

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German airports reopen after ash cloud closure

May 10th, 2010 | No Comments

Berlin, May 10 (DPA) German air traffic control authorities reopened airspace over the south of the country Sunday, after earlier shutting down the major airports at Munich and Stuttgart as new volcanic ash from Iceland arrived.
Officials said delays would likely continue Monday as airlines rescheduled hundreds of cancelled flights.
Both airports had been shut down until [...]