Serbia’s minister for local administration says statements coming from ethnic Albanian municipal officials from PreÅ¡evo and Bujanovac are not worrying. Milan Marković told B92 late on Tuesday that “anyone can say what they like, so much attention should not be paid to it. Such statements came before as well, but they did not garner so much attention.”
Posts Tagged ‘downplays’
Ivanović downplays Kosovo meeting
June 25th, 2010 |
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Any meeting organized by Priština without the participation of President Boris Tadić becomes less important without the key player in the Balkans. This is according to State Secretary with the Serbian Ministry for Kosovo and Metohija Oliver Ivanović, who spoke on Thursday in Belgrade.
ARM Downplays Apple Acquisition Rumor
April 22nd, 2010 |
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ARM CEO Warren East attempts to quiet rumors that Apple is considering buying ARM which makes processors used in the Apple iPhone. ARM’s business model is already a great way to access its technology, East says.
– If Apple-related
rumors were bad news for Samsung at the start of the week, for chip
designer ARM Holdings they worked to drive
stock prices up.
Rumors that Apple may be considering purchasing ARM which
currently makes chips for the Apple iPhone drove ARM
stock to an eight-year high, the …
Netanyahu downplays tensions with U.S.
March 28th, 2010 |
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Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu has moved to ease tensions with the U.S., describing the two countries’ relations as those of “allies and friends”. Netanyahu also dismissed reports one of his confidants called U.S. President Barack Obama a “disaster” for Israel.
Microsoft Downplays IIS Security Vulnerability Talk
December 29th, 2009 |
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Microsoft contends that an IIS security vulnerability being talked about is not as dangerous as the poorly configured servers that attackers would need to target for an exploit to work.
– Microsoft is downplaying talk of a zero-day bug in Internet Information
Services).
Reports began to circulate Dec. 24 of a security
vulnerability in IIS. The issue was due to the way IIS 6.0 handles
semicolons in URLs. However Microsoft contends that because IIS must be in an insecure
configura…
Microsoft Downplays Yahoo Upgrades to E-Mail, Search, Messenger Apps
August 26th, 2009 |
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Microsoft responds to Yahoo’s Aug. 24 announcement of upgrades for users by insisting that it had already integrated many of Yahoo’s new features, including search results from social networking sites such as Facebook, into its offerings for Windows Live. Despite a 10-year partnership agreement centered on the use of Bing on Yahoo’s sites, Microsoft and Yahoo evidently remain fierce competitors in other online arenas, such as e-mail.
– Yahoo
insisted in an Aug. 24 press conference that, despite an agreement with Microsoft
to power search on its sites using Bing, it still remains a competitive player
in the online area of front-end user experience. That compelled a response from
Microsoft, which touted Windows Live as superior …
Hughes downplays the money factor
August 1st, 2009 |
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Manchester City manager Mark Hughes insists players are moving to Eastlands for the prospect of medals, not big money. And he claims the club will not pay transfer fees above the odds as their blistering recruitment drive gathers pace. City have made five major signings in the transfer window –
Mozilla Downplays New Firefox Bug
July 20th, 2009 |
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Mozilla is downplaying a reported bug in its Firefox browser. According to Mozilla, initial reports that the vulnerability could be exploited to execute code are false.
– Mozilla is pouring cold water on reports of a severe bug affecting its Firefox browser.
Reports of a new stack overflow vulnerability affecting Firefox
surfaced not long after the company released a new version to patch a critical bug in
the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine’s JIT (just-in-time)…