The Serbian-Cuban Friendship Society has launched an initiative to have Julian Assange declared honorary citizen of the town of ÄŒaÄak in central Serbia. The founder of the WikiLeaks whistleblowing website should be honored in this way “because the spirit of this city justifies the initiative, since ÄŒaÄak likes heroes”, a statement from the association said.
Posts Tagged ‘initiative’
IBM Launches Social Business Initiative
January 31st, 2011 |
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IBM has launched an initiative to help businesses become more social as part of its overall Smarter Planet strategy. The push is extending social to mobile, the cloud and to developers. – ORLANDO, Fla.
– IBM is delivering its vision for the
social business of the future today in the form of its new “Social Business”
initiative.
At its Lotusphere
2011 conference here, IBM will give
attendees a look at the “perfect storm” of factors working to bring the social
business a reality…
Web Marketers Wary of FTC’s ‘Do Not Track’ Initiative
December 3rd, 2010 |
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The Federal Trade Commission urged online businesses to respect consumer privacy and recommended a "Do Not Track" mechanism. Contrary to reports, it is not an opt-out list. – After federal regulators proposed a quot;Do Not Track quot;
mechanism to give control over what consumer data companies can collect and
share, a lot of confusion remains about what the proposal really means.
In a 122-page preliminary report issued Dec. 1, the Federal
Trade Commission suggeste…
Storage Industry Group Launches Green Data Center Initiative
October 12th, 2010 |
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SNIA’s Emerald program will eventually provide a vendor-neutral power efficiency test measurement specification for data centers. – At its biannual conference in Dallas,
the Storage Networking Industry Association Oct. 12 unveiled its Green Storage
Initiative Emerald program, which eventually will lead to the release of SNIA’s
Emerald Power Efficiency Measurement Specification.
This is similar to other data center standard…
Avaya, Skype Partner on UC Initiative
September 29th, 2010 |
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Avaya and Skype will integrate their communications offerings to enable easier collaboration between Avaya and Skype users via video, voice, IM and presence. – Two weeks after unveiling an aggressive initiative to push into the video
communications realm, Avaya is announcing a partnership with voice-over-IP
vendor Skype.
The two companies are integrating their IP-based communications
offerings, a move that will widen Avaya’s UC (unified communications)…
Chip Shot: New ‘10×10’ Effort Focuses on Girls and Education
September 22nd, 2010 |
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At the Clinton Global Initiative this week, Intel announced support for a ground breaking film and social action campaign: 10×10: Connect the Dots, Educate Girls, Change the World. 10×10 will amplify the importance of investing in girls and compel people and organizations to action. It uses the power of storytelling and the media to give millions of people the tools to create actionable change for girls around the world. More information can be found in the 10×10 press release.
President supports regional initiative
September 1st, 2010 |
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Serbian President Boris Tadić has supported an initiative to form a regional commission tasked with determining facts about victims of wars in the Balkans.
Tadić met in Belgrade on Wednesday with representatives of the REKOM coalition, and said he was supported solving all crimes in order to achieve justice for victims.
Athens “ready to support stability in Balkansâ€
July 24th, 2010 |
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Greece stated that it is ready to support every initiative that contributes to the process of reaching an agreement for stability in the Western Balkans. The statement comes in response to the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) opinion on the legality of Kosovo’s unilaterally proclaimed independence.
Obama Initiative Would Double Broadband Spectrum
June 28th, 2010 |
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A Presidential Memorandum signed by President Obama would nearly double the amount of wireless broadband spectrum, through an auction, for governmental and commercial use, the White House said. – President Obama signed an initiative to nearly double the amount of
available commercial and federal broadband spectrum for mobile devices,
the White House reported. In a planned speech to the New America
Foundation, a nonprofit, post-partisan think tank, White House economic
adviser Lawrence Su…
HP Introduces Automation of Services and Offshore Business Initiative
June 25th, 2010 |
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The representative of Hewlett-Packard announced on Wednesday that the company is planning to reduce its costs. It plans to make its services fully automated and move its enterprises to offshore locations where its expenses will be considerably cut. According to Hewlett-Packard’s vice president Robb Rasmussen, it will also be efficient to introduce automation and personnel [...]
ARM, IBM, Samsung Partner in Linux Smartphone Initiative
June 4th, 2010 |
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ARM, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments have together created Linaro, a not-for-profit company focused on supporting the development of open-source products for devices powered by ARM’s chip designs. Along with Android, other open-source ventures such as LiMo, MeeGo, Ubuntu and WebOS stand to profit from the project, which could help unify a fragmented Linux mobile operating system market. – IBM and chip designer ARM, with
partners Freescale, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments, have created
Linaro, quot;a not-for-profit open-source software engineering company quot;
focused on speeding the development of Linux-based mobile devices powered by ARM-designed
processors.
I…
Regional leaders mark 10 years of Igman Initiative
May 29th, 2010 |
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The presidents of Serbia, Croatia and Montenegro and Bosnian leaders, are in Sarajevo to mark the 10-year anniversary of the Igman Initiative. “Let us not forget that this conference is a precursor to the EU-Western Balkans ministerial meeting on June 2 in Sarajevo,†Co-President of the Igman Initiative for Serbia Aleksandar Popov said.
“Tadić to mediate in Croatia-Slovenia disputeâ€
May 27th, 2010 |
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U.S. and UK have put forth an initiative to have Serbian President Boris Tadić take an active role in promoting the Slovenia-Croatia border arbitration deal. This is according to Croatia’s Rijeka-based daily Novi List, which writes that such a choice was made as Tadić was “the most influential political figure in the regionâ€.
EMC and Ciscos Acadia Cloud Computing Initiative
May 21st, 2010 |
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Cloud computing is a hot technology trend for information technology professionals. Recently, EMC, Cisco, VMware and Intel announced Acadia, a joint venture headed up by Michael Capellas, former Compaq president. In this video news report, Elias explains how to mesh cloud computing and enterprise applications and the role Acadia will play in developing cloud computing for the enterprise.
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IBM Launches Global Entrepreneur Initiative
April 1st, 2010 |
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IBM extends its knowledge and tech expertise to startups around the world, offering access to IBM technology professionals and services in a cloud computing environment.
– Technology giant IBM March 31 announced
an initiative to open its resources to startup companies in an effort to quot;help
this next generation of entrepreneurs capture emerging business opportunities
in fast-growing industries such as energy and utilities, health care, telecommunications
and g…
Ben Affleck Launches Congo Charity Initiative
March 22nd, 2010 |
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On Monday, Ben Affleck launched a new initiative to raise money and awareness about the sexual atrocities committed against woman — and a plethora of other social ills — in the war-ravaged Eastern Congo.
The 37-year-old has been traveling to eastern Congo since 2007 and previously directed a short film called Gimme Shelter about the [...]
EC official supports war crimes commission initiative
March 21st, 2010 |
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European Commission Delegation Chief in Belgrade Vincent Degert supports the initiative for a regional commission for confirming facts about war crimes (REKOM). The initiative was proposed by a number of non-governmental organizations from countries of the former Yugoslavia.
Reusable Asset Initiative Is IBM’s Secret Weapon for Industry Solutions
March 3rd, 2010 |
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One of the little known secrets at IBM, and no doubt part of the secret sauce behind its transformational shift to software and services, is its reusable asset initiative.
– One of the little known secrets at IBM,
and no doubt part of the secret sauce behind its transformational shift to
software and services, is its reusable asset initiative.
IBM captures unique software assets that
have been used for decades in client engagements and makes them easily
accessible …
MWC: GSMA Moves Forward with VoLTE Initiative
February 15th, 2010 |
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The organization that hosts the Mobile World Congress (MWC), the GSMA, announced plans to continue the work of the One Voice Initiative under the banner of Voice over LTE, or VoLTE.
– The GSMA, the association of mobile operators and related companies that
organizes the annual Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, announced it
has adopted the work of the One Voice Initiative, which uses current open
standards to define the minimum mandatory set of functionality for
inter…
Russia: Plan for north “private initiative”
February 4th, 2010 |
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The Russian MFA today in Moscow criticized the strategy for Kosovo’s north, appraising that it falls outside the jurisdiction of the EU representative. The adoption of the strategy for the north of Kosovo does not fall within the competence of EU Special Representative Peter Feith, but is rather only a private initiative, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said on Thursday, according to a Tanjug news agency report.