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http://www.birbabaindie.com/ blogunun yazarı Anıl Sayan… Vehbi Görgülü de bizimleydi: http://www.atlasblog.net/ XOXO Related posts: müzik blogculuğu… Hayalsu Altınordu (@hayalsu) ve Onur Yazıcı (@onurthepuht) ile @sosyalk...
Friday fantasies
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It's not every day that the IPKat brings news from a Saudi BOG but, courtesy of the Abu-Ghazaleh Intellectual Property Group's newsletter comes tidings that will warm the hearts of all true IP owners: "Saudi Arabia has sentenced a piracy trader...
Gunfight at the T.V.I.X. Corral
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There’s been a lot of talk about the carnage in the TVIX on Thursday. The VelocityShares 2x short-term ETN, whose new issues were suspended by Credit Suisse on February 21...
Le Comeback-Kid
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By David Gow David Cameron’s judgment may well be vindicated: don’t write off Nicolas Sarkozy, he said, and, voila, lecomeback-kid remonte dans les sondages. The bloody end to the siege of Mohamed Merah in Toulouse and Sarkozy’s ha...
The Guidelines to go with the Handbook - EPO Publishes new Guidelines for Examination
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Our dear readers may recall that my fellow feline David Brophy informed us a little while ago about the "Handbook of quality procedures before the EPO". This turned out to be not only the Whizzkid's Handbook for European Patent Attorneys as original...
Tulisa, that sex tape and 'false' privacy becoming 'real' privacy
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Only if you had a complete UK tabloid blackout for the last week would you have been able to escape the Tulisa sex tape drama. Juicy sordid details aside, the case is interesting because of the privacy statements made as well as the use of social me...
Don’t Get All Surprised
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Even in an effort “done on the cheap”, NATO could not have pulled off the Libya operation without the US, not even in the “non-hardware-and-brute-force” areas of intelligence and assessment, for which the Europeans have always argued was thei...
Seduced by plastic... or not?
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On the 20th of April, the Amsterdam Center for Law and Economics (ACLE) organizes a conference on Behavioral Competition & Regulation. A brief introduction to the topic can be found on their website:'Much of competition policy and regulation is b...
Polish regulator fines telecoms companies as regards specific PRS practices
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"The President of UOKiK challenged the practice applied by Telecom Media, Polskiej Telefonii Cyfrowej and P4.The proceedings against Telecom Media were instituted in July 2011. Text and voice messages persuading consumers in 2010 to take part in the...
Minimum alcohol pricing – a disproportionate response to a declining problem
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Indeed, they are most potent in potting: your Dane, your German, and your swag-bellied Hollander—Drink, ho!—are nothing to your English. The poet reminds us that our national propensity to drunkenness is not new. For all the alarmism abou...
IMAX
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Despite being more expensive, going to see a movie being screened on an IMAX screen has been leading the industry’s rebound in revenue and attendance. Through the first six weeks of 2012, IMAX ticket sales were $55 million in the U.S., a 45% increa...
Always a few BATS AAPLs… [updated]
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Alternative title: BATS in the belfry…Or: When one stale share price quote gets out and triggers a circuit-breaker in the world’s biggest stock.That’s what...
EU imposes sanctions on Assad’s wife, relatives
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By DON MELVIN and JOHN HEILPRIN BRUSSELS — EU foreign ministers imposed sanctions Friday on Asma Assad, the stylish, British-born wife of the Syrian president, banning her from traveling to European Union countries and freezing any assets she m...
FCC proposes 40 MHz more for mobile broadband
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"The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) took steps ... to increase the nation’s supply of spectrum for mobile broadband by removing unnecessary barriers to flexible use of 40 megahertz of additional spectrum currently assigned to the Mobile Sa...
FCC's NPRM on interoperability and efficient use of spectrum in 700 MHz band
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"The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to promote interoperability and encourage the efficient use of spectrum in the commercial Lower 700 MHz band (698-746 MHz). The rulemaking is designed pr...
Can Europeans blog after all?
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Authors: Shahin Vallée, Jérémie Cohen-Setton, Emmanuel Letouzé, Martin KesslerLast week, we wrote a post arguing that the European economic blogosphere was trailing by far its American counterpart. It had been our impression for a long time, and...
Waiver of BT’s price notification requirements for charges in relation to the transfer and migration of legacy to new Ethernet services
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OFCOM consults on its "proposal to waive the price notification requirement in relation to the transfer and migration charges from BT's legacy Ethernet services (specifically Wholesale Extension Services (WES), Wholesale End-to-End Service (WEES) and...
Seven Days in Europe
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The EU is to add the Syrian leader’s wife, mother, sister and sister-in-law to its blacklist at a foreign minister’s meeting in Brussels on Friday diplomatic sources say. The new visa ban and asset freeze also covers eight members of R...
Have the Germans been good Europeans this week?
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Earlier this week, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle held a meeting with a number of his European counterparts dedicated to 'conceptualising' the political composition of Europe after the crisis has passed and provide some though leadership.A...
Boris campaign to rich voters: ‘We don’t care if your nanny is off’
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As the London mayoral election draws closer, an email from a Boris Johnson organiser in a particularly wealthy area of the capital reveals some interesting tactics for election day. In a call for volunteers to join a “hit squad”, the message outl...
Bosnia past, present and future
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A member of the presidency resigns, and a Srebrenica survivor faces death threats...
Bosnia past, present and future
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ANYONE interested in Bosnia and Hercegovina will soon be treated to a deluge of maudlin “I was there,” stories by a gaggle of journalists who covered the war and are reassembling in Sarajevo to mark the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the si...
Spanish NCA's report on the foreseen in a new law merger of all regulatory bodies
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"In its meeting on 15 March 2012 the CNC Council approved the Report on the Bill to Create the National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC). The CNC takes the view that if done properly, we have before us an opportunity to improve the current s...
Hungary Offers Muddled View on Timing of Eurobond Issue
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The Hungarian Debt Management Agency and the country’s government have given somewhat contradictory communication on whether it wants to issue Eurobonds before it enters a financing deal with the EU and the IMF.
Another Councillor shuns Cam for Kip
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Where oh where will this end? After yesterday's big defection of two Councillors in Windsor to UKIP, true blue South East of England got a bit more purple still as another Councillor has swelled the UKIP ranks. Christopher Quinton, a councillor for...
Blogs review: What's finance for?
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Authors: Jérémie Cohen-Setton, Shahin Vallée, Martin KesslerWhat’s at stake: Since the financial crisis, the role of finance has been put into question. Beyond the political process of re-regulation, it is useful to go back to the fundamental qu...
Dependence on Gazprom — a long-term prospect of Ukraine
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Information concerning possible signing of the gas agreement between Naftogaz of Ukraine and German RWE recently appeared in Ukrainian mass-media. What’s meant is the delivery of spot gas bought in Europe to Ukraine through pipelines of Slova...
Unstable Guinea Bissau Enters Africa’s Electoral Danger Zone
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As is now customary during election seasons, both the promises and travails of African democracy are simultaneously being played out in Guinea Bissau this week. The chronically unstable former Portuguese colony has long been regarded by many observ...
Brussels blog round up for 17-23 March 2012: The European Parliament drags its feet on EU wide constituencies, Ashton is criticized, and the IMF demands more guarantees on Greece.
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Chris Gilson and Julian Kirchherr take a look at the week in Brussels blogging. The EU Centre Spain has now come under fire for its use of European Union (EU) structural funds. This indicates that European Union regional spending is in urgent need...
