Standards and patents in ICT: a conference in June
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It's all very well to rely on your own ICT but, if you don't buy into industry standards in the telecom sector, this is what you're going to end up with ... Here's some good news for readers of this weblog who own lots of patents in the Informa...
Les applications possibles du Coworking dans différents contextes
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Le modèle coworking est né d'abord d'initiatives individuelles. Aujourd'hui, des espaces de coworking sont mis en oeuvre dans d'autres contextes : c'est le réseau social physique, ou réseau social 3D. Des campus d'université, des développeurs u...
The Closer
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Round-up US equities closed very slightly down on the day after a decline in the last hour of trading (Bloomberg). The economic indicators that mattered were the Case-Shiller home price index,...
Irish Euro-referendum set for 31 May
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Opinion polls indicate a big win for the Pro-Treaty Forces and they may, for all I know, be right. Still, contemplate the image above. Two-and-a-half years ago, in the run-up to the second Lisbon referendum, every mainstream Irish politician was prom...
Foreign policy roundup: No more Turkish Airlines flight to Syria and more…
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Turkish Airlines winds down operations in Syria from Hurriyet Daily News Turkey’s national carrier is winding down its operations in Syria. Turkey Closed Damascus Embassy The Turkish government closed down the Damascus Embassy and recalled the...
UKIP MEP Colman urges all to sign petition to exempt air ambulances from paying VAT on fuel
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Thousands of pounds paid straight into Treasury coffers in the form of VAT by the Air Ambulance service in the region should instead be kept to support its vital emergency work says Trevor Colman, one of the region’s UKIP MEPs.Mr Colman is urging...
No communion for Bertie Ahern? Perjury is a reserved sin
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For the Irish politician and pals who have been cited in the Mahon report as having lied to the tribunal about their finances or lied, period, there is the potential that the Irish police might do their job and actually investigate. The revenue co...
Fiscal Treaty Referendum: Thursday May 31st
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The date has been set for the Fiscal Treaty Referendum and it will take place on Thursday May 31st. Polls will be open from 7am until 10pm. The date was announced by An Táiniste Eamonn Gilmore in the Dáil this afternoon following a Cabinet Meeting...
Efficiency and Ethics: High-Speed Trading
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Two months into 2012, the SEC announced that it had been examining the trading activities of high-frequency trading firms. According to the Wall Street Journal, the SEC was “examining, among other things, whether high-frequency firms benefit...
Financial Times Economist Calls For A Eurozone Fiscal Union
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Financial Market report for March 27, 2012 Greece, GREK, and Spain, EWP, led European Shares, VGK, lower today. Euro Intelligence provides the best of analysis; it comes via a subscription; I recommend that one purchase their daily newsletter which f...
The European: Time to ask some questions about identities
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Read our second article on The European.
Moving
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Not from London, or even moving house. Just moving the blog to my own domain http://www.euonym.eu Please come and visit me there. And if you have any ideas on how to transfer this blog over (the import/export tool doesn’t seem … Continue...
Don't be fooled. Europe's racists are not discerning | Anne Karpf
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Opportunistic words of love for Jews and Israel cannot disguise the European far right's toxic rhetoric of hatredOn Saturday, in the Danish city of Aarhus, a Europe-wide rally organised by the English Defence League will try to set up a European anti...
US corporate cash stat of the day
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It comes via RBC capital:From a flows perspective, capital expenditures are being surpassed by internally generated cash flows at a quarterly annualized rate of ~$200 billion....
Who were the naughtiest Europeans of 2011?
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No, this is not another one of those taxpayer funded EU awards. This is about what takes place beyond the rhetoric, political horse-trading and posturing amongst ministers and diplomats in Brussels. This about the tiny matter of actually implementing...
He copied, but he's not a plagiarist
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A committee finds that the president was not to blame for copying other people's work...
