Category Archives: in English

Is Facebook dangerous?

Posted on October 12, 2007 by Veni Markovski | Вени Марковски

Interesting story at this site. If you are not concerned about using Facebook, you might be, after listening to this story. That is, of course, if you believe e-mail communication is secured, and privacy is guaranteed at your current Internet … Continue reading →

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RIP*, Music Labels?

Posted on October 7, 2007 by Veni Markovski | Вени Марковски

The Time magazine makes a really good story about the latest album of Radiohead, In Rainbows. The biggest issue around this album is not the music, but the fact that the band is leaving the price to the customer! Yes, … Continue reading →

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Finally: Microsoft is fined Euro 497.2 million, or $689.4 million!

Posted on September 17, 2007 by Veni Markovski | Вени Марковски

As the New York Times announced just 20 minutes ago, the EU court finally said it: Microsoft is a company that misuses its monopoly: The European Court of First Instance, in a starkly worded summary read to a courtroom of … Continue reading →

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Romanain spam – they are looking for work, not offering Drakula tours

Posted on September 5, 2007 by Veni Markovski | Вени Марковски

Yes, we do live in interesting times. Here’s what my anti-spam filters captured. Note that it has a funny opt-out remark in the beginning. HQ Software Consulting – Bucharest To: Attn: Marketing Department Ref.: Romanian PHP, Java, ASP, & .NET … Continue reading →

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Corrupt countries were more likely to support the OOXML document format

Posted on September 5, 2007 by Veni Markovski | Вени Марковски

Continuing the news from yesterday, here’s another piece from Ville Oksanen of EFFI (Finland) International Organization for Standardization (ISO) rejected the fast-track approval of the controversial Microsoft-supported OOXML document format as an ISO standard in a vote on 2 September … Continue reading →

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Last 2 days to register and vote for best EU e-government project!

Posted on September 5, 2007 by Veni Markovski | Вени Марковски

Vote for the Most inspiring good practice to receive the 2007 eGovernment Award You may select up to 3 different cases that you think should receive the award. The deadline for voting is 20 September 2007, and only portal members … Continue reading →

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Bulgarian elected as deputy-chairman of the ITU Council

Posted on September 4, 2007 by Veni Markovski | Вени Марковски

The chairman of the Bulgarian State Agency for ITC Plamen Vatchkov was elected today as deputy-chairman of the ITU Council. According to the rules of the IETU, he will be the next chairman of the ITU council from January 1, … Continue reading →

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ISO votes against fast tracking Microsoft's Office Open XML

Posted on September 4, 2007 by Veni Markovski | Вени Марковски

Good news came to me from Patrik: The International Organization for Standardization has voted against a proposal to fast-track Microsoft’s Office Open XML format as an international standard. Here’s how the vote went: all 41 of the of the countries … Continue reading →

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India to Microsoft: stop wasting our time

Posted on August 31, 2007 by Veni Markovski | Вени Марковски

Nice entry from Venkatesh Hariharan. See for yourself: Finally word is out and the Bureau of Indian Standards has confirmed that it will be submitting a “No with comments” vote to International Standards Organization on Microsoft’s OOXML proposal. This brings … Continue reading →

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560,000 German Students to use Linux

Posted on August 30, 2007 by Veni Markovski | Вени Марковски

As cnet’s news.com announces, North Rhine-Westphalia has selected Novell for the supply of its IT infrastructure. Novell already supports 300,000 students in the states of Bavaria and Thuringia; the new deal will add another 560,000 students and thousands of employees.(…) … Continue reading →

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