Australia hits new Telstra privatization hurdles

Sunday, September 4, 2005 The Australian Government‘s plan for the full privatization of Telstra, Australia’s dominant telecommunications company, received criticism leveled at the government and company by executives. The government owns 51.8%, with the remaining 48.2% of Telstra stock held by shareholders, having been partially floated in the 1990s. Phil Burgess, senior executive, made comments …

Lobby groups oppose plans for EU copyright extension

Tuesday, February 26, 2008 The European Commission currently has proposals on the table to extend performers’ copyright terms. Described by Professor Martin Kretschmer as the “Beatles Extension Act”, the proposed measure would extend copyright from 50 to 95 years after recording. A vast number of classical tracks are at stake; the copyright on recordings from …

Microsoft to track legal marijuana with new partner Kind Financial

Sunday, June 19, 2016 Microsoft announced on Thursday they are partnering with KIND Financial to help governments track the production and distribution of legal marijuana. Kind Financial, a California-based start-up company, began selling its Agrisoft Seed to Sale software three years ago. Microsoft is admitting Kind’s software on the Government portion of its Azure cloud …

Bird flu resistant to anti-viral drug

Thursday, December 22, 2005 In an article in the December 2005 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), researchers from Oxford University report that two recent avian flu fatalities in Vietnam were patients who had been treated with the anti-viral medication Tamiflu. There has been one other reported case of Tamiflu-resistance in Vietnam. …

Marathon runner addresses Toronto, bringing attention to autism

Thursday, July 24, 2008 Four months and 3,200 kilometres ago, Canadian runner Jonathan Howard began his run across the second-largest country in the world, to raise awareness for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). A graduate of McMaster University, Howard arrived in Toronto this week, to address the nation’s largest city before continuing his westward run which …

50 Italian parliamentarians call for global summit for “a new financial architecture”

Thursday, March 17, 2005 A letter and motion to be debated by Italian Parliament this week calls for action to address speculative bubbles and potential future financial crashes in the global economy. The motion asks for a global summit similar to the 1944 Bretton Woods United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, which gave us the …

Hepa Allergy Vacuum Cleaners Santa Barbara California: Vacuum Cleaner Comparison Points For Allergy Suffering Consumers California Pet Owners Who Suffer From Allergies.

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