Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
TIMES OF INDIA – In the wake of runaway inflation and the ensuing food crisis, the prime minister constituted three high-powered committees of chief ministers and central ministers to recommend ways of containing inflation, improving PDS and boosting agricultural production. Read More
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
NATIONAL UAE – The number of Arabic-language mobile applications is expected to grow significantly over the next year as regional organisations invest in the development of new content.The value of the global market for apps development will be US$6.2 billion (Dh22.77bn) this year and should grow to $22.1bn in 2013, according to figures from the
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
DEUTSCHE WELLE – German rail operator Deutsche Bahn has said it will pump over 40 billion euros ($51.5 billion) into operations over the next four years, which marks the largest investment in the company’s history. Read More
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
TELEGRAPH UK – Growing demand for 3D video games will in turn drive the uptake of 3D television, according to a senior executive at Ubisoft, one of the world’s biggest game publishers. By 2013, 3D TV will be in all UK homes, said Murray Pannel, head of marketing for Ubisoft in the UK. Read More
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
THE ECONOMIST – Modern speech-recognition programs do not merely try to identify individual words as they are spoken; rather, they attempt to match whole chunks of speech with statistical models of phrases and sentences. The rationale is that by knowing statistical rules of thumb for the way in which words are usually put together—an abstract
Monday, July 12th, 2010
ALL AFRICA – National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) has said it has concluded arrangement to formally launch the NigerSat-2 high resolution satellite and NigeriaSat-X satellite on October 29, this year with a view to replacing the NigeriaSat-1 in orbit. The new satellites are said to be more advanced compared with the missing NigeriaSat-1
Monday, July 12th, 2010
JERUSALEM POST – Hadash MK Dov Henin once again led the Israel Union for Environmental Defense (IUED) list of top environmental legislators, which was released on Sunday.The environmental NGO examined the legislative record of the first session of the 18th Knesset. This is the eighth year the report has been published. Read More
Monday, July 12th, 2010
TIMES OF MALTA – NGOs have long clamoured for the government to smell the coffee and to take concrete steps to stem the illegal flow of groundwater. Finally, the government did – its proposals aim to ensure that all water bowser suppliers have a specific licence from the Malta Resources Authority, and a tracking system
Monday, July 12th, 2010
MB PHILIPPINES – The National Water Resources Board (NWRB), the lead government agency that regulates the country’s water supply under the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), implemented a cut on Metro Manila’s water allocation last Saturday to meet the water demands of at least 12 million consumers until the water level in Angat
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
IODE – The State of Eritrea designated Mr Sammy Mahmud (Managing Director, Marine Resources Division, Ministry of Marine Resources) based in Massawa, as IODE National Coordinator for oceanographic data management. Mr Salih Hassan as been designated as IODE National Coordinator for Marine Information (Library) Management. More info on Mr Mahmud is available here. The IODE community
