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Blog: Hard times for NGOs in Uganda
Source: IRIN Mandeep Tiwana of CIVICUS Civil Society Watch analyses restrictive aspects of the Uganda NGO Registration Act 1989, the NGO Registration (Amendment) Act 2006, and the NGO Regulations 1990. In Uganda: Legal framework restricts civil society, Tiwana looks at the legislative framework governing NGOs and the restrictions it places on their ability to function independently.
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Blog: Humanitarian work - it's the new black
Source: IRIN Stop me if you've heard this one: At an open-air concert somewhere, Bono is called to the stage to speak to the crowd.
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Blog: Pastoralists, in their own words…
Source: IRIN OCHA Pastoralist Voices report for July/August 2008 carries pastoralist views on the impact of protracted drought, and rising food and fuel prices in East Africa. Extracts following...
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Google reaches further into the enterprise
Phil Muncaster, vnunet.com , Wednesday 6 August 2008 at 13:24:00 New search appliance can index 10m documents Google has upped the ante in the enterprise search wars with the launch of a new search appliance, capable of scaling to up to 10 million documents in a single...
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Readers back McKinnon appeal
Ian Williams, vnunet.com , Wednesday 6 August 2008 at 13:19:00 The US should hire him a security consultant, says poll Nearly three quarters (74 per cent) of vnunet.com readers who voted in our current poll believe that 'Nasa hacker' Gary McKinnon should not be extradited to the US....
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TSA to allow laptops to stay in OK'd bags
There's a new option for people annoyed at having to take their laptops out of their bags at airport security. The Transportation Security Administration will now allow travelers to leave their computers inside "checkpoint friendly" cases. The new rules, announced yesterday in Washington and set to take effect Aug. 16, are intended to help streamline the X-ray inspection lines. TSA said it ...
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BCE Profit Misses Estimates as Web Unit Disappoints (Update1)
Aug. 6 (Bloomberg) -- BCE Inc., the Canadian phone company being taken private in the biggest leveraged buyout, posted second-quarter earnings that missed analysts' estimates after losing customers in the Internet business.
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Bewkes confirms AOL split
Time Warner CEO says the company is weathering the "challenging economic environment," and that it's ready to split the management of the unit's ISP and media businesses.
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Modeling an Honest Face
An innovative psychological research study uses a computer program to analyze what it is about certain human faces that makes them look either trustworthy or fearsome. In doing so, Princeton scientists have also found the program allows them to construct computer-generated faces that display the most trustworthy or dominant faces possible. Such work could [...]
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Friendster gets new chief executive
Social networking site Friendster, which is the most popular of its type in Asia, has announced that Richard Kimber will be its new chief executive officer and a member of its board of directors.
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Readers back McKinnon appeal
Nearly three quarters (74 per cent) of vnunet.com readers who voted in our current poll believe that 'Nasa hacker' Gary McKinnon should not be extradited to the US.
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Sonus Networks Positioned in Leaders Quadrant in Magic Quadrant for Softswitch Architecture 2008 Report
Sonus Networks, Inc. , a market leader in IP communications infrastructure solutions, announced today that the Gartner "Magic Quadrant for Softswitch Architecture" report , which studies vendors in the softswitch architecture industry, has positioned Sonus in the "Leaders" quadrant.
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Internet Domains Open Access To $550 Billion Tax Foreclosure Market
While Congress struggles with an appropriate response to the U.S. mortgage foreclosure crisis, an equally profound housing problem remains largely hidden: tax foreclosures. In 2007, $6.6 billion worth of property was in the tax foreclosure market, and an astounding $558 billion worth was in the pre-foreclosure process.
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Apple iPhone Users Invited to Take Over the World and Become Business Superstars
Online business simulation experts Minieconomy.com -- http://www.minieconomy.com -- are proud to announce the launch of their award-winning strategy game, Informatist, for the Apple iPhone .
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AVIcode Introduces Client Side Application Monitoring
AVIcode, Inc., the leading provider of real-time, always-on application monitoring solutions, today announced a Client Side Monitoring add-on for Intercept Studio. The product extends the end-to-end application health monitoring capabilities of Intercept Studio by enabling the ability to detect and diagnose problems with browser-based applications.
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Maximizing Secondhand Search: Used Item Retailers Can Prosper in Spite of Economic Downturn
In today's difficult economy many cost-conscious consumers are searching online for businesses that provide secondhand goods.
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Autodesk Introduces Mudbox 2009 Digital Sculpting and Texture Painting Software
Autodesk, Inc. today launched Autodesk Mudbox 2009 software for 3D modelers and texture artists working on entertainment and design projects.
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Sun Microsystems Announces Availability of Facebook Application for Fans of the 2008 Summer Games
SANTA CLARA, Calif.----Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced the release of a new social networking game for Facebook, allowing fans of the 2008 Beijing Summer Games to compete online, with their friends and for their country, by correctly predicting medal winners throughout this summer's events.
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At Doggyspace, social networking goes to the dogs
Cici confesses on her Web page that she likes to greet everyone by licking their feet. Dolce admits to being a mamma's boy.
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Big Stage Hires Executives
Pasadena-based Big Stage Entertainment, which develops technology to create life-like 3D avatars, announced today that the firm has appointed two new executives to the firm's management team. Big Stage said that it has hired on James Brennan as the firm's Vice President, Online, and Richard Diephuis as Vice President, Engineering. Brennan joins the firm from digital consultancy Mandalan Media, ...
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Joint venture threatened as Siemens mulls split with Fujitsu
Janie Davies, Computing , Wednesday 6 August 2008 at 12:57:00 Fujitsu Siemens Computers may be sold or dismantled, says the Wall Street Journal The future of Fujitsu Siemens Computers has been called into question after it was reported that Siemens is considering pulling out of the joint venture....
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Twitter plays host to data-stealing malware
Kaspersky Lab has uncovered a fake Twitter profile created solely for the purpose of infecting people's computers
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Dell unveils new line of Dell/EMC CX data storage systems
Dell Inc. announced Tuesday the fourth-generation Dell/EMC CX family of storage systems with multi-protocol flexibility and massive scalability, which doubles the number of drives up to 960 in a single array.
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Orange launches remote device-management service
The hosted service will let IT managers send updates to employees' handsets, turn off specific functionalities and wipe the devices if needed
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HP touchscreen notebooks coming in 18 months
The Californian company best known for producing overpriced printer ink is following the lead of Apple's soon-to-be ubiquitous Iphone by using multi finger gestures and taps to simplify the user interface of its notebook computers.
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