Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Archive for October 1st, 2006

Election’s day (UPDATED)

Posted in Europe, South America on October 1, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Today there were elections in Austria and Brazil.
In Austria, with all but absentee ballots counted, the centre-left Social Democrats won 35.7% of the vote, narrowly beating the the People’s Party at 34.2%.
Even as results were being counted, Mr Schuessel said it would take “a small miracle” for his party to win.
The Social Democrat’s Alfred [...]

Read Full Post »

Two tech news

Posted in Financial news, Firms, Web on October 1, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Yahoo! Search is going to be pre-installed as the default search engine in all HP computers. This comes after Yahoo! has also signed a similar agreement with Acer. HP computers has an approx. share of 15% (19% on the US market and 16% in Europe), while Acer is now the 4th producer of computers, with a [...]

Read Full Post »

EU-USA: No agreement on passengers’ information

Posted in Europe, European Union, Firms, USA on October 1, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

From BBC:

After 9/11, US authorities demanded that airlines should provide personal passenger data for all inbound flights.
But the subsequent US-EU agreement was ruled illegal by the highest European court in May of this year. Saturday was the deadline for a new deal.
A European Commission spokesman said that a legal black hole could be [...]

Read Full Post »

AVT’s demonstration in Seville (UPDATED)

Posted in Caribbean, South America, Spain, terrorism, violence on October 1, 2006 | 10 Comments »

Today there is a demonstration in Seville, supporting ETA terrorists’ victims and against the Government’s negotiation with ETA. Even if I cannot stay there with them in person, I support them with this post.
We will see how the demonstration goes after the Government has announced that they will control the noise demonstrators could make and [...]

Read Full Post »