Two neighbors that quarrel on their poverty: Romania and Bulgaria

Now I am living at the border with Serbia, but in my childhood I was living at the border with Bulgaria. It is true, during the communist era there was not so much visits of the Romanians in Bulgaria or … Read More

Two Romanian women killed in Italy

Breaking news: Two Romanian women, 21 and 22 years old, was killed with brutality in a hotel in Rome. Their dead bodies was found at the midnight. They have the necks cut The police started to investigate the crime. (Realitatea … Read More

Atenţie, SP3 pentru MS Office 2003 blochează formatele mai vechi de fişiere

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Office 2003 Service Pack 3, lansat în septembrie, blochează formatele mai vechi de fişiere, inclusiv Word 6.0 şi Word 97 pentru Windows, şi Word 2004 pentru Macintosh, ca şi formatele pentru versiunile mai vechi ale Excel, PowerPoint, Lotus Notes, Corel … Read More

To index or not to index the feeds

Finally, Google decided on the indexing of the feeds. The policy is now to index the multimedia podcast feeds only, as no HTML page has the same content or they have more complete item descriptions than the associated HTML page. … Read More

Recognizing text in images, patent by Google

Time for patents. After Microsoft with the “Wish list”, now it’s time for Google to have published its patent, “Recognizing text in images”. The patent was filed by Google with the World Intellectual Property Organization in June 2007 and published … Read More

Mobile gambling redivivus?

Balderton Capital (formerly Benchmark Capital Europe) is financing the UK-based gambling company betNOW. This way gamblers can place bets via text message, with the actual wagers charged to phone bills. Winnings can be picked up at local post offices. Balderton … Read More

Wikia Search, the new search engine powered by MediaWiki

Next week will be officially launched Wikia Search, powered by the free software MediaWiki and managed by Wikia Inc., with about 50 million to 100 million Web pages indexed. Wikia Search will have open-source search algorithms and application program interfaces, … Read More

Gambling predictions, 2008

It seems that it is very hard to make predictions on gambling, this year even more difficult than the other years, and online gambling much more difficult than the classical gambling. 2008 will be a very good year for the … Read More