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With the Content Management System (CMS) module, page contents can be managed and viewed. The following functions are available in the module: Edit text, Link and show images, Link e-mail and website addresses, Link documents for downloading and much more...News June 2006
Apple Computer's Options Timing Looks Too Good: Graef Crystal
The maker of Macintosh computers and iPod music players said yesterday that it may have backdated its option grants, a practice some companies have used to give their executives a clever pay boost. Even if it turns out Apple didn't, it's hard not to conclude that it timed those grants in a manner that was very favorable to its top executives.
2006/06/27G.M. to Offer 0% Financing on Most of Its 2006 Models
General Motors, closing out what could turn out to be the weakest first half of a year it has ever recorded, will offer zero percent financing on most 2006 models over the Independence Day weekend.
From Thursday to July 5, G.M. will offer six-year no-interest loans on all but the most popular Chevrolet, Buick, Pontiac and GMC vehicles in an effort to clear space on dealer lots for 2007 models.
2006/06/22Dollar Falls to 2-Week Low Against Euro
The dollar slipped briefly to a two-week low against the euro in Asia Thursday after remarks by the European Central Bank head the previous day set off speculation about higher interest rates in Europe.
2006/06/20China appreciates Zoellick's contribution to Sino-US ties
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu spoke highly of the role U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick has played in developing Sino-U.S. relations, saying he has made positive efforts to promote the mutual understanding and trust between the two countries.
2006/06/15US Federal Reserve reports industrial production fell 0.1% in May
The US Federal Reserve reported today that industrial production declined 0.1 percent in May after an increase of 0.8 percent in April. Manufacturing production also fell 0.1 percent last month.
2006/06/12Bernanke Can Thank Greenspan for His Troubles: Kevin Hassett
Financial markets have had a rough few weeks. For Ben Bernanke, things have been even rougher.
When he appointed Bernanke to replace Alan Greenspan as Federal Reserve chairman, President George W. Bush lauded Bernanke's speeches for their "keen insight and clear, simple language." That praise was well-deserved. Bernanke is renowned in the economic community for his intellect and wit.
2006/06/08High energy costs threaten economy
Rising energy prices are pushing up inflation and increasingly threaten the U.S. economy, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan testified Wednesday.
He called for developing alternative energy sources like ethanol and liquefied natural gas quickly.
2006/06/06IBM boss in another recce
IBM chairman and chief executive officer Samuel Palmisano will start his two-day visit to India tomorrow — his fourth since May 2003.
With the country fast turning into an IT hub, the world’s biggest computer services company is looking at finetuning its presence in various areas, including business process outsourcing, delivery services, research and software development.
2006/06/02The Leadership Factory
The President called, and like so many of his predecessors at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Henry M. Paulson Jr. said yes. The lanky, 60-year-old Illinois-bred Republican, now headed for Washington as the next Treasury Secretary, joins a surprisingly long list of Goldmanites who have found power an irresistible coda to money. For both Democrats and Republicans looking for smart advisers, the firm at 85 Broad St. has been an unequaled hunting ground.
News & Stories
2008/07/03
Flash Indexing
Adobe has given Google and Yahoo the possibility
to index their proprietary flash format. Google has
already started with integrating the new technical
solution in their index. This could boost the importance
of flash content because it gets more accessible with
search engines.
2008/06/05
Tobacco Exports From Switzerland
Almost nobody knows that Swiss farmers are exporting
tobacco. The temperatures in Switzerland are high
enough to grow tobacco plants in Switzerland.
The biggest part of this tobacco is worked into cigarettes,
and as the Swiss are smoking less and less, the tobacco
can be exported more and more.
2008/05/20
Support for Swiss Filmers
Most movies that are produced in Switzerland have a
big problem: the cannot be shown in cinemas. They are
not technically compatible to the equipment of cinemas.
The Federal Office for Culture has started a new pilot
project: Filmers who want to bring their movies into
cinema can get support from the Confederation if
the film is convenient to the criteria.
2008/04/28
Security at Euro 2008
Security is one of the main phrases that can be heard in
combination with Euro 2008. Switzerland and Austria
have incubated security plans for every situation that
could take place at Euro 2008. It is important that sport
fans can find together without any severe dangers be it
hooligans or other security dangers. The championship
should become a party for everyone, who wants to take
part in.
2008/04/23
Panini Stickers Fever
The fever of Panini stickers has started again! For the
European Championship, Panini produces the officially
licensed stickers collection. These stickers can be stuck
into an album that holds the whole collection. This year
it is even possible to produce one’s own sticker from
a
picture. Many children from Switzerland are collecting
Panini stickers — an understandable fact, as Switzerland
is the place, where the championship takes place.
2008/04/02
Adolf Wölfli Exhibition in Bern
These days an exhibition has its doors open:
the Adolf Wölfli exhibition in the Museum of Fine Arts in
Bern.
The exhibition shows some parts of his monumental works
that include 25,000 pages of illustrated narratives.
The artist became as productive when he was in the
psychiatric hospital of Waldau.
2008/04/02
UBS: No re-election of Marcel Ospel
Marcel Ospel announced that he is not willing to be re-elected
into the Board of Directors of UBS, the United Banks of
Switzerland. This after a long and difficult period in the history
of the Swiss Bank. The prospects for the first quarter of the
year will be a loss of 12 billions in Swiss Francs.The Board
of Directors proposes to elect Peter Kurer for the job of
Marcel Ospel. The events on finance markets since the
summer
of 2007 have led the bank to big problems.
2008/02/01
More and More Students at Swiss Universities
The new statistics show the trend: at Swiss universities,
more and more students are enrolled.
These statistics also
show a big loss in primary schools: The years with many
born children are out of school now. The times, when in
Switzerland had to be more and more new schools could
be over by now.
2008/01/07
Climate Conference in Bali
The talks in Bali for another time just stay talks.
Even if there is big interests in reducing climate change,
the big – and therefore – important nations, such as China
or the United States don’t participate in the programs
of reducing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
In Greenland, ice keeps melting and politicians need to talk
one more time to find a solution.
2007/12/04
An Internet for Children
Angela Merkel, the Chanceller of Germany, has opened
today the new kid platform ask Finn. The platform
allows the children of responsible parents to navigate
the Internet on sites that are convenient to children.
Many Internet pioneers like Google ore Lycos support
the project for children. It offers a search engine that
contains just sites that are supposed for children.
2007/11/23
Sunrise And Google: Partnership
The Swiss telecommunication enterprise Sunrise, which
is a sub group of the Danish TDC, and Google, the
Internet service provider have a new contract for
online services. The partnership concerns just emails:
Sunrise customers will have the possibility to store 2
gigabytes just with mails. The new partnership opens
broad possibilities also in mailing software: The service
from Sunrise will be based on Google's Gmail.
2007/11/19
More Swissness With Google
Google can't stop offering new features for its customer's
in the online world. Once started with an award winning
search engine, Google offers a service for every project in
the web. Google Maps, one of the youngest services has
become even better: new cards are digitized and Swiss
people are able to find their places since then.
2007/11/14
Social Web Community
Social web communities were hyped as the revolution
of Internet. With Facebook, Myspace and other more
or less known community platforms have started to
store web identities of thousands of people. Now,
every big company needs to have its own community
website: Murdoch's big trust owns Myspace, other
companies own shares from other platforms. The
race is just beginning at the moment with Google's
announcement of an open social platform.
2007/11/06
DerWesten Launched
The German news company Waz has launched its
platform DerWesten. With Katharina Borchert,
DerWesten has an editor-in-chief who knows by
heart how Internet communication works. As a
former blogger she had already a big public with
which she communicated on daily basis. Now she
has launched one of the most progressive German
news sites.
2007/10/25
French Wine Dictionary
The French speaking part of the world has now its
own dictionary for wine. As wine plays a big role
in French food culture, it is not astonishing that a
French linguist makes the dictionary. The Dictionary
of Wine Language has his place in the world of
dictionaries and will help many people to get to
know to the business of degustation.
2007/09/14
The Swiss Long Way to the UNO
Since 2002, Switzerland is part of UN. Even if
important buildings of the UNO are in Geneva,
Swiss people didn’t want to take part in UN as
a member. One of the problems was political
neutrality in foreign affairs of Switzerland.
Nevertheless, Switzerland is one of the countries
that was able to start nations discuss with each
other even as non-member of UN.
2007/09/07
Email: Productivity killer
Many magazines and websites tell it: email is
the most important productivity since the World
Wide Web was founded. Too many mails flood
inboxes and if you always have open your mailbox,
your concentration on the most important tasks will
go down seriously. The solution for it is as simple as
this: Just check your mailbox once in a while, and
your concentration will grow again.
2007/08/31
UNO Wants Answer From Swiss
Federal Council
The United Nation wants an answer from
the Swiss federal council because of a campaign
started by the Swiss People’s Party. They want
an answer about the meaning of the council: is
the campaign racist? The campaign shows
sheep: One black sheep is kicked away by
a white one.
2007/08/17
Public Viewing at Euro 08
Public viewing has become a very important issue
for Euro 08. Many cities in Switzerland are planning
to broadcast the games on public places that soccer
fans can enjoy the whole match on a big screen with
their friends. The federal services have now published
a handy set of rules which help to a better orientation in
legal affairs. It concernes pricing issues as well as subjects
how much space should be provided for how many
people and what kind of beverages should be offered in
what way.
2007/08/10
Street Parade With Perfect Weather Forecast
The 16th Street Parade in Zurich has its kick-off on
Saturday at 1.00 pm. The weather forecast for this
date is perfect. The route of the street parade stays
the same as last year. With the theme of “respect”
ravers from all over the world will make parties the
whole weekend around the sea in Zurich.
2007/07/30
New Residence in Washington Gets
Prestigious Architecture Prize
The Swiss Office of Construction and Logistics
received the prestigious international architecture
prize from the “Royal Institute of British Architects”
for the new embassy in Washington. The institute
has underlined the importance of the environmental
protection by the building. This is the first time that
the Swiss Office of Construction and Logistics receives
this prize.
2007/07/25
Positive Results for Swiss Cheese
In the last weeks, Swiss cheese gained some
important results. The first concerns Gruyere
the cheese from Gruyere: The Swiss delegates
for European Union have submitted an appellation
for protection of the label within the whole European
Union. Furthermore, Emmentaler Swiss and
Tête de Moine have a new collaboration with
a research institute that helps to produce bacteria
cultures for both cheese varieties.
2007/07/10
iPhone Revolution
Apple has started another revolution:
after the revolution of mp3 players with
the iPod in 2001, the revolution of mobile
phones begins. Sources esteem that already
around 500.000 and 700.000 phones were
sold on the first weekend after release.
With the iPhone it is possible to surf the web,
read emails, see videos and listen to music
and of course, what every cellphone can: write
sms and call your friends. Steve Jobs names
the iPhone the best iPod ever.
2007/06/22
Dual visa for Switzerland and Austria
For Euro 2008, Switzerland and Austria have
agreed to make a dual visa. Football fans can
watch games in both countries: Switzerland and
Austria with just one visa. Austrian authorities will
pass these special visas. This has special
arrangement had to be undertaken as Switzerland
won’t be part of the Schengen contracts yet.
2007/06/15
Swiss Researchers in Genome finding
The book of life of human beings was published
in 2003. The genome, was said, includes around
30’000 genes but this number had to be shrunken
to 20’000–25’000. Researchers from Swiss
universities of Lausanne and Geneva have also
contributed to the results with long-term studies
during three years. The aim was to find the active
parts of the genes, so called exons. For 80 percent
of the genes were found new exons.
2007/06/01
No More Cash until July
The weekly magazine “Cash” will no longer follow
its print medium with tradition. As the first Swiss
media agency, Ringier will introduce a new
combination: “Cash daily” with “cash.ch” and
cash mobile will be the new product mix.
“Cash daily” is already available today as a
free daily newspaper. People who have still their
subscriptions can choose from a broad palette of
other magazines.
2007/05/28
Positive Effects with Free Circulation of Persons
The agreement with the European Union has good
effects on Swiss labour markets. The immigration of
European Union’s citizens adapts to the needs of
Swiss economy. The unemployment rate has even
been reduced from 3.8% in 2005 to 3.3% last year.
The regulation of immigration for the new EU countries
(those countries who became members in 2004) will
be valid until 2011.
2007/05/14
Make an end to fossil fuels
New technologies are very important to guarantee that
energy is available in future. The scientific checking
institute EMPA has a symposium on new energy
sources. They are for example at the examination
of thermo-electrical materials with which it should
be possible to make an end to dependence on oil
and other fossil fuels.
2007/05/07
Artwork as borderline
Annemarie Huber Hotz has inaugurated the new art-borders between Switzerland and Germany or to see it in a bigger pattern, between Switzerland and the European Union. As art makes also possible experience with borders, it is a symbolic fence. No longer, police is stationed between Kreuzlingen and Constance; the borders ar no longer strict borderlines in nature. Nonetheless, the border between the countries are still valid.2007/04/20
New ad campaign to stop aids
To stop aids diffusion, The Swiss Aids Foundation has started a new advertising campaign. People have to be sensibilisated on the risk a new partnership brings with it. The campaign focuses especially on persons who are in the most dangerous positions because of their lifestyle. It is now 20 years since ad campaigns against aids and hiv are in media and on hoardings.
2007/04/13
The iPod — a Marketing Success Story
Apple, the iPod manufacturer announced this week that the iPod has hit the 100 million sold pieces margin. It seems to be both: A marketing success story and a good product with innovative service. Many people like the digital device for its integration in iTunes but also because they can transport their whole digital collection of music, photos and films with them. 2007/03/23
Munch exhibition – Attraction for Norwegian Royalties
The Edvard Munch exhibition in Basel attracts even royalties from Norway. The Norwegian painter who is classified in the field of expressionist painters is shown in his whole bandwidth of art. The Beyeler Foundation shows paintings from Museums all over the world. 2007/03/15
Moritz Leuenberger is blogging
Swiss federal council Moritz Leuenberger is discovering new media: This week he officially started writing his own blog. He wants to see if the new platform gives him the chance to exchange political ideas and get in contact with politically interested people. 2007/03/09
Tourism and global warming
The influence of global warming does also affect the way of spending your holidays. It is easily possible that there won’t be so much snow next years. What if snow cannons don’t work any longer? For this worst case, tourist regions develop new marketing strategies to show that there exist other activities than skiing. 2007/02/20
Was George Washington a hottie?
You wouldn't know that by looking at a dollar bill, from which Washington stares out unsmiling and grim.
But now, images have emerged that are perhaps the most accurate yet of the nation's first president at a younger age.
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Arizona State University have re-created Washington at three ages, using anthropology, 3-D scanning and digital reconstruction. The 21/2-year project culminated in new life-size figures unveiled in the fall at Washington's Mount Vernon home in Virginia.
2007/02/02
Instead of Iraq, a battle all his own
THE soldier stands in his living room eyeing all the cool soldier stuff he never got to use in a real fight. Like the helmet with not a single ding and the sleek body armor with not a scuff. The gear piles high on the carpet.First Lt. Ehren Watada is giving it all back and, out of courtesy, packing it up. The Army had treated him with the utmost respect until the moment it decided to court-martial him. It was nothing personal. The Army does what it has to do.
2007/01/12
'Shadow' of Iran growing, spy czar says
Iran has exploited the war in Iraq and a proxy fight with Israel to emerge as a more powerful and confident foe of the United States and is casting a growing "shadow" of influence across the Middle East, the nation's top intelligence official testified Thursday.
2006/12/28
Former VP nominee John Edwards joins Democratic presidential race
Former Democratic vice-presidential nominee John Edwards jumped into the presidential race Wednesday a day earlier than he’d planned, prodded by an Internet glitch to launch a candidacy focused on health care, poverty and other domestic issues.
2006/12/13
Americans Hit `New Level of Discontent' Over Iraq, Poll Finds
The American public has abandoned President George W. Bush on the Iraq war and is looking to Congress for a way out that includes a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops, according to a Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times poll.