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A blogger who accused Morocco's monarchy of encouraging a culture of dependency where loyalty is rewarded with favors has been jailed for showing disrespect for King Mohammed, his family and rights groups said. Mohamed Erraji wrote in an online newspaper Hespress that the north African kingdom had been destroyed by the practice of handing out charity or gifts such as taxi licenses to a lucky few, which encouraged people to beg.
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Technology is the centerpiece of nearly every new endeavor, and it is the connective tissue with people and organizations outside our four walls that is critical to success.
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The United States will launch a pilot scheme to require travelers covered by its visa waiver program to be authourized over the Internet before boarding flights to the country.
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AMD's troubles continue with another higher-than-expected quarterly loss reported, but they did replace Hector Ruiz with a new CEO, Dirk Meyer.
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, in an effort to forward democracy, orders his ministers to improve online public access to the government.
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Fed Reserve chaiman Bernanke's comments offered little comfort to investors anxious about the economy and the health of the financial and banking sectors. U.S. stock indexes fell to their lows of the day after his statement, while the dollar weakened and U.S. Treasury debt prices rose as a safe-haven alternative to riskier assets.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Paulson is on a trip to Europe and Russia to explain how Washington is working to resolve the U.S. economic problems, just as signs emerge of a sharper slowdown in Europe than had been previously detected.
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Under the new system, individuals, companies or groups could apply to have any string of letters established as a domain name. It could be a vanity name, for example -- .smith -- or a category name like .sports or .perfume. A company could also change its domain to reflect its brand, so Apple.com could become Apple.mac, for instance.
Opinion
Unrestricted access to the Internet is a myth.
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Baseline takes a look at specific areas of IT job shortages.
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Despite GE's claim that capital markets are getting better, the company is putting in place a plan to reduce its costs by $3 billion.
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In a sign of new leadership Cuba's Raul Castro has lifted restrictions on computers and other electronic goods.
Article
Offshoring is still a real cost-savings to companies, and is not going to change anytime soon--though there is some trepidation from CFOs about global support.
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Despite what you've been told about the IT skills shortage, there's a multitude of evidence that suggests that line of reasoning is a self-serving myth. Baseline cuts in to the belly of the IT shortage debate.
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The
2008 Olympics in
Beijing represents one of the largest RFID uses to
date, giving the technology a boost for even bigger implementations to come.
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