New measures to ensure safer infant powdered formula and hygienic egg production will be discussed by the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC), which opens a 6-day meeting today attended by representatives from more than 100 countries. The Codex Commission, in its annual session, is considering the adoption of several food safety and quality standards that countries
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If your computer starts talking to you and tells you that you are infected and your files have been deleted, it’s no joke, you have just been infected by the BotVoice.A Trojan. This new malicious code detected by PandaLabs uses the Windows text reader to play the following sentences: “You has been infected I repeat
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Motorola, Inc. has completed its acquisition of Modulus Video, Inc., a privately-held innovator in MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding (AVC) compression systems designed for delivery of high value video content in the IPTV, cable, broadcast and satellite marketplace. Modulus Video has partnered with Motorola for over two years bringing high-quality encoding solutions to key customers around
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The new Slovakian mobile network operator, Telefónica O2, has selected Nokia Siemens Networks as the sole supplier of the mobile network that Telefónica O2 launched earlier this year. “As Telefónica O2 has just recently launched mobile services in Slovakia’s competitive and well-established market, we needed to be sure that our network is of the highest
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Consumer prices rose by 1.9% in June compared with the same month of 2006, down from 2.2% in May. The consumer price index decreased by 0.22 or 0.21% over the previous month to 104.78, compared with 105.00 in May 2007. The Statistical Service reported that this was mainly owing to decreases in the prices of
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Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services said that it revised its outlook on Russia-based International Bank of Saint-Petersburg (IBSP) to positive from stable. At the same time, the ‘CCC+/C’ long- and short-term counterparty credit and ‘ruBB’ Russia national scale ratings were affirmed. “The outlook revision reflects macroeconomic improvements in Russia, which are reducing risks for domestic
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The European Commission will hold a public hearing on 11 July 2007 on the implementation of its new strategy to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from new cars and vans sold in the European Union. The new strategy, proposed in February 2007, aims to reach the EU objective of 120 g/km average carbon dioxide (CO2)
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Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Mooney, Defence attache of the American embassy to Cyprus, bled to death due to deep incisions to his throat, according to the post mortem results, carried out by forensic pathologist Marios Matsakis. The cause of death ”was excessive bleeding caused by deep incisions to the throat,” a press release issued by the
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The militant bank employees union ETYK has decided to ignore calls for restraint and is pressing ahead with a damaging strike action today from 12.30 noon until 2.30pm at all banks in protest of its inability to convince the National Bank of Greece (Cyprus) to yield to its demands. ETYK and the NBG are in
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