Cyta Hellas is celebrating its first year of operations having invested EUR 65 mln and built up a subscriber base of 45,000 home and corporate customers in central Greece and Crete, and is already setting its sights on penetrating the telecoms market in Thessaloniki. Cyta chairman Stathis Kittis said that “we have shown that we
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Microsoft Corp. launch its new generation of products, the Windows 7 operating system, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Exchange Server 2010. Windows 7 was officially released on October 22, less than three years after the release of its predecessor, Vista. It’s server counterpart, Windows Server 2008 R2, was also released at the same time. The
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. BY PROF. ANDONIS VASSILIADES Title Deeds, Building and Planning Regulations and Consents: A Sinister Combination The solution to the problem of title deeds is simple: disentangle it from the myriad of rules and regulations regarding matters of building and planning regulations. Why should ownership of property be linked to matters that have absolutely nothing
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. LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Sir Taking for granted that Mr Sylikiotis and the government are genuinely trying to fix this huge problem (“Title deeds reform bills to generate €160 mln”, Financial Mirror, Nov. 25), and most people, myself included, want to see it all work out as the government intends, the difficulty lies
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. BY COSTA VAYENAS Spare a thought for the late Willem Duisenberg, first President of the European Central Bank. He was mocked during his tenure not only for his spectacular hair but also for his numerous gaffes, which, given the skepticism that greeted the single European currency at its launch in 1999, did little to
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. BY PETROS MAVROS The question raised here is if in Cyprus we have any kind of plan. It is clear that the answer is, “No”. This is very easy to confirm just by asking people of any political background or any business status – all of them will tell you that we have actually
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. Former Health Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou has been given the portfolio for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth in Jose Manuel Barroso’s new executive team, an office that will probably have the greatest importance over the next five years. Some critics were quick to grumble that this is a ‘secondary’ Commission posting, not realising the significant
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Cyprus has been reelected to the Council of the International Maritime Organisation for the next two years, with the support of 134 member states out of 153, securing the second biggest number of votes after Singapore during the 26th IMO General Assembly in London. “This reflects Cyprus’ importance in the activities of the IMO and
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The Employers and Industrialists Federation (OEV) presented its second annual awards for social excellence to three companies: C.A. Papaellinas (large companies), Lois Builders (SMEs) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (novel practices). In presenting the awards, OEV chairman Andreas Pittas said that the aim was “to reward the promotion of women’s participation in the workplace, as well as the
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The Nicosia Municipality has put in public display the revised plans for the capital’s Eleftheria Square, as conceived by international award-winner Zaha Hadid. Tender offers are expected next summer and construction to be completed by mid-2012, with 50% of the funding from the EU, 45% from the Cyprus government and 5% from the city’s own
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