Key Client Wins and Online Community Growth Drive Expansion RALEIGH, NC (January 30, 2007) – rPath, provider of the first platform for creating and maintaining software appliances, today announced several milestones that highlight continued acceleration of software appliances as the most important emerging category for software application distribution and sales. […]
Can a $100 Laptop Save the World?
It was easy to spot the most popular kid at last week’s “Open Source Meets Business” conference in Nuremberg. Between presentations, in the halls, even at the lavish evening banquets, there he’d be, flitting around in a cherry fedora, showing off the coolest toy in town, if not the world. Jan Wildeboer is a Solution […]
What’s a blood diamond’s worth ?
Watching Blood Diamond makes the heart beat fast, fills the eyes with sadness, anger and hope, and pushes brain’s activity to the max. One thousand questions come in and out, the most reccurent one being: what’s a blood diamond’s worth ? The first scene of Edward Zwick’s Blood Diamond is crystal clear : the massacres […]
Theatrical and Anti-Theatrical Aesthetics in Romania Today
Miruna Runcan Theatrical and anti-theatrical stage aesthetics in Romania today If one wants to really understand the contemporary substance (general horizon, phenomena and/or directions) of the Romanian theatre stage today, a short historical approach is inevitable. As in many other Central and Eastern European cultural spaces, the modern Romanian theatre was dominated […]
Challenging Greek Art: Anathena
The commercial Greek art scene has always been traditionalist. One only needs to look at the notorious entry requirements for the Athens College of Art to understand this. Every year, a select few pass the entrance exams to attain a good degree with a weighty reputation after a five-year time-honoured education in ‘Fine Art’ […]
Culmination of Information
The public adoption of the Internet was provoked by the need for quick, efficient information exchange. In the early 90s, the Net was exactly what we needed, and it flourished. As of June 2005, approximately 223 out of 328 million of all North American residents – nearly 70 % – were qualified as being Internet […]