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Facebook Backs Safety Initiative: A Platform For Good

The Family Online Safety Institute, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to online safety that counts Facebook among its members, announced an initiative aimed at allowing parents, teachers, teens, and kids to team up and focus on online safety. A Platform for Good, which will launch in September, will provide the following resources for each group …

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Species data to go online in open access initiative – SciDev.Net

The initiative will include research on fungi Research on new species from biodiversity hotspots in the developing world, published in a range of journals, may soon become freely available online as soon as they are published, thanks to a project launched last week. The project is a joint initiative between Pensoft Publishers in Bulgaria, and …

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OneIMS to Host Online Marketing Training Session for Nonprofit Organizations

As part of its ongoing efforts to help nonprofit organizations to enhance their online profiles, leading Chicago online marketing firm OneIMS has once again teamed up with Google affiliate HandsOn Suburban Chicago to host an online marketing training seminar. Attendees will receive individualized website and web marketing evaluations in addition to learning critical online marketing …

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Polycom Video Collaboration Helps Global Nomads Group to Bring UNESCO Initiative Into Classrooms in Brazil and United States

PLEASANTON, CA, Feb 01, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) –Polycom, Inc. /quotes/zigman/60019/quotes/nls/plcm PLCM +0.46% , the global leader in standards-basedunified communications (UC), today announced that Global Nomads Group(GNG) used Polycom(R) RealPresence(TM) Video and Voice Solutions,powered by the Polycom(R) RealPresence(TM) Platform, to facilitatethe launch of the “Teaching Respect for All” program. The program wasestablished by UNESCO (the …

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The Gold and Silver Report – “We Pledge Allegiance To The Euro…”

Like us on Facebook Overall, the European economy shrank by slightly less than had been anticipated in the final trimester or last year, but it did nevertheless contract by 0.3% and, more significantly, it experienced the first such slippage since the crisis days of 2009. on the 13th, Moody's cut the credit ratings of six …

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Live From NCTC WEC: Cut Energy Costs, Increase Network Investment

AUSTIN, Texas – Where are the tech guys when you really need them? The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) chose yesterday’s National Cable Television Cooperative Winter Educational Conference (WEC) opening session detailing the progress of the SCTE’s Smart Energy Management Initiative (SEMI) to test a new videoconferencing program, with President/CEO Mark Dzuban speaking from …

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SaaS brings software to the masses • The Register

Unless you’ve been living in a cave even less well equipped for the modern age than Fred Flintstone’s, you will have noticed the buzz about something called cloud computing. it comes with a menagerie of buzzwords: software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), infrastructure on demand, hosted apps … We could go …

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Doug Liman Seeks User Submissions for ‘Reckoning With Torture’ Film Project

Simon Russell/Getty ImagesDoug Liman Having directed big-budget action thrillers like “The Bourne Identity” and “Mr. & mrs. Smith,” Doug Liman is taking a grassroots approach to a new project meant to raise awareness about real-life violence, politics and torture. The American Civil Liberties Union and the PEN American Center are expected to announce on Thursday …

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Audio videoconferencing

Kalula Communications, trading as Headset Solutions, has been in the telecommunications business for 25 years as an importer and distributor of notable brands, just as Plantronics and Aastra, within the telecommunications markets. With this product line-up, Headset Solutions can offer its clients a comprehensive product set, from headsets extending to audio and videoconferencing with cutting-edge …

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County to meet with software provider staff

Dodge County officials are optimistic that problems with thecounty’s assessment software may be getting worked out. A representative of Tyler Technologies, the company that providesthe Orion software, is expected to meet with county officials thisweek to discuss the software, and then review concerns with countysupervisors when they meet on the third floor of the courthouse …

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