Lampedusa, another European dissension?

The Italian Police has announced a few hours ago that “Eight boats coming from North Africa and transporting approximately 1.300 migrants reached the Italian island of Lampedusa”, which is located between Tunisia and Sicily.This new arrival brings up the total of migrants currently living on the island to the number of 1.800. Since the beginning of the year more than 35.000 Africans, (24.000 from Tunisia), reached the Italian coast. Several thousands of them were already transferred to “reception” centres of the peninsula." Europe does not keep its promises", declared yesterday evening the Italian Minister of the Interior, Roberto Maroni. The...

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Feel like playing? Be one of the Navy Seals… a bit too soon?

Having thrown Osama Bin Laden’s body in the sea like a vulgar pair of socks wasn’t apparently enough. This Saturday, Kuma Games has decided to launch a game where the player can be of one of the Navy Seals during the attack of the military complex in Abbottabad. Kuma Games is offering its players the opportunity to repeat the assault made by the Navy Seals on a specially designed “map”. The only difference with what happened last week is that Osama Bin Laden’s position changes at the beginning of every new game, allowing people to play it as much as they want. The development and the implementation of the game have been done following the different...

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Bruno "ADAILYSONG" Bavota, a talented musician

Bruno Bavota is an Italian man with a passion for music. Since the early stage of his life, he was attracted to music. He learned on his own how to play guitar and since 2007 he is cooperating with Miss Alessia Viti on composing music samples with guitar, violin and piano acoustics. Some of the tracks contained in "Between pain, love and hope" (the first Ep made in cooperation with Miss Viti) have been chosen for commercial spots and films. For example Mr Bavota did the soundtrack of the commercial spot for "Opportunity Job": The real capability of Mr Bavota is to play piano. He discovered his talent only in 2010 but after having taken...

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iPhone 5! are they giving us technology in pills?

In a few months Apple will launch the new iPhone 5. Already a lot of rumours are going on the web, but how is it going to be? This fantastic product is being developed really quickly and in a way we can say that its development is beating the normal “consumerist timing”. Indeed, the technology is getting easier and faster almost everyday; and people are now submerged by new information, product and trends. The problem comes out if you want to keep yourself updated on every single new development. Today, it is getting almost impossible to do so. In two years, already three different types of iPhone, two different types of iPad have been...

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Breaking news: Egypt asks the IMF for its help!

The International Monetary Fund just received a loan request on behalf of Egypt’s military government. The IMF is planning to send a team of experts to the Cairo within a couple of days to discuss Egypt’s real needs and to determine the amount of the loan and the associated conditions. This has just been announced by a spokeswoman of the International institution based in Washington D.C. We have to remind you that on the 8th of April, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators filled Tahrir Square, criticizing the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces for not following through on revolutionary demands. They demanded the resignation of remaining...

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The Chromebook, Google’s new bet!

The Californian search engine is soon going to launch notebooks equipped with its operating system Chrome. Google is planning to launch them on the 15th of June. These computers will be produced by Samsung and Acer and should be sold online at the price $349. They will first be released in the United States, in France, in Great Britain, in Germany, in Italy, in Spain and in the Netherlands. With these “Chromebook”, Google clearly wants to walk on Microsoft’s territory. Thanks to these new computers optimized for Internet, Samsung and Acer will get a chance to penetrate a market that has been dominated for years by Microsoft and Apple. For the...

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What is a QR code?

A QR a code (quick response) is a specific matrix barcode invented by Denso-Wave (a Toyota’s subsidiary) in 1994. It’s two-dimensional code readable by QR barcode readers and camera phones. It’s a very nice app widely used in Japan and nowadays is becoming quite used also in the West. If you have an iPhone or an iPad and you want to use this technology you have just to download the FREE specific app from the app store and then you will have the faster access from your mobile to web sites or specific texts. The application it’s really easy to use, you will have just to frame the QR code and the app will take you straight to the specific URL. Do...

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Do you want to lose weight? “Big Brother nutritionist!”

Yes, if you want to loose weight hopefully in a few month you will be helped by the new version of the Big Brother… the Nutritionist one! This is the ambitious project supported by the American first lady, Michelle Obama. This project cost $2 million and it consist on installing cameras in the refectory of 5 primary schools in Texas, These cameras will take pictures of the trays of all the students when they take food and after the meal when they leave the trays in the apposite space. This new system will match the taken information and thanks to the bar code of the packages and an accurate analysis of the food left in the trays of each student...

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Breaking News: Gaddafi is now a “legitimate target”

Libyan leader, Mouammar Gaddafi, is now a legitimate target for the NATO that is leading airstrikes in the country. Moustapha Abdeljalil, The President of the Libyan National Council of Transition, has made this announcement a few hours ago in London. Mr Abdeljalil, who represents Libyan opposition, has declared during a press conference, “As Gaddafi is the commander in chief of armed forces, he is the one who encourages everybody to fight. It is therefore logic to consider him a legitimate target of the NATO”.The Atlantic Alliance has been present in Libya since end of March in order to, according to the officials; dismantle the military devices...

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“Planking", the new trend on social networks!!

A new trend has appeared on social networks lately and Surkld wanted to share this story with you as we had a good laugh hearing it. This new wave, called “planking” consists of lying down on the stomach in unusual and sometime dangerous places. Someone has then to take a picture and post it online on social networks’ accounts. Watch this great compilation:From our point of view, it sounds quite fun and seems to be harmless but apparently not to everyone. Michael Brannon, 20 years old Australian, got arrested by the police while he was performing his “planking” on one police car. Yesterday, the police of the State of Queens land in Australia...

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Glamour is back to Cannes for 11 days!!

Bernardo Bertolucci, first " Palm d’Honneur" of the Cannes film festival, opened yesterday evening the 64th edition of the most glamorous film festival in the world. This legend of the industry launched it during the traditional opening ceremony, just before the projection of Woody Allen's latest movie " Midnight in Paris "." I waited a little but I will finally have my Palme d’Or ", declared the 70 years old Italian film director. Bertolucci, in a wheelchair on the stage of the Palais des festivals, appeared to be particularly moved. He received his Palme d’Or from the hands of the president of the festival, Gilles Jacob. This distinction was...

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Facebook was displaying members’ private data for years…by mistake

It turns out that announcers, thanks to a security key, had the possibility to have access to all information displayed on Facebook members’ profiles.This security key was passed on to them by MISTAKE. Facebook argues that they maybe didn’t realize it.For years, Facebook was actually much more opened and talkative to the announcers than we all believed they were. Without knowing it, tens of thousand applications installed by members were communicating a security key to their intermediaries, in particular the advertising platforms. This key was passed to the intermediaries without any encoding protection. The well-known editor, Symantec, revealed...

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From Movie to Reality…They are watching you!

If you have ever seen the movie Minority Report with Tom Cruise or read 1984 by George Orwell this will sound familiar. A big step has been made by police forces in the UK today. The Metropolitan Police has announced that they have bought a new software called GEOTIME which will allow them to map suspects’ digital movements! This software, already used by US Military, is a security programme that shows an individual’s movements and communications with other people. All information gathered from social networking sites, satellite navigation equipment, mobile phones, financial transactions and IP network logs can be put together using GEOTIME and...

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Microsoft has acquired Skype!

The news is confirmed, Microsoft has acquired Skype,The transaction has been made for $8.5 billion.Skype was founded in 2003 and was bought by eBay two years later.In 2009 eBay sold the majority of the stake to a consortium that included Silver Lake, Andreesses and Horowitz and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board  for $ 1.9 Billion cash.In the end of the day we can clearly say that we hope that with this new giant behind skype hopefully all the users will have benefits out of it and this amazing service will continue to increase its technology and help people to be easily connecte...

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Does Hugo Chavez go hand to hand with the FARC?

The International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) published a very interesting report today in London. From what we can see in the report, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia also known as the “FARC” do enjoy more support by governments than it is generally stipulated or presented in the media. Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s President, is accused by the IISS to have made a donation promise to the Colombian rebel group. Chavez told the FARC that he would give them $300 M in 2007 but apparently he never did it. The FARC were only authorized to train in Venezuela if they needed to. From what the institute is saying, Chavez has done a few...

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“Poor Economics”, a revolution in the struggle against poverty

Surkld’s team would like to recommend a fantastic book written by MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) scientists Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo. The book is called “Poor Economics” and has just been published. It is a result of the great work the two scientists have been doing lately and presents a new way to look at poverty in poor countries. They provide very interesting facts and data that are coming from their research and surveys in the countries the study is based on.This book tries to show the logic behind the economic choices made by people living below the poverty line in poor countries. Sometimes the choices they are...

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Difference Between Primary and Secondary Research | Difference Between | Primary vs Secondary Research

Difference Between Primary and Secondary Research | Difference Between | Primary vs Secondary Research this is a useful article that clearly explain the difference between primary and secondary research, hope it will be useful for everybody stuck on their dissertation.... like m...

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Google to announce Google Music tonight!

The noise is getting bigger and from the information we have, Google has to announce today the launch of its newest service, Google Music. We were aware that Google has been negotiating with all the major labels in the music industry for the last couple of months. Google wanted to find an agreement with them in order to compete with software such as iTunes or Spotify or online music service like Deezer. It turns out that no agreement has been reached between Google and the labels. Google still wants to pursue with its always growing ambition and decided to launch Google Music anyway. Jamie Rosenberg, head of numeric content for Android said that...

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Microsoft is buying Skype

SAN FRANCISCO, the giant of the computer industry, MICROSOFT, is going to buy the new "internet communication" system SKYPE. This is what has been reported by the Wall Street Journal, Skype has been developed by an estonian developer, it was sold after to years and now it gets almost 124.000.000 users a month. Microsoft is the giant of the "computer industry" and with its liquidity of almost 50 billion dollars is trying to start to compete, with this acquisition, with google in this 2.0 era. This is just the beginning, We will see by the and of the day if this transaction will be fin...

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How to prevent and treat Migraine

The goals of preventive therapy are to reduce the frequency, painfulness, and/or duration of migraines, and to increase the effectiveness of abortive therapy. Another reason to pursue these goals is to avoid medication overuse headache (MOH), otherwise known as rebound headache. This is a common problem among migraneurs, and can result in chronic daily headache.Many of the preventive treatments are quite effective. Even with a placebo, one-quarter of patients find that their migraine frequency is reduced by half or more, and actual treatments often far exceed this figure.There are many medicines available to prevent or reduce...

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Who is mr Hammer? What is the "German medicine"? What should we do?

Following a huge discussion seen on the italian tv show "mi manda rai tre" between the On.Scilipoti and the showman mr Camurri the surkld team decided to get deeply on this subject.. Who is mr Hammer? What is the "new medicine"?  Mr Hammer is a german doctor, he raised in germany where he did his career and in the same time he developed different patents. thanks to his patents he was having enough money to support his family and he decided to leave his job to go to help poor people. in the 70s his son got killed by Vittorio Emanuele Savoia, this event completely upset his life and after a while he got...

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Tunisia is not back to peace yet

Crisis in Tunisia is not over yet. After a couple of months of rebellion and protests for democracy, the situation is very difficult again. Protests are rising in Tunis and violent events took place last Friday. Police decided to use teargas and batons against anti-government protesters. Scenes of rough clashes were seen in the streets of Tunis. Tunisia's government decided to reinstate an emergency night-time curfew for Tunis and its surroundings. Read this article made by the guardian to have a better overview of the situation there. Path to democracy is hard to follow... http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/08/tunisia-curfew-protestsIt...

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