international companies point of view.

videos of the state of the european union conference are online; some interesting things in there, ie giscard d'estaign (well, he shaped the (non)-future of cyclades) and jean claude trichet; and again the question about european marketing skills.

"if investment is a proof europe has a future"

on the other side of the atlantic nyt promotes the book innovator's dna in an article about steve jobs, and suggesting to understand him as a role model and to understand how things are done differently in the usa.

itu reports on mobile and fixed line penetrations. comes with a lot of variables to play around: they call it eye.

when it comes to the status of the main fixed-line operators in europe in 2010, one finds nothing but a white spot about the current status of at: is telekom austria (ok they have another name by now) "state-owned", "partially private" or" fully private". g

well, as these chaps too often forget to celebrate it is worth a note:

programmer's day: official holiday in russia it seems, comes with a dress code: programmers wear white. and in good old russian tradition it comes with a little bit of math as its celebrated on the 256th (0x100th) day of a year. the proposer is valentin balt.

sysadmin appreciation day can be rememberd somehow with more ease: it's the last friday in july.

to honor those who make others' life easier | techrep

... and if it is a printer cable that needs to be plugged in. concoct by ted kekatos.