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New Zealand Tsunami heroes to receive Special Service Medal

1 November, 2020

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Monday, December 26, 2005 A new medal has been created for New Zealanders who helped in recovery efforts after the Boxing Day Tsunami. Called the New Zealand Special Service Medal (Asian Tsunami) it recognises the work of New Zealanders who went to the region after the tsunami; locating the missing, identifying the dead, and assisting […]

Microsoft to track legal marijuana with new partner Kind Financial

1 November, 2020

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Sunday, June 19, 2016 Microsoft announced on Thursday they are partnering with KIND Financial to help governments track the production and distribution of legal marijuana. Kind Financial, a California-based start-up company, began selling its Agrisoft Seed to Sale software three years ago. Microsoft is admitting Kind’s software on the Government portion of its Azure cloud […]

Driving Brand Loyalty With Net Promoter On A Napkin!?

30 October, 2020

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Get More Information Here: Automatic Door Openers Nt Submitted by: Andrew Chals Determining brand loyalty through Net Promoter is easy, right? Yep. So easy, Satmetrix , the worldwide leader in customer experience software, drew it on a napkin. And, they ve got a video to prove it. So, what exactly is the definition of Net […]

National Museum of Scotland reopens after three-year redevelopment

30 October, 2020

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Friday, July 29, 2011 Today sees the reopening of the National Museum of Scotland following a three-year renovation costing £47.4 million (US$ 77.3 million). Edinburgh’s Chambers Street was closed to traffic for the morning, with the 10am reopening by eleven-year-old Bryony Hare, who took her first steps in the museum, and won a competition organised […]

Belgium stops telegram services

28 October, 2020

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Saturday, December 30, 2017 After 171 years of existence, telegram services were permanently stopped in Belgium as of yesterday. The service was launched in 1846, and about 9000 telegrams were sent across the country from January 2017 to November 2017. On December 12, Belgian telecommunication company Proximus, who provided telegram services in the country, announced […]

Digital security researchers publicly reveal vulnerability in WPA2 WiFi protocol

27 October, 2020

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Thursday, October 19, 2017 On Monday, digital security researchers Mathy Vanhoef and Frank Piessens of Belgium’s KU Leuven university publicly disclosed a security vulnerability in the WPA2 Wi-Fi (wireless local-area networking) protocol, which they called KRACK (for Key Reinstallation Attack). Their study claimed KRACK affects every modern device using Wi-Fi; it can be fixed by […]

Canada to legalise marijuana to ‘make it more difficult for kids to access’

26 October, 2020

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Sunday, April 16, 2017 In order to put the cannabis drug (marijuana) out of reach of minors, the Canadian federal government announced a bill to legalise cannabis for the age group of eighteen and above, on Thursday. The bill would allow adults to possess cannabis publicly, previously a criminal offence. Canada’s health minister Jane Philpott […]

Police report drug haul seizure worth up to £30 million in Brownhills, England

24 October, 2020

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Monday, December 2, 2013 Police in the West Midlands in England today said nearly 200 kilograms worth of drugs with value possibly as great as £30 million (about US$49 million or €36 million) has been seized from a unit in the town of Brownhills. In what an officer described as “one of the largest [seizures] […]

News briefs:May 07, 2010

24 October, 2020

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