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In addition to Mr. Gorbachev's statements on the ABM treaty, he also mentioned new moves in the area of medium-range forces.
The Soviet Union has signaled a number of concessions in this area. They include dropping a previous demand that British and French national forces be limited in an interim treaty that would reduce American and Soviet forces and agreeing to a low limit of 100 on the number of American and Soviet warheads based in Europ...
Today officials said the Soviet Union had also agreed to the principle, put forth by the United States, that there should be a global limit on the number of warheads on medium-range missiles. The Soviet Union has not suggested what this limit should be. The United States has proposed 200.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 (Reuters) - Arms negotiators from previous Republican and Democratic administrations and private analysts said today that President Reagan's proposals in a United Nations speech on Monday jeopardized efforts to limit the nuclear race.
Mr. Reagan's offer hinged on a linkage between research on space defenses and reductions in long-range offensive weapons.
The former officials, speaking for the Arms Control Association, a private group, focused on implications for the 1972 Antiballistic Missile treaty, widely regarded as the keystone of the presnet arms control effort.
MOSCOW, Sept. 24 (AP) - Yuli M. Vorontsov, a First Deputy Foreign Minister, said today that President Reagan had been told that his proposal to delay the deployment of his space-based missile defense system for seven years was unacceptable.
Mr. Vorontsov said in a news conference that the Soviet Union wanted a guarantee that the treaty would not be broken for at least 15 more years.
He said the Soviet position was made clear in the response to a July 25 letter delivered to Mr. Reagan on Friday.
BANGALORE: Online marketplace Amazon India is set to sell packaged foods and beverages on its portalas the fight for top honours intensifies in e-tailing. It’s the first big e-commerce portal to enter this category in India. Amazon, which launched its India operations last June, is planning to unveil the category in th...
The platform has already begun accepting bookings for Coca-Cola Zero, the beverage major’s low-calorie variant and will begin deliveries next week. "Amazon will start with about 100 gourmet products for now and expand to a much wider assortment in a few months," said the source. Amazon did not respond to an emailed que...
"But they will get into fresh food eventually in India," said another person. Both people spoke on the condition of anonymity. The e-commerce company started delivering fresh groceries under AmazonFresh in 2007 in its home city of Seattle. The service is now available in Southern and Northern California, including Los ...
Olympia Industries, a premium seller on Amazon that is selling Coca-Cola Zero on the platform, has already started stocking other food brands in Amazon’s Manesar warehouse, according to a vendor who is in talks with Olympia and Amazon for his food and beverages brand. Olympia also did not respond to ET’s emailed questi...
Online grocery retail is a difficult category, said experts. "The idea of selling pack ged food online is still at its infancy," said Arvind Singhal, chairman of retail advisory firm Technopak. "I think Amazon may at first limit deliveries to a few cities, since even the average transaction value is relatively low," Si...
Amazon’s competitors Snapdeal and Flipkart are yet to foray into F&B. Flipkart’s chief executive Sachin Bansal has aid in previous conversations with ET that the company will not get into groceries or automobiles. However, the opportunity in India is large. The Indian food industry is expected to reach about $200 billi...
A handful of grocery focused sites like Big-Basket and LocalBanya have set up operations in a few cities. Bangalore-based Big-Basket raised Rs 200 crore in September from Helion Venture Partners, Zodius Fund II with Avendus and existing investors Ascent Capital and LionRock Capital.
Amazon, on its part, made its intentions clear in July when founder Jeff Bezos announced $2 billion (over Rs 12,200 crore) investment into the company’s India operations. At that time, Amit Agarwal, Amazon India’s country head, had said the focus will remain on adding on more categories.
This strategy has worked well for Amazon so far. The company sells products across about 30 categories and hosts over 8,500 merchants on its platform. Bezos, who is on a visit to India, revealed its India platform had sold $1 billion (Rs 6,100 crore) worth of products in a year.
Pope Francis tops Worldwide Trending Topic List of the The world's largest social network.
Facebook unveiled the trending topics for 2013 year in review.
The social network of some 1.2 billion users released the topics, people and life events its users discussed the most in 2013.
Facebook says it analysed life events and places generated the most posts and check-ins in 2013.
Below is the list of the most trending topics in 2013 on the social media giant.
THE country’s largest cement manufacturer, PPC Zimbabwe, has said the market has no reason to engage in panic buying of cement and advised retailers to act responsibly in pricing the commodity to avoid distorting the market.
Managing director, Mr Kelibone Masiyane, said the perceived shortage was temporary and attributed this to annual maintenance works at its plants. Responding to widespread public panic that gripped the construction industry in the past two weeks and resulted in a sharp increase in cement prices as dealers capitalised on...
Mr Masiyane further noted that as the major cement producer, the firm had not increased its prices and urged dealers to exercise restraint on pricing.
“PPC wishes to inform customers and other stakeholders that the current cement shortage is temporary. The cement industry in the country has the capacity to produce over two million tonnes of cement per annum, adequate to satisfy the current market demand estimated at 1,3 million tonnes,” he said.
For colocation provider vXchnge, security isn't just a matter of strong defenses. It also involves planning for the worst.
Willie Sutton, an infamous bank robber from the 1920s through the 1950s, denied ever saying that he robbed banks "because that's where the money is." Nonetheless, this apocryphal declaration of the obvious could equally well apply to hackers and data centers.
After providing computing infrastructure and the power to run it, data centers have to prioritize security. Without security, a data center is a data breach, and that's not an enduring enterprise.
Information technology professionals know this well. Anyone who has visited data center of any size can attest to the evident security measures. These are not places you can just walk into for a tour of the server racks.
But not all data centers handle their responsibilities to clients with equal diligence.
When MetricStream, a provider of Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) services for enterprises, sought a colocation provider for its cloud-based applications, it chose vXchnge, which operates 15 colocation data centers across the US.
A colocation provider offers infrastructure, power, and security for the site, along with a local network, while its customers provide and manage their own hardware and networking.
vXchnge, in July, earned the ISO/IEC 27001 certification, which evaluates the company's Information Security Management System (ISMS), across all of its data centers.
Sameer Aghera, product manager at vXchnge, said in a phone interview that his company is the first edge colocation company to be ISO/IEC 27001 certified. The company's facilities also adhere to other standards, specifically SSAE 16 Type II, SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA/HITECH, and PCI DSS 3.1.
For MetricStream's customers in banking and healthcare, like Pfizer, Societe Generale, and UBS, all of that matters.
"MetricStream deals with compliance and regulatory issues on a daily basis," said Aghera. "They came to us originally to look for a colocation provider that put security at the forefront."
Aghera said that when most people consider data center security, they look at the physical security measures in place, like doors and access controls. At the company's newest facility in Philadelphia, he said, there are six levels of security that one must pass through to reach actual hardware.
Customers often ask about access control logs, he said, to understand the comings and goings of employees at vXchnge facilities. "Our internal customer platform allows customers to go in and see which employee entered the data center."
But there's more to it than that. "We use people and policies to manage our security program," said Aghera. "The most important thing for us is that we see security as a company-wide initiative that affects all levels of the business."
In practice, that means every new employee takes security awareness training and takes a refresher course annually, said Aghera. There's a dedicated ISMS team with stakeholders from across the company that meets regularly.
vXchnge differentiates itself through its people, processes, and policies, he said. "Policies are probably one of the more underrated parts of data center security."
The company's policies cover physical security, information security, network security, and HR security. This allows the company to take a proactive approach by having incident response plans, disaster recovery plans, and business continuity plans to deal with any issues that arise.
"Where a lot of our competitors maybe are not as robust as us is they don't have these plans in place if something happens," he said.
Another point of differentiation, Aghera claimed, is the company's use of real-time RFID-based asset tracking, which customers can use to understand the status of hardware in vXchnge facilities.
Vidyadhar Phalke, CTO of MetricStream, told InformationWeek in an interview that in the GRC market, while data may not be highly confidential ERP data, it's nonetheless sensitive information about internal controls, internal audits, and evidence of what failed.
"In a nutshell, it's sort of your dirty laundry."
What MetricStream looked for in a colocation provider, said Phalke, was a very clearly articulated segregation of duty. "Any IT organization needs to look at clearly defining where the boundaries for the IT organization stop and the data center kicks in."
Such clarity provides reassurance, an essential component in regulated industries, and also in cloud computing. "In the cloud world, it becomes cloudy, and that grayness makes things hard to decipher when something serious happens," said Phalke.
Phalke said vXchnge has a strong understanding of where boundaries start and stop, and also cited its flexibility in terms of being ready for client visits with only an hour's notice.
There's no easy way to test how vXchnge's practices compare to those of competitors, because many security incidents are never made public. But Aghera said vXchnge reports security incidents as part of its annual audits, and the company has not reported any such incident over the past year.
Details of the iPhone 4 are still coming, including this nugget: it will have twice the RAM as the iPhone 3Gs. Also in today’s App Industry Roundup, we look at hot new iPhone games from E3 and note that one iPhone fanatic has already pitched a tent.
Even though the iPhone 4 will be in millions of consumers’ hands come June 24, there are still a few things we don’t know about the phone. Such as, how adept and quick will it be when it comes to handling all that new multi-tasking?
MacRumors also notes that the iPhone 3G has only 128mb of RAM, which “simply isn’t enough RAM,” to support the multitasking feature so many people are anxious to use on the new iPhone.
In case you missed this week’s gaming news from the E3 conference, here are some of the top games you can expect soon.
READ How might an Amazon smartphone change the app landscape?
— Another installment from the popular Final Fantasy series is coming to the iPhone. Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions, based on a PlayStation Portable game, and Secret of Mana, are expected soon from Square Enix to compliment current App Store residents Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy II.
— Coming to iTunes on July 1 is a game called Predators, based on the coming movie. You play the alien and get to blast the humans. Good times!
— You love the classic Space Invaders game? Well how about Space Invaders-themed utilities for your iPhone? There will be a Space Invaders clock, battery meter, calculator, flashlight and, for the super-geek, a business card. You know you want ’em!
— Best of show. The IGN staff nominated Puzzle Agent, from Telltale games, as its best iPhone game of the E3 show. The game does look lovely, as cartoonist Graham Annable partnered with Telltale to create the game. It’s coming soon. Here are the rest of IGN’s top 2010 E3 game picks, for all platforms.
The iPhone 4 camping begins!
OK, folks, do you really need to sleep overnight to be the first kid on your block to have the new iPhone? Every year?
He also reports that he’s out of work, he already pre-ordered an iPhone and that he’s doing this as “a fun experience.” OK, nothing says fun to me like a week-long camping trip on pavement in the summer heat of Texas. Have a blast, Justin!
A planned upgrade to DuPage County's wastewater treatment facility in Woodridge could make it easier and less expensive for towns to dispose of soggy debris they remove from storm sewers.
To prevent flooding, municipalities regularly use vacuum tanker trucks to clear dead leaves, silt, dirt and other material from storm drains. Because water is used in the process, the waste that's collected ends up being a mixture of water and solids.
"It's just a mess to deal with," said Nicholas Kottmeyer, superintendent of the county's public works department. "You can't take it to a landfill like that because it's too wet. Landfills won't accept it."
So before they can take the waste to a landfill, municipal workers must take the time and effort to dry it out.
That's what inspired DuPage to draw up plans for a special disposal station at its Woodridge Greene Valley Wastewater Treatment Plant along Route 53.
Once the facility is operational, vacuum tanker trucks can empty their cargo inside the one-story building. Water will be drained from the waste and flow directly into the plant for treatment. The remaining dry material will be taken by the county to a landfill.
"We wanted to try to create something that the municipalities in our service area could benefit from," said Kottmeyer. He said the process is environmentally friendly because the water is cleaned before being discharged into the East Branch of the DuPage River.
Jim Healy, chairman of the county board's public works committee, said DuPage is trying to get grant money to help pay for the estimated $800,000 facility.
"We would love to get state or federal dollars for this," Healy said. "I think it's an easy sell."
Even if grant money isn't available, Healy said construction is expected to start this summer. The goal is to open the disposal station in the fall.
Officials said they believe the facility would be one of the first of its kind in the state. Some towns, including Woodridge and Naperville, already have expressed interest in using it.
"I think it will be very popular," Kottmeyer said.
Towns would be charged a fee to make drop-offs. Proceeds from the fees would pay for the facility's operating expenses.
While the fees haven't been determined, officials said they will cost towns less than they spend now to dispose of the watery waste.
Public works crews also will be more effective with the storm sewer cleaning operations because they won't have to devote time to disposal efforts.
"So they will be out there doing the operations," Kottmeyer said, "instead of worrying about how to deal with the end material."
WASHINGTON, Dec 3 (Reuters) - White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said on Monday that President Donald Trump put the issue of U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm Inc's now abandoned acquisition of Dutch peer NXP Semiconductors NV on the table for talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The Chinese president's openness to the deal was a sign of further cooperation on multiple issues, including corporate mergers, Kudlow told reporters.
Trump and Xi met in Argentina on Saturday.
Qualcomm said on Monday it was not looking to revive the acquisition.
A popular ringtone track is set to scoop the top spot in the UK singles chart, on course to beat Coldplay's comeback to number one on Sunday.
The Crazy Frog's Axel F is currently outselling the Brit-winning band's new single Speed of Sound, according to early retail reports.
HMV said the Crazy Frog was now almost certain to top the new chart.
Coldplay recently became the third UK band to have a new entry in the US Top 10 singles chart with Speed of Sound.
They had been tipped to take the UK number one slot with their first single for two years.
HMV spokesman Gennaro Castaldo said Crazy Frog would be the first hit ringtone to cross over into the singles charts in this way.
He said: "Music purists might not be too happy at the prospect of the Crazy Frog outselling Coldplay.
"But it shouldn't come as that much of a surprise when you consider its huge novelty appeal and the massive amount of exposure it's currently getting.
"Kids obviously find it cute and cool, but students and even office workers seem to be drawn to its rather kitsch, ironic appeal.
"The only real issue is whether the record label can press enough copies to keep up with the huge demand that we're seeing right now."
The profile of the Crazy Frog mobile phone ringtone has been raised in recent months through heavy television advertising.
It is a new version of the Beverly Hills Cop movie theme tune by Harold Faltermeyer, which reached number two in the UK 20 years ago.
OHIOANS URGED TO AVOID HIGH, FAST-MOVING WATER – Ohio has experienced steady rains and rising waters in the past week. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) urges Ohioans and visitors to avoid high, fast-moving water in rivers and streams.
The rain is expected to continue throughout the weekend for much of Ohio so lakes, rivers and streams will remain high and swift moving creating and concealing hazards. These conditions pose dangers for boaters, swimmers, paddlers and anglers.
COBURN GALLERY AT ASHLAND TO HOST ART EXHIBITION – The Coburn Gallery at Ashland University will host an exhibition titled “The Fine Art of Plein Air,” which will feature paintings from the officers and board of the Ohio Plein Air Society. The exhibition will run from June 28 through Aug. 2.
“En plein air” is a French expres­sion mean­ing “in the open air,” and it references the act of paint­ing outdoors with the artist’s subject matter in view. Plein air artists evoke the spirit of this art form which began in the mid-1800s, most famously with the Impressionist artists. The essence of plein air is capturi...