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SBY Tak Konsisten Berantas Korupsi

JAKARTA– Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) dinilai tidak konsisten dalam upaya pemberantasan korupsi. Hal ini salah satunya tercermin dari lambannya Kepala Negara dalam menyikapi problematika pemberantasan korupsi termasuk wacana revisi UU No 30 Tahun 2002 tentang Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (KPK). Pakar hukum pidana Universitas Indonesia (UI) Ganjar Laksmana Bonaprapta menyatakan, gerakan dukungan tokoh nasional terhadap KPK menunjukkan eksistensi suara masyarakat dalam pemberantasan korupsi. ”Kelihatannya memang itu yang ditunggu Presiden yakni KPK dan (tokoh) masyarakat meminta (Presiden) turun tangan.

Wikimania 2011 Scholarships Program

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Wikimania 2011 , the 7th annual international conference, is being held on August 4-7, 2011. The venue is in Haifa , Israel . The Wikimedia Foundation is offering a limited number of scholarships to offset the cost of select individuals' attendance at Wikimania . Both full and partial scholarships are available for Wikimania 2011: Full scholarships will award round trip travel, dorms accommodations, and registration Partial scholarships will subsidize up to $300 of travel expenses Goals of the Program To make Wikimania 2011 a successful and productive international conference To support the Wikimedia projects by encouraging participation To enrich the conference with attendance by a diverse group of participants in the Wikimedia movement About Application for Scholarship

One Billion U.S. Dollar For Indonesia's forests

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Indonesia will impose a moratorium on logging of natural forests and peatlands for two years. This new agreement reached during the visit of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to Oslo, Norway . Norwegian aid disbursed amounted to one billion dollars to rescue the forests and peat lands in Indonesia. Indonesia agreed to a moratorium on natural forest protection and turf for two years. The signing of new agreements for forest conservation project was witnessed by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg . Agreement in protecting degraded forests in Indonesia is a follow climate talks, business-related reduction of greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming due to deforestation. Funds amounting to 1 billion U.S. dollars from Norway will be used for forest monitoring system and a pilot project under the auspices of the UN scheme to climate change, called REDD , or reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degrada

40,000 Windows Phone 7 devices sold

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Microsoft's new smartphone platform is off to what could be considered a slower start than expected in North America . That's according to The Street, which has released a report saying that the company sold some 40,000 units on its first day on the market. That number does not come from Microsoft, which has not yet released sales numbers and refused to comment to both The Street and ZDNet Asia's sister site, CNET , but rather a source in a market research firm. Windows Phone 7 , which is the follow-up to Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.5 platform, hit shelves in the United States and Canada last week. Before that, WP7 devices had come to stores in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand in late October. CNET hoofed it to two major carrier stores in San Francisco on launch day and came back with the

MerchantCircle to Revitalize the Bloglines Service

Largest Online Network of Local Business Owners will Assume Operation of the Popular RSS Service and Enhance it for the Future Mountain View, CA, November 4, 2010 — MerchantCircle , largest online network of local business owners in the nation, today announced that it has reached an agreement with Ask.com , an operating business of IAC to assume the management of the Bloglines personal news aggregation platform. This agreement will allow the popular service to continue uninterrupted for its 2.7 million users. Beginning on December 1st, MerchantCircle will offer a richer, more local Bloglines experience for existing and future users. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. The deal carries strategic significance for MerchantCircle and its network members. MerchantCircle will promote the service to its more than 1.4 million local business members through their account dashboards by integrating pre-created RSS feeds that deliver targeted content on their local

Plasa.com, eBay team up to help local retailers

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Image via Wikipedia Plasa.com, eBay team up to help local retailers | The Jakarta Post The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Fri, 10/08/2010 9:56 AM | Business The world’s largest online market, eBay, has agreed to team up with a local shopping portal Plasa.com to help Indonesian retailers get easier access to global buyers. Plasa.com chief innovation officer Andi S. Boediman said in Jakarta on Thursday that under the cooperation, both parties would agree to promote e-commerce in Indonesia by helping local retailers sell their products globally through eBay. Before local retailers can display their products on eBay’s website, they have to meet a number of requirements including submitting their profiles and product summaries, Andi said. “We will see whether the registered retailers meet the requirements to be listed on eBay,” he added. “If they don’t, they will be listed on Plasa.com.” He said that before retailers had their track record profiled and were directed

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Morphyre Visualizer - Winamp

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Morphyre Visualizer - Winamp VISUALIZATION DETAILS We have encountered a technical issue. Please try again later. Your Review 1 second ago visualisasi yang sangat bagus, memukau sekali. Description An animated, music-reactive 3d visualization system with thousands of unique scenes Morphyre is a brand new Visualizations System made by real enthusiasts. Morphyre's fusion of imaginative visuals and sound enhances and transforms the experience of listening to music on individual computers. Every Morphyre scene moves in time with your music, assessing both tempo and volume. The majority of scenes integrate an animated 3D form with a flowing patterned or reiterative background through the use of shadows and warping effects. Other scenes include tunnels, fractals, animated blocks and sketches. Every single background/foreground combination has been carefully selected for its aesthetic effect. Morphyre requires an OpenGL-2.0 capable video card in order