Vienna’s indoor swimming pool the Amalienbad is open again after it was closed for renovations over the summer. The main improvement was an update and renovation of the technology involved in purifying and filtering the water at the swimming pool, but also heating and a conditioning systems were modernised. There is also now are barrier […]
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IT community denies CIA order
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A Viennese internet and research group has rubbished reports it has been “personally assigned” by US President Barack Obama to create a “bug-proof internet” for the CIA. Newspaper Heute claimed earlier this week that an Austrian firm called FunkFeuer agreed to construct the top-level security system for the USA’s national intelligence agency. The free sheet […]
Microsoft Austria to move
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The Austrian branch of US American computer software and technology giant Microsoft has revealed plans to move into new headquarter offices.Microsoft Austria currently resides in an office complex in Vienna-Meidling. The firm said today (Weds) it wanted to relocate to a building in Favoriten districts Wienerberg area this autumn. The firm said the new location […]
The Austrian Social Democrats (SPÖ) refuse to stop calling for a nuclear energy-free Europe.The party which currently forms a government with the conservative Peoples Party (ÖVP) asked physicist and nuclear technology expert Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker to speak at its meeting in Schwechat near Vienna yesterday (Mon).The German warned that there were limits […]
Anti-nuclear energy protest in Vienna
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Hundreds of activists and worried citizens gathered to demonstrate against nuclear energy technology in Vienna yesterday (Mon).Around 1,000 people joined the event which was organised by environment protection organisation Global 2000 in the city centre of the Austrian capital. Members of the ruling Social Democrats (SPÖ), Greens chief Eva Glawischnig and representatives of non-government organisations […]
“Resident Evil: Afterlife” director Paul W. S. Anderson has claimed that 3D technology will substantially change the movie business.Anderson, who also directed the first film adaptation of the series based on the popular PC game in 2002, told the Salzburger Nachrichten newspaper today (Thurs): “I have had my doubts about 3D technology films for a […]