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Czechs say gas supplies from Russia halted

Source: Kiev Post

Prague :: Czech Republic | about 20 hours ago | Technology News

Gas supplies through the main import and transit pipeline from Russia to the Czech Republic and Western Europe stopped completely overnight, the Czech importer RWE Transgas said on Wednesday. "The main pipeline from the east was closed from midnight.

Ex-Labour activist may have been Soviet agent

Source: Asian Age

Prague :: Czech Republic | about 1 month ago | Technology News

Left-winger Cyn-thia Roberts, who once was a parliamentary candidate for the Labour Party, worked for the Communists under the codename Operation Hammer, according to a report in the Mail on Sunday. The newspaper quoted Czech security service documents, which it...

Energy firm offers consumers prize freeze for 2010

Source: Radio Prague

Prague :: Czech Republic | about 1 month ago | Technology News

Consumers fearful of rising energy prices have now been offered a choice by the Czech energy giant ČEZ: the possibility of freezing electricity prices through 2010. Not long ago ČEZ came under fire for an announced 10 percent electricity price...

TMCnet.com: Sun Microsystems Leads International Consortium and Wins ...

Source: Androscoggin News

Prague :: Czech Republic | 19 days ago | Technology News

Groundwork, Infrastructure, Standards"...Project and bringing our expertise in open source and accessibility technology to this important initiative," said Jeet Kaul, senior vice president of the Client Software Group at Sun.

Ministry takes steps to deal with “cyber-bullying” in Czech ...

Source: Radio Prague

Prague :: Czech Republic | 8 days ago | Technology News

The use of mobile phones in classrooms schools has become a serious issue in the Czech Republic, with ever more children recording their classmates and even teachers, and posting the footage on the web. The Education Ministry has now, for...

World's oldest profession, too, feels effects of crisis

Source: International Herald Tribune

Prague :: Czech Republic | 29 days ago | Technology News

On a recent night at Big Sister, which calls itself the world's biggest Internet brothel, a middle-aged man selected a prostitute from an electronic menu on a flat-screen television, pressing his index finger against it to review the age, hair...

New Scientist: Metamaterial marble would make perfect cat's eye

Source: Androscoggin News

Brno :: Czech Republic | about 1 month ago | Technology News

Novel materials that have inspired a wave of physicists to design and even build invisibility "cloaks" could soon be used to create perfectly visible objects instead. So-called metamaterials are actually complex arrays of thin conducting wires rather than conventional solids....

New system to allow prescriptions via SMS and e-mail

Source: Radio Prague

Prague :: Czech Republic | about 20 hours ago | Technology News

People who need a prescription might soon be spared the nuisance of waiting at the doctors’ for hours. The State Institute for Drug Control has launched a new service, known as e-prescription, that will enable Czech doctors to issue prescriptions...

International Year of Astronomy due to kick off in Prague

Source: Radio Prague

Prague :: Czech Republic | 1 day ago | Technology News

The year 2009 has been designated as the International Year of Astronomy, as it marks exactly 400 years since Galileo first used an astronomical telescope to study the skies. As the presiding head of the European Union, the Czech Republic...

Mailbox 1.4.2009

Source: Radio Prague

Prague :: Czech Republic | 2 days ago | Technology News

Archive Mailbox What do other listeners think of Radio Prague?...Mailbox, a weekly Sunday feature on answers these questions. Jan Janský Welcome to Mailbox in 2009. Today is the time to reveal the identity of December’s mystery Czech. Again, the situation...