"WAVE" No.37
November 2009

Editorial


Topic of the Issue

AmCham Serbia - 7th Annual IPR conference

Serbia needs Law on Optical Disks
The two-day regional conference on intellectual property rights was organized on October 28-29 on Divčibare (Serbia), and included participants from the private and public sectors of Serbia and the region. A special guest of the conference was Matthew Lamberti, Intellectual Property Law Enforcement Coordinator for Eastern Europe of the US Department of Justice, who presented a comparative analysis of intellectual property rights in our region... >>




Interview: Linda Molnar, Adobe Regional Anti-Piracy Manager
Awareness can help prevent Piracy
"In our Anti-Piracy work, we tailor several approaches such as enforcement, education and enticement to each market. None of these could be effective without the other. Education is extremely important, but unfortunately without enforcement it would lose its impact. As in many cases, we are more effective if we join forces with other organizations that have the same goal"


AmCham Serbia - Microsoft EMEA
Software Piracy Enforcement - Cases and Strategy
This conference brought many interesting case studies and anti-piracy strategies. We present you the most important parts from Thomas Limouzin-Lamothe's presentation. He is Anti-Piracy Attorney - Central & Eastern Europe from Microsoft EMEA

Politics

The 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Wall
"We are the people"
A wave of people started flocking to the check points, Bornholmer Brücke was open first. And yet again the decision of a single man made all the difference. As the crowd grew stronger and shouts became more demanding one soldier decided to open the gate. This signifies the point of no return... >>

Society

SMS lingo in Spain
Language and Future
There are statistics and information about the effects of television and Internet on knowledge, brain development and reflexive capacity. But there are also theses on the relations between "digital codes" and the language. Why? Because SMS lingo is also getting more and more usual out of these hand-technologies... >>


LondonEdu
Studying in the UK
The program consists of bachelor, master and doctoral studies in management, business, information technology, tourism, hospitality, finance, accounting. There is a possibility for transferring students at graduate studies. Scholarships for master studies are 6,500 pounds, and for bachelor studies 12,000 pounds, with College covering 40 per cent of amount... >>


Traineeships all over Europe
Where the Fun begins
It's November! The summer and the end of the university year seem to be far. Even though university students doing their Bachelor's or Master's last year can start to think about: how to continue? For them, the traineeships might be the first step in the labor market as a real experience in the word of challenge and compulsory execution. Even if you are in a need to find a job, or just want to pick up work experience this three stories about traineeships might be interesting for you... >>

Economics

The Value of the Label "Made In"
European Original - straight from Asia
Nowadays you can buy a luxurious handbag that next to the name of the brand has "Made in Italy", although all parts of the handbag have been produced in other countries, and then have only been made up and shaped in Italy. The result is a lower cost of the production for the company, the same price for a consumer, fewer jobs in European countries and therefore less paid tax. Countries such as Italy and France are particularly affected by this phenomenon... >>

Culture & Arts

Interview: Dragana Dabović, actress
To really listen is a form of Love
TV show "In therapy", based on the Israel show "Be Tipul" by the author Hagai Levi, is being shown since October 19th to Serbian audience on FOX television. Brilliant team of actors, led by Miki Manojlović playing the part of therapist Ljubomir, shows us some very intimate moments of the patients who reveal more and more throughout the series. Dragana Dabović, an actress who fit in perfecly playing the demanding role of Ana, sports girl in the age of seventeen, speaks for the WAVE magazine about her first acting engagement. Her character comes to therapy after an attempt of suicide... >>


"The Culture Lobby" project
Alternative History of Cultural Awareness
The artists are under the impression that opinions widely differ according to the location of interviewees, and there is also a variety between opinions of certain age groups. The young mostly express hope for studying in EU and the implementation of some European education models at Serbian universities. 'The replies to what would change included a whole list of things, from home pig slaughtering (a ban villagers in Vojvodina are anxious about), to public toilets in Belgrade'... >>


The Festival of International Student Theatre - FIST 05
Bobu bob, popu pop! (To everyone according to merits)
Education, as we know it today, is acquired with great facility and speed. Such a fact has brought about the appearance of "cheap knowledge" and "media pollution". A new social class has been created, which has the characteristics of broad masses but the quality and the authority of the elite. This hybrid creation which encompasses the negative qualities of the mass and the elite, can be defined as pop elitism... >>

Science & Tech

Google Wave
A new Wave of collaboration
This is a hybrid communication tool. It allows synchronic as well as asynchronic communication. Think of IM combined with e-mail features. If two people are online at the same wave at the same time, you can see live what the other people is typing, character-by-character. If you're not online, you can see new messages when you come back next time to the site. If you feel you missed a lot, but don't know exactly what, you can replay the sequence of interactions that took place in a certain wave... >>


Vista vs Windows 7
7th Heaven after the Vista experience
Windows Vista was supposed to revolutionise the world of IT. But, it was not what people expected it to be, and critics, along as users were not satisfied. This prompted the need for a newer version, which appeared in less than three years after the release of Vista. All those who were not satisfied with Vista are now quite eager to use the new version and see if the waiting and dissatisfaction can be compensated, while those (few) happy with it should be prepared to test something even better... >>

Sport

Qualifications for the World Cup 2010
Nine more free places for South Africa
Along with the host country 22 more national teams have qualified for the World Cup. There are free places left for four European, three African and two national teams from other continents. The final draw for WC 2010 will be held in Cape Town on December 4... >>

Entertainment

Reportage: from Russia to Germany and back - Part II
"Bye-Bye, Europe!"
I ran out of the bus, found the officer and tried to explain what had happened. He could not understand why I came from the bus, and yet my passport was not stamped. But after a while he started laughing and finally stamped my passport. I could read on his face that he thought that all Russians were crazy. Maybe I was not the first Russian this had happened to... >>

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