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Archive - Jul 2013

July 5th

Windows 8.1 - a step forward or continuing in the wrong direction?

05 July 2013 / 19:07:11  
The long awaited new version of Windows was presented at the Build 2013 conference. It remains to be seen whether it will be able to render enthusiastic the customers and partners of Microsoft.


Over five billion euro from taxation of property

05 July 2013 / 15:07:07  
The inability of the Greek government to tackle tax evasion has turned the revenues from taxation of property into a major source of funds for the state treasury. The recent data suggest that the inhabited house duty and similar fees and charges should bring 5.4 billion euro to the budget.


Sexual preferences and the body are the new types of discrimination

05 July 2013 / 14:07:10  
Racism is a still existing and frighteningly growing problem of the 21st century.


Fake sunglasses cause irreversible eye injury

04 July 2013 / 22:07:33  
They do not absorb ultraviolet rays and can cause irreversible eye damage. Ophthalmologists warn, "It is better not to wear any glasses than to wear glasses without UV filter".


Zorba no longer represents Greece

04 July 2013 / 21:07:47  
Although the marketing experts in the country recognize the importance of the local origin, the idea of the Greek traits being the basis of the products is changing. The symbolic faces of the country familiar from past decades are no longer relevant. They are even considered as obsolete.


July 4th

Parliament wants a trial against George Papakonstantinou and the "Lagarde List"

04 July 2013 / 19:07:20  
According to the report prepared by New Democracy, PASOK and Democratic Left, the former Minister of Finance will have to respond to charges of falsifying documents and fraud while he was performing his official duties, and of exceeding his authority.


Golden Dawn attacks an NBA player

04 July 2013 / 17:07:14  
The offence Golden Dawn had addressed to Giannis was its second insult addressed to a basketball player of the national team of Greece. A year earlier, the xenophobes had said that they did not consider Sofoklis Schortsanitis as Greek because of the colour of his skin.