News @ Viaden Inc.

Minsk, Belarus: July 4th, 2007, Viaden Media became a full member of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). Viaden Media, member of W3C and a High Technologies Park of Belarus, is the first and the only Belarusian company-member of ICC.

ICC is the most influential, popular and trustworthy international non-governmental organization that works to promote and support global trade and globalization processes. ICC membership groups thousands of companies, such as British American Tabacco, IBM, Mitsubishi, Occidental Petroleum, Pirelli, Pfizer, Shell, Thomas Cook, etc., of every size in over 130 countries worldwide. They represent a broad cross-section of business activity including manufacturing, trade, services and the professions. Through membership of ICC, companies shape rules and policies that stimulate international trade and investment. These companies in turn count on the prestige and expertise of ICC to get business views across to governments and intergovernmental organizations, such as WTO, U.N.O. and others, whose decisions affect corporate finances and operations worldwide. ICC has direct access to national governments worldwide through its national committees among others, making helpful suggestions on how to create the most favourable climate for international business development.

ICC contributes significantly by creating a wide range of documents to control activity in all economic spheres. Incoterms, standard trade definitions most commonly used in international sales contracts, can be considered the brightest example of ICC activity. A significant function of the International Chamber of Commerce is also the preparation and promotion of its Uniform Customs and Practice Documentary Credits (UCP), a set of rules on the issuance and use of letters of credit. The UCP has substantially universal effect. Devised and published by the International Chamber of Commerce, Incoterms, UCP along with other ICC rules are at the heart of world trade.

International Chamber of Commerce also serves as an advocate of world business in the global economy. The ICC International Court of Arbitration is the most respected service of its kind in the world. Its voluntary rule-writing for business spreads best practice in areas as varied as banking, marketing, anti-corruption and environmental management. Their policy-making and advocacy work keeps national governments, the United Nations system and other global bodies apprised of the views of the world business on some of the most pressing issues of the day.

Victor Prokopenya, Viaden Media СEO, is sure it is essential for the company to keep up to date and to take an active part in international commerce development. The point is that with members who are users and providers of information technology and electronic services from both developed and developing countries, ICC provides the ideal platform to develop global voluntary rules and best practices for these areas. Dedicated to the expansion of cross-border trade, ICC champions liberalization of telecoms and development of infrastructures that support global online trade and the integration of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for economic growth and social development.

MOSCOW, June 27, 2007 - Luxoft and Viaden Media met in Moscow to discuss the most efficient ways of using cluster technologies when developing web projects.

Server clusters provide high availability for more complex, stateful applications and services by allowing the failover of resources. Server clusters also maintain client connections to applications and services. Server clusters, which use the Cluster service, maintain data integrity and provide failover support and high availability for mission-critical applications and services on your back-end servers, including databases, messaging systems, and file and print services. Organizations can use server clusters to make applications and data available on multiple servers that are linked together in a server cluster configuration.

A member of the prestigious World Wide Web Consortium, the international consortium working to develop Web standards, Viaden Media has a unique experience in the development and promotion of web projects. Early this year Viaden Media was admitted into the High Technologies Park of Belarus.

Luxoft is a global software development company headquartered in Russia, with offices in the US, Canada, UK and Ukraine. Luxoft has established itself as a premium service provider of high end complex outsourcing services focusing on new product engineering, application development and embedded systems development. It has demonstrated deep technical expertise, vertical domain experience and strict adherence to stringent quality and security standards.

Both companies hope to gain efforts and persuade the specialists to use cluster technologies when developing web projects.

Recently a new Foreign Trade Agreement on the Work resulting in Poker software development has been signed between Dathal srl, Italy and Viaden Media, Belarus.

Under this Agreement Viaden Media undertakes to develop a Poker Software “FANTATEXAS” in both English and Italian versions. Inspired by “Wild-Wild West” American ideas this poker is to excite secret feelings of courage and bravery, fortitude and recklessness. The spirit of liberty and a taste of risk should add some spicy sauce to regular Texas Holdem dish.

The distinguishing features of this online poker will be:
• not real but virtual money games;
• paid on a monthly basis membership;
• special system of players ranking;
• web site and poker client program available in both English and Italian;
• French version added lately.

For the moment, 3 mock ups for Dathal srl to revise and choose the best to continue working on it have been already designed by Viaden Media team. The poker is scheduled for release in September. In October FANTATEXAS website will be open for Public.