Rekord Systemy Informatyczne is a renowned company and a reliable business partner. Frequently awarded, Rekord is a major sport benefactor and a fair employer.

„Our aim is to offer subscribers the best entertainment by providing possibly the broadest range of various quality channels” says Bertrand Le Guern, President of Canal+ Cyfrowy Ltd. in conversation with Polish Market’s Jerzy Bojanowicz.

“Anything that may prevent a company from achieving its business goals represents a risk for that company. In business, taking any decision is always risky because the company’s knowledge is never sufficient. On the other hand, risk is inherent in profitable business,” says Ryszard Pazdan, President of Atmoterm SA, head of the BCC commission for environmental affairs.

Prof. Jan Maria Wójcicki, Director of the Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, talks to Maciek Proliński.

Poland has until 2032 to complete its asbestos-removal programme and will receive no EU financing for the task. What the EU may help finance, though, is an innovative plan to use asbestos as a reinforcement for railway trackbeds. The Marbet-Wil company in Bielsko-Biała (Marbet-Wil Sp. z o.o) has already installed the technology needed for the project.

Poland experienced the first wave of electronic security systems in the decade from 1995 to 2005 when thousands of such systems were installed across the country. We took a special liking to video surveillance. Video cameras started to guard our car parks, houses, housing estates, shopping centres, workplaces, stadiums, petrol stations, railways stations, airports, whole towns and cities and – after a longer public discussion – also schools and kindergartens. But are we feeling safer?

Few people remember that the YouTube service, which has gained record popularity, was created in February 2005 as a website containing videos featuring a cat of its founder. Within the following several months the world saw the emergence of one hundred million or more filmmakers: amateurs, reporters and followers of Spielberg. On YouTube and its clones, one can watch countless videos on any topic and from every corner of the globe. This is thanks to the invention of digital mini cameras, including those incorporated into mobile phones.

The Andrzej Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies IPJ is a state owned Laboratory located in Świerk 30 km east from Warsaw. It carries out pure and applied research on subatomic physics and technology. It also produces a specialized equipment for various applications (notably for medicine and environmental protection).