The brief: To create a style of packaging for the ready meal market that was lightweight and allowed the consumer to see the product itself Client: Tesco Brand: Piing Design: Intelligent Packaging Solutions UK launch date: Summer ...
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Samsung Electronics has alleged that three recent products from Apple, including the iPad mini, infringe on its patents. The South Korean company said in a filing Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, ...
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The US Federal Trade Commission said it had updated rules requiring online services to obtain consent from parents if they are aimed at children under 13 or know that they are collecting personal information from young children. But FTC ...
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An effort by three U.S. senators to add an Internet sales tax amendment to a military spending bill has failed, at least for now. Last week, Senators Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, Mike Enzi, a Wyoming Republican, and Lamar Alexander, ...
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Business Recorder reported that the Federal Board of Revenue has decided to collect adjustable sales tax at 5%on the value of imported goods or INR 1600 per metric tonne,whichever is higher,on the import of re meltable iron and steel scrap. ...
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The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday in two cases with potentially broad implications to technology users, one reviewing whether consumers can resell copyright-protected products they have purchased and the second challenging ...
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U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday questioned the legitimacy of a law allowing a secretive government surveillance program and the assertion by a government lawyer that some groups couldn't challenge the law in court because they don't ...
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IDG News Service - The U.S.-based Electronic Frontier Foundation criticized new cybercrime legislation that went into effect Wednesday in the Philippines, which has sparked protests over its heavy-handed approach to speech on the internet. ...
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IDG News Service - The Russian version of Wikipedia went black on Tuesday to protest a proposed law that could become the basis for Internet censorship. Wikipedia's protest is backed by other large Russian online businesses such as the ...
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IDG News Service - The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a lawsuit seeking details about U.S. National Security Agency surveillance of email and telephone calls, with the lawsuit raising concerns that the agency has illegally ...
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It's urgent for the U.S. Senate to pass a cybersecurity bill now stalled because of opposition from several lawmakers, officials from the U.S. White House said Wednesday. Four White House officials called on the Senate to pass the revised ...
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ArcelorMittal announces the extension of the conversion date for the USD 1 billion privately placed mandatory convertible bond issued on December 28th 2009 by one of its wholly owned Luxembourg subsidiaries. This amendment to the MCB, which ...
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OJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel (Company or MMC Norilsk Nickel) announced that at today’s Board of Directors Meeting a number of significant issues have been discussed. It was decided unanimously to hold an extraordinary shareholders’ ...
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Reuters reported that South Africa is drawing up laws to force platinum and iron ore miners to sell "small amounts" of production to local processors at a discount to diversify its economy. Mr Lionel October director general of the ...
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August 10, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Louisiana Federal District Court Judge Brian Jackson ruled a state statute that prohibited sex offenders from using Internet sites is unconstitutional. The court found the law overbroad, in that it ...
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