Chinese authorities have added 10,680 tonnes to the country's export allowance on the top of the 10,546 tonnes it had already allocated to 11 state-sanctioned miners this year. It is something of a meaningless exercise because during the ...
Tags: Asia, China, Rare Earth, USA
News from unnamed sources that quoted unnamed analysts that China has started stockpiling rare earths had the industry buzzing this week. But unfortunately none of it had the desired effect and the stocks of REE miners and explorers ...
Tags: Rarest element, REE, rare earths industry, REE miners
Patent licensing firms that can't get satisfactory results in patent infringement cases in U.S. courts are abusing a patent complaint process at the U.S. International Trade Commission that can lead to products made by U.S. companies being ...
Tags: patent licensing, satisfactory results, U.S.courts, lawmakers
Congress may need to pass legislation that limits the way government agencies and private companies use facial recognition technology to identify people, a U.S. senator said Wednesday. The growing use of facial recognition technology ...
Tags: regulation, U.S.senator, facial recognition, technology
Chinese telecommunication equipment vendor Huawei Technologies has dismissed a U.S. House of Representatives report questioning the company's ties to the Chinese government, with a Huawei official suggesting the report was politically ...
Tags: Huawei Technologies, Chinese government, U.S.House of Representative
U.S. law enforcement surveillance of email and other Internet communication has skyrocketed in the last two years, according to data obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union. The number of so-called pen register and trap-and-trace ...
Tags: ACLU, U.S., surveillance, email, Internet communication
BALTIMORE, MD, June 13, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- A 45-year-old tow truck operator, searching for adult pornography on the Internet, claimed to have accidentally stumbled on a site linked to child pornography. The man then made a big ...
Tags: software program, identify computers, software, Internet
A US congressional panel examining the Chinese telecom firms Huawei and ZTE is concluding an investigation into whether the companies' equipment is a threat to US infrastructure and commercial confidentiality with a public hearing. In ...
Tags: telecom, Huawei, ZTE, infrastructure, commercial confidentiality
Oil prices in the global markets have risen amid news of a decline in US petroleum inventories, with Brent North Sea crude for February climbing USD 1.52 to end at USD 110.36 per barrel in London trade. AFP reported said that oil prices ...
Tags: Oil, prices, global markets, US petroleum inventories
AUSTRALIAN shares ended a holiday-shortened trading session modestly higher today,with gains in the mining and financial sectors pushing the market to an 18-month high. The rise sets the market up to end the year almost 14 per cent ...
Tags: shares, market, stocks, financial sectors
Reuters reported that London copper slipped bruised by the struggles of US lawmakers to find a fix to a looming fiscal cliff and on a rebound in the dollar after it tumbled following the Federal Reserve's extension of loose monetary policy. ...
Tags: copper, metals, Metal Exchange, metals demand
LOCAL shares rose for the third straight day today, hitting a fresh 17-month high as investors sought defensive and higher-yielding stocks as concern grew over the fate of US negotiations on the so-called fiscal cliff. The benchmark ...
In the midst of a tough job market, prospective employees are now dealing with a troubling trend of employers seeking Facebook and other social media passwords as part of their vetting process. After a recent Associated Press report, ...
Tags: job market, social media, vetting process, private information
When the recession hit in 2008, Congress put the idea of a "skills shortage" and a need for more H-1B visas in a closet. That didn't mean, however, that interest in raising the H-1B cap went away for everyone. New York City Mayor ...
Tags: H 1B visas, Microsoft, jobs, U.S.
A group of activists have banded together to protect the Internet from what they see as bad legislation, with a focus initially on copyright enforcement proposals. Members of the new Internet Defense League hope they can harness the ...
Tags: Internet, bad legislation, copyright enforcement proposals