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, ...
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Despite vocal mistrust of e-voting, 151 Flemish municipalities in Belgium will use new electronic voting machines in October 14 elections. More than 60 percent of the country's Flemish citizens as well as voters in the Brussels region ...
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The feud between Autonomy founder Mike Lynch and Hewlett-Packard’s leadership over alleged accounting fraud at the software vendor has intensified, with Lynch declaring his innocence in an open letter to the company’s board and ...
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Cyber espionage is?nothing new.So a report from the Defense Security Service(DSS)about efforts in foreign countries to steal U.S.technology,intellectual property,trade secrets and proprietary information might sound like just more of the ...
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France is considering nationalizing an aluminium plant owned by Anglo Australian mining group Rio Tinto. The potential move is being studied by officials working for Arnaud Montebourg, the Industrial Recovery minister, just 10 days after ...
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The New York Court of Appeals carved out a rather large exception when it ruled that a man could not be accused of certain child pornography charges because he did not "possess" the images - he'd viewed them online. And in early 2011, the ...
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Web hosting providers from the U.S., Canada and other Western nations have been hosting official Syrian government websites, in violation of sanction orders from the U.S. and other governments, according to a Canadian Web research ...
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The eyes of the textile universe were focused on Vietnam as the International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF) held its traditional Annual Conference from Nov. 4 – 6, 2012. In the highly anticipated Fiber Session on Nov. 4, ...
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Computerworld - The specter that Congress will reauthorize the controversial FISA Amendments Act of 2008 without any changes to its sweeping spying provisions is evoking cries of alarm from advocacy and privacy groups. Many say the law, ...
A gear logo proposed to represent and easily identify open-source hardware has caught the eyes of the The Open Source Initiative, which believes the logo infringes its trademark. The gear logo is backed by the Open Source Hardware ...
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A U.K. analytics firm that warned earlier this week of an information leak in Internet Explorer (IE) today rebuked Microsoft for downplaying the bug. Microsoft, however, has announced it is working on a fix, although the nature of the ...
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The U.S. House is moving closer to acting on legislation that would make green cards available to as many as 55,000 foreign nationals who have earned advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering or math -- the so-called STEM fields. ...
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The mass sell off of Apple’s stock is being driven by the looming fiscal cliff, specifically the expiration in January of tax cuts implemented by Bush. Apple’s share price fell as low as $505.75 during Friday’s trading, ...
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Global ICT leaders will gather to discuss topics including the ‘radical transformation of the ICT industry’ at this year’s ITU Telecom World 2012, opening in Dubai next month. The event is staged for 14-18 October, and ...
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So a particular toy is being sold in a particular retailer exclusively for a limited period. There’s nothing wrong with a little exclusivity between friends, right? Why shouldn’t a company and a retailer be able to ...
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