The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission proposes to authorise a revised version of the Homeworkers Code of Practice for five years. The Code is a mechanism within the textile, clothing and footwear industry designed to assist ...
Five thousand food jobs in Scotland and Wales have been safeguarded after the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) approved the 2 Sisters Food Group’s acquisition of Vion UK’s poultry business. About 5,000 food manufacturing jobs ...
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Canada has rolled out the plain language labeling initiative to improve the safe use of medicines by making drug labels and safety information easier to read and understand for all health care practitioners and Canadians. Canada health ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has urged medical device manufacturers to boost their security protection systems against cyber attacks, which could compromise the safety and privacy of patients. According to the agency's safety ...
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Medical device makers should take new steps to protect their products from malware and cyberattacks or face the possibility that U.S. Food and Drug Administration won't approve their devices for use, the FDA said. The FDA issued new ...
UK-based Burton’s Biscuit is investing £4.6m at its facility in Llantarnam, south Wales to boost production and support new product development, a move which safeguards 800 jobs at the facility. The new investment is part of ...
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Twitter has reached a settlement with Skootle that prohibits the Tennessee-based company from spamming Twitter users' feeds with marketing and other promotional content. The case, which dates back to a lawsuit that Twitter brought against ...
US-based Mondelēz International has opened a new production line at its Sheffield facility to manufacture Oreo and BelVita biscuits for the UK, Ireland and other European markets, a move which safeguards about 70 jobs. The investment ...
LT switcher is a safety panel consisting of a number of disconnect-switches that turns on and off the motors, transformers or other electrical appliances. It can be regarded as a power source in the building and production houses, which ...
EE has hit back at claims by the Sunday Times that it and market research firm Ipsos MORI have been working on a deal that would feed data on EE's 27 million customers to the research firm, and even, allegedly, to the police. An EE ...
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The New York State attorney general has sent letters to the chief executives of Apple, Microsoft, Google and Samsung asking them for help in combating cellphone theft and hinting he may pursue legal action if they don't cooperate. The ...
The Dutch government today presented a draft bill that aims to give law enforcement the power to hack into computer systems -- including those located in foreign countires -- to do research, gather and copy evidence or block access to ...
Tags: Dutch Bill, Computer Products
Toshiba has announced its WT310, a Windows 8 tablet to rival Microsoft’s Surface Pro. With Windows 8 Pro, an 11-inch Full HD screen and an Intel Ivy Bridge Core processor, Toshiba is taking aim the Surface Pro and other business ...
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Ivo Opstelten, Dutch minister of Safety and Justice The Dutch government on Thursday presented a draft bill that aims to give law enforcement the power to hack into computer systems — including those located in foreign countries ...
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AIM, the industry association and worldwide authority on bar code, RFID, RTLS and mobile computing, has selected Argonne National Laboratory to receive the 2013 Active RFID Award. This marks the inaugural year for the award, established by ...
Tags: RFID, Nuclear Facility, Textile