Cyber attacks on U.S. banks over the last several months reflect a frightening new era in cyber warfare, according to security expert Darren Hayes, who says that corporations are unprepared to battle such attacks because of a shortage of ...
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The most controversial tech issue taken up by the outgoing Congress was, by far, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). This legislation drew a humongous public outcry that prompted a wholesale retreat by its supporters. But thanks to the ...
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IDG News Service-President Barack Obama,currently on the campaign trail ahead of the upcoming November elections,c,a popular online discussion site,on Wednesday. The president appeared on a forum entitled"I am Barack Obama,President of ...
Microsoft has announced plans to acquire enterprise social networking firm Yammer for$1.2bn in cash. Yammer will join the Microsoft Office division,led by division president Kurt DelBene,and the team will continue to report to current ...
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What do the gold market and the weather have in common? You can forecast both, but predict neither, according to Brien Lundin, chief executive of Jefferson Financial and publisher of Gold Newsletter. Lundin, who also organizes the New ...
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The Critical Metals Report: John, a recent Brookings Institution report suggested that greater collaboration between U.S. and Chinese companies would alleviate tensions over tightening rare earth markets. Is the proposed merger between the ...
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From January to October 2012, the investment in fixed assets (excluding rural households) reached 29,254.2 billion yuan, up by 20.7 percent year-on-year (actual increase was 20.7 percent after deducting price factors), increased 0.2 ...
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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 ...
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SAP has made its HANA in-memory database available on Amazon Web Services at an hourly rate, giving customers and partners a new way to try out the platform quickly without investing in hardware and perpetual software licenses, the company ...
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Vicinity Manufacturing will once again participate in the American Express Small Business Saturday initiative by offering exclusive savings on the purchase of new and additional Vicinity software licenses. The Atlanta-based independent ...
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US retailer Kroger has increased its full-year profit forecast after reporting a rise in third-quarter earnings. In the three-month period ended 3 November, earnings climbed to US$316.5m from $195.9m a year earlier, which included a ...
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USA / UK - Everyone knows someone who's had cancer, and while no one can predict where or who it will strike, most people agree that encouraging healthy choices and receiving regular medical checkups are key to avoiding and treating the ...
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National Bureau of Statistics of China November 30,2012 According to the result of nationwide sampling survey of agricultural production households and comprehensive statistics of agricultural holdings conducted by NBS in 31 ...
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Technip was awarded by The Dow Chemical Company the front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract and cracking furnaces engineering and procurement services for a previously announced new large world-scale ethylene production plant to be ...
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Taipei, Nov.19, 2012 (CENS)--The “free-economy exemplary zone” plan has entered the final planning stage. The Council for Economic Planning and Development (CEPD), mastermind of the plan, has reportedly decided to extend the ...
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