The state of Pennsylvania will not renew its services contract with IBM regarding the development of a modernized unemployment compensation system, after the project reportedly has gone 42 months behind schedule and $60 million over budget. ...
A local Nissan Pulsar television commercial has been banned twice in two months by the Advertising Standards Bureau (ASB) for depicting unsafe driving. Spruiking the new Nissan Pulsar SSS, the ad shows a man driving through the streets as ...
Bentley is laying down the gauntlet to high-end rivals, claiming its new Bentley SUV will be "the most luxurious and most powerful SUV" when it goes on sale in 2016. The Volkswagen-owned British brand has confirmed it will build an SUV at ...
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Amazon is offering to cover 95 percent of the cost of vocational training courses to help its warehouse staff pursue jobs in other careers,including many that Amazon does not offer,the company said Monday in a letter posted on its home ...
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Federal opposition leader Tony Abbott says the Coalition does not support the Labor Government’s changes to fringe benefits tax (FBT) rules and will not proceed with the policy changes if elected. The government has attracted ...
Apple has acquired Locationary, a start-up based in Toronto that provides a platform for aggregating and managing local business listings. Apple confirmed the acquisition Friday, but declined to disclose additional details about the plans ...
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A Land Rover executive has confirmed that a decision on whether the Range Rover Evoque Convertible will be put into production is imminent. Speaking at a meeting of Land Rover heads in the Asia Pacific region, held in Melbourne, the ...
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The trucking industry is not alone in its criticism of Metrolinx's Big Move plan to fund transit in the Toronto and Hamilton regions. The Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) has released survey results that paint a picture ...
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A privacy debate has erupted in Japan over a new service from a major rail operator that sells private e-ticket records as marketing data. This week East Japan Railway (JR East), the country's largest rail company, has begun offering for ...
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Windows 8.1 will be made available for RTM - release to manufacturing - during late August. The announcement was made by Windows chief marketing officer Tami Reller during a keynote at Microsoft's annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) ...
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BT has hit back against press criticism generated by the National Audit Office's report into the rising costs and delays that have affected the government's rural fibre-broadband rollout. The company says, in particular, that it has not ...
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Microsoft is launching a channel partner program on Monday to help drive sales of its Surface tablet to companies, schools and other organizations. The program is operational now in the U.S. with a small set of partners and will be ...
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Fugitive document leaker Edward Snowden has formally applied for political asylum in Russia after spending eight days in the transit area of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport. The Reuters news agency quoted an unnamed Russian immigration ...
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Tass reported that TNK-BP management has presented a report to leading NGOs on the company's key projects to minimize its environmental impact in 2012,including the latest data on its associated gas utilization,incident rates,pipeline ...
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Microsoft has launched the Windows 8.1 preview - an early glimpse at the unfinalised update designed to improve the Windows 8 operating system. Further reading The flexible working revolution Microsoft Build 2013: 'We need to do a ...
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