The U.S. National Security Agency and Department of Justice exceeded their legal authority to conduct surveillance when collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. residents, several U.S. lawmakers said Wednesday. Several members ...
Tags: Computer Products, Phone Records
The National Retail Federation sent a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. calling on Congress to pass a one-year delay of the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate. The ...
Proposed changes to the International Registration Plan (IRP) has the full support of the Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA), and perhaps soon every provincial trucking association. In a statement released yesterday, the CTA said the ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts, truck
On many occasions I allow myself the perverse indulgence of participating in public conversations on Facebook. The signal to noise ratio is vast, but it can be managed. Careful attention and a generous sifting of one's feed can reveal ...
SoftBank plans to invest $16 billion in capital improvements at Sprint in the next two years, CEO Masayoshi Son said days before the acquisition closes on Wednesday. Separately, as expected, Clearwire's shareholders on Monday approved ...
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced today that its membership has voted to adopt LEED v4, the next update to the world's premier green building rating system. The final overall vote was 86 percent in favor of adopting LEED v4. ...
Tags: Green Building, Construction, Decoration
Viacom Inc. and Twitter today announced a partnership to deliver social video advertising campaigns around the most popular shows and biggest events throughout Viacom's network portfolio, which includes MTV, VH1, CMT, Nickelodeon, COMEDY ...
Tags: Viacom, Twitter, Social Video Campaigns
The Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC) announced it has opened voting for its IICRC e-newsletter naming contest. After launching the contest in March, the IICRC has identified the top eight names and ...
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The New York State Assembly on Wednesday approved a measure that allows the New York City Board of Elections to replace state-of-the art optical scanning voting machines around the city with decades-old mechanical-lever machines for the ...
Tags: Voting Machines, New York City
SolarAid has been selected to receive a £400,000 Global Impact Award from Google’s Global Impact Challenge. The charity says the Award, which is decided by a panel of judges including Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Sir Richard ...
Tags: Global Impact Award, Lighting
LOS ANGELES, June 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- NYX Cosmetics presents the Fine Artistry of Cosmetic Elites (FACE) Awards 2013. In its second year, FACE Awards is a multi-national competition to find The Beauty Vlogger of The Year on ...
Tags: NYX, FACE Awards, Beauty Vlogger
With an eye on next year's European elections, Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes on Thursday called on the European Parliament to support her longstanding plans to end roaming charges and guarantee net neutrality. Though contrary ...
Tags: Computer Products
The Clean Clothes Campaign welcomes the European Parliament resolution of 20 May 2013 on health and safety in the Bangladesh garment industry, which sets out the Parliament’s expectations of multinational textile retailers to ...
Tags: CCC Hails European, Safety Accord
With the H-1B fight over and lost, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) lashed out, almost flailing in the minutes before the Senate Judiciary Committee's final vote Tuesday. The tech industry had won. It was getting late in the day and the ...
Tags: Stinky Onion, Computer Products, H-1B
IDC today drastically lowered its forecast for PC shipments in 2013, a prediction that if accurate means more bad news for Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system. "Lower PC sales are certainly not a positive for Microsoft," said Loren ...