The changes Twitter is making to its API policies triggered a wave of protest among its developers, but they might be necessary for the strategy Twitter has laid out for itself to make money and keep growing its service. The stricter ...
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The Iranian government appears to have blocked access to Google’s search engine and Gmail webmail service from inside Iran, according to Internet users there. A security researcher going by the Twitter handle of @0xal reported that ...
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The website for the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) now tells visitors it will not honor their browsers' do-not-track requests as a form of protest against the technology pushed by privacy groups and parts of the ...
The Internet, long viewed as a tool to expand freedom, is an equally effective tool for repression. That is just as true in the United States as anywhere else. Security guru Bruce Schneier noted in a recent blog post, citing Evgeny ...
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The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Acta) has been dealt another blow as an influential European parliamentary committee rejected its adoption. The International Trade Committee voted against the proposed Acta legislation by 19 votes ...
Hacktivist group Anonymous has claimed responsibility for outages to several government websites last night. Various Twitter accounts that belong to the group were awash with the claims yesterday,including Anonymous Operations,an account ...
As more than 12,000 unionized workers and supporters protested at the Capitol in Lansing, the Republican-led state House of Representatives gave final approval to a pair of "right-to-work" bills covering public- and private-sector unions. ...
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AFP reported that Mr Ahmad Obeidat former premier and intelligence chief joined thousands of Jordanians to protest fuel price hikes, demanding regime reform and the resignation of Prime Minister Mr Abdullah Nsur. Chanted the protesters ...
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Iraqi Kurdistan's oil exports have halved to around 100,000 barrels per day in recent days in what could be a result of its long running dispute with Baghdad over payments to oil firms operating in the region. An Iraqi oil official said ...
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According to a Reuters survey, Iran posted increases in its oil output in November. Iranian supply has risen by 40,000 barrels per day to 2.71 million barrels per day. Sources in the survey said that a resumption in sales to South Korea ...
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BS reported that after the shutdown of Vedanta Aluminium’s one million tonne alumina refinery at Lanjigarh on December 5th 2012 the Odisha government seems to have woken up, albeit belatedly to the raw material crisis that has ...
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US retailer Save Mart is to hold talks with union officials in a bid to resolve a dispute over cuts being made to staff salaries and health care. Save Mart's offer for discussions follow a union vote in which a majority of members backed ...
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Western Libya's main refinery resumed operations after protesters shut it down for a day. Mr Essam Al Muntasir spokesman of the Zawiya Oil Refining Company said that employees were able to resume work and fuel trucks were able to leave ...
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TOI reported that tension prevailed at the Anrak alumina refinery plant area here on Wednesday after police authorities arrested a group of agitating farmers for trying to prevent lorries carrying raw materials from entering the plant. ...
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Western Libya's main refinery resumed operations yesterday after protesters shut it down for a day. Mr Essam Al Muntasir of the Zawiya Oil Refining Company said that employees were able to resume work and fuel trucks were able to leave ...
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