The White House says it agrees with a US citizen petition arguing that "jailbreaking" of mobile phones to allow users to switch carriers should be legal. In a statement released on the White House petitions web page, presidential aide R. ...
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European privacy authorities approved a plan to come up with measures to curb Google's collection, combination and storage of its users' personal information before the summer. The data protection regulators have decided to continue their ...
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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Commerce has agreed to extend the deadline for making a preliminary determination in the hardwood plywood antidumping case. Last year, a group of U.S. hardwood plywood producers filed an antidumping ...
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Two U.S. lawmakers have introduced legislation that would require a losing plaintiff to pay legal costs in many patent infringement lawsuits, in an effort to discourage so-called patent trolls from filing court cases. The Saving High-Tech ...
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According to Taiwan's ministry of finance said it planned to the investigation reviews for the alleged dumping of stainless steel cold rolled products import to Taiwan from China and South Korea. The petition has conducted by two of ...
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Microsoft has moved its email service Outlook.com out of the preview phase, and plans a marketing campaign to boost its adoption worldwide. The service, which claims 60 million active users since the preview was released last July, will ...
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As Microsoft pushed Outlook.com out of preview mode today, analysts said the company's "Scroogled" attack ads, which fired shots at Google's Gmail two weeks ago, were effective. "We all like to think that we don't like attack ads, but the ...
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Consumers and activists across Europe are mobilizing on the streets and on social media this week to ask major high street fashion brands to support a minimum wage increase for garment workers in Cambodia. To bring the shocking reality of ...
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Malaysia's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) has announced its final decision regarding the antidumping (AD) duty investigation on steel wire rod imports from Taiwan, China, Indonesia, South Korea and Turkey. Malaysia ...
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Oracle isn't done releasing patches for Java SE this month, as another batch will arrive Feb. 19, according to a company blog post. On Feb. 1, Oracle pulled the trigger early on the February release, which had originally been scheduled ...
Privacy and digital rights groups are overstating the privacy concerns in a controversial cyberthreat information bill introduced this week in the U.S. Congress, the bill's sponsors and leaders of some business groups said. Groups opposed ...
India’s Supreme Court has declined to alter its decision of changing Sistema‘s mobile licences for its mobile services joint venture, it was reported last week. The joint venture of the Russian conglomerate was one of several ...
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Microsoft has launched a campaign in the U.S. that targets Google's alleged practice of going through the contents of all Gmail messages to sell and target advertisements, raising again an old issue the software giant has with the free ...
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According to a company blog post, Oracle is due to release another batch of patches for Java SE on February 19. On February 1, Oracle pulled the trigger early on the February release, which had originally been scheduled for February 19, ...
A U.S. appeals court has denied Apple's request for a rehearing on after the court rejected an injunction on Samsung Electronics' Galaxy Nexus. Apple had earlier questioned a criterion for preliminary injunctions used by the court. The ...