Cruising down the Yangtze River, and subsequent visits to Shanghai, opens Derek's eyes to the true meaning of giving in China. On my first trip to China, while sailing on the Yangtze River from Chongqing to Shanghai, I was ...
The US Supreme Court has indicated that they would rule against granting patents on human genes that prevent other researchers to further study the parts of DNA. In 2009, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Public Patent Foundation ...
TüV Rheinland's International Approvals Group has begun issuing Certificates of Conformity (CoC) for a variety of products that meet the Iraqi safety requirements. TüV Rheinland is one of four companies authorized to assist ...
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CSO - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has taken the position it does not need a search warrant to gather email in criminal investigations, despite opposition from lawmakers and privacy advocates and a ruling by a federal appellate court. ...
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Apple's iPhone devices are about "fashion rather than functionality", and BlackBerry devices are better tailored for the enterprise, according to law firm DWF's CTO, Richard Hodkinson. Hodkinson told Computing that the firm has many agile ...
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Citing a lack of data on hydraulic fracturing specific to their state, a team of University of California-Berkeley researchers this week released a report calling for better tracking of frack jobs and handling of fracking wastewater. In a ...
China-based LED industry leader Sanan Optoelectronics has been accused of falsifying financial reports, according to China-based media. This has sparked a debate concerning what critics say is the China government's excessive support for ...
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The UK Office of Fair Trading is investigating whether in-app payments on smartphones and tablet computers are illegally encouraging children to spend money. The investigation follows several recent cases in which children have spent ...
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The wealth of personal data that mobile apps collect on their users needs to be conspicuously stated to consumers or developers could face legal heat, California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris said Wednesday. Rather than resorting to ...
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The European Commission confirmed on Thursday that it has formally received a package of concessions from Google aimed at ending a two-year antitrust investigation. The Internet giant submitted detailed proposals at the end of January, ...
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A U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee has voted to approve a bill that would make it official U.S. policy to promote an Internet "free from government control," with promises that the Republican majority would work with critics of ...
John P. Sedlak John P. Sedlak, founder of Sedlak Interiors in Solon, Ohio, died Tuesday at age 87. Sedlak built the upscale home furnishings business, starting from one room in an apartment building on the east side of Cleveland in ...
It appears the luckiest police force in the world is now in Dubai, with images of a fully-marked Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4 police car hitting the web. Apparently intended for ‘patrols’ in high tourist areas to show how ...
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Bisphenol A (BPA) is used in food packaging such as tins, bottles (including baby bottles until recently), and boxes as well as in dental fillings. Its use has been a concern among food and health officials and governments for several ...
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WITH $600 stuffed in one pocket and a smartphone tucked in the other, Patricio Fink struck a deal that's joining thousands like it in a virtual revolution. The Argentine software developer was dealing in bitcoins - getting an injection of ...