U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder defended the role of the prosecution in the case of the late Internet activist and innovator Aaron Swartz, stating that "there was never an intention for him to go to jail for longer than a three, four, ...
The National Retail Federation this week welcomed introduction of House and Senate legislation that would repeal the employer mandate provision of the health care reform law scheduled to take effect next year. “Eliminating the ...
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Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), the banking group that owns NatWest, has suffered another embarrassing outage when its computer systems crashed last night, leaving its 7.5 million customers unable to withdraw cash, access their current ...
A U.S. senator has proposed a bill that will allow consumers to unlock cellphones for use in other networks, after the administration of President Barack Obama backed over 114,000 petitioners who asked the government to legalize the ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, smartphones, Computer
European antitrust regulators will slap Microsoft with a "large fine" Wednesday for failing to live up to a 2009 settlement that requires it to offer Windows users a browser ballot, the New York Times reported today. According to the ...
European antitrust regulators will slap Microsoft with a "large fine" Wednesday for failing to live up to a 2009 settlement that requires it to offer Windows users a browser ballot, the New York Times reported today. According to the ...
Tags: Microsoft, browser ballot, Windows
U.S. President Barack Obama's administration has sided with more than 100,000 petition signers who asked the government to legalize the unlocking of smartphones. The White House on Monday agreed with petitioners who asked the Library of ...
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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Handling original equipment manufacturing (OEM) contracts in China can be a bit of a minefield, especially for the new-to-China business. Stories of molds and design IP being ripped off and then sold by your own supplier are legendary. Here ...
Tags: Focus Vision, China, Common Issues, OEM
Life insurer MetLife is planning to refund nearly $190m to American International Group (AIG) following a victory by one of its units in legal proceedings filed in a Tokyo court. The American Life Insurance Co (Alico), which won the ...
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HMRC is trawling the internet, including social media and other websites in which people share information, in a bid to find potential evidence of tax fraud that it can feed into its new Connect data warehouse. Although HMRC is reluctant ...
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HMRC is trawling the internet, including social media and other websites in which people share information, in a bid to find potential evidence of tax fraud that it can feed into its new Connect data warehouse. Although HMRC is reluctant ...
Tags: HMRC, Tax Fraud, Connect data warehouse
BP said Tuesday it is ready to defend itself in court over civil liability charges brought against it in the US over the Macondo oil spill after attempts to settle out of court failed. BP late last year agreed with the US Department of ...
They called for more meat tests along the food chain in the wake of the scandal. Many voiced concern over member states’ level of commitment to enforcing the EU’s existing rules on labelling and urged the European Commission to ...
Tags: labelling, labelling rules, meat products
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has launched legal action against unknown traders over claims they broke rules when trading in Heinz options before the US$28bn deal to buy the food giant was announced. The SEC claims traders had ...
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