Oracle's copyright case against Google's Android OS appeared to gain new life this week after a federal appeals court judge poked holes in Google's defence. A U.S. District Court judge in California ruled last year that Oracle's Java APIs ...
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Pembroke Managing Agency of Ironshore has been granted permission by Lloyd's to manage a new syndicate for the 2014 year of account. Called Acappella Syndicate 2014, the new entity with a £75m stamp capacity is planning to raise ...
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The UK High Court has held BT liable for infringing patents of ASSIA, a solutions provider to broadband service vendors. The High Court of Justice in London ruled that BT infringes one of ASSIA's patents on DSL management in its Next ...
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The new “ Asia-Pacific Online Payment Methods 2013 – Second Half 2013“ report by Hamburg-based secondary market research company yStats.com indicates that the online payment continues to grow in acceptance, driven by fast ...
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A privacy watchdog said Thursday that Google has been breaching Dutch law on personal data protection since it introduced a new privacy policy last year. Jacob Kohnstamm, chairman of the College for the Protection of Personal Data, said ...
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Furniture Store Performance RportMotion upholstery, occasional tables, youth bedroom and outdoor furniture now account for a greater portion of furniture store sales, according to Furniture/Today's exclusive Furniture Store Performance ...
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Pre-Google, who ever imagined that Motorola would be one of the world's most forward-thinking mobile manufacturers? The company recently signed a deal with 3D Systems to develop a futuristic 3D-printing production platform for?Project ...
2 Sisters Food Group has had an action-packed year. In June, its acquisition of Vion finally won approval from the Office of Fair Trading – safeguarding 5,000 jobs. But it wasn’t all good news for the food manufacturer. Its ...
Statoil has decided to accept the NOK 10 million fine imposed on the company for sending 180 cubic metres of wash water with chemicals and scale stored on board the Oseberg C platform with the oil flow to Sture by mistake in May 2011. ...
Google is paying $17 million to 37 states and the District of Columbia to make amends for the Internet search leader's snooping on millions of people using Safari Web browsers in 2011 and 2012. The settlement announced Monday stems from a ...
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While the impact of Apple’s iPhone is obvious to anyone who follows the tech industry, attorneys took a California jury back to the phone’s 2007 unveiling to remind them of the device’s importance. Wednesday, Apple and ...
Verizon’s network wasn’t ready for the flood of new traffic that it had to deal with after the company rolled out LTE service, admitted CFO Fran Shammo. Speaking on a conference call with investors hosted by Wells Fargo on ...
Chinese handset maker ZTE is planning to launch a smartwatch next year, making it the latest company to throw its hat into the emerging gadget segment. ZTE said on Monday that it was preparing the device, and pointed to the first quarter ...
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Amazon Web Services this week released its new cloud-based data analytics tool Kinesis, which can analyse large amounts of data in real time and be paid for by the hour. Kinesis is an application that sits in the cloud and receives data ...
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The creators of a Web-based attack tool called Angler Exploit Kit have added an exploit for a known vulnerability in Microsoft's Silverlight browser plug-in to the tool's arsenal. Exploit kits are essentially malicious Web applications ...
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