The American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) has filed the latest installment in a long-running court case relative to cloned horse registration. Some owners have used the cloning process-which was first performed on horses in 2003-to ...
A biomedical engineer is developing a clinical-grade open-source 12-lead ECG. The device includes support for Android devices and is designed to meet all relevant medical device manufacturing standards, like ISO 60601-1. According to early ...
US personal lines insurer Allstate Insurance Company has won a court case that puts an end to fraudulent business and billing schemes carried out by unlicensed medical and chiropractic personnel. In a lawsuit filed in the Los Angeles ...
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Internet giant Google is migrating from Oracle's MySQL databases to MariaDB, the fork from MySQL established by its co-founder, Monty Widenius. The news was broken by Jeremy Cole, a senior systems engineer at Google at the Extremely Large ...
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his Yahoo counterpart Marissa Mayer have both commented on the NSA Prism revelations, insisting that both web firms did as much as they could to resist governmental demands to reveal personal data of users. ...
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Suzuki and Volkswagen are reportedly considering reviving their short-lived and ill-fated partnership to end a two-year legal stoush. Bloomberg reports Suzuki president Osamu Suzuki and Volkswagen chairman Ferdinand Piech are attempting ...
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Toy Industries of Europe’s (TIE) members are fully committed to the implementation of the new Toy Safety Directive (2009/48/EC), whose requirements are set by the EU’s leading experts and guarantee toy safety. The new Directive ...
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The U.S. Senate has, by a wide margin, supported a bill allowing an Internet sales tax, but the legislation appears to be a tougher sell to the public. Sixty-one percent of U.S. residents surveyed by online postage vendor Endicia said ...
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It is plain and simple: the days of anonymous internet posting are over. The internet is no longer a safe-haven for people looking to harass competitors or individuals. Libelous accusations can be tracked down, and proper legal action can ...
The U.S. Senate has voted to allow states to collect sales tax from online retailers, making it more difficult to buy tax-free products online. The Senate's vote of 69-27 for the Marketplace Fairness Act late Monday sends the bill to the ...
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A handful of lawmakers have stalled the U.S. Senate from voting on legislation that would require large Internet and catalog sellers to collect state sales taxes from their customers. Supporters of the Marketplace Fairness Act still hope ...
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment has removed Bisphenol A, or BPA, from its list of Proposition 65 toxic chemicals. The move came following an April 18 preliminary injunction to delist the ...
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The U.S. Congress should limit the ability of patent holders that don't make products to file infringement complaints at the U.S. International Trade Commission because of a huge increase in cases there, representatives of some companies ...
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The war of words between the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers and the Renewable Fuels Association hit a boiling point Thursday morning. RFA President Bob Dinneen was responding to comments Wednesday from AFPM President ...
SAP has moved to defend the users of its Sybase database software by filing suit against Pi-Net International, a "patent troll" that has filed several patent infringement lawsuits against SAP customers in the US financial services sector ...