A Huddersfield pie manufacturer has been found guilty of health and safety breaches that killed a factory worker in a gas oven explosion. The site after the explosion in 2009 Andrew Jones Pies was prosecuted by the Health and Safety ...
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Coke has been joined by Schweppes, Lion Nathan, and the Australian Food and Grocery Council in the Federal Court trying to stop the NT scheme. “Coca Cola is now notorious in Australia for being the driving force behind misleading ...
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Six years after its long-delayed but well-publicized release, Windows Vista now accounts for less than 6% of all Windows machines, a metrics company said earlier this month. According to Net Applications, Vista's usage share of all ...
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, the co-founder of popular website Reddit and the co-creator, in his teens, of the RSS syndication tool, has been found dead in his home in New York in an apparent suicide. The precocious programmer and internet activist had been due in ...
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Apple has cut orders of memory chips for its next iPhone from supplier and rival Samsung, according to reports. Samsung has been the key supplier of parts including flat screens, microprocessors and both DRAM and NAND memory chips for ...
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Two of the big four accountancy firms have been named in a new lawsuit claiming damages for HP shareholders following the write-down of Autonomy. HP bought Autonomy in 2011 for $11.7bn, but last week claimed former managers at the UK ...
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Somerset County Council is making preparations for legal action from Southwest One, the shared services joint venture it formed with IBM in 2007. The stand-off is the culmination of 18 months of crisis talks over the joint venture's ...
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Apple's lower-priced iPad Mini will significantly cannibalize sales of the company's full-sized iPad, with up to half of customers opting for the smaller tablet, an analyst argued today. Most experts have estimated the iPad Mini's ...
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A UK judge has ordered Apple to publish announcements that Samsung did not copy the design of its iPad, after Apple failed to prove the allegation in court. Judge Colin Birss said one notice should remain on Apple's website for six ...
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1) Toys R Us bags exclusive Skylanders Giant figures 2) VTech introduces InnoTab 2 Baby 3) Now Golden Bear adds Woolly and Tig 4) LEGO Star Wars prices rocket on eBay 5) Toy retail is under pressure 6) Are the days of a single hot ...
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Apple on Wednesday took the wraps off its new iPhone 5, which has a larger screen than its predecessors and works on high-speed LTE wireless networks. All Apple phones so far have had 3.5-inch screens, but the iPhone 5 has a 4-inch ...
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has rejected industry groups’ request to put on hold mandates that force companies operating in extractive industries to disclose payments made to foreign governments. Led by the American ...
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LEGO has won a legal battle against Belgian company TKS which produces the Ice Watch. The Brussels Court of Appeal has issued a pan-European injunction against Ice Watch packaging (pictured), furniture and other items, after it found the ...
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Patent holding firm NTP, which won a $612.5 million patent settlement from Research In Motion in 2006, has reached a possibly unprecedented agreement with 13 other technology vendors, including Apple, Google, Microsoft and AT&T, the company ...
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IDG News Service - A federal jury in Delaware has found Apple's iPhone infringes on three patents held by MobileMedia Ideas, a patent-holding company formed by Sony, Nokia and MPEG LA. The jury's verdict in the U.S. District Court for the ...
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