IDG News Service - The Supreme Court in the Philippines has temporarily restrained the government from enforcing a new controversial cyber law, in response to petitions from civil rights and journalists groups in the country. In a ...
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IDG News Service - Facebook has proposed a revised settlement in a lawsuit in which it was alleged to have used the names and likeness of the plaintiffs without their prior consent in "Sponsored Stories" advertisements shown to their online ...
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When the recession hit in 2008, Congress put the idea of a "skills shortage" and a need for more H-1B visas in a closet. That didn't mean, however, that interest in raising the H-1B cap went away for everyone. New York City Mayor ...
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Even as the dog at the center of a global animal rights battle was put to death on Wednesday, social networks proved to be a massive weapon for protestors. Lennox, a seven-year-old black dog who lived with his family in Belfast, Ireland, ...
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An opinion handed down by Judge Harlan Hale in the U.S.Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas orders 10 units of Vitro SAB be put into involuntary bankruptcy.In the opinion written Tuesday,Binswanger Glass Co.and VVP Auto Glass ...
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Taipei,Dec.7,2012(CENS)--After being deferred for over one year,a high value-added petrochemical investment project of Formosa Plastics Group(FPG)is finally ready for implementation,as the Petitions and Appeals Committee of the Executive ...
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Environmental regulators in Maine, US are set to commence discussions on a new regulation that would eliminate the use of hazardous chemical bisphenol-A (BPA) in baby and toddler food packaging. In order to take up the proposal, the Board ...
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The Nama have been separated from the Bai for about seven centuries. Today they still preserve traditions now lost among many of the Bai. They think that all things have a soul, and they practice a cult of nature similar to what the Bai ...
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In the second major legal victory for music labels in recent weeks, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit has upheld a jury award of $222,000 against a woman accused of pirating 24 songs over a peer-to-peer file sharing network. ...
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IDG News Service-The source code of"We The People,"the online system that can be used by citizens to submit their petitions to the White House,is being offered as open source software,an official said on Thursday. "Now anybody,from other ...
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Optics societies press Iran to release PhD student 12 Jun 2012 Letter co-signed by presidents of SPIE,OSA,EOS and ICO urges Iranian government to overturn Omid Kokabee's ten-year jail sentence. Omid Kokabee The presidents of four ...
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David Seeger,President of JMC Steel Group,highlights why he thinks the future is bright for the US energy pipe market. David Seeger began his career in 1979 with UNR-Leavitt in the Sales&Marketing group,then moved to Welded Tube Company ...
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