LOOK around any of Bristol's main tourist destinations and you'll see Bristol Blue glass for sale. In fact its connections with the city are so strong that Harvey's Bristol Cream sherry, although no longer bottled here, is available in blue ...
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U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to announce Tuesday measures directed against patent-holding companies, often referred to as patent trolls, according to a newspaper report. Obama is expected to announce five executive actions and ...
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Volkswagen Australia has no plans to recall any of its vehicles despite a growing number of reports of owners experiencing a loss of acceleration. A coronial investigation into the death of a Volkswagen Golf driver on Melbourne's Monash ...
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Maine is one step closer to becoming the first state in the nation with a law that would require police to obtain a court-issued search warrant in order to obtain a person's cell-phone location data. The State Legislature, by a vote of ...
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For the kickoff of Microsoft's annual North American TechEd conference, the company is urging administrators and IT professionals to think of it as the provider of the "Cloud OS." Microsoft announced a sweeping range of updates to its ...
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Taiwan-based high-power LED packaging house Edison Opto plans to provide products for TV backlight applications in 2013. According to industry sources, Edison Opto's TV backlighting products passed verification in the second quarter and ...
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As the US Senate has passed the Marketplace Fairness Act on e-commerce retailers earlier this month, the brick and mortar apparel retailers are expecting a relief from the increasing competition with online retailers since the act will ...
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The Clean Clothes Campaign welcomes the European Parliament resolution of 20 May 2013 on health and safety in the Bangladesh garment industry, which sets out the Parliament’s expectations of multinational textile retailers to ...
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Texas is poised to become the first state in the U.S. to require law enforcement officers to get a search warrant based on probable cause before they access any electronic communications and customer data stored by a third-party service ...
GE Lighting supplied Iberia LED fixtures to the ecotourism-centric Chinese island, while Leicester, UK, Melbourne, FL, and Long Beach, CA move forward with interesting projects. Gulangyu Island in China's Xiamen district hopes to reduce ...
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Wilo USA building has promoted Harold Adams to the position of National Sales Manager for its Water Management sector. Adams has worked for Wilo since 2009, most recently as Northeast Regional Sales Manager in the greater Philadelphia ...
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A 1996 podcasting patent is in the crosshairs of two digital rights groups, which are hoping the public will help them get the patent invalidated. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, partnering with the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard ...
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The Australian dollar has edged lower, failing to find a catalyst that would help it recover recent losses. At 12pm AEST the local unit was trading at 96.23 US cents, down from 96.39 cents at yesterday’s local close. During the ...
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Reprogramming the identification number of a cellphone could be punishable with a prison sentence of up to five years under the terms of a proposed law announced Friday. The Mobile Device Theft Deterrence Act of 2013 makes changing the ...
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Bellavita Tile Inc. has announced the opening of a new world-class manufacturing facility in the northern China metropolis of Tianjin. The new eco-friendly Bellavita Tile production and warehousing center on the Bohai Gulf, 186 miles ...
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