Indonesia's state-owned oil and gas entity Pertamina has lined up gasoline term imports of 8.9 million-9.1 million barrels for May, down from total imports of 9.48 million-9.68 million barrels in April, trade sources said this week. Of ...
Mobile phone apps are accessing users' private data and transmitting it to remote servers far more than appears strictly necessary, while users have inadequate tools to monitor or control such access, according to a new study by two French ...
Tags: APP, Computer Products, private data
Despite assurances from the White House and little traction from Democrats in US Congress, a key Republican senator believes that a carbon tax is President Barack Obama's top priority. "That is the ultimate goal of this president," said ...
Tags: Lead Republican, Carbon Tax, Chemicals
Reviews of offshore oil and gas exploration plans and approval of drilling permits may be delayed by mandatory across-the-board budget cuts known as a "sequester," US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Director Tommy Beaudreau said ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, oil, gas
US investors pushed stocks broadly higher, as the Federal Reserve's promise of continued easy-money policies helped them move past the latest flare-up in Europe's debt crisis. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished with an advance of ...
Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet will go on sale in Europe in the second quarter priced somewhere around $1,170, while a local telco is now reselling the latest editions of its Office 365 hosted productivity suite, the company announced ahead ...
After 12 successive quarters of double-digit growth at SAP, co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe has pinned his future hopes on the company’s recently acquired Ariba e-commerce network. Recent growth has been fueled by SAP’s HANA ...
Tags: SAP, CeBit, Ariba e-commerce network
Microsoft’s Surface Pro tablet will go on sale in Europe in the second quarter, and it will be priced somewhere around €899, the firm announced ahead of the CeBit trade show on Monday. Microsoft Germany’s CEO, Christian ...
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European antitrust regulators will slap Microsoft with a fine before the end of March for failing to offer customers a browser choice screen, according to a report today by the Reuters news service. Citing several unnamed sources ...
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In a move to counter recent reports claiming that a special unit in the Chinese Army is behind repeated cyber attacks on U.S. institutions, the nation Thursday claimed its military and defence ministries websites are routinely hacked from ...
China has strenuously denied claims it has stolen data from US companies in a series of planned cyber attacks, and counter-claimed that it has suffered attacks originating in the US. Earlier this week, Madiant Corp, a US-based security ...
Tags: cyber attacks, Google, computers
LG Electronics has taken the fight to Samsung’s Galaxy Note 2, having revealed its new Optimus G Pro on Monday, which, LG says, is a direct competitor to the hugely successful phablet. The new device will have a 5.5-inch screen, ...
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Microsoft waived its right to a hearing before European antitrust regulators to further answer charges that it failed to offer customers a browser choice screen, according to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ...
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Car manufacturers Peugeot and General Motors planned to expand their cooperation, and researched three vehicle platforms together. Last Thursday (Jan.24), these two companies announced the decision above in the joint news conference in ...
Tags: PSA, General Motors, cooperation
A new company is looking to launch spacecraft to mine asteroids and one day act as an outer space gas station and an oasis for human colonies in space. Deep Space Industries Inc. announced Tuesday that it hopes to launch a fleet of small ...
Tags: Space Prospectors, human colonies, near-Earth asteroids