The U.S. Congress should consider a "safe harbor" from legal action for consumers using works protected by copyright as it launches a long-term effort to revamp copyright law, some advocates said Thursday. Consumers should be protected ...
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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Google has to remove search suggestions from autocomplete in Germany if the results are offensive, the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe ruled Tuesday. The court upheld a complaint by the founder and CEO of a company that sells ...
Everybody knows USTER STATISTICS – the globally-established benchmarks for the textile industry. But how are they used in practice, and how do they influence the fabrics and garments we all wear every day? To put it another way, what ...
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Members of a U.S. congressional group on privacy wrote Thursday to Google CEO Larry Page requesting information on how the futuristic device handles privacy issues. The letter, signed by eight members of the Congressional Bi-partisan ...
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HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has announced that it is working with tax administrations from the United States (the IRS) and Australia (the ATO) on analysing data to reveal "extensive use of complex offshore structures to conceal assets by ...
Tags: HM Revenue, Tax Evaders
Yahoo has acquired a mobile gaming company, Loki Studios, taking its total acquisitions this month to four. The company said over the weekend it welcomed Loki, Astrid, GoPollGo and MileWise to its growing mobile team. "We recently added ...
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The axing of Stephen Conroy's other pet project, the controversial mandatory internet filtering scheme, will save the government more than $4 million. According to Budget 2013 papers, the government will achieve savings of $4.5m over ...
Virtual blueprints for the world's first 3D printable handgun have found a safe harbour at file-sharing website The Pirate Bay, dodging a US government attempt to pull them off the internet. Defense Distributed, a Texas nonprofit that ...
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Colleges and universities are being encouraged to scrutinize their systems to keep them from being hijacked in DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks. The Research and Education Networking Information Sharing and Analysis Center ...
Many popular social media sites are text, image and video based, meaning those who are blind can find it difficult to fully engage with the content and interact with other users. However, since its launch almost three years ago, social ...
Imagine it's freezing cold outside and you are back home from a nice dinner. Now comes the show spoiler. You take the garage door opener remote and do the needful for the garage door to open. The door does not open and to make things worse, ...
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If you want to add the charm of a fireplace to your home, but you do not have the time to maintain a traditional fireplace, then you should go for an electric fireplace. Traditional fireplaces need venting, but an electric fireplace does ...
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Garage door openers nowadays, do more than just opening and close doors. The best garage door openers available in the market today have a lot of inbuilt security features too. When looking for garage door openers, there are many things ...
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Today there is a large variety of tiles and flooring available in the market like ceramic tiles, vinyl tiles, stone tiles, marble, granite, etc. Every single type among these have their own advantages and drawbacks. Among the rest, vinyl ...
Tags: Resilient Flooring, Flooring