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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IDG News Service - Copyright laws are holding back potentially life-saving research, the European Union's top digital lawmaker said on Monday. Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes was speaking at the 2012 Intellectual Property and ...
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Seven international electronics manufacturers were fined a total of $1.92 billion by the European Commission on Wednesday for conspiring to fix the price of cathode-ray tubes (CRTs) in two separate cartels between 1996 and 2006. European ...
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China is delivering on its promise to consolidate its mining industry with the formation of a new rare earth mega miner. According to a report by Global Times, the “mega-corporation”, named China North Rare Earths (Group) ...
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European Union regulators will not force Microsoft to open its Windows RT operating system to rival browsers, the Brussels-based antitrust agency said Wednesday. At the same time, the European Competition Commission served Microsoft with ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft last week began providing European consumers a "browser ballot screen" for Windows 8, a move that may be just the first of several steps the company will take to head off a new antitrust investigation. According ...
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Japan, the world’s main importer of rare earths, has requested international assistance for alternatives, conservation, diversification and recycling and to continue dialogue with China to secure stable global supply, reports ...
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China’s ministry of commerce said that foreign direct investment in China fell 5.4% from a year earlier in November, widening from October's drop of 0.24%. The total value of overseas investment stood at USD 8.29 billion, the sixth ...
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IDG News Service - Motorola's Xoom tablet does not infringe on some of Apple's community designs, the regional court of Dusseldorf ruled on Tuesday. Apple wanted a Europe-wide ban on the Motorola tablet, a court spokesman said. Apple ...
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In a move to curb the rampant domestic illegal mining of rare earth, as well as regulate its rare earths players, China is launching an industry association for the precious metal commodity on April 8. According to The China Post, the ...
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In the construction sector,seasonally adjusted production fell by 1.6%in the euro area(EA17),while it rose by 1.6%in the EU27 in October 2012,compared with the previous month,according to first estimates released by Eurostat,the statistical ...
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The majority of chronic diseases Russian kids contract are caused by toxic toys,a new report has claimed. A team tested over 500 randomly selected toys bought in shops and markets in towns across Russia,and almost a third were proven to ...
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Flexible Stenting Solutions (FSS) has received CE Mark for 6 Fr Reconstrainable FlexStent self-expanding stent system and will now be able to market the stent delivery technology in the European Union. The new device, which integrates the ...
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The European Commission Energy Efficiency Plan (EEP) aims to reduce the energy consumption of products which directly use or are related to the use of energy, from refrigerators and televisions to air conditioning units and more recently, ...
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The Chinese government has halved the number of rare earth mining rights in the country pulling 65 permits in all, according to a report by ChinaDaily USA. In Ganzhou, Jiangxi province, 88 mining rights for rare earth were reduced to 44, ...
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