The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has found traces of potentially harmful horse drug phenylbutazone in eight horses slaughtered in the UK - and warned six may have entered the French food chain. The announcement, issued this morning (14 ...
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Through its new Smart Plan platform, Alcatel-Lucent wants to make mobile subscription plans more flexible and allow data packages to be shared among users and handed out by companies to their customers using an application on smartphones ...
Romania this afternoon (11 February) insisted the two slaughterhouses in the country under scrutiny over horse meat contamination have not broken EU food rules. Victor Ponta, the Romanian Prime Minister, said the slaughterhouses under ...
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Opera's announcement yesterday that it would ditch its own browser and JavaScript engines in favor of the open-source WebKit and V8 engines will let it compete in the lucrative iOS market. But Opera's CTO maintained that that was just one ...
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McAfee is enhancing its business security platform by adding near real-time querying capabilities to its ePolicy Orchestrator software and by integrating it with its security information and event management (SIEM) product to automatically ...
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President Obama could use tonight's State of the Union address to continue a push for new cybersecurity legislation, even as he's widely expected to issue an executive order Wednesday to impose rules aimed at protecting critical ...
Hewlett-Packard has issued new guidelines to limit the use of student labor at its supplier factories in China, in what it claimed was the first of its kind for the IT industry. The company issued the guidelines to address "the ...
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Genworth US Mortgage Insurance (USMI) has launched a new set of rules, Simply Underwrite (SM), which enables lenders to provide simplified and expanded national mortgage underwriting guidelines. Apart from offering one expanded national ...
Barracuda Networks released a new update on Monday to further mitigate a security issue that could have allowed attackers to gain unauthorized access to some of its network security appliances through backdoor accounts originally intended ...
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A secret review of American policies governing the use of cyberweapons has concluded that President Barack Obama has the broad power to order pre-emptive strikes on any country preparing to launch a major digital attack against the U.S. ...
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When a relatively small high-tech company with some big aerospace and defense customers wanted to adopt cloud-based email for its employees, it faced the challenge that whatever choice of cloud service it adopted, it had to meet the ...
Former Oracle partner CedarCrestone is alleging the vendor has engaged in an "unlawful and systematic attack" against the third-party support market and has a monopoly on support revenue. Oracle terminated CedarCrestone's partner license ...
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The Mega file-sharing service has launched a vulnerability reward program that will pay up to 10,000 euros (around $13,600) for every serious security flaw found in the platform and reported responsibly. The rules of the program were laid ...
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An industry group called the Initiative for a Competitive Online Marketplace (ICOMP) has claimed that Google's dominant position in online search and advertising was generated as a result of a "broad-ranging and illegal network of ...
Steve Ballmer should be replaced by a CEO from outside of Microsoft in order to bring fresh ideas to the firm's leadership, an ex-senior VP of Microsoft has told Computing. Joachim Kempin, who worked at Microsoft for two decades ...
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