A day after researchers hacked Chrome and Firefox at the Pwn2Own contest, Google and Mozilla patched their browsers Thursday. The contest also wound down yesterday after hackers had earned a record $480,000 over two days. The update to ...
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Anita's Organic Grain & Flour Mill of British Columbia is voluntarily recalling certain cookie products as they contain milk that is not mentioned on the product label, according to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). The ...
Specialty metal and chemical product producer 5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Quebec, Canada has decided to close its indium antimonide (InSb) manufacturing operations in Trail, British Columbia over the next few months, laying off the 75 staff ...
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Columbia, SC (free-press-release) February 28, 2013 - Yamaha Golf Carts King of Carts, LLC is a new Authorized Yamaha dealer and carries a full line of Golf Cars and Utility vehicles, including the Drive, Drive PTV, Adventurer, Hauler ...
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Research teams Wednesday cracked Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 (IE10), Google's Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox at the Pwn2Own hacking contest, pulling in more than $250,000 in prizes. Earlier in the day, a solo hacker exploited Oracle's ...
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Fort Wayne, Indiana-based steelmaker Steel Dynamics, Inc. announced Tuesday that John Nolan, Vice President and General Manager of the company's Structural and Rail Division, has been appointed to the newly created corporate level position ...
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Microsoft is building a data center next to a Wyoming landfill in order to use its methane gas to power the facility. Apple now uses a massive 100-acre solar energy farm to power its Maiden, N.C., data center. And Google has placed data ...
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Aurigen Capital has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Brokers National Life Assurance Company from Ameritas Life Insurance. Under the terms of the agreement, Aurigen Capital's unit Aurigen USA will buy Brokers National Life ...
Google today patched 10 vulnerabilities in Chrome, just two days before the start of Pwn2Own, a hacking contest that has $100,000 in prize money waiting for the first researcher to crack the browser. In an update Monday for the Windows ...
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Skeptical consumers, take heed: If you receive a notice that your personal data has been breached, pay attention and take free self-help steps to protect yourself from identity fraud. Data-breach notifications have become an increasingly ...
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Where you deliver your baby is a big factor in determining whether you'll have a Cesarean section. Researchers who looked at nearly 600 hospitals nationwide found that C-section rates varied widely, from a low of 7 percent of all deliveries ...
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Keystone Insurers, a property and casualty insurance broker, has announced that Columbia-based based Barger Insurance Agency has joined the firm as its 23rd franchise partner in Kentucky. Barger Insurance Agency president Susan Loy said, ...
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Paper and film-based pressure sensitive tapes manufacturer Intertape Polymer is set to invest $26m to relocate and modernize its Columbia, South Carolina manufacturing operations. According to the company, the new facility will house ...
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Analysts today were skeptical that Mozilla's push into mobile with Firefox OS would meaningfully change the game. "The chances of Mozilla Firefox OS making good in mobile phones are about as good as WebOS making a comeback in ...
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Taiwan is building its fourth nuclear power plant. The main island of Taiwan is only 36,193 square kilometers and already houses three nuclear power plants - two of them in New Taipei City in northern Taiwan and one located in Pintung ...
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