The European Union looks set to approve UK government plans for installing superfast broadband throughout the UK by 2015. European competition commissioner Joaquín Almunia has suggested that he'd like to see some minor ...
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The European Union is to forge ahead with a change to copyright law that will enable organisations to digitise and publish"orphaned"works.The aim of the directive is to overcome the bar to use of copyrighted works in which the copyright ...
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Global High Net Worth Population Increases Slightly as Their Investable Wealth Declines Asia-Pacific becomes region with the most HNWIs,while North America retains the most HNWI wealth Asia-Pacific surpasses all regions with the ...
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Introduction The market for OLEDs has witnessed several advancements in the last 18 months, thus providing the belief to the industry that OLEDs will finally realize their potential. Full-color AMOLED displays have now become an element ...
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Biolase has obtained rights to market its new diode laser technology in the US and throughout the European Union (EU) and in those Asian and Latin American countries that recognize the CE mark. The EPIC 10 diode soft tissue laser utilizes ...
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The companies make and distribute polystyrene(PS)foam trays and polypropylene(PP)rigid trays.These products are widely used for packaging food–such as fish,meat or cheese–in the retail sector. The EC said that these firms ...
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IDG News Service-The U.S.Ambassador to the European Union on Tuesday told European telecommunications operators why the U.S.will not support their proposals to change a treaty on the handling of international voice,data and video traffic. ...
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The European Commission(EC)has said it will work with the US and Japan to prevent data protection regulation from curbing the uptake of cloud computing across the region. According to the EC,up to€45bn could be spent on cloud ...
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There is plenty of fear, uncertainty and doubt out there over the upcoming federal ban on incandescent light bulbs. The very thought of losing that pear-shaped giver of warm, yellow light drove Europeans to hoard Edison's invention as the ...
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Solar manufacturers called on European Union regulators Tuesday to expand an investigation into China because of concerns that it unfairly subsidizes its clean energy industry. The complaint is the second by EU ProSun,a group ...
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Taiwan-based solar-grade polycrystalline silicon wafer maker Green Energy Technology(GET),in view of continual decreases in solar wafer prices,has adjusted its strategy by selecting orders for high-efficiency solar wafers at higher prices ...
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Police across Europe could soon find themselves monitoring Facebook,Google and Twitter for content related to terrorism. A leaked report about a"Clean IT"initiative by the European Union(EU)revealed the plan for police officers ...
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Facebook will suspend its facial recognition photo tagging service in Europe by 15 October,following a privacy audit by the Irish Data Protection Commission(DPC). The technology,which suggests when registered users could be tagged in ...
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Google has been publicly warned by EC Competition Comissioner Joaquin Almunia that it must do more to answer claims from rivals that it is abusing its dominant position in the search market. Since 2010,the Competition Commission has been ...
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HARRISONBURG,Va.--Long lines formed for days outside of Apple stores in major cities to buy the iPhone 5 today,but smaller crowds also gathered in college towns like Harrisonburg,Va.,where the longest wait was overnight in front of the AT&T ...