Several sawmills in North-Rhine Westphalia (NRW) are checking to see of log deliveries to Klausner group can be prevented with the aid of competition law. For this reason roughly ten businesses with a combined cutting capacity of almost 1m ...
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Microsoft has moved its email service Outlook.com out of the preview phase, and plans a marketing campaign to boost its adoption worldwide. The service, which claims 60 million active users since the preview was released last July, will ...
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Apple on Tuesday said it was a victim of a malware attack when a small number of systems inside the company were compromised. The malware attack was tied to a vulnerability in a Java plug-in for browsers, Apple said in a statement sent ...
Last year was packed with surprises for the food and drink manufacturing sector, according to business guru Paul Wilkinson. Paul Wilkinson reviewed a year of food and drink manufacturing surprises Here we capture the highlights of his ...
BP said Tuesday it is ready to defend itself in court over civil liability charges brought against it in the US over the Macondo oil spill after attempts to settle out of court failed. BP late last year agreed with the US Department of ...
The looming decision on expanding US liquefied natural gas exports will likely be on the agenda during this week's meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Barack Obama, industry observers said Tuesday. "It's just ...
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Microsoft, EMC and NetApp have joined Oracle in an appeal against a court decision in a copyright and patent infringement lawsuit against Google over Android. The three companies on Tuesday filed an amici curiae brief in support of ...
China this week faced allegations that it is helping the Zambian government with deep packet inspection technology in order to eavesdrop, mine data, censor and intercept communications. The allegations come less than two years after the ...
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Apple on Tuesday said that some computers belonging to its employees had been targeted by hackers originating from China – the same group, reportedly, that last week infiltrated computers belonging to Facebook employees. ...
French EU privacy regulator CNIL is to take action against Google this summer, according to a statement the body has released on its website. CNIL's statement explains how after several months of investigation, European data protection ...
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A TV report into the lives of migrant workers employed at Amazon.com distribution centers in Germany has prompted the government to call for an investigation, and is pushing other companies to change their practices. German TV channel ARD ...
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CBR talked with Chris Mathews, CTO at SysMech about the European Commission's proposal to give consumers the right to be forgotten online and how it will affect any company that deals with data. The European Commission's proposal to allow ...
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IDG News Service - Facebook said Friday it had been the target of a sophisticated hacking attack but that it had no evidence any user data had been compromised. The attack comes two weeks after Twitter asked 250,000 of its users to reset ...
The US polystyrene and styrene industries are concerned, but confident after New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg called for the city to adopt a law banning expandable polystyrene foam from stores and restaurants, market sources said Friday. ...
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Apple says it has been hit by hackers who wormed their way into the California company's system but evidently failed to steal any data. The maker of iPhones, iPads, iPods, and Macintosh computers said it is working with law enforcement ...
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