Mexico's competition watchdog Cofeco has said that it has accepted a proposal by Nestlé to sell Pfizer’s baby food business in Mexico, in order to ensure that Pfizer's formula brands remain as an independent and viable ...
John Johnson considers the use of FPGAs to tackle the design challenges of smart metering systems Legacy power infrastructure is intrinsically inefficient, aging and the operation of it is often harmful to the environment. ...
Tags: FPGAs, Smart Grid, Consumer Electronics
Improving users' experiences is no justification for using consumer information in big data projects, according to Europe's top data protection officials. The Article 29 Working Group, which includes the data protection supervisors from ...
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A privacy watchdog has filed a lawsuit contending the FBI has failed to provide requested technical information about a biometric identification database expected to be the largest in the world. The Electronic Privacy Information Center ...
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Microsoft today launched a third wave of 'Scroogled,' its attack ad-based campaign aimed at Google, this time highlighting what it said were privacy flaws in the latter's Android app store. "When you buy an Android app from the Google app ...
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A sweeping overhaul of systems used by Portland, Oregon's fire and police departments is three years behind schedule and about $10 million over budget, in part because city officials failed to "effectively use lessons learned" from past ...
Tags: Computer Products
Google's privacy policy is set to be investigated by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) to see if it's compliant with current UK law. The move comes after data watchdogs in five other European nations - France, Germany, Italy, ...
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A U.S. government watchdog agency has found that nearly half of 14 large ongoing military IT projects are over budget and more than half are behind schedule. The Government Accountability Office's recently released report focused on 14 of ...
The ShanghaiDaily.com reported that Shanghai's quality watchdog said that eight batches of tea leaves, roasted seeds and nuts, candy and health products were taken off the shelves. Their producers have been ordered to fix the problem, ...
SWEDEN'S language watchdog has accused Google of trying to control the Swedish language in a dispute over the definition of the colloquial term "ungoogleable". The Swedish version of the word "ogooglebar" made the Language Council of ...
Facebook quickly fixed a privacy leak in its new timeline after being alerted to the problem, according to a watchdog that follows the social networking site closely. Europe v. Facebook, an Austrian student organization that has filed ...
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Broadband speeds across the United Kingdom are on the up, according to the industry's watchdog. Back in November 2008 the average speed of the country's broadband was a sluggish 3.6Mbit/s, now five years on this has rocketed to 12Mbit/s. ...
Clicking "install app" on a mobile device does not amount to personal data consent, according to EU privacy watchdog, the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party. Much of this data is processed to provide a revenue stream, which the ...
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THE corporate regulator will unveil further measures today to tackle the growing influence of high-frequency traders and "dark pool" exchanges on local equities trading, with an increased tax on the former seen as the most likely outcome. ...
Tags: economy
Toshiba has announced its first ARM Cortex-M4 microcontroller with DSP extensions, a floating point unit (FPU) and a programmable servo/sequencer controller (PSC). The TMPM4440 microcontrollers are available with 768kbyte or 1024kbyte of ...
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