Software giant Microsoft is co-operating with US federal authorities in an investigation into alleged "illegal activity" by employees and business partners in Russia and Pakistan. John Frank, vice president and deputy general counsel of ...
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Downloading from illegal sources has increased instead of decreased six months after a court ordered ISPs in the Netherlands to block access to The Pirate Bay, according to research from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Tilburg ...
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Consumers should stop using this product unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product. Recall Summary Name of product: Endura and Ambient LED dimmable light bulbs Hazard: A ...
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Timber worth almost $40m has been seized in Latin America in "Operation Lead" headed by Interpol and in national investigations based on it. According to an Interpol press report, a large proportion of this wood, 292,000 m3, was confiscated ...
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Germany's EU Timber Regulation (EUTR) competent authority BLE has seized two of three known lots of allegedly illegal Wenge deliveries from the Kongo amid ongoing investigations. The timber was discovered on the premises of a sawmill in ...
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"China's rare earth ore exports have been rebounding monthly since February,"said Ma Rongzhang, secretary-general of the China Rare Earth Industry Association. But Ma and the association did not provide export figures for the first half. ...
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China's biggest energy firm PetroChina (0857.HK) will join Exxon Mobil (XOM.N) in developing Iraq's giant West Qurna oilfield and is in talks with Russia's Lukoil (LKOH.MM) to buy into a second project at the field, industry sources said. ...
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Possible deals said to be in the works with Exxon Mobil, Russia's Lukoil PetroChina Co, China's largest oil explorer, may join with United States-based energy giant Exxon Mobil Corp to co-develop the West Qurna oilfield in Iraq, which ...
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has invited Claire Perry, the Devizes MP who is Prime Minister David Cameron's 'advisor on childhood' to dinner - so that he can tell her how wrong her plan for internet web filtering is. Perry is the driving ...
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File-sharing website The Pirate Bay has launched a browser that it claims will circumvent blocks from internet service providers (ISPs) on its site and other similar webpages. The browser, dubbed PirateBrowser, was launched as a 'gift' ...
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The competition for most successful 3D-printed firearm has moved to Canada, where a man known only as “Matthew” claims to have designed a 3D-printed rifle that withstood 14 shots. In a YouTube video published last Friday, the ...
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The European industrial initiative EU ProSun has announced that it will take action before the EU General Court against the agreement that has been reached in the trade dispute over dumped solar panels from China. Milan Nitzschke, ...
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The global financial crisis cast a large shadow over the Chinese financial system, prompting already conservative regulators to adopt a more rigorous, and by extension slower approach to reform. Yet there are also skeletons from ...
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Oracle has settled a lawsuit it brought last year against a former partner it alleged was providing third-party support for its PeopleSoft application in an illegal fashion. "Oracle America, Oracle International Corporation, and ...
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A local Nissan Pulsar television commercial has been banned twice in two months by the Advertising Standards Bureau (ASB) for depicting unsafe driving. Spruiking the new Nissan Pulsar SSS, the ad shows a man driving through the streets as ...