EC vice-president and leader of the digital agenda Neelie Kroes says website owners still need to obtain consent to use cookies,even if web users have browsers that offer'do not track'(DNT). Kroes,who is seeking a way for web users to opt ...
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Speech of the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General at the MOHR Conference, National Centre for Human Rights, Baghdad 19 December 2012. Minister for Human Rights, Engineer Shiya Al Sudaani, Excellencies, Ladies and ...
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The European Parliament has rejected the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Acta), blocking its route to becoming law in European Union member states. The vote is the first time the body has exercised its Lisbon Treaty ...
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With its newly released Windows Phone SDK 8.0, Microsoft is offering a better story for smartphone software developers, but the SDK itself may force some developers to undergo system upgrades. Technologists and developers who have sampled ...
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China has enforced tighter controls of the internet which includes forcing individuals to fully identify themselves to service providers and legalising the deletion of ''illegal'' posts or pages. According to the BBC, the move has been ...
Comedd and Fraunhofer IPMS showcase a dynamic OLED lighting application at LOPE-C 2012.The companies introduce also Flexible and transparent OLED light sources NIR OLED-Microdisplay Optical OLED Microstructures. OLEDs offer unique ...
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Samsung unveils ChatON 2.0 which provides easy instant messaging and group chatting in multiple formats—images, video, voice, contacts—to make communication simple, intuitive and fun. Now available in over 200 countries in more ...
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Wärtsilä, the marine industry's leading solutions and services provider, has signed new licence agreements with seven of its long-term Chinese partners. CSSC (China State Shipbuilding Corporation) has been a Wärtsilä ...
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Everything Everywhere has announced it will launch a new brand identity, but has kept quiet about the finer details. Rumours surfaced that the company was set to make the final steps of the merger and remove the T-Mobile and Orange ...
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wo monolithic buildings in lower Manhattan that serve as major network hubs for the U.S. are operating on generator power, thanks to Hurricane Sandy. The buildings, known as carrier hotels, are a 2.9 million square foot structure at 111 ...
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Intel CTO Justin Rattner predicts that driverless cars will be available within 10 years and that buyers by then will increasingly be more interested in a vehicle's internal technology than the quality of its engine. Intel, the world's ...
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New Jersey-based S&M International is recalling Yang Sheng cooked salted duck eggs as they may be contaminated with Clostridium botulinum, a bacteria that causes botulism. The product was distributed between August and October 2012 to ...
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Google has joined US government concerns that the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) could get control of the internet through its coming revision of telecoms rules. The UN agency is updating its International Telecommunication ...
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Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has revealed the 12 cities awarded funding for superfast broadband roll-out in the second phase of the government’s ‘super-connected cities’ programme. He made the announcement ...
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday in two cases with potentially broad implications to technology users, one reviewing whether consumers can resell copyright-protected products they have purchased and the second challenging ...
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