Privacy advocates and consumer rights groups are keeping a wary eye on a new copyright enforcement mechanism set to be rolled out by major Internet Service Providers. The so-called Copyright Alert System (CAS) aims to warn Internet users ...
Amazon has reported second quarter income of just $7m, down 96% compared with the same period the year before. The company blamed the fall on an estimated $65m loss from its acquisition and integration of robot-maker Kiva systems in a ...
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New York Stock Exchange officials have notified Furniture Brands International that it could be delisted from the exchange if its common stock fails to meet its continued listing criteria over the next six months. The manufacturer and ...
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Macworld - MyCalendar Mobile, by K-Factor Media, is a simple iOS app with one purposeto help you remember your friends birthdays. Its primarily focused on Facebook friends, but it can also gather birthdays from the Contacts stored on ...
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Seven international electronics manufacturers were fined a total of $1.92 billion by the European Commission on Wednesday for conspiring to fix the price of cathode-ray tubes (CRTs) in two separate cartels between 1996 and 2006. European ...
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European Union regulators will not force Microsoft to open its Windows RT operating system to rival browsers, the Brussels-based antitrust agency said Wednesday. At the same time, the European Competition Commission served Microsoft with ...
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The following have all combined to limit control of foreign minerals by US companies: In 2011, Resource nationalism became the number one risk for mining companies Nationalization Expropriation Increased taxation Constraints on the degree ...
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A new government study is warning that the Federal Communications Commission's standards for testing cell phones for exposure to radio-frequency energy may have fallen out of step with the latest scientific studies, calling on the agency to ...
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A variation of the recently disclosed attack that can wipe data from Samsung Android devices when visiting a malicious Web page can also be used to disable the SIM cards from many Android phones, researchers say. Ravishankar Borgaonkar, a ...
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IDG News Service - A French court fined a man 150 euros (US$193) on Thursday for failing to secure his Internet connection, according to a spokesman for the French High Authority for the Distribution of Works and the Protection of Rights on ...
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But the infrared imaging company increased earnings despite sharp year-over-year contraction in sales. Electrical fault? The CEO of FLIR Systems has described the thermal imaging company's second financial quarter of 2012 as"extremely ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft's Windows 8 is vulnerable to attack by exploits that hackers have been aiming at PCs for several weeks, Adobe confirmed Friday. Microsoft said it will not patch the bug in Flash Player until what it called "GA," ...
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Colleges and universities are moving swiftly to create advanced degree programs in analytics to manage big data. The schools have all seen the McKinsey Co. report warning of a mega shortage in analytical talent of as many as 190,000 ...
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Windows malware slipped past Apple's eye and has been found tucked into software available on the company's iOS App Store. Although the malware, labeled a worm by Microsoft and tagged as "Win32/VB.CB" by the company, is ineffective ...
By the close on Friday Molycorp was changing hands for $11.49, down $4.58 or more than 28% as investors digested the company's Q2 results that saw the company swing into a loss in the second quarter on the back of higher costs, lower sales ...
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