- Saturday, September 4, 2010, 22:05
- Business, Featured Daily News
M&S says it has stopped placing orders with Viva Global for 'commercial' reasons, but denies workers suffered intimidationWorkers at an Indian factory used by Marks & Spencer claim they have been beaten up while protesting about poor working conditions.The Viva Global factory in Gurgaon, on the outskirts of Delhi, was
exposed last month by an Observer investigation for ...
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- Friday, September 3, 2010, 17:05
- Featured Daily News, Tech
Samsung's new tablet computer signals an understanding that it takes more than hardware to be successful, say analystsSamsung's new Android-powered tablet computer, the Galaxy Tab, has been well-received by industry analysts – even though full pricing details have still not been released.The Tab, launched at the IFA show in Berlin, is expected to herald a charge against the early success ...
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- Friday, September 3, 2010, 17:05
- Entertainment, Featured Daily News
The hapless heiress had poor people's stuff on her – but hopefully a rich person's lawyer can explain the mix-up
Behold, another Paris Hilton mugshot, which once again may be captioned "tears of a clown". Why must misfortune dog the celebutante at every turn? Last Friday night, the hapless heiress was arrested in Las Vegas, despite explaining to police that ...
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- Friday, July 2, 2010, 20:43
- Featured Daily News, Tech
Every iPhone ever made uses a 'totally wrong' formula to show signal strength, says Apple, after antenna complaintsApple has confessed that it has discovered that every iPhone uses the wrong formula to calculate how strong a signal it is receiving – meaning that it seems to show good reception when the signal is weak. It has promised a software fix ...
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- Saturday, June 5, 2010, 1:32
- Featured Daily News, Tech
Appeal by grounded passenger fined for spoof tweet about blowing up snowbound airport is backed by prominent lawyerPaul Chambers, a former trainee accountant who was fined £1,000 after posting a message to the social network Twitter joking about blowing up an airport, is to appeal against his conviction.Chambers was
found guilty in May of sending a message of ...
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- Wednesday, May 26, 2010, 9:28
- Featured Daily News, Tech
Apps for the new iPad have had to self-censorHaving survived liver cancer and being fired by Apple, not to mention negotiations with some of the planet's toughest business brains, Steve Jobs is hardly shy of a battle – and his latest target is pornography. He wants to keep it off Apple products.Given the proliferation of porn on the web, ...
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- Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 11:24
- Featured Daily News, World News
Senior military law officer adds to voices denying war crimes but calling for examination to counter UN's Goldstone reportIsrael's government is facing fresh calls for an independent inquiry into the military's conduct during the Gaza war.The senior military legal officer during the war said an inquiry is needed to head off attempted international prosecutions against senior Israeli officials. Last week ...
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- Monday, February 1, 2010, 20:23
- Featured Daily News, World News
Exclusive: Key study by East Anglia professor Phil Jones was based on suspect figures
• How the location of weather stations in China undermines data Phil Jones, the beleaguered British climate scientist at the centre of the leaked emails controversy, is facing fresh claims that he sought to hide problems in key temperature data on which some of ...
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- Thursday, January 28, 2010, 20:55
- Featured Daily News, Tech
If you've been browsing around, you'll probably have noticed a lot of adverse reaction to the Apple iPad – at least among the geeks …The amount of user-generated hype for Apple's new tablet computer was so vast that almost anything was likely to be a let-down, so the immediate backlash (
ipad sucks) is hardly a surprise. The iPad turned ...
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- Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 20:11
- Featured Daily News, World News
Senator Lisa Murkowski is expected to put forward a proposal that would seek to prevent federal regulation of carbon emissionsThe Obama administration faces a challenge in Congress that could strip it of its powers to cut greenhouse gas emissions, barely a month after
committing to action at the
Copenhagen climate change ...
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