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Half of Euro online travel purchases legally unsafe: EU

Technology / Internet

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

More than half of all people who buy flights, hotel rooms and hire cars online risk being left without compensation if companies fail under outdated law, the EU said Thursday.


The KLM airplane which runs on biokerosene is seen at Schiphol airport, near Amsterdam

KLM flies world's first 'passenger flight on biofuel'

Technology / Energy

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A Boeing 747, one of four engines powered by a 50-percent biokerosene mix, circled the Netherlands for an hour on Monday for what airline KLM called the world's first passenger flight using biofuel.


GAO: FCC must improve wireless industry oversight

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Federal regulators receive tens of thousands of customer complaints about wireless services every year, but don't do enough to follow up or to protect consumers who have problems with their mobile carriers, government ...


Drinks industry supplanting government role in alcohol policies in Sub-Saharan Africa

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A recent comparison of proposed national alcohol policies in Lesotho, Malawi, Uganda, and Botswana shows that the drinks industry has assumed a significant and detrimental role in designing national alcohol policies in Sub-Saharan ...


Drug industry embraces new business strategies after tough year

Drug industry embraces new business strategies after tough year

Chemistry / Other

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

As they pop the champagne corks to celebrate New Year's Eve, drug industry executives will likely be glad to put 2009 behind them. That's because pharmaceutical companies who make top-selling drugs for heart ...


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Clean energy to grow into 1.6 trillion euros industry: WWF

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (8) | comments 1

The clean energy technology sector will grow into a 1.6 trillion-euro (2.4 trillion-dollar) industry by 2020, becoming the third largest industrial sector after automobiles and electronics, WWF said Friday.


New study levels new criticisms at food industry

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A new study released Monday, Dec. 14, in Washington, D.C., criticizes the nation's food and beverage industry for failing to shift their marketing efforts aimed at children. The report said television advertising continues ...


Samsung LTE Dongle Is Now Available for TeliaSonera's World First Commercial 4G Service

Samsung LTE Dongle Is Now Available for TeliaSonera's World First Commercial 4G Service

Electronics / Hardware

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Samsung Electronics has announced the commercial availability of its 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) dongle in Sweden and Norway.


Arctic ice

Study: Earth's polar ice sheets vulnerable to even moderate global warming

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (30) | comments 19

A new analysis of the geological record of the Earth's sea level, carried out by scientists at Princeton and Harvard universities and published in the Dec. 16 issue of Nature, employs a novel statistical approa ...


EU antitrust chief slams senators on Oracle deal

Technology / Business

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 4

(AP) -- The European Union's antitrust chief said Tuesday that U.S. senators who pressed her to approve Oracle Corp.'s takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc. should stop interfering in Europe's affairs and prioritize U.S. health ...



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