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A Chinese court has found Microsoft guilty of infringing a Chinese company's intellectual property rights

Court rules against Microsoft in China font case

Technology / Business

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A Chinese court has ruled Microsoft Corp. infringed a Chinese company's intellectual property rights by including certain fonts in its operating systems, the companies confirmed Tuesday.


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eBay fined in France for selling upscale perfumes

Technology / Internet

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- Online auction site eBay Inc. was fined euro1.7 million ($2.5 million) by a Paris court on Monday for failing to stop the sale of famous perfume brands like Christian Dior, Guerlain, Givenchy and ...


Senators press EU to speed its Oracle-Sun probe

Technology / Business

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- U.S. senators are pressuring European antitrust regulators to hurry their investigation of Oracle Corp.'s proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc., citing Sun's "precarious" financial condition and fears about ...


Members of an Australian college have provoked outrage after they launched a "pro-rape" group on website Facebook

Australian students 'pro-rape' Facebook scandal

Technology / Internet

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Members of an elite Australian college linked to Sydney University provoked outrage Tuesday after it was revealed they had set up a "pro-rape" group on social networking site Facebook.


Emulating Western lifestyles: Consumption and carbon footprints in less industrialized countries

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In recent decades, a new global middle class has exploded, with a total population exceeding one billion people. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research explores the consumption attitudes of some of these members of the ...


Rice sociologist looks at pediatric physicians' views on religion, spirituality

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Pediatricians and pediatric oncologists express differing views on religion and spirituality, largely based on the types of patients they treat, according to a survey that will appear in the current edition ...


Judge says seals can stay in California cove (AP)

Judge says seals can stay in California cove

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The seals can stay and play at a La Jolla swimming cove.


Researchers find new piece of BSE puzzle

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new treatment route for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and its human form Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (CJD) could be a step closer based on new results from scientists at the University of Leeds. The team has found ...


More clarity needed on law of assisted suicide

More clarity needed on law of assisted suicide

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Doctors need more clarity on what they can and cannot do within the current law on assisted suicide, according to an editorial by Dr Richard Huxtable and Professor Karen Forbes in this week's ...


Google's "Street View" is created by still photographs taken by specially-equipped vehicles

Swiss privacy watchdog to sue Google Street View

Technology / Internet

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(AP) -- Google Inc.'s unstoppable drive to map and photograph the world has run into an immovable object - Switzerland's strict tradition of personal privacy.



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