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Highlands and Islands Enterprise chiefs reveal a potential reduction of up to 50 staff as a result of reforms. |
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IBM is suing Shentech for selling laptop batteries that catch fire and sport allegedly fake IBM logos.The suit, filed Nov. 20 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, accuses Shentech of trademark infringement, false advertising, unfair competition, and deceptive trade practices.IBM says that a consumer in Ohio bought a battery from Shentech for a ThinkPad laptop. The battery overheated and caught fire, causing damage to the laptop, IBM said. The user reported the problem to Lenovo, which licenses the IBM trademark. After examining the faulty battery, IBM discovered that it was not a genuine IBM battery, the company said in the suit.IBM then ordered 12 batteries from Shentech and found them all to be fakes, IBM said.IBM asks the court to require Shentech to turn over all of the batteries so that IBM can destroy them. IBM also asks for all the profits that Shentech earned from the sale of the batteries. In addition, IBM wants treble damages or $1 million per counterfeit mark per type of item sold.The Shentech.com Web site continues to list ThinkPad batteries for sale as well as a host of other electronic devices and components. Shentech appears to be a Web-only operation with a mailing address in Flushing, New York. It describes its secret to success as its "ability to provide cutting edge computer technology parts at bargain prices."No one from Shentech could be reached immediately for comment. |
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U.S. employers may have noticed a slight spike in productivity Wednesday as a computer glitch blocked access to online reviews site Yelp.com.The outage lasted from around 9 a.m to 11 a.m. Pacific Time, and blocked visitors from some companies, including Bank Of America, Kaiser Permanente, and Visa, according to posters at Yelp's discussion forums. Access at IDG's West Coast offices was also blocked.Yelp is a popular source of user-generated restaurant, entertainment, and business reviews in the Bay Area, and some companies have blocked access to the site to prevent employees from reading and contributing reviews during office hours.The glitch didn't shut down the Web site, but many visitors to the site were greeted with a "403" error telling users that they did not have permission to access the server. This type of error is returned by Web servers when someone tries to visit a restricted area of the site.Yelp wouldn't explain exactly what went wrong, except to say that it was a glitch caused by an update to the Web site that was pushed out Tuesday night. Most Yelp users had no problem visiting the site Wednesday, said Yelp spokeswoman Stephanie Ichinose. "It was a very narrow isolated incident that's now been rectified."That probably comes as welcome news to some.Yelpers were at first worried that their companies had moved to block access to the popular service. "Seems like a lot of filters at work added yelp to their list of blocked sites now," wrote one poster named Euge l. "I've heard of a handful of daily day time posters in the west coast have been blocked as well as the east coast. Is this the end of day time yelp?" |
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Red Cross leak tied to attack on marketing firm
Hackers working on the inside of marketing software firm Convio appear to have lifted emails addresses and passwords from a client database.… |
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The successful applicant for the UK's worst-paid IT job will have to save for a very, very long time to get his or her hands on this particular RaidSonic NAS server, currently tempting punters down at Wopple!:… |
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Personal computer giant Dell Inc. is pursuing a major "cybersquatting" lawsuit against several companies that buy and sell Web site addresses, alleging that the entities earned millions of dollars from Internet traffic intended for Dell and dozens of other Fortune 500 companies. |
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President Bush will kick off Thanksgiving week festivities by traveling today to what is billed as "Virginia's most historic plantation," the Berkeley Plantation in Charles City, the site of the first Thanksgiving celebration on record. |
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As I write this, I'm in a hotel room on the Vegas Strip, looking out my window at the construction site of what will be the largest green hotel in the world, set within MGM Mirage's $7.4 billion City Center. |
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Republican presidential candidates Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson and John McCain arrive at the site of Wednesday night's debate. |
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WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Democratic debate scheduled to air on CBS December 10 is still on for now, said a CBS spokeswoman, despite pledges by most of the candidates that they will not cross picket lines set up outside the event site in Los Angeles.
Striking Writers Guild of America writers have been picketing outside CBS [...] |
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