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First ministers' climate change meeting a dud: Walkom
2016-03-06 00:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: In practical terms, the first ministers meeting on climate change was a dud. Canada is still not on the road to reach the carbon reduction targets called for by last years Paris climate summit. It is not even on the road to meet the far less ambitious targets set out by Canadas former Conservative government. When all of the rhetoric is stripped away, Thursdays Vancouver Declaration, the somewhat grandiose document summing up the one-day session, demonstrates only that any fault lines...
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Climate protest: Big deal or big dud?
2014-09-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Protesters took to the streets of Manhattan on Sunday to call for global action to address climate change. The event's organisers estimated that turnout exceeded 300,000, making it one of the largest environmental-related protests in US history. The event's success has many on the left heralding a new dawn for climate-change activism. After stalled efforts to pass limits on greenhouse gas in 2009, the issue had been pushed to the political margins. President Barack Obama made moves to strengthen...
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It's official: Windows 8.1 Update 2 is a dud
2014-08-06 13:21:36| InfoWorld: Top News
Windows 8.1 Update 2 will drop next week, and it's officially a nonevent.
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Windows 8's uptake falls again, now slower than dud Vista
2014-08-04 13:35:48| InfoWorld: Top News
Windows 8's uptake was stuck in reverse for the second straight quarter as the reputation-challenged operating system fell behind the pace set by Windows Vista six years ago, according to data released Friday. Web metrics firm Net Applications' figures for July put the combined user share of Windows 8 and 8.1 at 12.5 percent of the world's desktop and notebook systems, a small drop of six-hundredths of a percentage point from June. That decline was atop a one-tenth-point fall the month before, the first time the OS had lost user share since its October 2012 debut.
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IPOs - deal or dud?
2014-07-21 10:59:32| Chemicals - Topix.net
Scales Corporation which owns the Mr Apple business is due to list on the New Zealand share market on Friday.