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US Carriers Nix Samsung's Smartphone Kill Switch

2013-11-20 22:55:53| TechNewsWorld

U.S. wireless carriers have rejected Samsung's proposal to preload theft deterrent software on its phones, said San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón. Samsung wanted to preload Lojack for Android, which could brick phones and thus eliminate their value in the secondary market, "but only if it was made standard on all devices," Gascón continued.

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Washington Voters Nix GMO Labels; Colorado Cities Ban Fracking

2013-11-07 01:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Environment News Service: The ballot measure to require labeling of genetically modified foods in Washington State, Initiative 522, was defeated Tuesday by a record spending campaign by America's food manufacturing giants and agribusiness corporations, who financed a deluge of TV ads appearing just before election day. Pamela Bailey, president and CEO of the Grocery Manufacturers Association which backed the "No" vote, said her organization opposes individual state efforts to impose labeling of products made with GMO technology....

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IBM to nix SmartCloud Enterprise, migrate users to SoftLayer cloud

2013-10-31 18:43:35| InfoWorld: Top News

IBM has informed its customers that it will be phasing out its SmartCloud Enterprise cloud computing platform and is offering free migration of workloads to SoftLayer's cloud, which IBM recently purchased.

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