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Earlier today, January 18th, we've announced that the openSUSE and Fedora projects decided to protest against SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (PROTECT IP Act) through their websites. In the mean time, more Internet companies join the strike, such as The Document Foundation with their LibreOffice website (... |
18 January 2012
11:31 GMT |
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Today, January 18th, the openSUSE and Fedora websites are on strike against SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (PROTECT IP Act). While the Fedora Project website only displays a text saying "The Fedora Project does not promote internet censorship. Help stop SOPA and PIPA.", the openSUSE website is already redirec... |
18 January 2012
07:37 GMT |
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Foxconn has reportedly resolved its differences with workers following a strike in which several hundred individuals accusing poor compensation for their work had threatened to commit suicide. One of the most important partners of Apple, Foxconn issued a statement today saying the dispute last week has been resolved... |
12 January 2012
10:01 GMT |
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Roughly 1,000 workers of Taiwan's Jingyuan Computer Group went on strike this week, according to a rights group in the territory, who called on Apple to "take responsibility, as there are more than 300 workers working on the Apple keyboard assembly line."The plant employs thousands in the Pearl River Delta, an a... |
24 November 2011
10:01 GMT |
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This may not be as serious as all the suicides at that Foxconn plant, but the problems in China are definitely not over, as workers going on strike will attest to.
This may be a case of a happy ending, although the agreement reached could mean a whole number of things.
About 1,000 employees from a Jingyuan Comput... |
24 November 2011
09:53 GMT |
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Keyboards may be one of the generic components of PCs, but that doesn't mean they can't go through some serious design-enhancing procedures, something Ozone was more than happy to show.
The Ozone Strike keyboard probably got its name from how owners will feel a special kind of tactile feedback whenever ... |
11 October 2011
05:34 GMT |
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Fujitsu employees stationed in the United Kingdom have been participating in repeated industrial strikes and walkouts over Fujitsu's proposal for 1,200 redundancies in the UK, as well as a pay freeze imposed last year and plans to close the main final salary pension scheme to future accrual. The conclusion to th... |
1 March 2010
04:11 GMT |
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In a move similar to that made by a number of Fujitsu employees, Hewlett-Packard employees from the PCS (Public and Commercial Services Union) are also staging an action of their own. The staff involved work for the HP Enterprise Services division at sites based in areas such as Washington, Preston, Newcastle and the... |
26 January 2010
10:28 GMT |
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Back in December, Fujitsu's employees that are also members of the Unite union made public their intention to stage national strikes and walkouts until they and the company could reach a suitable compromise. The latest in these actions is taking place today at Westminster. The workers will ask the parliament for... |
26 January 2010
09:58 GMT |
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Unite members are not the only ones that have been warning that they would be going on strikes for a few months. The disagreements between PCS HP employees and the company's leadership don't seem to have alleviated. Already, Fujitsu workers have decided to, again, participate in a walkout and, now, employee... |
21 January 2010
10:09 GMT |
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The economic recession seems to be lightening up, but companies, especially large corporations, are still feeling the consequences of it and the decisions they took during its more difficult periods. Most companies have already enacted, and are still enacting, their plans to reduce their total headcount as a means to... |
21 January 2010
06:04 GMT |
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A report by the 21st Century Business Herald picked up by Bloomberg reveals that 2,000 Wintek Corp. workers went on strike damaging facilities and vehicles in protest for not receiving a promised bonus for the year 2009. Citing the 21st Century Business Herald, Bloomberg informs that, “Workers went on strike a... |
18 January 2010
09:23 GMT |
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Fujitsu employees belonging to the Unite union have been planning on participation in repeated walkouts since November. The workers were angry at how Fujitsu started to cut its workforce through 1,200 planned redundancies, out of which 90% have already taken place. The Unite members also protest at the pay freeze imp... |
18 December 2009
08:55 GMT |
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The Christmases of an estimated 1 million travelers are in danger of being completely ruined if British Airways continues to refuse to negotiate with cabin crew, who are unhappy about some recent measures as regards pay and cutting down expenses by letting people go. According to the BBC, the company is trying to leg... |
16 December 2009
13:21 GMT |
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It seems that HP isn't the only company plagued by unsatisfied and/or outright angry employees. It seems that the Unite union members from Fujitsu, besides those from HP, plan to stage no less than six strikes, even despite alleged ongoing talks between the company's leadership and the union's represen... |
14 December 2009
06:42 GMT |
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Even though it wasn't able to avoid the walkout of the Unite Union members, which happened on Monday, just as it had been planned at the beginning of the month, HP managed to convince another group of unsatisfied employees, this time belonging to the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) union, to postpone ... |
12 December 2009
06:27 GMT |
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Not too long ago, an employee union of Hewlett-Packard, the UK Unite union, voted to go on strike because of alleged foul ways that the company had used to turn a blind eye when it came to paying certain wages or bonuses. Not even one month after, the situation seems to have gotten worse. This time, it seems that the... |
3 December 2009
11:54 GMT |
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It seems Intel isn't the only one being accused of unsavory practices. Hewlett-Packard, however, is implied to be using foul play against its own employees, or at least that's what the HP United Kingdom Unite union members claim. "Unite members have been angered by the company treating them with contempt o... |
20 November 2009
04:43 GMT |
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It's funny how this year kick-started in a flurry of madness - and it seems that instead of everything slowing down and settling into a nice, monotonous, boring routine occasionally broken by a sighting of Paris Hilton's vagina, the crazy is gathering speed and rolling faster and faster downhill, like one o... |
15 January 2008
05:01 GMT |
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The strike that's been going on for about four weeks now has turned to the Internet, the original dissent reason. The writers are upset with the payment they get for their work that gets aired both on TV (for which they are being paid) and on the Internet (for which they are not). The talks to solve this problem... |
26 November 2007
06:14 GMT |
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Generally, the PSP gets tons of fantastic titles, whether the player is thrown in the boots of a furry animal (wait, animals don't wear boots... well, you know what I mean) or whether they're behind the wheel of a futuristic vehicle. However, it's not uncommon for handhelds such as the PSP to get a ver... |
12 July 2007
07:31 GMT |
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Are you Counter-Strike for Xbox players getting a little tired of those pesky terrorists shooting at you when you're trying to enjoy the game? Well, those days are over, thanks to these single-player cheats. When you start a mission in Counter-Strike for Xbox, the first decision you're faced with is what ge... |
8 March 2007
05:31 GMT |
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