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Chinese children suffering lead poisoning from polluting smelters and factories have been denied testing, effective treatment and even basic information by officials who downplayed health threats, a human rights advocacy group said on Wednesday. The report from Human Rights Watch comes after China's latest lead pollution outbreak, when 103 children and scores of adults were poisoned by

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Every big consumer IT company - like Apple with its iCloud, Microsoft with SkyDrive, and Amazon with Cloud Drive - is moving into some kind of cloud-based storage sharing solution in the marketplace.Don't even mention the dozens of smaller companies in this space like trailblazer Dropbox, Tonido and Pogoplug out there.Now even consumer product manufacturers are moving in on the act to enable

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Samsung Electronics is expected to become the world's largest producer of smartphones in the second quarter of this year, Reuters reported on Monday, citing market research firm Nomura.This means that Nokia, which has been leading the global market for cell phones since 1996, is likely to relinquish top spot to Samsung in this category.Nomura also predicted that Nokia's smartphone sales

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SingTel has introduced the HTC ChaCha, a social networking smartphone. The handset, which is powered by Android Gingerbread 2.3.3, features a dedicated Facebook button for one-touch access to the key functions of Facebook. Furthermore, Facebook messages and conversations are integrated within the phone and appear within text messages and e-mail inboxes alongside regular conversations. When a

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China's main stock index opened down 0.5 per cent today after the central bank surprised the market with a rise in banks' reserve requirement ratio (RRR) after the market closed yesterday.The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index opened at 2717.7 points after it closed up 1.1 per cent on Tuesday following data showing annual consumer inflation at 5.5 per cent in May, a 30-month high but

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The wave of three-dimensional ( 3D) devices are expected to sweep the upcoming BroadcastAsia in Singapore, with over 650 companies showing the latest products such as 3D and Hybrid TV as well as digital devices and professional audio technologies, organizers said Tuesday.About 86 percent of the exhibitors at the show, slated for June 21 to June 23, will be from outside Singapore. There will be a

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Steve Jobs, still gaunt from his battle with a rare form of cancer, interrupted his medical leave to unveil Apple Inc.'s new venture in the cloud. In what the Apple chief executive described as a major shift in how millions of people would store and organize their music, documents, photos and emails across multiple devices, he showed off an online service that will let Apple users access

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With exams over, it is that time of the year when graduating students send out their resumes to land the ideal job.A good curriculum vitae is likely to get a job seeker shortlisted for an interview. Yet, without much work experience, preparing a resume is a daunting prospect for many new entrants to the job market, as they would likely be competing against better-qualified professionals looking

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Nintendo President Satoru Iwata said he was surprised at the tumble in the company's share price following the unveiling of a successor to its smash hit Wii games console, adding that the new gadget had to be played to be understood.Shares in Nintendo fell almost 10 percent in the two days following the company's splashy presentation of the Wii U, which features a tablet-style controller

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People queued for hours on Thursday to try Sony's next-generation gaming handset or peeks at a 3D "Drake's Uncharted" videogame being released later this year.Crowds thronged Sony booths each day of an Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) extravaganza as the Japanese firm put its back to an embarrassing hack of its online network for games, films and music."It's been a

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Apple's latest product, the iCloud, has - as usual for an Apple launch - met with a storm of media interest. But not everyone's convinced. Here's a look at some of the criticism it's been receiving on the web.No full streamingThe guys at ReadWriteWeb are unimpressed. "Apple's new offer does not involve music streaming", they say. "True, you can have your music

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Figures released by market researcher Canalys shows the iPad accounted for more than 74 percent of total global shipments of tablet computers in the first quarter.Tablet PC makers around the world are stepping up efforts to snap up a larger share in this increasingly profitable market. But is there any tech company out there up to taking on Apple? As Yin Hang's report continues, that dark

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BEIJING, May 21 (Xinhua) -- One hundred and forty words isn't a lot, but China's job seekers are cramming an entire career's worth of experience into a few sentences in order to help them find the perfect job."Microresumes" have become especially popular this May, as prospective university graduates are getting ready to enter the workforce. Graduate students are particularly

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BEIJING, May 31 (Xinhua) -- China will launch a national project to promote the building of a digital library network in the next five years.The project aims to build a nationwide digital library network with the National Digital Library of China at the center, integrating local libraries, said a statement jointly issued by the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Finance on Tuesday.The focus

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BEIJING, June 2 (Xinhua) -- Again, Google complained about China undermining its cyberspace service. Just as its previous accusations, the world's largest Internet search engine provided no solid proof to support its statement.In a blog post updated on Wednesday, Google said a clandestine campaign originating in China targeted some users of Gmail, its e-mail service, aiming at stealing

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BEIJING, June 2 (Xinhua) -- Lenovo Group Ltd., China's biggest maker of personal computer, aimed to buy control of Medion AG, a multimedia and consumer electronics maker, to double its market share in Germany, the China Daily reported Thursday.The purchase will be Lenovo's biggest acquisition since it acquired International Business Machines Corp's PC business in 2004.Lenovo estimated

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Three weeks after Sony's PR nightmare when its PlayStation network was hacked, the Japanese company is set to woo back consumers at the opening of the E3 video game expo in Los Angeles.After Sony President and CEO, Jack Tretton, offered his apologies to the crowd, he unveiled the newest collection of games.The most anticipated announcement of the event though, was for the new handheld gaming

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Two more food items from Taiwan have been recalled after similar products being imported by Hong Kong were suspected of being carcinogenic.Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (FDA) informed Hong Kong Centre for Food Safety (CFS) that Jin Zhuan Lifesciences Enterprise Co Ltd products, which were imported by Cosway Hong Kong Ltd, were suspected of containing carcinogens.In a press release yesterday

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"If we were able to hit that 70 million mark for PlayStation Portable, we want to exceed that both in terms of numbers and timing to get to that number," Sony's No. 2 executive Kazuo Hirai said in an interview on Tuesday on the sidelines of the E3 games convention in Los Angeles.Sony's Vita comes as more and more people use smartphones and tablets to play games on the go.Apple

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LOS ANGELES - Nintendo on Tuesday announced a new version of its Wii video game console, in a move to counter increased competition from higher-resolution consoles from Microsoft and Sony, as well as multifunction devices like the Apple iPad.The new system, the Wii U, incorporates a tabletlike game controller that literally brings a new dimension to the game. The hand-held, 6.2-inch touch-screen

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For the first time, Japanese authorities have suggested the situation at the Fukushima nuclear plant may have gone beyond a meltdown.An official report, which Japan will submit to the UN's nuclear watchdog, says nuclear fuel in three reactors at Fukushima has possibly melted through the pressure vessels and accumulated in outer containment vessels.Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper says

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Before the collapse of the Iron Curtain, some people, including a brilliant photographer I knew, prepared for a simpler time. They collected hand tools that would need no electricity, learned how to fish and hunt, and mapped out remote locations where competition for living off the land wouldn't be too fierce.These Cold War survivalists believed that nuclear Armageddon was inevitable and that

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Microsoft on Monday added YouTube, voice commands, television shows and more to its Xbox 360 with Kinect as the hot-selling videogame console matures into an entertainment center for all.Studios joined Microsoft on the eve of a premier Electronics Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles to unveil blockbusters such as "Mass Effect 3″ that let players use body motion or voice to execute tactics once

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As expected, Steve Jobs said Monday that Apple's iCloud service will offer a feature called iTunes in the Cloud that replicates users' music collections (instead of copying the files from their hard drives into the cloud) for free.And, as reported by The Times before Jobs' announcement, a $25 annual subscription option will be made available. The Apple chief executive called it iTunes

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Nothing like an 11th hour WWDC rumor, right before the main event! TiMN has a source claiming to know what Apple's iOS 5 will feature. Here are the tasty (albeit not totally surprising) tidbits:Messaging: This one looks like a strike right to the heart of BBM (BlackBerry Messaging). Apple will presumaby launch its very own native MMS/SMS protocol capable of automatically identifying iOS

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