Save the children! Quoting the fresh law on childrenâs protection, Russian consumer rights agency Rospotrebnadzor has suggested blacklisting over 1,500 websites containing various data on suicide.
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A newly surfaced patent filing from Microsoft’s Xbox Incubation team details one of the new innovations they’ve been thinking about. This one could be very popular among major movie and television studios. But it probably wouldn’t generate much excitement among Xbox users.
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The investigation, available at ConsumerReports.org, covered a wide range of rice products and included household brand names like Gerber, Carolina, Goya, Uncle Ben’s, Chex, Rice Krispies, along with store-brand products from chains including Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, and Walmart.
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The European Commission has asked member states to present before September their cost-benefit analyses on the deployment of smart meters that could lead to 80% of consumers being equipped with intelligent metering systems by 2020. But a recent study casts doubts over their cost-effectiveness and the benefits they bring to consumers.
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It’s been nearly two years since the Corn Refiners Association began running ads referring to High Fructose Corn Syrup as “corn sugar,” in spite of the fact that the Food & Drug Administration hadn’t yet approved this name change for food labels.
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According to CR, which purchases around 80 cars each year, this is the first time they had a car that was undriveable without having completed even the most preliminary tests.
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Emboldened by key victory, Israeli social activists move to expand consumer boycotts
Itzik Alrov, who started the cottage cheese boycott campaign, a few months ago, joined other social activists in a visit to Strauss headquarters on Tuesday.
By Asaf Shtull-Trauring Tags: Israel housing protest Israel food Israel protest
In the wake of the success of the consumer boycott of Tnuva dairy products, the leaders of the movement are expanding their targets. Ori Reshtik, the head of the Tel Aviv University student union, sent a note Tuesday to food manufacturers Osem, Telma and Strauss demanding that they reduce prices of their products.
Itzik Alrov, the man whose cottage cheese boycott campaign started the consumerism ball rolling a few months ago, sent similar missives to these companies. He joined other social activists in a visit to Strauss headquarters on Tuesday for a meeting with Strauss Israel CEO Zion Balas, to whom he gave his letter.
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Adusbef and Federconsumatori, another consumer group, said earlier this month that S&P and Moody’s Investors Service don’t have the right to rule on Italy’s credit rating as they lack a license from the European Securities and Markets Authority. Both groups confirmed today their intention to sue S&P within a week.
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