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BlackBerry's latest casualty: Two unreleased phones

2013-12-24 07:39:07| Telecom - Topix.net

The Wall Street Journal has just uncovered a tidbit in BlackBerry's latest earnings report that states two unreleased phones had to be cancelled due to poor sales of its existing handsets.

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"Flexibility" viewed as a casualty of tighter regulations

2013-11-26 12:40:26| Trucking - Topix.net

Changes made to hours of service rules back in July combined with the potential for electronic logging device mandates may eliminate a source of "flexibility" used by the trucking industry to meet ever tighter just-in-time shipper deliver requirements, according to experts.

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United Kingdom: With nuclear power: truth is the first casualty

2013-10-21 17:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Ecologist: The Hinckley deal is a disastrous one for the UK, its taxpayers and energy users. We will be locked into a punitively high electricity price, index-linked, from 2025 until 2060, and the cumulative cost of this one nuclear power station will be well in excess of 100 billion, or around 1 billion per year in today's money. Nuclear power brings many casualties. The first of these is the truth. According to the Government, the "deal" announced with EDF and Chinese nuclear companies to build a pair...

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Mental Health an Overlooked Casualty of Disaster

2013-08-15 15:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Inter Press Service: In Lower Manhattan, two hotlines, the Disaster Distress Helpline (DDH) and Project Hope, which is part of the New York City-wide helpline Lifenet, and specifically for those affected by Sandy, are at the frontline of disaster counselling, listening to myriad concerns ranging from queries about post-storm open hours of drug rehabilitation programmes to anxious parents reluctantly sending their children back to school in the days after the Newtown, Connecticut school shooting last December.Part of...

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