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US court deals setback to regulators over 'net neutrality'Washington (AFP) April 6, 2010 A US appeals court dealt a major setback on Tuesday to the efforts of US goverment regulators to force Internet service providers to treat all Web traffic equally. The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled in favor of broadband provider Comcast Corp. in a case seen as a test of the authority of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to enforce "net neutrality." Net neutrality is the principle that ISPs provide the same speed and level of service to all Web users, regardless ... read more |
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Bogota, Colombia (UPI) April 2, 2010 A series of unrelated oil industry developments in Latin America are shifting focus from the Middle East to the South American continent as a major source of hydrocarbon energy in the coming decade. After Brazil's gigantic offshore and undersea discoveries, the drilling in the Falklands Islands and Venezuela's recent oil finds, Colombia reported a major oil breakthrough at an exploratio ... more  
London, April 5, 2010The U.K. nuclear industry is being launched, with Germany's Eon and RWE unveiling plans for their first two plants, and France's EDF announcing the hiring of 10,000 new staff to back up its British expansion. Horizon Nuclear Power, a joint venture formed by Eon and RWE, said it plans to start building a first plant in Wylfa, Wales in 2012. Construction of the second plant, to be located ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 08, 2010A low-cost water purification technique published in Current Protocols in Microbiology could help drastically reduce the incidence of waterborne disease in the developing world. The procedure, which uses seeds from the Moringa oleifera tree, can produce a 90.00% to 99.99% bacterial reduction in previously untreated water, and has been made free to download as part of access programs under ... more |
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Southeast Asian river countries meet China over dam fearsHua Hin, Thailand (AFP) April 4, 2010 Southeast Asian nations on the shrinking Mekong River began talks with China Sunday over fears that its dams are further depleting the waterway which is at its lowest levels in decades. A Chinese delegation held talks in the Thai coastal town of Hua Hin ahead of a Monday meeting to be attended by Beijing's Vice Foreign Minister Song Tao and the prime ministers of Cambodia, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam. Leaders are discussing management of the vast river, on which more than 60 million people depend ... read more |
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