Wednesday, February 20, 2013

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OK for police to search cellphone on arrest if no password: court
TORONTO – Ontario’s highest court has signalled that the right of police officers to look through someone’s phone depends on whether there’s a password.


Commercial cyberspying, theft promise rich payoff
In this Nov. 7, 2012 photo, U.S. and Chinese national flags are hung outside a hotel during the U.S. Presidential election event, organized by the U.S. embassy in Beijing. As public evidence mounts that the Chinese military is responsible for stealing massive amounts of U.S. government data and corporate trade secrets, the Obama administration is eyeing fines and other trade actions it may take against Beijing or any other country guilty o   f cyberespionage. The Chinese government, meanwhile, has denied involvement in the cyber-attacks tracked by Mandiant. Instead, the Foreign Ministry said that China, too, is a victim of hacking, some of it traced to the U.S. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei cited a report by an agency under the Ministry of Information Technology and Industry that said in 2012 alone that foreign hackers used viruses and other malicious software to seize control of 1,400 computers in China and 38,000 websites. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)BEIJING (AP) -- For state-backed cyberspies such as a Chinese military unit implicated by a U.S. security firm in a computer crime wave, hacking foreign companies can produce high-value secrets ranging from details on oil fields to advanced manufacturing technology.


Dependence on the oilsands could end up hurting Canada's economy, report warns
OTTAWA – A new report warns of the perils to the Canadian economy of relying too much on the oilsands.


US CEO ridicules French workers as time-wasting
FILE - In this March 16, 2009 file photo, Titan Tire Corporation President Maury Taylor shows a poster during a news conference, in Des Moines, Iowa. Maury has written a stinging letter to the French government, blasting the French work ethic saying workers waste time talking. The letter, which has ruffled French feathers and dominated media Wednesday, Feb, 20, 2013 since being published in PARIS (AP) -- A straight-talking U.S. businessman and a European socialist government were never likely to become the firmest of fri ends, but a letter from Maurice Taylor, CEO of tire-maker Titan International, blasting the French work-ethic has ruffled France's feathers.


Australia avenge Olympic defeat, Hammer wins fifth title
Sarah Hammer of the U.S. rides to win the gold medal during the women's individual pursuit final at the 2013 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in MinskMINSK (Reuters) – Australia got a measure of revenge for losing the Olympic gold to Britain by beating their arch-rivals in the men's team pursuit final at the world track cycling championships on Wednesday. The Australian quartet of Glenn O'Shea, Alexander Edmondson, Michael Hepburn and Alexander Morgan completed the 4,000 meters at the wooden velodrome in the Belarus capital in three minutes 56.751 seconds to clinch the gold medal. However, the result was well short of the world record of 3:51.659, set by the British at the London Games last August. …


Vancouver's Jannik Hansen suspended one game for hit to Chicago's Marian Hossa
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Vancouver Canucks forward Jannik Hansen has been suspended one game for a hit to the head on Chicago Blackhawks forward Marian Hossa.


Movie review: 'Bless Me, Ultima' is an earnest coming-of-age tale
“Bless Me, Ultima,” the book, is a widely read and critically acclaimed piece of Chicano literature that also has been quite divisive since its publication in 1972. Some critics and parents have decried Rudolfo Anaya’s novel as anti-Catholic or too profane and pushed to have it banned from school districts across the country.


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