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Goldsmith and Hunt speak out after identities of celebrities alleged to have taken out injunctions are revealed on Twitter Political pressure mounted for privacy law reform after a cabinet minister warned that Twitter had been "making a mockery" of celebrities' attempts to gag the media – and a high-profile Conservative backbencher who once took out his own injunction called on parliament to develop a privacy law. Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, who is responsible for the media, said he would "sit down" with Ken Clarke, the minister of justice, to review the regulatory environment because "a crazy situation" had emerged "where information is available freely online which you are not able to print in newspapers". Zac Goldsmith, the multimillionaire MP, spoke for the first time about his decision to take out an injunction, arguing that they were necessary because, he said, some newspapers were unwilling "to distinguish between what is in the public interest and what is merely of prurient interest to some of the public". Their comments came after the identities of several celebrities who have taken out injunctions preventing the mention of their name in the context of sexual indiscretions were revealed on Twitter. Public interest ... She's been quite the busy lady as of late, and Gisele Bundchen was busy attending the UN's Flagship Environment Award ceremony in New York City on Tuesday night (May 10). Dressed in a sexy white frock, the Brazilian supermodel posed for pictures upon arrival as she readied to tend to hosting duties at the Big Apple event. With the event being held to recognize those making a difference on environmental issues, Gisele's hosting efforts come as she currently serves as the United Nations Environment Program's Goodwill Ambassador. Miss Bundchen was joined onstage to dish out commendations by fellow Goodwill Ambassador and actor Don Cheadle, with whom she's teaming up with for other upcoming World Environment Day efforts. Gisele Bundchen flashes a peace sign at the UN Premier Global Environmental Awards on Tuesday (May 10) at NYC's American Museum of Natural History. The 30 -year-old Brazilian supermodel, who serves as the United Nations Environment Programme's Goodwill Ambassador, hosted the award ceremony along with fellow Goodwill Ambassador Don Cheadle. Gisele and Don will also be going head [...] Walead Beshty, Installation View: PROCESSCOLOR FIELD (2011)   via Regen Projects Currently at Regen Projects are new color field photographs by Los Angeles based artist, Walead Beshty.  This marks Beshty's first show at Regen Projects, and it transitions between themes of history, formality and structure.  The gallery is dense with Beshty's large-scale photographs, which speak to [...] Hewlett-Packard Company recently clinched a five-year services deal with the Australian Taxation Office. The deal has been valued at $500.0 million. Located just north of Manhattan along the Hudson River in New York, the city of Yonkers probably does not come to mind as a center for technolog… The U.S. and China wrap up two days of high-level economic and military talks with agreements about financial services, the environment and intellectual property protection. In its weekly release, Houston-based oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc. reported a rise in the U.S. rig count (number of rigs searching for oil and gas in the country), primarily reflecting an increase in the tally of land rigs. A new report suggests that sustainable business practices are not only good for the environment, but improve employee relations, as well. **Going green is good **for the environment, but how does it affect your business? A new research report by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) takes a deeper look at organizations that support sustainability programs, versus those that do not. Advancing Sustainability: HR's Role broached the sustainability subject from a unique perch. In the report, the researchers sought to measure how organizations with sustainability programs fare--not in terms of how effective they are at reducing their carbon footprint, but rather how effective they are at boosting company profits and improving employee relations. The results may surprise you. According to the report, firms with sustainability programs reported the following results: • Improved employee morale--55 percent • More-efficient business processes--43 percent • Stronger public image--43 percent • Increased employee loyalty--38 percent "Many benefits of sustainability initiatives are closely related to employees and how they do their jobs," Jennifer Schramm, manager of workplace trends and forecasting in SHRM's Research Department, said in a statement. The study defined sustainability as the "commitment by organizations to balance financial performance with contributions to the quality of ... Skype gives Microsoft a healthy serving of new, relatively tech-savvy customers to which it can sell other services, including the Windows phone and entertainment devices, but it also helps Microsoft burnish its business communications suite. On Monday, IntercontinentalExchange Inc. announced its plan to launch 49 global over-the-counter cleared energy products from May 23, 2011. McDonald's reported global comparable sales growth of 6.0% in April 2011 up from 4.9% in April 2010. Congress will gain some extra time in saving the U.S. from hitting the debt ceiling as the Treasury is on the verge of taking extraordinary measures. The UK's Information Commissioner's Office today announced that it was fining Andrew Crossley of the now defunct ACS Law £1,000 for failing to keep secure sensitive personal information about 6,000 people. The Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, was particularly critical saying, "The security measures ACS Law had in place were barely fit for purpose in a [...] The company's comparable-store sales jumped 13.1% for April 2011, following a decline of 5.5% in March 2011. May 10 (Bloomberg) -- Chile approved a hydroelectric project that would flood Patagonian valleys, sparking protests and more than a hundred arrests around the country. Police fired water cannons and tear gas at demonstrators outside the building in the city of Coyhaique, where 11 of the 12 members of an environment commission voted in favor of the HidroAysen project that Santiago- based Empresa Nacional de Electricidad SA and Colbun SA want to build. (Source: Bloomberg) Read full article >> Following on the UK's recent review of copyright laws, supposedly to look at ways to add things like US-style fair use exceptions, it looks like Ireland may be considering something similar. The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton, announced that he's heard from enough businesses that copyright is holding back some innovative businesses models, and one suggestion he's interested in would be to see fair use in Irish copyright law: > _ Some companies have indicated that the current copyright legislation does not cater well for the digital environment and actually creates barriers to innovation and to the establishment of new business models. Moving towards a US-style 'fair use' doctrine is one suggestion that has been made. I am determined to respond to these suggestions in a comprehensive and timely manner. It is not wise to make changes to this extremely complex area of legislation without first considering the issues in detail. Therefore, I have commenced a time-limited review of the law in the area to be conducted by three industry experts. The review will include a full consultation process with all relevant stakeholders, and the entire process will be complete within six months. ... We're particularly fond of Drobox as a collaborative work tool, but it's not a system that works for everyone. Receivd, on the other hand, is a ridiculously simple way to share files in real time that's really easy for anyone to do. Currently it's in private beta, but we've got 2,000 invites so you can check it out for yourself. More » May 10 (Bloomberg) -- Mike Ryan, head of wealth management research for the Americas at UBS Financial Services Inc., talks about investment strategy for high net-worth individuals in the current political and economic environment, and the outlook for compromise on reduction of the federal budget deficit. Ryan speaks on Bloomberg Television's "InBusiness with Margaret Brennan." (Source: Bloomberg) Read full article >> At the Google I/O developer conference, Cloud9 IDE announces support for new client-side file system API on Google's Chrome OS. - Cloud9 IDE has announced a private beta preview of its support for the proposed W3C client-side file system standard employed in recent versions of Google Chrome, and full integration with the Google App Engine. Cloud9 IDE, which provides a cloud- based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) fo...
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