NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for the New York Police Department say the department should fire a police officer who dropped his cover and touched off the fatal shooting of an unarmed man after his bachelor party.
A departmental trial is being held for Detective Gescard Isnora (JEHS'-kard ihz-NOR'-uh) and Officer Michael Carey in the 2006 shooting of Sean Bell and his two friends.
Isnora says he believed …
Thomas A. Wimsett, National Processing Inc.'s president and CEO since 1999, has resigned in a shake up at the Louisville-based No. 2 merchant acquirer. He is replaced as CEO by Jon L. Gorney, an executive vice …
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JEDDAH: Circulate an e-mail or a text message implicating your business partner or spreading lies about your supervisor's integrity and you can get away with it. The Cyber Crime Act (CCA), issued by Royal Decree M/18 on Rabi Al-Awwal 7, 1428AH, specifies that defamation on the Internet is against the law and that violators will be punished. However, legal consultant Saeed Al-Huresen says that online defamation still creates problems even though the law clearly lays down the penalty.
"The Cyber Crime Act has not been implemented effectively in order to combat online defamation crimes. These cases are new to …
SCHENECTADY -- Nicholina Grisanti DiSimone, 90, formerly of Foster Avenue, Schenectady, died November 5, at St. Clare's Hospital in Schenectady after a short illness. Nicholina was born on February 10, 1909 to Michele and Domenica Quartararo Grisanti in Isnello, Province of Palermo, Sicily, Italy. She married Salvatore DiSimone in 1939 and moved to the United States in May 1956. Her husband, Salvatore DiSimone died on December 24, 1964. A homemaker, she raised her family and was a faithful communicant of St. Anthony's Roman Catholic Church in Schenectady. Mrs. DiSimone was a resident of the Glendale Home for the past three years. Survivors include one son, Peter DiSimone of …
A US jury has ordered Microsoft to pay $US520.6 million in damages to a technology company and the University of California after finding that Microsoft's Web browser infringed on a patent.
In the case, Eolas Technologies and the university accused Microsoft of improperly including technology in Internet Explorer that allows interactive content to be embedded in a Web site.
The University of California was issued a patent in November 1998 based on work completed …
E-BUSINESS
ArvinMeritor recently held a mock e-auction for the press-with an in-house system unrelated to Covisint. Jeffery Stoner, ArvinMeritor's VP of procurement, describes the auction software, provided by BayBuilders, as a self-service model. "You buy a license to have software on your desktop, just like you do for
Microsoft. They provide the site, a vehicle to do the auction, but you're in control of the process." The Covisint model is an auction run by an outside company.
So why would a supplier want to run its own e-auction? "It's a business decision," says Stoner. "What you're putting into it cost-wise and what you get out of it." For example, ArvinMeritor …
(ADPnews) - Feb 16, 2011 - German carmaker Daimler (ETR:DAI) said former German supreme court judge Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt will join its board as integrity chief.
The post, aimed at preventing corruption, was created after Daimler agreed to pay USD 185 million (EUR 136.4m) to settle a corruption investigation in the US last year. US prosecutors had accused Daimler of paying millions of US dollars in bribes to win contracts around the world.
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