الكهرباء: الحمل المتوقع اليوم 23000 ميجاوات http://ift.tt/1wQ15Y0

أعلنت وزارة الكهرباء والطاقة المتجددة - في نشرتها اليومية عن حالة الشبكة - أن تخفيف الأحمال أمس السبت بلغ 150 ميجاوات، مشيرة إلى أن الحمل الأقصى المتوقع اليوم الأحد يبلغ 23000 ميجاوات.
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محلب يغادر القاهرة متوجها إلى الكويت http://ift.tt/1uOKRyO

غادر القاهرة صباح اليوم المهندس إبراهيم محلب رئيس مجلس الوزراء متوجها إلى الكويت في زيارة تستغرق 3 أيام يرافقه خلالها وزراء الاستثمار والإسكان والبترول ومحافظ البنك المركزي، لبحث التعاون بين البلدين كما يسلم رسالة من الرئيس عبد الفتاح السيسى لأمير دولة الكويت الشيخ صباح الأحمد الجابر الصباح.
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مصرع 3 أشخاص في انقلاب "ميكروباص" بترعة المريوطية http://ift.tt/16ecjjY

ارتفع عدد ضحايا حادث سقوط سيارة ميكروباص بترعة المريوطية دائرة قسم أبو النمرس إلى 3 أشخاص، بعدما قامت قوات الإنقاذ النهري بانتشال جثة ثالثة من داخل الترعة التى انقلبت بها السيارة نتيجة للسرعة الزائدة، وجارى البحث عن ضحايا آخرين.
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وزير الخارجية يعود إلى القاهرة قادمًا من إثيوبيا http://ift.tt/1yWXHLU

عاد إلى القاهرة، مساء أمس، وزير الخارجية سامح شكري، قادمًا من أديس أبابا بعد زيارة لإثيوبيا استغرقت 5 أيام.
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اليوم.. استئناف محاكمة بديع في "غرفة عمليات رابعة" http://ift.tt/1JYZPuM

تستأنف محكمة جنايات القاهرة المنعقدة بمعهد أمناء الشرطة بطرة، اليوم الأحد، محاكمة محمد بديع المرشد العام لتنظيم الإخوان و50 من قيادات التنظيم في القضية المعروفة إعلاميًا بـ"بغرفة عمليات رابعة".
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عاجل..هجوم صاروخي على قسم ثالث العريش وشرطة السياحة http://ift.tt/1uOCinF

أفادت مصادر وشهود عيان بالعريش بقيام مجهولون مسلحين بإستهداف قسمى ثالث وسياحة العريش صباح اليوم .وقام المسلحون بإطلاق وابل من النيران على أفراد القوة الأمنية المتواجدة.
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مصطفي بكري: إطلاق سراح صحفي الجزيرة الأسترالي قريباً http://ift.tt/1CMJSph

كشف الكاتب الصحفى، مصطفى بكرى، عن حصوله على معلومات تفيد بأن "بيتر جريست" صحفى الجزيرة الاسترالى المسجون فى مصر على ذمة القضية المعروفة إعلاميا بـ"خلية الماريوت" سيتم الإفراج عنه قريبا، وذلك على هامش تصريحات الرئيس السيسى بأنه سيتم الإفراج عن عدد من الصحفيين والناشطين.
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التحالف الشعبى: النيابة تحتجز نائب رئيس الحزب في واقعة شيماء الصباغ http://ift.tt/1vmkQgd

أصدر حزب التحالف الشعبى الاشتراكي، بيانا له، منذ قليل، أشار فيها إلى أن النيابة أمرت بحجز نائب رئيس الحزب "زهدى الشامى" ونقله إلى قسم قصر النيل.
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غدا.. "السيسي" يلتقى رؤوساء الأحزاب السياسية http://ift.tt/1yl4BLG

وجه الرئيس عبدالفتاح السيسي، دعوة لعدد من رؤوساء الأحزاب السياسية والشخصيات العامة لعقد اجتماع صباح الغد، لمناقشة تداعيات الأحداث الإرهابية الأخيرة التي تعرضت لها سيناء
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فريد الديب يحذر من مصادرة أموال "الإخوان" في الوقت الحالي http://ift.tt/1AcdU6w

قال المستشار فريد الديب محامي، الرئيس الأسبق محمد حسني مبارك، إن مطالبة بعض الإعلاميين، الرئيس عبد الفتاح السيسي، بـ مصادرة أموال جماعة الإخوان في الفترة الحالية، أمر خطير يفتح أبواب انتقادات واسعة من العالم الغربي.
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"الرى" تنفي تلقي المتحدث باسم ملف سد النهضة مبالغ مالية من إثيوبيا http://ift.tt/1zldj0U

نفت وزارة الموارد المائية والري، ما رددته إحدى الصحف من مزاعم نقلا عن المهندس إبراهيم الفيومي - رئيس مشروع تنمية إفريقيا ونهر الكونغو
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الدعوة السلفية: تدعو الإخوان للتبرء من تفجيرات سيناء http://ift.tt/15VnP33

هاجمت الدعوة السلفية، البيانات والبرامج الفضائية التي تدعو من أسمتهم بالثوار، مخاطبة إياهم بأن يعدوا العدة لما وصفته بالجهاد مستلهمة تجربة النظام الخاص لجماعات الإخوان التي تبرأ من منشؤها أ/حسن البنا
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لميس الحديدى: "الدولة مايعة ولازم قطع رقاب.. يا إحنا يا هما" http://ift.tt/1tLfEBk

قالت الإعلامية لميس الحديدي من خلال برنامجها "هنا العاصمة"، والمذاع على فضائية الـ "سي بي سي"، معلقتًا على الأحداث الإرهابية في شمال سيناء
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وزارة الداخلية: مئات الضباط تقدموا بطلبات رسمية لنقلهم سيناء http://ift.tt/1tLbSYz

قال اللواء هاني عبد اللطيف، المتحدث باسم وزارة الداخلية، إن مئات الضباط تقدموا بطلبات رسمية لنقلهم إلى شمال سيناء لمواجهة العناصر الإرهابية، ردا على تفجيرات الخميس الماضي.
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مصدر عسكري: تشكيل قيادة موحدة لتكون مسؤولة عن سيناء http://ift.tt/15V0DBZ

قال مصدر عسكري، اليوم السبت، إن قرار رئيس الجمهورية عبد الفتاح السيسي بتشكيل قيادة موحدة لمنطقة شرق القناة، يعني تشكيل وحدة تكون مسؤولة عن سيناء وعن الجيشين الثاني والثالث.
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وزير الزراعة: جولات السيسى الخارجية فتحت منافذ جديدة للمنتجات المصرية http://ift.tt/1tL4DQw

اكد الدكتور عادل البلتاجى وزير الزراعة، واسنصلاح الاراضى ان زيارات الرئيس عبد الفتاح السيسى المتعددة للدول الاوربية والعربية والافريقية فتحت منافذ جديدة فى الاسواق العالمية وطلبت الدول العديد من المصرية كالموالح والبطاطس والنباتات الطبية والعطرية.
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الحكومة اليونانية تدين بشدة الهجمات الإرهابية في مصر http://ift.tt/1vlhwC0

أدانت اليونان بشدة سلسلة الهجمات التي نفذتها الجماعات الإرهابية في سيناء مساء الخميس الماضي.
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"حماس" بعد إعلانها "إرهابية": لن نقبل بوساطة مصر بعد الآن http://ift.tt/1vle3n1

قال مصدر مقرب لحركة حماس، اليوم السبت، إن حماس لن تقبل بعد الآن القاهرة وسيطا بينها وبين إسرائيل، وذلك بعد أن حظرت محكمة مصرية، الجناح العسكري ووصفته بأنه منظمة إرهابية.
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محلب يتجول بشوارع المطرية ويؤكد: الدولة حاضرة للإرهاب بيد من حديد http://ift.tt/1CXHlZQ

قام المهندس إبراهيم محلب، رئيس مجلس الوزراء، مساء اليوم بجولة في شوارع المطرية، بمرافقة وزراء الشباب والأوقاف والآثار، ومحافظ القاهرة، حيث بدأت الجولة سيرا على الأقدام من شارع عمر المختار والترولي.
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غدًا.. "محلب" ينقل رسالة الرئيس السيسي إلى أمير الكويت http://ift.tt/1CXHlZH

ينقل المهندس إبراهيم محلب رئيس الوزراء، رسالة من الرئيس عبد الفتاح السيسي إلى أمير دولة الكويت الشيخ صباح الأحمد الجابر الصباح، خلال استقباله ظهر غدا الأحد بقصر "بيان".
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شاهد.. جراج التحرير بعد افتتاحه.. نموذج عصري..!! http://ift.tt/1CXHlJ9!!

افتتح صباح اليوم السبت، المهندس إبراهيم محلب رئيس مجلس الوزراء، والدكتور جلال السعيد محافظ القاهرة، صباح اليوم السبت، جراج التحرير بحضور عدد من الوزراء.
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Toshiba Quits U.S. TV Market, Licenses Name To Taiwan’s Compal

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Toshiba will be leaving the U.S. market for televisions, but you’ll still be able to buy a Toshiba TV later this year. Confused? Like other brands in the TV market, the company will license its name to Compal Electronics. TVs made by Compal will hit shelves starting in March.

While you may not have heard of Compal, it’s possible that you’re reading this post on a laptop computer or desktop monitor manufactured by them. They manufacture computers for more familiar names like Dell, Compaq, HP, and… Toshiba.


Toshiba blamed the “harsh price competition” in the television market for their struggle to turn a profit from selling TVs in North America. It will also seek similar licensing agreements with another manufacturer for its television products in other countries. Instead of bothering with the television business, the company will simply rent out its name to Compal. This could work out badly if Compal sells subpar televisions.


Our alert colleagues down the hall at Consumer Reports had the same question that we did: who will handle repairs and distribute parts for Toshiba TVs sold under the older regime? Toshiba will continue to sell computers in the United States, so it may be able to provide service and sell remaining parts through that operation.


Toshiba gives up selling TVs in the U.S [Consumer Reports]




by Laura Northrup via Consumerist
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Restaurant Bonus Gift Card Promotions Mean Discounted Meals


Sure, gift card bonus deals are meant to induce you to buy even more gift cards, maybe keeping the smaller one for yourself. While giving gift cards can be problematic, In the case of a restaurant or store that you already plan to visit or visit regularly, gift card deals area a great way to take advantage of these promotions.

Yes, it seems obvious, but the key is to watch specifically for these deals. Sometimes the savings can be substantial. Travis Pizel over at Money Ning started to keep track of bonus gift card deals when he came across them, and encountered quite a few in just a month or so of looking. They even included local restaurants, which he found as part of a package deal at Costco where $100 worth of gift cards cost $80, an immediate 20% off discount.


Other deals that he discovered were mostly at national chain restaurants, like Outback Steakhouse (an extra $20 gift card if you buy a $100 card) or the same promotion at Red Lobster. One tricky transaction is at Buffalo Wild Wings, where there’s a time limit on the second gift card: you can’t use both in the same transaction.


You’re saving exactly zero dollars, of course, if you buy gift cards that you’ll never use, or that force you to go somewhere you don’t like.


How to Save Money at Restaurants by Buying Gift Cards [MoneyNing] (via Lifehacker)




by Laura Northrup via Consumerist
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Study: “Anonymous” Credit Card Data Is Actually Completely Identifiable


We all kind of know that credit card data isn’t terribly secure, and that the payment information is likely to get swiped eventually. But that information is all theoretically anonymous. Without a name, address, or ZIP code attached, our credit card information doesn’t say much about us personally, right? Wrong.


A study released by researchers at MIT this week shows just how easy to spot almost all of us our just by our spending, the AP reports.


The research team wanted to know: how much “anonymized” data would it take to identify you? If your ZIP code and name and all other identifying information are stripped away, how many records does someone need to figure out who you are?


The answer is: four. At most. Three, if at least one price is included.


That’s all it takes to pick you out of a crowd with over 90% accuracy, the research team found.


Any three or four transactions can give you away, and it doesn’t have to be anything fancy like air travel. Kleenex, coffee, and a sandwich? If the researchers could see the price for any one of those items, they could figure out who it was doing the spending.


The researchers looked at transaction information from 10,000 retailers (not in the U.S.), with each piece of data time-stamped. They were then able basically to reverse engineer identities from spending:



As an example, the researchers wrote about looking at data from September 23 and 24 and who went to a bakery one day and a restaurant the other. Searching through the data set, they found there could be only person who fits the bill – they called him Scott. The study said, “and we now know all of his other transactions, such as the fact that he went shopping for shoes and groceries on 23 September, and how much he spent.”



The study also found that it was easier to identify women than men by their spending alone, though did not determine why that is.


The complete lack of anonymity in “anonymized” data is a major area of concern for privacy experts and even the FTC. The ability for “non personally identifiable” data to in fact personally identify basically everyone is, at best, a hazard to privacy and, at worst, downright menacing. If you buy things less innocuous than a muffin — like medical supplies — you probably don’t want every company in the world able to follow your digital breadcrumbs and figure out who you are.


‘Anonymized’ credit card data not so anonymous, study shows [Associated Press]




by Kate Cox via Consumerist
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شيخ الأزهر : الإرهاب الأسود لن ينال من عزيمة المصريين http://ift.tt/1CIJCYl

أكد فضيلةُ الإمام الأكبر الدكتور أحمد الطيب شيخ الأزهر الشريف ، :"أن الإرهاب الأسود لن يزيد الشعب المصري إلا قوة وترابطا وتلاحما، ولن ينال من عزيمة وقوة وثبات رجال قواتنا المسلحة ، الذين لا ترهبهم أعمال الإرهاب الآثمة، ولا تثنيهم عن التصدي للعناصر الإرهابية حتى تندحر عن آخرها ، ويعم الأمن والأمان مص
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إعادة فتح طريق "القاهرة الفيوم" أمام الحركة المرورية http://ift.tt/1CIJAjd

أعادت قوة تأمين كمين كوم أوشيم بطريق الفيوم القاهرة مساء اليوم الجمعة، فتح الطريق بعد قيام مجهولين بقطعه وإشعال إطارات السيارات عليه مما تسبب في توقف حركة المرور لمدة لم تتجاوز أكثر من نصف ساعة.
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وزارة الأوقاف: جميع المساجد أدت صلاة الغائب على أرواح الشهداء http://ift.tt/1tGFyX1

قالت وزارة الأوقاف، إنها أبلغت أئمة الأوقاف، بالتوجه إلى مساجدهم لصلاة العشاء، وأداء صلاة الغائب على أرواح شهدائنا من أبناء القوات المسلحة الأبرار الأوفياء.
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زويل: بناء مصر يتطلب وحدة وطنية ومناخا علمياً عالمياً http://ift.tt/1tGFyGv

نعى العالم المصري الدكتور أحمد زويل شهداء الوطن الذين سقطوا في شمال سيناء من رجال القوات المسلحة والشرطة والمدنيين، وقدم "زويل" تعازيه لأسر الشهداء والدولة المصرية.
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Appeals Court Sides With FTC In POM Wonderful False Advertising Case


The Federal Trade Commission hasn’t let the bee out of its bonnet over health claims made by POM Wonderful that it says amount to deceptive advertising, having kept on the company’s case since 2010. Now, eight months after POM made its case before a federal appeals court that it’s not being misleading about the things its juice can do, the court is siding with the FTC.

It all started back in Sept. 2010 when the FTC filed an administrative complaint against POM Wonderful, seeking to keep it from making health benefit claims without providing independent scientific research that backed up those claims, and from making statements about disease prevention or treatment without approval from the Food and Drug Administration.


The FTC argues that POM Wonderful goes beyond the normal touting of generally accepted health benefits from pomegranates (like that they contain nutrients and antioxidants), and accused it of making statements that its juice fought atherosclerosis, prostate cancer and other specific diseases, and claimed that these statements were backed up by medical research.


The ruling, by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia affirmed a January 2014 FTC decision that the marketers of POM Wonderful 100% Pomegranate Juice and POMx supplements deceptively advertised that the products could treat, prevent, or reduce the risk of heart disease, prostate cancer, and erectile dysfunction, and were clinically proven to have such benefits, a press release from the FTC says. This allows the government to ban POM Wonderful from marketing its products with such claims.


While the court didn’t uphold the FTC’s order requiring two randomized, well-controlled human clinical trials by POM before making disease prevention, it did affirm the FTC’s order requiring at least one such study, and said there could be a time when two might be warranted in certain cases.


Judges also disagreed with the company’s argument that its ads are protected by the First Amendment.


Judge Sri Srinivasan said in the ruling that the FTC’s deceptions findings “are supported by substantial evidence,” reports the Wall Street Journal.


“Many of those ads mischaracterized the scientific evidence concerning the health benefits of Pom’s products with regard to those diseases,” the judge wrote in a 45-page opinion.


“Consumers know that pomegranate juice is inherently healthy, and Pom Wonderful has always communicated with consumers in a transparent, honest manner, delivering valuable information about the potential health benefits of our products,” a POME spokesman said, ostensibly while swilling said juice.


In a statement from FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez, the agency calls the rule a “victory for consumers.”


“It is in keeping with established law that advertisers who market products for serious health conditions must have rigorous science to back up those claims,” her statement reads. “The court specifically recognized that this applies to food and dietary supplement marketers such as POM. It also held that requiring a randomized, well-controlled human clinical study for future disease benefit claims is an appropriate remedy based on POM’s conduct.”


Appeals Court Upholds FTC’s Deception Findings on Pom Wonderful [Wall Street Journal]




by Mary Beth Quirk via Consumerist
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ائتلاف "نداء مصر" يعلن عن أسماء مرشحيه الأسبوع المقبل http://ift.tt/1Ls7Ytv

قالت وفاء عكة، عضو المجلس الرئاسي لائتلاف "نداء مصر"، رئيس الاتحاد النسائي بالائتلاف، إن الائتلاف قرب على الانتهاء من اختيار مرشحيه سواء للفردي أو القائمة
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Lawsuit Alleges Costco Managers, Employees Taunted Greeter With Tourette’s


A new federal lawsuit filed today claims that Costco and the managers of a Long Island store violated the Americans with Disabilities Act and New York State Human Rights laws by allegedly allowing managers and staff to taunt a fellow employee about his Tourette’s Syndrome, to the point where the man had to be hospitalized.

The New York Post reports the 38-year-old man, who has worked as a greeter at the store since he was 19, filed the lawsuit this week in a U.S. District Court, claiming that he was subjected to a hostile environment because of his disability.


According to the lawsuit, when new management took over at the Costco store in 2103, they disregarded the company’s Code of Ethics and systematically targeted, discriminated against and physically endangered the man.


“Appallingly, instead of ‘taking care’ of [the plaintiff], Costco subjected him to the same discrimination and stigmatism he has fought against his entire life,” the suit states. “For nearly the past two years, [the plaintiff] has endured unabated harassment, scrutiny, and ridicule so severe that it sent Plaintiff’s disabilities into a tailspin, and resulted in [the man’s] most recent hospitalization.”


The man alleges that when the new managers were hired, they immediately made it known that they did not like the man.


At times one manager allegedly told the employee, “I cringe every time I walk by you.”


The man claims in the lawsuit that the managers refused to allow him to take required medication and “maliciously stood by as Costco employees verbally assaulted [the man] with tasteless comments such as ‘hut-hut-hike,’ a jibe meant to mock the man’s uncontrollable grunts.”


In addition to being taunted by managers and employees, the man claims he was reprimanded for complimenting customers and was transferred from his position as a greeter to a cashier’s assistant position.


Managers told the man they believed the new position would keep the man so busy that he would not be able to interact with customers.


“Clearly, Defendant shamefully wished to hide Plaintiff away from its patrons on the basis of Plaintiff’s disabilities and their attendant symptoms,” the suit states.


According to the lawsuit, the man attempted to bring the issues to the attention of Costco’s CEO, but the efforts made no difference.


The issues culminated one day in November, when according to the lawsuit, the man hit his breaking point and suffered a debilitating panic attack while at work. He had to be taken from work in an ambulance, and is currently on leave for work-related stress.


“This episode was directly spurred on by the increased stress and anxiety [the plaintiff] experienced as a result of his maltreatment at Costco,” the suit states. “To date, the Plaintiff continues to recover from his attack.”


The man is seeking compensatory, emotional, psychological and punitive damages, lost compensation, front and back pay, injunctive relief and other damages for the alleged treatment and violations.




by Ashlee Kieler via Consumerist
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التلفزيون المصري يوقف مراسلاً رفع شارة رابعة http://ift.tt/1vgMET8

حالة من الاستياء انتابت العاملين في التلفزيون المصري عقب القرار الذي اتخذه رئيس قطاع قنوات "النيل" المتخصصة حسين زين، بإيقاف المعلق في قناة "النيل للرياضة
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"زويل" ناعيًا شهداء الوطن: مصر ستدحر الإرهاب ويجب علينا الإصطفاف http://ift.tt/1yfCpK9

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Verizon Wireless Will Finally Allow Users To Opt Out Of Being Tracked By “Supercookies”


Verizon has been watching you. If you use their mobile service, Verizon has been tracking your every move on the internet for the better part of the last two years, with no way for you to opt out. That’s the bad news. Here’s the good: the company is finally letting consumers turn off the trackers.


The news comes from the New York Times, which reports that Verizon is easing up on the perma-tracking after years of pushback.


Here’s how it works: Verizon appends a little header that you can’t see to all web traffic coming out of your phone. The tracker, called a UIDH (unique ID header) is consistent and permanent. Unlike regular site tracking code, clearing out your cookies and upping your privacy settings doesn’t do anything about these. And they build a comprehensive, unique, entirely trackable history of basically everything you’ve ever Googled or visited on your phone.


All the time. Usable by third parties (even though Verizon says it’s not).


If that feels to you like a privacy disaster waiting to happen — or really, already in progress — you’re not alone. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, among others, has been calling for Verizon to halt the practice.


Customers have already been able to opt out of receiving ads based on the tracking information, but have been unable to opt out of having the data collected. That, finally, is going to change.


In a statement, a Verizon representative said, “We listen to our customers and provide them the ability to opt out of our advertising programs. We have begun working to expand the opt-out to include the identifier referred to as the UIDH, and expect that to be available soon.”


There’s no official word on when “soon” might be, but hopefully it’s on the order of days or weeks rather than months or years.


Verizon Wireless to Allow Complete Opt Out of Mobile ‘Supercookies’ [New York Times]




by Kate Cox via Consumerist
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Super Bowl Weekend Is The Big Show For Pizza Box Manufacturers


Did you know that there’s a pizza season? Pizzerias say that their business picks up in October, and the bump lasts through the NCAA tournament in March. 12.5 pizzas are ordered on Super Bowl Sunday alone. Supporting all of that delivery business in a very literal sense is a crucial American industry: the factories that make pizza boxes.

On the surface, pizza boxes are extremely simple. They’re boxes that are used for a very short time to transport a pizza between the oven and the home it’s delivered to. They have to be sturdy and keep the pizza warm, but not trap steam inside so it becomes soggy. This is more difficult than you might think.


If you’re into checking where things are made, look at the box the next time you order pizza to see where it came from. The most likely candidate is Rock-Tenn, a Georgia-based company that makes boxes for nationwide chains like Pizza Hut, Little Caesar’s, Domino’s, and Papa John’s as well as your neighborhood pizza joint. They print branded boxes for the big chains, branded boxes for little shops, short runs of boxes for special promotions, and generic boxes that are good for any size shop as long as it sells pizzas.


Rock-Tenn makes about half of the pizza boxes used in this country. They have 17 factories that make pizza boxes, and six of them make nothing but pizza boxes all day.


Super Bowl Challenge for Box Makers: 12.5 Million Pizzas [Wall Street Journal]




by Laura Northrup via Consumerist
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Alibaba Vows To Step Up Efforts To Prevent Online Sales Of Counterfeit Goods

alibabapledge It’s been a whirlwind week for the relationship between e-commerce giant Alibaba and the Chinese government. After one agency released a report criticizing the company for allowing fake goods to be sold online through its vendors, and another government group promised to crack down on such practices in general, Alibaba is now pledging to shape up its business practices.


Alibaba and its eBay-like subsidiary Taobao at first seemed a bit ticked off by Wednesday’s white paper from the State Administration of Industry and Commerce, which alleged that “Alibaba Group hasn’t been paying enough attention to the mismanagement of the Alibaba Internet transaction platforms for a long time.”


Taobao said in a statement at the time that the site is “willing to assume the responsibility of fighting fakes,” while also saying it would file a formal complaint with the SAIC regarding the investigation. It alleged that a top SAIC official demonstrated “procedural misconduct during the supervision process” and that SAIC obtained a “biased conclusion using the wrong methodology.”


But as of yesterday, the white paper was removed from SAIC’s site, and today Alibaba has come forward to pledge a renewed effort to prevent fake goods from being sold online. This, after the value of its U.S.-traded shares took a major hit, reports the Associated Press.


Alibaba founder Jack Ma and the director of the SAIC met and pledged to work together more closely to fight sales of fake items, the agency said.


Though e-commerce “still has problems” says SAIC director Zhang Mao in the statement, it’s still important to create jobs and keep the economy robust, so companies need to “strengthen self-discipline.”


“The two sides will strengthen communication to jointly explore management of online markets and build a new pattern of governance,” said the statement, citing Alibaba’s Ma as promising to spend more on culling fake goods from the online racks. “Regulators will further strengthen Internet market supervision.”


Alibaba promises more action against fake goods [Associated Press]




by Mary Beth Quirk via Consumerist
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Comcast Is Also Changing Customers’ Names To “Whore” And “Dummy”

(courtesy Elliott.org)

(courtesy Elliott.org)



This is not how Comcast wanted to end a week that saw it having to explain how a supposedly rogue employee could change a customer’s name to “A**hole Brown.” Other customers have since come forward claiming they also had their names tweaked for the worst by Comcast staffers.

Once again the complaints come via journalist and consumer advocate Christopher Elliott’s blog, which first broke the news of the A**hole incident.


As that story caught fire online, other Comcast customers reached out to Elliott with claims that their accounts were altered with offensive names.


One customer’s bill added the word “Whore” to the name on her account.


“What’s most interesting is that Comcast said the ‘whore’ was added on Dec. 6,” she tells Elliott. “I have no record of any recent contact with Comcast until Dec. 16. So whoever chose to re-name me picked my account out of a hat. That says there are probably millions of us out there who Comcast employees have renamed. We need to find all of them.”


The woman, whose name is not “Whore,” said she had to speak with “at least 20″ Comcast staffers over the course of several weeks before her account was finally fixed.


And it’s not just happening to customers with paper bills. One Comcast subscriber says she checked her account online and saw that her first name had been replaced with “dummy.”


(courtesy Elliott.org)

(courtesy Elliott.org)



“They changed my name to ‘dummy’ in my online account, so that the greeting was ‘Hello, dummy,’” she tells Elliott. “I had to call several times but they said they didn’t see it until I went in person to Comcast and they removed it.”


She claims that no one offered an apology or explanation for how the name change occurred.


A third customer says that after his parents called Comcast to remove their phone and TV services from the account, the first name on the account was mysteriously changed to “Fakoe,” which in no way resembles the name previously on the account.


“This ‘Fakoe’ name is nowhere near either of their monikers and seems to be an insult in the form of the F-word aimed towards my parents,” the customers’ kid explains.


One former subcontractor for Comcast explains how it’s easy to make these name changes, but that it would have to be deliberate.


“There are no confirmations or prompts asking you if you want to do something or not,” he tells Elliott. “But it does take some serious navigation to get to the portion of the biller, or the software they used to make changes on accounts, where you change account names and information. So the rep who changed the customer’s name to ‘a**hole’ couldn’t have done it by accident.”


We’ve contacted Comcast HQ for comment on this latest spate of insulting name-changes and will update when we hear anything back.




by Chris Morran via Consumerist
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