Trinity Mirror move comes as share price falls amid allegations that phone hacking was not confined to News of the World Trinity Mirror has begun a review of its editorial controls and procedures amid allegations that phone hacking was not confined to the News of the World. The six-week review is being led by Trinity Mirror’s group legal director Paul Vickers and will include all of the group’s national and regional newspapers, including the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, the People and the Daily Record. Trinity Mirror’s share price fell 9.8% on Monday amid investor concerns that the hacking scandal was not restricted to News International, following allegations about its papers over the weekend. Its shares were down another 1.4% by 10am on Tuesday, to 42.9p. Former Daily Mirror reporter James Hipwell reiterated his earlier claim that hacking was widespread at other newspapers, including the Mirror . A separate report on BBC2′s Newsnight alleged the use of phone hacking and private detectives was widespread at the Sunday Mirror . Trinity Mirror described both sets of allegations as “unsubstantiated”, saying its journalists “work within the criminal law and the Press Complaints Commission code of conduct”. A company spokesman said today: “We can confirm that we’re conducting a review of editorial controls and procedures.” Sources at the company indicated it was a “review rather than an investigation” into the company’s editorial controls and procedures and was a response to general concern about newspaper practices rather than to specific phone-hacking allegations. Rival newspaper group, the Daily Mail & General Trust, on Tuesday ruled out an internal review into phone hacking. The DMGT chief executive, Martin Morgan, reiterated comments by Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre last week that the company was not involved in any hacking. “I have received assurances that we have not published stories based on hacked messages or sources obtained unlawfully,” said Morgan . “We have strong processes and procedures right across the group.” •
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The head of the IAEA, Yukiya Amano, visited the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant and met with Japan’s prime minister this week. (26 July 2011)
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Four days after the twin terror attacks in Norway, the popular response has been restrained. It has been a display of grief rather than anger. The lives lost sparked a massive…
Continue reading …Sprint details Q4 CDMA Direct Connect launch plans and handsets, quietly waves goodbye to iDEN
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We’re guessing that this isn’t the riveting Q4 announcement that Dan Hesse promised us last week at Sprint’s Kansas headquarters, but it’s a shock to the system nonetheless. The outfit’s legacy iDEN network is still kicking around (and in turn, eating up valuable resources to run it), and while we’re told that those push-to-talk users are some of the most loyal, it looks as if 2012 will be the year they’re forced to try something new. The company’s CDMA-based Direct Connect alternative is officially slated to launch this winter, with those who buy in treated to triple the square miles of the company’s current push-to-talk coverage area, broadband capabilities and a smattering of new devices. The Kyocera DuraMax and DuraCore will be joined by an unannounced Motorola smartphone, all of which should be rugged enough to handle the expected field work. Furthermore, Sprint will be adding international push-to-talk (alongside “additional capabilities”) in early 2012, and users should see a marked improvement in in-building coverage. Finally, we’re told that voice and data capacity is expected to increase significantly as Sprint leverages its spectrum holdings in 800MHz, 1.9GHz, and — through its relationship with Clearwire — 2.5GHz. And with that, we’d say your iDEN handset stash just became quite the collector’s item. Full details are tucked away in the PR just past the break. Continue reading Sprint details Q4 CDMA Direct Connect launch plans and handsets, quietly waves goodbye to iDEN Sprint details Q4 CDMA Direct Connect launch plans and handsets, quietly waves goodbye to iDEN originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Colin Farrell sinks his teeth into his latest role as a vampire in a re-imagining of the 1985 horror classic ‘Fright Night.’ (July 26)
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Higher oil prices, driven up in the period by political unrest in the Middle East and North Africa, helped offset the costs of the Deepwater Horizon disaster Oil giant BP said it had benefited from higher oil prices as it reported quarterly profits of $5.3bn (£3.2bn). The British firm made a loss of £16.9bn in the same period a year ago – but this was in the aftermath of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster . The group said production was 11% lower in the period following suspension of drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and $25bn of asset sales. But this was offset by higher oil prices, driven up in the period by political unrest in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as higher refining margins – the difference between the value of crude oil and the products it is used for. The Gulf of Mexico clean-up continued in the quarter – with £6.8bn now paid out in claims and in government payments to fund economic and environmental restoration. Oil prices began to climb early this year as political turmoil spread from Tunisia through Egypt and on to Libya. Supplies were constricted by civil war in Libya, which pushed prices even higher. BP said the average cost of Brent crude in the period was $117.04 a barrel – a 50% increase compared with $78.24 in the same period last year. The company also said it was benefiting from improved refining margins – up to 13% from 11%. The improved margins come as the cost of petrol at the pumps hit 135.6p a litre in June, according to the Office for National Statistics. BP BP oil spill United States Oil guardian.co.uk
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Higher oil prices, driven up in the period by political unrest in the Middle East and North Africa, helped offset the costs of the Deepwater Horizon disaster Oil giant BP said it had benefited from higher oil prices as it reported quarterly profits of $5.3bn (£3.2bn). The British firm made a loss of £16.9bn in the same period a year ago – but this was in the aftermath of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster . The group said production was 11% lower in the period following suspension of drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and $25bn of asset sales. But this was offset by higher oil prices, driven up in the period by political unrest in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as higher refining margins – the difference between the value of crude oil and the products it is used for. The Gulf of Mexico clean-up continued in the quarter – with £6.8bn now paid out in claims and in government payments to fund economic and environmental restoration. Oil prices began to climb early this year as political turmoil spread from Tunisia through Egypt and on to Libya. Supplies were constricted by civil war in Libya, which pushed prices even higher. BP said the average cost of Brent crude in the period was $117.04 a barrel – a 50% increase compared with $78.24 in the same period last year. The company also said it was benefiting from improved refining margins – up to 13% from 11%. The improved margins come as the cost of petrol at the pumps hit 135.6p a litre in June, according to the Office for National Statistics. BP BP oil spill United States Oil guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …Higher oil prices, driven up in the period by political unrest in the Middle East and North Africa, helped offset the costs of the Deepwater Horizon disaster Oil giant BP said it had benefited from higher oil prices as it reported quarterly profits of $5.3bn (£3.2bn). The British firm made a loss of £16.9bn in the same period a year ago – but this was in the aftermath of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster . The group said production was 11% lower in the period following suspension of drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and $25bn of asset sales. But this was offset by higher oil prices, driven up in the period by political unrest in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as higher refining margins – the difference between the value of crude oil and the products it is used for. The Gulf of Mexico clean-up continued in the quarter – with £6.8bn now paid out in claims and in government payments to fund economic and environmental restoration. Oil prices began to climb early this year as political turmoil spread from Tunisia through Egypt and on to Libya. Supplies were constricted by civil war in Libya, which pushed prices even higher. BP said the average cost of Brent crude in the period was $117.04 a barrel – a 50% increase compared with $78.24 in the same period last year. The company also said it was benefiting from improved refining margins – up to 13% from 11%. The improved margins come as the cost of petrol at the pumps hit 135.6p a litre in June, according to the Office for National Statistics. BP BP oil spill United States Oil guardian.co.uk
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Travelling sports teams are big business for downtown Miami hotels. Some of those hotels are now offering rooms with accommodations for very tall guests, a trend that is spreading to other cities that professional athletes visit frequently. (July 26)
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