Rihanna victorious in Topshop T-shirt court battle.

RIHANNA has won a High Court battle today against Topshop after they used her image on T-shirts without permission. The Russian Roulette singer accused the fashion chain of failing to seek approval from her before going ahead with printing their stock. At a hearing in London, Judge Mr Justice Birss ruled in the 25-year-old's favour, asserting that the British retailer was guilty of "passing off". Passing off is a common law tort which can be used...

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Egad! Could Samsung be CHEATING in Galaxy benchmark tests

Samsung has reportedly been cheating in benchmark tests, artificially boosting the scores of its latest and greatest system-on-chip, the Exynos 5 Octa, on those performance-ranking number generators so beloved by reviewers and product evaluators. "Oh hell Samsung, shame on you!" wrote a Beyond3D forum member in a posting on one of that site's forums last month. The poster, a Luxembourger who goes by the handle Nebuchadnezzar, had been testing a Samsung Exynos 5 Octa when he discovered that although he thought he was running the chip's GPU at...

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Office Mobile for Android smartphones looks great on the HTC One (Gallery)

Office Mobile comes to Android smartphones Mary Jo already posted about the release of Office for Android smartphones and Larry offered up his thoughts on the new software. Since I previously posted a side-by-side gallery of Office Mobile for the iPhone compared to the native Office Mobile client on Windows Phone 8 I wanted to also give you a look at Office Mobile for Android smartphones. As you can see in this short screenshot gallery, Microsoft...

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Zimbabweans head for polls amid rigging claims.

Zimbabweans head for polls amid rigging claims. On Tuesday, incumbent Robert Mugabe said he would resign after 33 years in power if he loses. His remarks came as Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party accused Zanu-PF of doctoring the electoral roll. Zanu-PF denied the accusation. Campaigning has been peaceful, with no reports of violence or intimidation. The last presidential poll five years ago were overshadowed...

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Barclays Plans to Raise Up to $12 Billion in New Capital.

Updated, 8:40 p.m. | Nearly a year after taking over as chief executive of Barclays, Antony P. Jenkins is still wrestling with the bank's past wrongdoings. Mr. Jenkins, 52, took another step on Tuesday to rebuild Barclays' tarnished reputation when he announced that the bank planned to raise up to £7.8 billion, or $12 billion, in new capital. In doing so, Barclays bowed to pressure from British regulators, who this year called for it to improve its...

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Manning Acquitted of Aiding the Enemy.

Manning Acquitted of Aiding the Enemy. A military judge on Tuesday rejected the Obama administration's quest to equate the unlawful disclosure of documents with aid to America's mortal enemies, including al Qaeda, in a ruling that acquitted Private First Class Bradley Manning of the gravest criminal charge he faced. But Pfc. Manning was convicted of a long list of other crimes, including theft of government property and violations of the Espionage Act,...

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Ashes 2013: James Taylor says he is now ready to take England chance.

Ashes 2013: James Taylor says he is now ready to take England chance. James Taylor said he believes he is in a much stronger position to make the most of the opportunity if he is called into the England Test side at Old Trafford this week than he was when making his debut against South Africa last year. The 23-year-old Nottinghamshire batsman, who is in the England squad as cover for the injured Kevin Pietersen, completed an unbeaten 121 as a guest...

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