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Nokia employees in China protest Microsoft layoffs, report says

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has more trouble in China. James Martin/CNET Chinese employees at Microsoft’s Nokia handset business aren’t pleased with the software giant’s recently announced decision to lay off a large chunk of staff. “Hundreds” of employees at a Nokia facility in China on Friday protested their new owner, saying Microsoft is guilty of a “hostile takeover and violent …

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President signs cell phone unlocking bill into law

Unlocking a cell phone is officially legal again. On Friday, President Obama signed the “Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act” (S.517) into law. The new law repeals a 2012 decision by the Library of Congress that made cell phone unlocking a violation of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The DMCA, which prohibits Americans from “circumventing” technologies that protect …

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