In this Friday, Jan. 11, 2013 photo, customer Chung Yong-min does banking through a screen monitor connected to a video conference with bank employee Oh Ji-young, located in another office, at a Smart Banking Center in Seoul, South Korea. Standard Chartered is expanding its “smart banking'' branches that employ a staff of three instead of eight. The company expects to have 30 more by the end of 2013. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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In this Friday, Jan. 11, 2013 photo, customer Chung Yong-min does banking through a screen monitor connected to a video conference with bank employee Oh Ji-young, located in another office, at a Smart Banking Center in Seoul, South Korea. Standard Chartered is expanding its “smart banking'' branches that employ a staff of three instead of eight. The company expects to have 30 more by the end of 2013. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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FILE - In this January, 16, 2011, file photo, a driverless vehicle which is controlled by an advanced navigation system arrives at the Personal Rapid Transport (PRT) station at the Masdar Institute campus in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. The United Arab Emirates introduced the world's longest automated rail system, 32 miles, in Dubai in 2009. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)
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FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2008, file photo, the logo on a BlackBerry smartphone is shows in Bochum, Germany. The maker of the BlackBerry smartphone is promising a speedy browser, a superb typing experience and the ability to keep work and personal identities separate on the same phone, the fruit of a crucial, long-overdue makeover for the Canadian company. (AP Photo/dapd, Volker Hartmann)
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This March 23, 2012 photo provided by software maker SAP shows one of the company's server rooms in Walldorf, Germany. Among other tasks, SAP allows companies to use cloud computing to track sales and inventory, and to produce the reports that federal regulators require, without needing to hire IT employees. (AP Photo/SAP, Reto Klar)
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FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, file photo, the "bookBot" glides down a row of drawers at the James B. Hunt Jr. Library at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. The automated book retrieval system is just one of many innovations in the new, state-of-the-art facility. (AP Photo/Allen Breed)
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In this Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, photo, a robot paints brake drums at Webb Wheel Products in Cullman, Ala. Webb Wheel hasn't added a factory worker in three years, though it's making 300,000 more drums annually, a 25 percent increase, because of robots. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
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In this Jan. 10, 2013, photo, a man rides a train on Tokyo's Yurikamome Line that runs without any drivers or conductors along Tokyo Bay. Katsuya Hagane, the manager in charge of operations at New Transit Yurikamome, which employees just 60 regular employees, says the automated systems reduce the number of staff needed. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
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In this Jan. 10, 2013, photo, children ride in the very front seats of Tokyo's Yurikamome Line that runs without any drivers or conductors along Tokyo Bay. Katsuya Hagane, the manager in charge of operations at New Transit Yurikamome, which employees just 60 regular employees, says the automated systems reduce the number of staff needed. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
Google sued in UK over Safari tracking
LONDON (AP) — A British law firm says that about a dozen Apple customers are suing Internet search leader Google in the U.K. over its alleged secret tracking of their Internet browsing habits.
London-based law firm Olswang said that 12 Apple users were taking the Internet search leader to court over small pieces of tracking code — known as cookies — surreptitiously installed on computers and smartphones.
Google found itself in hot water last year after it emerged that the company had circumvented privacy features on Apple's Safari web browsers to deposit cookies on millions of users' computers. The issue has already cost Google $22.5 million, which it agreed to pay the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to settle the claims last year.
Google said it had no comment on the lawsuit.
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