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• Hynix not to survive on bailout alone, says Taiwan DRAM makers
  Thursday 2 January 2003 – 06:52
  Hynix Semiconductor's US$4 billion bailout from creditors this week has incited a protest from rival Micron Technology, but Taiwanese DRAM competitors say it is going to take more than a debt extension to keep the South Korean memory maker afloat in the long term.
• AMD: Manufacturing alone not critical to product success
  Saturday 5 May 2007 – 03:41
  Investors and shareholders questioned the competitiveness of AMD's current semiconductor manufacturing technology as well as the firm's information policy about upcoming products during a shareholder meeting yesterday. ...
• HP stands alone with memory flaw
  Friday 2 July 2004 – 03:36
  The notebook memory-module flaw that Hewlett-Packard identified as having the potential to cause problems for all notebook manufacturers has thus far shown up only in HP notebooks, according to PC vendors, memory manufacturers, and industry analysts.
• Phishing cost the U.S. $3.2bn in 2007 alone
  Wednesday 19 December 2007 – 11:00 in Networking
  A report coming out of Gartner has pinned the cost of phishing attacks at $3.2 billion for the U.S. alone. There were 3.6 million adults who lost money in the time period between September 1, 2006 and August 31, 2007.t
• Security software alone not enough to beat Internet threats, says CA
  Friday 19 January 2007 – 09:31
  The growth of botnets has prompted several voices to claim that the war against this threat already has been lost. However, security software developer CA says the war "is far from over." It can be won, we were told, but Internet users will have to learn websmarts and be cautious about a false sense of security that is created by antivirus software - and Windows Vista.

• XP wants to be alone...*
  Tuesday 1 January 2002 – 10:00
  If you've been thinking about switching to WindowsXP and hope to avoid problems by setting up a dual-boot system with your old OS and WinXP, you might need to think again. I ended up losing my entire drive and having to do a disk reformat and reinstall, but I'm getting ahead of myself...