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RSS factories in newsCyber criminals building more but smaller botnets
News Sean Sullivan, technical expert at F-Secure, said virus writers can no longer beat security companies with complex codes and are therefore trying to do it through creating "malware factories" which swamp the security... [28 Sep 2007]
HP's inkjet tech seeks to replace hypodermic needles
News A relatively low corporate tax rate and a young population made Ireland a haven for multinational companies like HP and Intel wanting to set up factories over the past two decades. What else can inkjet technology be used... [11 Sep 2007]
Nestle extends $75m offshore IT deal with Satyam
News The $2.4bn Globe project is aimed at standardising the way Nestle does business around the world by building a single SAP system for procurement, distribution and sales management across 500 factories in 85 countries. [27 Jun 2007]
Boeing pilots RFID to track aircraft parts
News Boeing is piloting RFID tags and wi-fi technology to track and locate aircraft parts across its vast manufacturing factories. And given the size of our factories, if something gets lost it can take a... [13 Mar 2007]
Rising PC sales failed to lift revenue in 2006
News During the calendar year, 239.4 million PCs left factories. Global PC sales increased last year but revenue stayed static. For the year, revenue generated from worldwide PC sales across the industry remained flat at... [18 Jan 2007]
Intel hypes 45-nanometre chip
News Mark Bohr, director of process technology at Intel, referring to chip factories, known as 'fabs', said: "They aren't out of the fab yet but they are in the fab. Intel has completed the design of Penryn, a 45-nanometre... [30 Nov 2006]
Vista security powwow lined up
News But, according to the representative, these APIs - or application program interfaces - will not be ready until after Microsoft releases Vista to PC makers and CD factories. Microsoft plans to meet with security companies... [19 Oct 2006]
Microsoft backs down over rivals' Vista access
News The technology to suppress Windows Security Center alerts should be available next week but APIs related to kernel protection still need to be developed and may not be ready before Microsoft ships Vista to PC makers and CD... [16 Oct 2006]
Journalists sued over China iPod claims
News Foxconn, the company employed by Apple to manufacture the iPod, is taking two Chinese journalists to court over claims about the treatment of workers at factories run by one of its subsidiaries. The two China Business... [31 Aug 2006]
$100 laptop field-trials on the horizon
News The group claimed on a posting on its wiki site: "We now have a display that can readily be mass-produced in standard LCD factories, with no process changes. Reports that trials of the $100 laptop project will kick off... [22 Aug 2006]
Dorma bedding in Lawson ERP software
News The scope of the project covers factories in China, Dubai, Pakistan, Portugal and Turkey as well as some 120 outlets across the UK which Dorma sells to, including department stores and private label buyers such as M&S. [11 May 2006]
Earthquake fears make for extreme business continuity
News The factories and warehouses, the great stores and newspaper buildings.are all gone. On 18 April 1906 San Francisco was rocked by an earthquake which destroyed large swathes of the city and claimed the lives of more than... [18 Apr 2006]
Intel profits creep up on back of laptop demand
News Roughly 200 million desktops, notebooks and x86 servers will leave factories this year, according to Gartner. Intel on Tuesday reported that its third-quarter profits rose five per cent, less than analysts' expectations,... [19 Oct 2005]
Samsung forced to pay $300m over price fixing
News In addition, a glut of manufacturers and manufacturing capacity has often forced memory makers to sell their products below production costs and close factories. The international conspiracy to fix memory prices... [14 Oct 2005]
Are PC price wars a cut too far?
News In all, 46.6 million desktops, laptops and servers containing AMD, Intel, or PowerPC chips left factories between April and June of this year, according to Gartner's statistics. The number of PCs shipped worldwide will... [23 Aug 2005]
