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Hynix fined $185m for DRAM price fixing
News Hynix is the latest DRAM maker to reach a settlement with the Justice Department, as part of its ongoing investigation into price fixing in the dynamic random access memory industry. The US Department of Justice announced Thursday that Hynix...
[April 22, 2005, 9:45]
PC sales jump thanks to 'Free PC' trend
News The direct PC maker announced on Thursday that it had teamed up with chip maker Advanced Micro Devices and credit card underwriter First USA to offer a $650 (£396)computer-on-credit deal. Still, the embattled chip maker lost its lead in the sub-$1...
[July 23, 1999, 8:19]
US Report: Iomega hits rock bottom
News The disk drive maker will also layoff up to 700 employees. Iomega on Thursday said it will take $5m (£3m) to $10m (£6m) in special charges in its second quarter and likely report a loss for the fiscal year.
[June 19, 1998, 9:28]
Net users lose anonymity tool
News Security software maker Zero-Knowledge Systems announced that it would shut down the premium service component of its Freedom Network, which let people surf the Internet and send email with almost complete privacy by using pseudonyms.
[October 5, 2001, 10:15]
Lexmark invokes DMCA in toner suit
News Printer maker Lexmark has found an unusual weapon to thwart rivals from selling replacement toner cartridges: the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Lexmark is the No.printer maker in the United States, behind Hewlett-Packard, and manufactures...
[January 9, 2003, 8:51]
Dell sees money beyond the PC
News Sales of storage systems, mobility products, enhanced services and software and peripherals helped the computer maker augment earnings from its PC business in the second quarter, the company said on Thursday.
[August 12, 2005, 9:40]
Microsoft targets undergraduate developers
News The software maker has shipped a version of its new Visual Studio.Net tools with specific features for educational use. The software maker, which competes against Sun Microsystems, IBM and other Java supporters for talent, is offering its tools at...
[February 28, 2002, 15:50]
Microsoft heralds 'critical' Windows, Exchange patches
News The Exchange email server and at least one of the Windows alerts is deemed "critical", Microsoft's highest risk rating, the software maker said in a notice posted on its Web site on Thursday. The software maker offers advance notification about...
[May 5, 2006, 8:50]
Netsky variant uses compression trick
News The virus differs from earlier versions in that it uses different compression technologies when sending itself out, a representative for security software maker McAfee said on Thursday. McAfee's Avert lab, which studies incoming viruses, raised the...
[October 15, 2004, 11:40]
Skulls Trojan wears antivirus mask
News This latest Skulls.L variant is similar to Skulls.C, the only difference being that it's disguised as a pirated copy of F-Secure Mobile Anti-Virus, the Finnish antivirus maker said in an alert posted on Thursday.
[June 13, 2005, 10:45]
BEA set to file delayed financial reports
News That move, announced on Wednesday, will not only reduce the risk of a Nasdaq delisting but also give the middleware maker greater leverage against any future threats of a proxy fight from its largest shareholder, Carl Icahn.
[November 15, 2007, 11:08]
Oracle does UK government deal
News The deal, which Oracle announced on Thursday, gives the United Kingdom the same volume discount on all Oracle software that the software maker offers to the United States government. Oracle's agreement with the United Kingdom comes after the...
[February 7, 2003, 9:42]
Memory market edges up
News However, they began creeping up again during the second quarter, according to several analysts and PC maker Dell, which on Thursday said when it reported earnings that memory prices had increased. The DRAM market edged up slightly during the second...
[August 15, 2003, 16:50]
Microsoft to patch critical Windows flaws
News In all, the software maker said it is planning to release eight patches, five of them for Windows. The software maker had no regularly scheduled security patches last month, after releasing a dozen updates in February.
[April 8, 2005, 9:10]
Rivals encroach on Oracle's database lead
News But the software maker, which will report earnings on Thursday, doesn't break out specific database figures and declined to offer more details. IBM, which recently strengthened its database lineup, and Microsoft, known for ease of use and low cost...
[October 16, 2001, 10:49]
Kumar forced to relinquish golden parachute
News The business software maker also reported in the financial statement that it would withhold payment to Kumar of a $1m bonus, along with other unspecified severance compensation, until after the federal government has finished its investigation...
[August 2, 2004, 14:50]
Intel delivers financial 'comfort'
News In its first-ever midquarter report, the maker of PC processors, chipsets and communications chips said revenue, gross margin and expenses for the second quarter will be slightly below the midpoint of the range predicted by the company in April.
[June 8, 2001, 9:46]
650 UK jobs go in Alcatel cutbacks
News The company has seen its share price fall from a high of 80 euros to around 12 euros, a better performance than that achieved by fellow equipment maker Marconi. In afternoon trading on Thursday Alcatel shares were changing hands for 11.7 euros each.
[October 4, 2001, 16:38]
BEA sets buyout terms
News The announcement comes as the enterprise software maker is feeling pressure to enter merger talks with Oracle, which earlier this week gave BEA a Sunday deadline for its current buyout proposal. But the middleware maker noted: "Over the last...
[October 25, 2007, 16:35]
Gartner questions Symbian's business charisma
News Symbian is backed by all of the major mobile phone manufacturers, including UK handset maker Sendo, which dropped its long-running Windows Powered Smartphone 2002 project on Thursday in favour of Symbian.
[November 7, 2002, 14:14]
