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Seagate sees hard-drive benefit after Thai floods

...ground. As a result, the company was less impacted by the October floods."For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see Thailand floods boosted... Read more

1 March, 2012 by Rachel King

HP and EMC warn of hard-disk price rises

...pass on price rises on hard drives in the new year, after floods in Thailand hit supply. Photo credit: Thor Jorgen Udvang/Shutterstock.com Both... Read more

21 December, 2011 by Jack Clark

Western Digital reopens hard-disk plant after floods

The hard-disk maker has resumed production at one of its facilities in Thailand after flooding closed the plant in October Read more

5 December, 2011 by Brooke Crothers

Micron sees SSD demand rise in wake of Thai floods

...has reported a rise in demand for solid-state drives after the floods in Thailand hit production of hard-disk drives Read more

1 December, 2011 by Brooke Crothers

Floods in Thailand hit hard-drive supply

...Floods in Thailand have hit the hard-drive supply chain from component sellers... Read more

25 October, 2011 by Larry Dignan

Brisbane flood forces tech company evacuations

...companies were forced to evacuate Brisbane staff from their premises as rising flood waters threatened the city's central business district. Around 2000 Telstra staff... Read more

12 January, 2011 by Renai LeMay

Sony Ericsson hit by £173m loss in final quarter

...drop in overall shipments. Added to component shortages due to the Thai floods, and significant restructuring costs ahead of Sony's buyout of the partnership... Read more

19 January, 2012 by David Meyer

Seagate: Hard-drive supply won't meet demand in 2012

...around 47 million disk drives, as the hard-drive industry recovers from floods in Thailand that hit supply Read more

5 January, 2012 by Brooke Crothers

Intel cuts outlook as hard-drive shortage bites

...The hard-drive shortage caused by floods in Thailand is backing up the supply chain and Intel's revenue... Read more

13 December, 2011 by Larry Dignan

HP revenue takes a tumble as key units suffer

Fourth-quarter revenue falls seven percent as HP takes a big hit from hard drives, struggles with a change in direction, and as competitors Dell and IBM manage to hold earnings relatively steady Read more

23 February, 2012 by Jack Clark

Thailand's floods will cause a shortage of hard drives

...disruption in the supply of notebook PCs. In its news release, Thailand Flood Exerts Broad Impact on Electronics Supply Chain, IHS iSuppli says: "HDD shipments... Read more

1 November, 2011

Anonymous floods web with links to aid DDoS attacks

The online activists lured users into clicking on links that aided their distributed denial-of-service attacks against law-enforcement and entertainment industry websites last week Read more

23 January, 2012 by Elinor Mills
A Simple <endeca_term>Flood</endeca_term> Forecasting Scheme Using Wireless Sensor Networks

A Simple Flood Forecasting Scheme Using Wireless Sensor Networks

...presents a forecasting model designed using WSNs (Wireless Sensor Networks) to predict flood in rivers using simple and fast calculations to provide real-time results... Read more

1 February, 2012
Decision Support System for <endeca_term>Flood</endeca_term> Crisis Management Using Artificial Neural Network

Decision Support System for Flood Crisis Management Using Artificial Neural Network

...presents an alternate approach that uses artificial neural network to simulate the flood level dynamics in a river basin. The algorithm was developed in a... Read more

31 December, 2010
<endeca_term>Flood</endeca_term> 1.62

Flood 1.62

With Flood, inundate the landscape and submerge your friends. Create realistic pseudo-3D watery... Read more

24 May, 2012

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