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AMD launches first computer brand - Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD.N: Quote , Profile , Research ) on Sunday unveiled its first computer brand, aimed at small and medium-sized businesses, with design and sales help from its major chip customers such as Dell

Taiwan Semi Profit Rises 49% on Consumer Electronics (Update3) - Bloomberg
April 29 (Bloomberg) — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. , the world’s largest custom-chip maker, posted its largest profit gain in seven quarters, driven by sales of parts used in personal computers and consumer electronics. First-quarter net

ACS to buy CompIQ - MSN MoneyCentral
Business processing outsourcer Affiliated Computer Services Inc. has agreed to buy CompIQ Corp., a workers’ compensation software and services company, for $22 million, plus contingent payments based on future financial performance. Dallas-based ACS

States faulted over privacy breaches; tighter security urged - Newsday
MADISON, Wis. - Tax forms were sent out to thousands of people in Wisconsin with their Social Security numbers on the mailing labels. A vendor hired by the state of Georgia lost a computer disk with the names and Social Security numbers of 2.9

New trial sought for former Boeing worker - Seattle Times
Former Boeing inspector Gerald Eastman is charged with computer trespass. King County prosecutors will seek a second trial for a former Boeing worker after a jury earlier this month deadlocked over charges alleging he improperly accessed sensitive

Secret deal’s key file is found - Detroit Free Press
The long-sought legal document that triggered an $8.4-million deal to hide Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s damaging text messages has been recovered from a lawyer’s computer. The 18-page document, including quotations from several dozen text messages

Microsoft device helps police pluck evidence from cyberscene of crime - Seattle Times
Microsoft has developed a small plug-in device that investigators can use to quickly extract forensic data from computers that may have been used in crimes. The COFEE, which stands for Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, is a USB “thumb

Key legal motion in text message scandal recovered - Detroit News
DETROIT — A key missing document in the text message scandal surfaced Monday and could be made public as early as today after experts extracted it from the computer of police whistle-blower lawyer Michael Stefani. The threat of the document becoming

The new campus crib - Boston Globe
On the hilltop campus, where a sleek music center recently opened and a state-of-the-art science building is planned, a group of freshmen fear that Tufts University is in danger of being “outclassed.” The problem, as documented in a 12-page student

The key to stronger computer passwords - Orlando Sentinel
Creating and remembering strong passwords — like backing up our computers’ contents — is something many of us know we should do, but don’t. And can you blame us? Having to come up with usernames and passwords for virtually everything we do on a

Attacks on Indian websites on the rise - Rediff
Amid growing concerns of cyber security threats, hackers had wrecked the Indian cyberspace and defaced 612 websites in March, showing a two-fold rise in such crimes compared to February. According to statistics of the Computer Emergency Response Team

Internet squatters facing eviction? - International Herald Tribune
PARIS : When Alicia Navarro began casting about for a memorable name for her new company, she confronted a brutal reality. All her brilliant ideas for an Internet domain name were taken. “I came up with so many gems, only to be devastated to find

Hollywood animals trainers shaken after death - MSNBC
LOS ANGELES - By all accounts, Rocky was one of the most gentle and affectionate animals to be found in Hollywood’s vast exotic menagerie of performing lions, tigers and bears — until the day the 700-pound grizzly bit down on the neck of a veteran