PC sales log more than 1.7 million in Q1: MAIT
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- PC sales log more than 1.7 million in Q1: MAIT
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- Cyberclinic: I’m really careful but my PC has another virus….
PC sales log more than 1.7 million in Q1: MAIT
Hindu Business Line – Sep 26, 2007
7 million during the first quarter of the current fiscal over 47 per cent rise compared with 1. 20 million units notched in the year-ago period. Releasing the findings of its industry performance review for the quarter April-June of fiscal 2007-08 hardware association MAIT said that with strong macroeconomic conditions and upbeat market sentiment the sales in second quarter are expected to be buoyant. PC sales are expected to touch 7.
Supremes to rule on PC makers’ patent spat
Register – Sep 26, 2007
The case has potentially far-reaching implications to determine if a patent holder can demand royalties from companies involved in different steps of a product’s manufacturing process. Led by Quanta Computers the Taiwanese firms seek to overturn a 2006 decision by the federal court for patent appeals that allowed LG to do this. Also included in the Taiwanese group are Bizcom Electronics Compal Electronics Sceptre Technologies Everex Systems First International Computer and Q-Lity Computer. The spat arose after LG licensed a set of patents to Intel which in turn used the technology in chipsets it sold to PC manufactures such as Quanta… Led by Quanta Computers the Taiwanese firms seek to overturn a 2006 decision by the federal court for patent appeals that allowed LG to do this. Also included in the Taiwanese group are Bizcom Electronics Compal Electronics Sceptre Technologies Everex Systems First International Computer and Q-Lity Computer. The spat arose after LG licensed a set of patents to Intel which in turn used the technology in chipsets it sold to PC manufactures such as Quanta. The manufacturers then used the chips to make computers for vendors such as Dell Gateway and Hewlett-Packard. LG sued the manufacturers in 2000 for patent infringement claiming the agreement with Intel did not extend beyond the company. LG says Intel’s licenses were determined at a lower cost on the proviso that they did not extend to computer makers. When LG technology was combined with non-Intel components the manufacturers infringed five of its patents according to the company.
Cyberclinic: I’m really careful but my PC has another virus….
Independent – Sep 26, 2007
But if the same thing happens to you while visiting sites run by the Sydney pera House or the Bank of India you’re more likely to feel righteous indignation and loudly ask what the hell is going on. What can I do? – Features Gadgets & Tech – The Independent… Reader Jim Atkinson notes a recent example: “ver the Superbowl weekend in February the Miami Dolphin stadium website was hacked and began uploading a keystroke recorder to any of the thousands of PCs that connected to its front page. “For obvious reasons these are known as ‘drive-by’ downloads and their effectiveness in catching us out explains their proliferation; earlier in the summer it was estimated that nearly half a million pages already had malicious code embedded and between June and July the number of drive-by downloads trebled. And this isn’t the act of teenagers messing about to gain notoriety – it’s driven by financial gain either by using keystroke recorders to send personal information to a remote computer when you type or by connecting compromised PCs together into what’s known as a “botnet” which is then used for nefarious purposes. Russian hackers recently managed to bring down virtually the entire internet infrastructure in Estonia using a botnet – and as Paolo Morelli pointed out via e-mail there’s no obvious evidence that your computer has even been compromised. It’s a grim situation but the industry isn’t sitting back and doing nothing – they have as much to lose as we do after all. Google researched a paper earlier this year on the subject and they continue to work on ways in which they can guide us away from compromised sites. And Symantec believes that the technology it’s employed in the latest versions of Norton AntiVirus and Norton Internet Security – both of which have just been released – puts them at the forefront of the battle.
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