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    Married to your desk? 5 tips for a better relationship 03 February, 2012 02:39:50

    Here's a sobering statistic: With a 40- to 45-hour work week, many Americans spend about 25% of the year on the job. For those of us who stare at computer screens all day, that amounts to more than 2,000 hours with our keisters glued to chairs. In less technical terms, we're practically married to our desks.
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    Toshiba, Fujitsu join Japanese tech peers in booking massive 3Q losses 31 January, 2012 23:05:43

    Toshiba and Fujitsu, two of Japan's largest tech companies, both said Tuesday they booked deep losses during the October-December quarter, blaming a spike in component costs caused by Thai flooding and a tough market for consumer electronics.
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    NEC to cut 10,000 workers, forecasts $US1.3 billion loss in year through March 27 January, 2012 21:45:00

    NEC said it will cut 10,000 jobs, including 3,000 outside of Japan, and it now forecasts a US$1.3 billion loss in the current fiscal year through March.
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    Loss-making NEC to cut 10,000 jobs 27 January, 2012 00:36:00

    Japanese electronics giant NEC said it would axe 10,000 jobs worldwide, as it announced it had already lost more than a $US1 billion ($A957.53 million) so far this fiscal year.
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    IBM, NEC team on OpenFlow 25 January, 2012 00:29:41

    IBM and NEC have partnered to offer OpenFlow-based networking products to joint customers.
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    Hopefully these robotic farmers will harvest more than our organs 09 January, 2012 09:43:00

    The Japanese government is planning to develop a farm where all labor is carried out by robots, according to AFP. The initiative, dubbed the Dream Project, will use robotic tractors to plant and harvest the crops, and other robots for tasks such as packaging the produce for shipping.
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    Has the world's largest gadget expo lost its mojo? 05 January, 2012 09:31:59

    The International Consumer Electronics Show takes place next week in Las Vegas, and as always there will be plenty to trigger our technolust. Teaser press releases from exhibitors augur a new suite of super-thin laptops and mid-range tablets, plus Internet-connected cars and TVs, as well as the latest developments in charging and connecting devices without wires.
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    Report: Quanta sues AMD over faulty chips 05 January, 2012 06:25:49

    Quanta Computer has filed a lawsuit in a California court against Advanced Micro Devices over faulty chips used in some computers, an accusation disputed by AMD.
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    Samsung, NTT DoCoMo and others to set up LTE chip joint venture 27 December, 2011 18:43:14

    NTT DoCoMo said Tuesday it will form a joint venture with Samsung, Fujitsu, NEC and two other Japanese companies to design and sell chips for high-speed mobile networks based on the LTE (Long Term Evolution) standard.
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    Japan group to build smart power grids that treat energy like network data 12 December, 2011 18:10:56

    Using concepts from IT and networking, a Japanese consortium plans to develop large-scale energy grids that will handle power the way the Internet handles data, using "routers" and "service providers" to efficiently manage and direct the flow of electricity.
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    Renesas plans upgrade for Japan chip production to handle major earthquakes 01 December, 2011 23:00:01

    Renesas Electronics will upgrade its Japanese factories so that they can be up and running within a month after a major quake like the one that struck Japan in March.
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    Antivirus software powerless to stop data breach attacks, study finds 10 February, 2012 01:43:00

    Analysis of 300 incidents spots an elephant in the room
    Large numbers of data breaches are being initiated by targeted malware that antivirus software simply can't detect, an analysis of 300 real-world incidents from 2011 has suggested.
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    Valentine's Day Patch Tuesday: Microsoft to issue 9 patches, 4 critical 10 February, 2012 09:29:00

    Microsoft Thursday said that the second Patch Tuesday of 2012 will see nine security bulletins, four of which were deemed critical.
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    Security experts ask House for light a regulatory touch 10 February, 2012 01:39:00

    Cybersecurity experts on Wednesday warned members of a House subcommittee against racing to legislation that would establish an overly burdensome regulatory framework for safeguarding digital systems against attacks, instead urging a more limited approach that would clear away legal impediments such as the prohibitions against sharing critical threat information.
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    The six pillars of security operations 10 February, 2012 11:37:00

    Six key points that should be considered when creating and developing a SOC
    As mobilisation and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) becomes increasingly prevalent, business security has been propelled to the forefront of corporate strategy.
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    Google Wallet Security Concerns Raised 10 February, 2012 01:40:00

    Security firm Zvelo has discovered that the Google Wallet PIN can be cracked via an exhaustive numerical search.
    Google's new NFC system that purports to turn your phone into a credit card can be compromised using a brute-force attack -- and that raises questions about its security.
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