'Under the Sharp deal, Fujitsu would likely buy back a stake in its LCD venture from minority partner, AU Optronics, before selling most of the operations to Sharp.'

Lenovo said net profit rose to US$41.9 million, from US$41.6 million a year ago. Sales fell to US$809 million, from US$839 million.

"Rick Tsai, president and COO of TSMC, sat down with Electronic News to discuss the state of the foundry business"

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The Spybot worm is very damaging, Secunia warned. It seeks out Windows identity keys and certain application activation codes and feeds the information to the sender via Internet Relay Chat (IRC). The Bropia worm arrives in a file about 184KB.