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  • Malaysian movie pirates put out hit on sniffer dogs
    March 22, 2007 – 4:18 PM
    It appears that a pair of very successful anti-piracy sniffer dogs have been too successful for Malaysian crime lords. Mob bosses who specialize in distributing pirated DVDs and CDs are offering a reward for anyone who kills "Lucky" and "Flo" two black Labrador retrievers who busted a huge counterfeiting ring on Tuesday.
  • Whoops! Hit-and-run drivers caught with long-lens camera
    March 12, 2007 – 11:53 AM
    The driver of an Acura RSX might have made a real mistake when he made a run for it after allegedly crashing into another vehicle whilst being watched by the owner of a long-lens camera.
  • Global semiconductor sales hit record $213 billion
    January 31, 2005 – 4:07 PM
    The official number is in: The semiconductor industry increased its sales in 2004 by an expected 28 percent over 2003. The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) however expects declining sales for the current quarter and flat revenues for the year.
  • Touch Panel Suppliers Hit By High Inventory For 2.8" Segment
    March 14, 2008 – 9:34 AM
    Touch panel suppliers are blaming their recent weak shipments on high inventory levels for the 2.
  • Text Messaging Driver Charged In Hit And Run Death
    December 28, 2007 – 3:43 PM
    An allegedly text messaging driver has been charged in the hit and run death of a Taunton Massachusetts teenager.
  • Nvidia C51 to hit market on September 20
    August 15, 2005 – 10:10 AM in NVIDIA
    Nvidia is expected to launch its C51 integrated PCI Express (PCIe) chipset for the AMD K8 platform on September 20.
  • Millions Hit In Southern Florida Power Outage
    February 26, 2008 – 7:00 PM
    People in southern Florida were hit with a massive power outage after two nuclear reactors spontaneously shut down. The outage centered on the Miami-Dade area, but also extended to some parts of Broward County. Nuclear Regulatory Commission reps say the reactors were probably responding to a weird reading in the power grid and add that everything should be back to normal shortly.
  • ECS motherboard shipments to hit record high in 4Q
    October 4, 2005 – 9:45 AM
    Motherboard maker Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) may reach its record quarterly shipment high of six million units in the fourth quarter, thanks to new orders from the OEM market, according to the Chinese-language Commercial Times today.
  • Broadband Usage Expected To Hit 1 Billion Users In 2008
    December 18, 2007 – 3:26 PM
    Strategy Analytics believes that more than 1 billion people worldwide will have access to a broadband Internet connection by the end of next year.
  • Digital Photo Frame Demand To Hit 20 Million Units In 2008
    February 4, 2008 – 10:39 AM
    With technology improving and prices falling, demand for digital photo frames is expected to increase to 20 million units in 2008, according to Taiwan's Industrial Economics and Knowledge Center (IEK).
  • Blu-ray Player Prices Hit 2008 Highs As Competition Dwindles
    March 12, 2008 – 9:36 AM
    Pricewatch - Blu-ray Disc players from Samsung, Sony and Sharp are now the most expensive they have been all year, presumably because HD DVD's exit from the high-def disc arena has removed some of Blu-ray's pricing pressure.
  • Danish websites hit by DoS attacks and defacements
    February 9, 2006 – 9:07 PM
    In the past week, hundreds of Danish newspapers, blogs and other websites have been hit by hackers. Most of these attacks were Denial of Service attacks, which are easily done by sending a flood of traffic against a website.
  • Nvidia Takes A Big Hit In The Second Quarter
    August 13, 2008 – 5:20 AM in Business
    Santa Clara (CA) - The replacement of faulty graphics chips as well as a much stronger than expected AMD/ATI pushed Nvidia deep into the red during the second quarter. The company reported a revenue decline of 23% sequentially and a triple-digit loss.
  • Asian Excel versions hit by spreadsheet vulnerability
    July 6, 2006 – 9:56 PM
    Security company Secunia identified a new vulnerability in Asian versions of Microsoft Excel style sheets that theoretically allows malicious code to be executed.
  • Windows Embedded CE 6.0 applications to hit market in Q4
    November 3, 2006 – 11:05 AM
    After Microsoft rolled out its Windows Embedded CE 6.0 operating system (OS) for embedded systems on November 1, the company said the OS has already been adopted by numerous makers with end products to hit the market in the fourth quarter.