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Spain busts hackers for infecting 13 million PCs

BOSTON - Spanish police have shut down a ring of computer hackers who infected more than 13 million PCs with a virus ... It also contaminated machines by infecting USB memory sticks, he said.

Rambus files suit against memory makers - Tech and gadgets- msnbc.com

Computer memory designer Rambus sued several major memory makers, alleging they conspired to limit production and raise prices in an effort to bar Rambus' technology.

Samsung pleads guilty in price-fixing case - U.S. business- msnbc.com

Samsung, the world's largest maker of computer memory chips, pleaded guilty Wednesday to a charge it participated in a worldwide price-fixing conspiracy that damaged competition ...

Proteins could beef up computer memory - LiveScience- msnbc.com

Proteins play a big role in the functioning of your brain, but some recent research indicates that, in a few years, proteins could also play a big role in the functioning of your ...

Samsung exec to plead guilty - U.S. business- msnbc.com

A Samsung Electronics Co. executive agreed to plead guilty and serve 10 months in prison for his role in a global price-fixing scheme involving a common form of computer memory ...

Flash drives turn any computer 'personal' - Tech and gadgets- msnbc ...

Falling prices in computer memory have made little flash drives into enormously powerful tools that are on the verge of changing the concept of "personal" computing.

Technology to speed laptop boot-ups - Tech and gadgets- msnbc.com

Hybrid technology to speed laptop start-up New storage incorporates NAND flash memory onto computer hard drives

Distractions may make us wiser in old age - Aging- msnbc.com

The research team had 24 younger adults, ages 17 to 29, and just as many older adults (ages 60 to 73) complete memory tasks on a computer. First, participants looked at a series of ...

Mars rover Spirit has amnesia — again - Mars- msnbc.com

Memory lapses mean delay in NASA's efforts to get vehicle out of sand trap ... the plucky rover failed to record science observations in the part of its flash computer memory ...

IBM details memory chip advance - Innovation- msnbc.com

IBM has devised a way to triple the amount of memory stored on computer chips and double the performance processors by replacing a problematic type of memory.