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2008-12-30 18:34:20| E-Commerce Times
Taiwan's economics ministry said on Tuesday it asked DRAM chipmaker Powerchip to resubmit plans for a company turnaround as the government tries to engineer a rescue for the struggling sector. Powerchip, along with other major DRAM makers in Taiwan, recently submitted plans for turning around its operations, after posting massive losses in recent quarters amid the sector's worst ever downturn.
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2008-12-30 17:40:19| Forbes.com News
The $5.0B bailout of GM's financing arm overshadows weak data from the housing sector.
2008-12-27 22:15:00| Gizmodo
Two French tourists were rescued today in the Swiss mountains after getting lost on a ski trip. They managed to contact authorities, but their phone died shortly thereafter. Thank God somebody brought an iPod. The tourists, a skier and snowboarder, were lost in the mountains of Southeast Switzerland, with temperatures reaching -15 degrees Celsius. They attempted to phone for help, but their mobile phone ran out of juice just after making the connection. Luckily, the faint light of an iPod screen was enough to catch the eye of a helicopter rescue team, who recovered the two sports enthusiasts quickly enough to avoid any more serious consequences than very mild hypothermia. Reuters reported this story, but didn't go into the kind of detail that techies like you and I really need. What kind of iPod was it? What generation? What brightness setting was the backlight set to? Is there a difference in helicopter visibility between, say, LCD and OLED? Without that kind of information, I don't know that I can ever go skiing in remote Swiss mountains ever again. [Reuters]
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