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Worker suspended over loss of data on all English prisoners

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

An employee at Home Office contractor PA Consulting has been suspended after the loss of a memory stick holding the unencrypted details of every prisoner in England and Wales. A staff member at PA Consulting Group has been suspended after the contractor lost details on all prisoners in England…
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Toshiba profit drops, NAND chip outlook wary

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Earnings below expectations as company cites flash-memory competition, price drops, and HD DVD woes. Japanese electronics group Toshiba posted a worse-than-expected 25 percent drop in quarterly operating profit after tumbling flash memory chip prices ate into margins. The world’s No. 2 NAND flash memory chipmaker now expects…
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