Officials to Inspect Disc Factories
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By Phusadee Arunmas, Bangkok Post, Thailand  Feb. 8--Officials said yesterday that they would inspect all 38  registered optical-disc factories to ensure no piracy was taking place on  their production lines.
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Federal regulators ordered airlines to inspect the wings of more than 700 Boeing jets in response to a fire that destroyed a plane after it landed in Japan last week, officials said yesterday.
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Bodies being exhumed as part of an investigation into seven deaths at a care home will be checked for signs of drugs.
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People who took items washed ashore from the MSC Napoli off Lyme Bay have until Tuesday to report their finds.
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Electronics manufacturers in China may be gearing up for another attempt to establish a proprietary optical disc format, although some analysts said such a move is unlikely to succeed.
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Site will alert users to roadwork and accidents in their local area.
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Microsoft is trying to fight piracy in China by ensuring that more new computers in the region come with genuine copies of Windows pre-installed at the factory.
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Japan says it will allow UN nuclear inspectors to examine its earthquake-hit Kashiwazaki plant.
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Major shipping ports on the West Coast, such as Seattle and Long Beach, California, will be the first targets of a new import surveillance program detailed on Monday by the top U.S. product safety regulator.
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Company is the latest to pick a side in the battle of high-definition disc formats.
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Lothian and Borders Police are asked to probe the handling of construction contracts for the new parliament building.
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The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) Wednesday announced that it has required DBS Bank (Hong Kong) Ltd to carry out a thorough investigation into the recent destruction
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A new DVD-based storage appliance is aimed at making archiving data faster and retrieving it easier.
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You know it's bound to happen: One of the CDs you've burned is going to stop working &#151; be it from scratches, aging, poor manufacturing or the fact that it was made with old software.
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New component contains the blue and red lasers required for support of the two disc formats as well as the associated lenses and optical receivers. Commercial production possible by end of next year.
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By exploiting the physics of how light reflects off of pits in a plastic surface, researchers have come up with a method for storing 1,000 gigabytes of data on a DVD-size disk.
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By Qiu Quanlin  GUANGZHOU: Officials fro