Looks like it’s going to be a very busy fall for Intel legal. This morning, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against the company, alleging that it violated state and federal laws with a “systematic campaign” of illegal conduct.
Six months. That’s how long it’s going to take Acer to surpass Dell in market share. Speaking at a news conference in London, company President Gianfranco Lanci took a few moments to talk a bit of smack about his rivals. Said Lanci: “Between this quarter and the next, we can finally pass Dell.”
Gateway officials once claimed that Intel “beat them into guacamole” in retaliation for doing business with rival AMD. Five years later, the European Commission is poised to give Intel a similar beating for doing so.
What a lousy week for Intel, yeah? First Korea’s Fair Trade Commission fines the company $25 million for abusing its dominant market position in the country and offering discounts to PC makers in an effort to drive rival AMD out of the market. And now Federal Trade Commission has opened a formal investigation into its pricing practices.
There’s a reason Intel’s processors are in more than four out of five x86 computers sold in the global market and–like the European Union, Japan and South Korea–New York’s attorney general thinks it might be an anticompetitive one.
Empire State AG Andrew Cuomo today opened a formal antitrust investigation against Intel to determine if it violated [...]
Gateway CEOs are like Spinal Tap drummers–they don’t seem to last very long. The company has had five CEOs (four permanent and one interim) in six years. And now the fifth is departing as well.
Gateway CEO Ed Coleman, who joined the company in September 2006, announced his resignation today. He’ll leave the company in January, [...]
In today’s “eat or be eaten” personal-computer market, Gateway was a steak dinner waiting to happen. After faltering during the economic downturn of the late ’90s, the PC maker never regained its footing. In the ensuing years, Gateway shipped fewer and fewer of its signature black-and-white dairy cow PC boxes. It steadily lost market share [...]
Better to be safe than sorry or, rather, better safe than Sony. That’s likely what Acer was thinking when it announced a recall of about 27,000 Sony-made lithium-ion batteries today.
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1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
Best video mashup ever.
A Facebook Memorial
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Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
Excellent.
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Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
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