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antitrust

EU Antitrust Lands Intel with Three New Charges

The EU antitrust investigation into Intel's business practices has just got a little nastier for Intel. Three new charges are being leveled against the chip manufacturer, including charges that Intel paid a leading European retailer to sell only PCs powered by Intel, and also paid a "leading" OEM to delay the launch of an AMD-powered product line. Taken together, the charges indicate a "single overall anticompetitive strategy aimed at excluding AMD" according to the European Commission document. This may come as interesting news to AMD's recently departed CEO. Intel has two weeks to respond. [EU Statement via Ars Technica]

4:56 AM on Fri Jul 18 2008
By Kit Eaton
886 views, 9 comments

Latest by daveNYC: I have a hard time with the use of "aiming to exclude AMD" - doesn't every company essentially try to "exclude" others in the same market? There's a difference between beating the competition, and trying to prevent any competition from taking more »

intel

Intel Antitrust Investigation Officially Underway

In my mind, AMD and VIA comments can be summed up as, "No shit." [NYTimes]
psystar

Mac Clone Maker Psystar Says Apple's EULA Violates Monopoly Laws, Wants to Challenge it in Court

Psystar, who's just announced that they're going to sell a $399.99 Mac clone called Open Mac, doesn't care that Apple's EULA prohibits using OS X on any machine not made by Apple. In fact, they say that Apple's terms "violate U.S. monopoly laws", posing the example of Microsoft theoretically saying you could only install Windows on Dell machines. More »

8:41 PM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By Jason Chen
19,663 views, 155 comments

Latest by nutbastard: @winexprt: "on a single Apple-labeled computer" so stick an apple label on it and they're solid gold. one could argue that having the os on the computer labels it. when you boot it up, what do you see? An apple. it's more »

roundup

Afternoon News: Apple's Patent, Cashwrap, and Lawsuit

• An Apple Patent that refers to wobbling icons is strikingly similar to the same feature found in the leaked iPhone 1.1.3 firmware, confirmation? [Mobile Mag]
• Apple stores that still have "cashwrap" counters, aka cash register counters, will soon be moving to those portable credit card-transaction computers. But don't worry you cash lovers, the Genius Bar will handle all cash transactions, and the flagship stores are keeping their "cashwrap" counters. [ifo Apple Store]
•An anti-trust lawsuit has been filed against Apple with charges of holding a monopoly on the digital music market. The major complaint in the charge is Apple's inability to support Windows WMA format, which we can't argue with. [Information Week]

3:05 PM on Thu Jan 3 2008
By Christopher Mascari
1,007 views, 17 comments

Latest by munan: @kadtech: Amen. more »

home entertainment

Nintendo Monopoly

Not exactly new—we saw this on sale at our local target—this Nintendo themed Monopoly game could be great to get your video game-addicted kids to join in on a fun family activity. More »

6:00 PM on Wed Dec 27 2006
By Jason Chen
1,786 views, 8 comments

gadgets

Monopoly Replaces Cash With Debit Card

By replacing the cash in Monopoly with a Visa debit card in all future editions of Monopoly, Hasbro puts an end to almost a century of "Monopoly money" jokes and wasted minutes waiting for your sister to dole out $50 because she's the chairman of the board. Instead of divvying up paper 500, 100s and 50s, you'll stick your card into the ATM machine in order to add or subtract from your total. The only problem: knowing how much money everyone else has without some kind of visual indicator. – Jason Chen More »

5:00 PM on Mon Jul 24 2006
By Jason Chen
7,181 views, 13 comments

Latest by tibs_pravin: good thing the thing has come up with the new innovation..evryone is actually v bored wid the ancient usual game..and iv even bought the same fucin game thrice just for tht i lose all my cash after a year or more »