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June 28, 2005
AMD has filed an antitrust complaint against Intel Corporation yesterday in U.S. federal district court for the district of Delaware under Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act, Sections 4 and 16 of the Clayton Act, and the California Business and Professions Code. The 48-page complaint explains in detail how Intel has unlawfully maintained its monopoly in the x86 microprocessor market by engaging in worldwide coercion of customers from dealing with AMD. It identifies 38 companies that have been victims of coercion by Intel – including large scale computer-makers, small system-builders, wholesale distributors, and retailers, through seven types of illegality across three continents. Read More
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On Monday, AMD or Advanced Micro Devices introduced the Athlon 64 FX-57, a new CPU for game enthusiasts solidifying AMD's gaming pipeline for the remainder of the year writes thestreet. Available immediately, the Athlon 64 FX-57 is a single-core processor to be applicable to today's 3D games. AMD plans to introduce a dual-core version of the Athlon 64 FX when multi-threaded software hits the market.
The chipmaker's new Athlon 64 FX-57is priced at $1,031. The chip built on 90-nanometer process technology runs at a clock speed of 2.8GHz and includes 1MB of level-two computer memory cache, which helps with rendering graphic-intensive video games like "Half-Life 2" and running labor-intensive applications such as computer-aided design.
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June 23, 2005
Sony Electronics, said on Thursday that it has talked with XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. and Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. about music devices, though no satellite radio deals are in place reports Reuters.
"We have been in talks with them for more than a year," Stan Glasgow, president of Sony Electronics' U.S. consumer sales, said at a press briefing. "Anything is possible."
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June 20, 2005
A Tokyo-based sex-video maker declared on its website that on July 8 it will release the world's first adult UMDs, optical discs that play on Sony's PlayStation Portable, or PSP. The five titles carry price tags from 2,800 yen or 3,800 yen (25 or 35 dollars). The PSP features a 4.3 in widescreen display to watch movies and videos. The handheld device also has wireless capability which has greatly excited gamers because they can now have interactivity between the PSP and Sony's PlayStation-2.
Sony said it had no power to stop the release of the PSP porn videos.
"It is difficult for us to impose restrictions," said Sony Computer Entertainment spokesman Koichiro Katsurayama.
In other PSP news, Sony will have 20 video games and 10 films on sale in September for the European launch of the PlayStation Portable, executives said on Monday, with 100,000 pre-recorded movies already sold around the world.
"Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will have 10 films available from day one," said Patrick Vyncke, the PlayStation chief for the Benelux countries. Twenty titles are scheduled to be on sale by mid-September.
The 100,000 movies does not include copies of "Spiderman 2," which were bundled with many of the PSPs.
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Search Giant, Google Inc is preparing an online-payment system that would compete with PayPal, according to an online retailer who has been approached by Google to take part in the effort reports New York Times .
Google's flagship search engine and its Froogle shopping service are significant sources of customers for Internet stores. But so far, Google's only way to profit from its presence in online shopping is by selling advertisements that appear next to its search results and on Froogle pages.
The chief executive of a major online merchant said that his company had been approached by Google to take part in the service. He spoke on the condition that he not be identified because his company had agreed to keep its discussions with Google confidential. Steve Langdon, a Google spokesman, declined to comment.
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June 18, 2005
Intel has announced plans to unveil technology that provides always-on wireless network connectivity for mobile devices by automatically switching between radio networks.
Most devices today use a customized radio to connect to a specific network, such as a wireless local area network or a wide area network "What we want to accomplish is the ability to connect to any network, any time, anywhere. The user will not have to worry if he is on a Wi-Fi network or a cellphone network," said Krishnamurthy Soumyanath, director of the Communications Lab at Intel's Corporate Technology Group.
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June 17, 2005
Search Giant, Google Inc has launched a new service to give users Google Web Search results on mobile devices.
Use Google Web Search on your phone or mobile device to search through 8 billion pages. While on the go, use the Web to find ingredients for a recipe, answer a trivia question to prove that you're right or find facts on your favorite sports team.
1. Access the mobile Web browser on your phone or mobile device.
2. Type www.google.com in the URL field (if you get an error message, type www.google.com/xhtml).
3. Type your search query.
4. Highlight the "Google Search" button and press "Enter."
5. Ten search results will appear per page.
* Select the desired link by scrolling through the results page
* Or scroll down to the bottom of the page, select the "Next" link to view the next ten results
6. Once you have selected a link Google will reformat the selected webpage to fit your phone screen.
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June 16, 2005
Thursday, Yahoo expanded its search engine to include information on subscription-only web sites for publications such as Consumer Reports and The Wall Street Journal.
Yahoo's beta version of the service will lead web surfers to subscription sites thanks to a growing number of relationships with a variety of consumer, research, and business publishers. However, users will still need to pay to access these fee-based sites reports Red Herring.
Ordinarily, most web searches exclude material bound by subscriptions.
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June 14, 2005
SIRIUS Satellite Radio has announced a deal with Sprint to offer select SIRIUS content, over the Sprint network. More
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June 11, 2005
Optware Corp., is planning to release a Holographic Versatile Card (HVC) media product around the end of 2006. The card capacity is expected to be 30 GB. The company aims to price the product around 100 Yen. Optware also intends to set the price of a reader device lower than Yen200,000 and a reader/writer device lower than Yen1 million. Dimensions of the card are almost the same as those of a credit card, while the drive system is designed to be the size of a surface-mounted hard disc drive system. More
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