Samsung Pays $300m for Price Fixing
Samsung accepted terms of a plea agreement Thursday that finds the electronics company guilty of conspiring with other manufacturers to artificially inflate the cost of computer memory, thus unnecessarily increasing the prices consumers paid.
As part of the agreement, Samsung would pay a $300 million fine in exchange for prosecutorial immunity for both the company and most of its employees. Seven people, including president of the semiconductor division Y.H. Park, were excluded from the settlement and could still face prosecution.
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1.12.2005 One Hour With: Windows 7
As you probably know by now, a pre-beta version of Microsoft's future operating system, Windows 7, has been leaked to the “masses.”
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15.11.2008 500 Hour Test of Tomorrow's Windows Vista
Only Nine More Months Until Windows Vista Goes Live?
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1.6.2006 Skype blames Windows Update for 48-hour outage
Skype is pointing the finger at Windows Update for a critical system crash that wiped out the VoIP service for two days.
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20.8.2007TiVo Offers Free 80-Hour DVR Special
TiVo said Wednesday that it
would offer its 80-hour
Series2 DVRs for free after
rebate while supplies last.
The box normally retails for
$219.99 USD. Additionally, the
80-hour dual tuner TiVo would
be offered for $69.99 USD, and
the 180-hour for $169.99 USD...
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23.11.2006New Apple iPhone carries US$173 BOM, iSuppli estimates
Apple's second-generation iPhone is expected to carry an initial hardware Bill Of Materials (BOM) and manufacturing cost of US$173, according
to a preliminary "virtual teardown" conducted by iSuppli. However, the market research firm noted that the teardown is a preliminary analysis. Once
the 3G iPhone becomes available, iSuppli will perform an actual, detailed teardown of the new iPhone's components and cost structure.
"At a hardware BOM and manufacturing cost of US$173, the new iPhone is significantly less expensive to produce than the first-generation
product, despite major improvements in the product's functionality and unique usability, due to the addition of 3G communications," said Dr.
Jagdish Rebello, director and principal analyst for iSuppli.
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25.06.2008Microsoft Exec: It Never Pays to Bash Nintendo
Shane Kim, the VP for business development in Microsoft's game division, was down in Berkeley, Calif. this weekend to show off the new Xbox
experience at the University of California's Play conference. Venturebeat's Dean Takahashi writes about Kim's wide-ranging discussion, of NXE, the
economy, the development cycle. But we like it when people start commenting on competitors, so let's pull out some choice quotes there...
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17.11.2008Foxconn pays family $44,000 for employee suicide
When it was reported than an employee at Foxconn committed suicide after being accused of losing an iPhone prototype China's labor laws came under
scrutiny again. After first denying that it had interrogated the employee using techniques that many would consider criminal it has surfaced that the
company paid $44,000 to the family for the death of their family member according to the New York Times. Company officials have said that
"Several times he had some products missing, then he got them back" but would not go on to say what all the employee may have allegedly lost or
misplaced in his past.
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28.07.2009Microsoft: 6 Million Xbox 360s Sold
As part of its quarterly
earnings report issued late
Thursday, Microsoft disclosed
that it has sold a total of 6
million Xbox 360 video game
consoles since the product
debuted nearly one year ago.
Losses in the Xbox division
were also lowered to $96
million from $173 million a
year ago...
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27.10.2006Google Pays $1 Billion for 5
Percent of AOL
Google's spare look may
change with partnership with
graphical-ad rich AOL...
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21.12.2005Sneak peek of 'green' solar radio with 30-hour battery life
At Greener Gadgets in New York today, Freeplay Energy gave a sneak peek of a solar-powered radio with a 30-hour battery life and cell phone-like
status bar.
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28.02.2009Comcast pays stand-ins to keep protesters out of FCC hearing
Comcast is being called to task by a lot of online activists over some pretty heavy-handed behavior the other day at an FCC hearing called on net
neutrality to look into complaints that the cable giant was booting off consumers who it thought did too much online music downloading or file sharing
with services like BitTorrent.
It happened Monday in Massachusetts. To apparently make sure the audience wasn't filled with protesters,
Comcast now admits to hiring a bunch of guys to stand in line and take up all the spectator seats when the doors opened. That kept Comcast critics
from an outfit known as SaveTheInternet.com from getting into the hearing room.
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01.03.2008ChoicePoint to Pay $15 Million
for 2005 Data Breach
Data broker pays largest civil
fine in FTC's history...
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27.01.2006Snow Leopard pays closer attention to battery life
Perhaps because of some the negative publicity with regards to some magsafe adaptors exploding on unibody MacBook and Macbook Pros or just because
they care, users of the new OS X operating system Snow Leopard will now have access to a utility which monitors battery life on the portable devices
within the Apple family. News on Appleinsider reports that when logging into Snow Leopard users can now click on the battery icon, located in the
menu bar on the desktop and access some more information about their battery's physical condition. The update to this utility now shows a new
"battery condition" summary as well as the current amount of charge, along with the current energy source.
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17.06.2009Western Australian Daylight Savings Changes for Windows
Western Australia is
introducing daylight saving
for a trial period commencing
December 3, 2006. Several
Microsoft® products require
updates in order to display
the correct time during the
daylight saving period.
Western Australia is
introducing daylight saving on
a trial basis for the next
three years.
Microsoft products which are
aware of daylight saving time
changes need to be updated to
include the new Western
Australia time zone rules.
The following table shows
the start and end dates for
the daylight saving period in
each year of the trial
Start /
End
the hour of 2
a.m. on 03 Dec 2006 / the hour
of 2 a.m. on 25 March 2007
the hour of 2 a.m. on 28 Oct
2007 / the hour of 2 a.m. on
30 March 2008
the hour of
2 a.m. on 26 Oct 2008 / the
hour of 2 a.m. on 29 March
2009
Note: Both the
start and end time are
specified in standard time, so
the end time is 3 am daylight
saving time.
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06.12.2006Samsung Pays $300m for Price
Fixing
Samsung accepted terms of a
plea agreement Thursday that
finds the electronics company
guilty of conspiring with
other manufacturers to
artificially inflate the cost
of computer memory, thus
unnecessarily increasing the
prices consumers paid...
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02.12.2005Nokia Pays Qualcomm $20m for UMTS
Although it means essentially
nothing to the ongoing
litigation between the two
companies, Nokia said Thursday
it had made a $20 million
payment to Qualcomm for the
use of its UMTS patents...
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05.04.2007Motorola Pays $3.9 Billion for
Symbol
In its biggest acquisition
since 2000, Motorola on
Tuesday announced plans to
acquire Symbol Technologies
for $3.9 billion. The deal
will bolster Motorola's sale
of wireless handheld devices
to enterprises, as well as its
position in the RFID market...
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20.09.2006Google deems cost per action as the "Holy Grail"
On the morning of day three here at Search Engine Strategies ("SES") San Jose, Marissa Mayer, Google's Vice President of Search Product and User
Experience, gave her keynote presentation. She said a lot of interesting things, but of particular note to me was that she deemed Cost Per Action
(CPA) "the Holy Grail."
According to Marissa, Google is making moves towards Cost Per Action as a more ideal auction-based
pricing model, but she also pointed out that it's a long way away.
Cost Per Action may be a new term for some readers, so I'll
review it for a moment, and then move on to explain why I think her comment is important.
Through its AdWords product, Google has
been testing a version of CPA in which advertisers pay Google only when a certain marketing goal is met. Where Cost Per Click means someone pays
Google (or another entity) each time a user clicks on a particular piece of advertising, Cost Per Action means that someone pays when a user completes
a potentially larger and more involved transaction. Google gives the example of an airline paying a certain CPA every time a user clicks on their ad
and purchases a plane ticket. Only when both deeds are done does the airline pay, but it will most likely be a larger sum paid than a simple Cost Per
Click...
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23.08.2007Android Market allows 24 hour trial period
In an interesting twist that could possibly change how other app store touting companies run their policies, Google's Android Market has been
updated to allows apps to be returned after 24 hours, after news that the Market will take paid applications. Androinica reports that the moment you
purchase the app, not install it, you are given 24 hours to decide if you like it, and also that if after that you wish to obtain a refund, you have
to settle that with the developer and not with Google themselves. Otherwise, you can take the matter to your credit card company directly.
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18.02.2009Live Search CashBack goes live early “"The Search that pays you back"
Live Search CashBack, at least one of the
big announcements slated for tomorrows (Seattle time) Advance08
advertisers conference, is up and running now, at least for the moment. Apparently not having learned from the
multiple early
sightings of the new Live.com page, the Live Search team seems to be trying to beat us at our own game, they just cant seem to keep a
secret. The program, which will pay cash back for purchases made using Live Search,
is described in the FAQ like this...
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21.05.2008Apple Reveals iPhone Battery Testing Methods
When Apple's iPhone made the
jump to eight hours of life
fans rejoiced, haters moaned
and competitors wept. And
shoddy journalists reported
"It won't meet claimed
battery life!" Other
journalists asked How?
Now, Apple's updated
iPhone
spec
page answers that question
by detailing their rundown
from fresh battery to dead
phone.
- Eight hours
of talk was measured on the
1900MHz band with Wi-Fi
network scanning off.
-
Six hours of Internet browsing
was done over Wi-Fi or 1900MHz
EDGE, on a closed network with
dedicated Web and mail server,
simulating "browsing to 20
URLS and checking mail once an
hour." (Hahahahah "Once an
Hour"!)
- Video playback
life of seven hours was
measured by playing back a
2:23-hour-long movie, which
iLounge thinks is Pirates of
the Caribbean: Curse of the
Black Pearl, over and over
again.
- Twenty-four hours
of audio life was measured by
playing 358 tracks over and
over again, with content from
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20.06.2007YouTube to begin reinforcing restricted API access on Dec. 2
Since July of 2008, the Terms of Service for YouTube have restricted implementations of the technology on TVs utilizing the APIs. The means of gaining
YouTube access, such as video scraping technology, weren't approved, and now the company will begin fully restricting those who can access it,
starting on December 2. The December 2 deadline was said to have first shown up here, on the blog of the COO of Popcorn Hour. The message stated,
"As of Wednesday, December 2, 2009, YouTube will no longer be available to Popcorn Hour users," and warned users that this was no technical issue.
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22.11.2009Kotaku Pays Blogger for Pictures, Thanks to Neowin & Digg
After Neowin posted a story about Kotaku taking pictures from Prince17's blog, cropping them, and posting them as part of their gaming stories,
and the story made it to Digg's front page, the gaming news site responded. Prince17 sent an e-mail to Managing Editor Brian Crecente and the man
did not ignore him. Kotaku is paying Prince17 $200 for his two pictures and has apologized for not giving him any credit: " Just so you know,
we always go to great lengths to fairly credit people, so this wasn’t something that happened maliciously ." To all those scrutinizing
Prince 17 for complaining, remember that no matter how small unethical or illegal an incident is, justice still needs to be sought. Well done
Kotaku!
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