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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20.8.2007 Google Links Blog Search to Google News
Some time over the weekend Google put links to Google Blog Search on the front page of Google News and at the end of each news search results page.
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24.10.2006 Google Chrome - Web browser from Google
Google has released the very first beta of their new web browser, Google Chrome. Chrome is a browser that, for now at least, is focused on offering a full browsing experience within a minimalistic user interface.
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2.9.2008 Can Microsoft Out-Google Google?
It aims to grab more of the search market with a new slew of search services that copy, and try to build on, Google's approach.
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13.9.2006 Next Up: Google Office?
There's a Chinese curse: May you live in interesting times. These times must be really interesting for Steve Ballmer.
Microsoft's CEO allegedly said he'd crush Google, his company's rival in search, and the lucrative ad business it engenders. On Tuesday, Google may strike back at Redmond's heart: Microsoft Office.
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Google PC?
Just five years ago, Microsoft Corp. was considered the Big Bad Wolf of the media business.
Armed with a stockpile of cash and the Windows operating system that dominates office computing, Bill Gates' company was expected to huff and puff its way into America's living rooms as well, with video game consoles, home networking systems and TV set-top boxes.
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3.1.2006 Google Sites For All!
Google has just announced a new service called Google Sites, which is now available for any registered Google user. This service was previously only available to businesses with specialty accounts.
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22.5.2008 Google TV Coming soon?
Using Google?s search and advertising technologies to enhance users? Television viewing experience trends that are shaping user behavior when watching Television identify areas where use of Google?s search and advertising technology can enhance this user experience.
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Google history - Milestones
Google is a play on the word googol, which was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, Mathematics and the Imagination by Kasner and James Newman. It refers to the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. Google's use of the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense, seemingly infinite amount of information available on the web.
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Google Talk Unleashed
I'm impressed with their initial effort, and I think when they add the ability to connect to MSN, AIM, Yahoo, et. al. they claim a major share of the IM market. Google Talk is worth a look
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Google fright for eBay
GOOGLE is testing a new service that could eventually propel it into new markets on the web in competition with a wide range of existing internet companies, from e-commerce giants like eBay to online listings sites.
News of the test, which Google would not discuss publicly, spread quickly around the internet and contributed to a 4 per cent fall in eBay's shares.
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Google Whistles a New Tune
Google on Thursday launched a new service intended to give searchers fast links to song lyrics, musical artists and CD titles on the main search results page.
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16.12.2005 Google to buy Opera?
"Take that, IE 7"
Google may soon announce its acquisition of browser firm Opera, if rumour is to be believed.
Pierre Chappaz, founder of Kelkoo and ex-Yahoo! Europe president, has revealed in his personal blog, Kelblog, that a "usually well informed source" has told him the buy is on the cards.
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17.12.2005 Google Sued Over Talk
Rates Technology (RTI), a company that owns several internet voice communication patents, is suing Google for $5 billion claiming the search giants' Google Talk software uses two RTI patented technologies without licensing them.
The suit, filed in October in US District Court in the Eastern District of New York, seeks damages in compensation for "irreparable damages" caused to RTI.
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2.1.2006 IE7 getting the Google treatment
For those of you who have downloaded Windows Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview you might get a surprise when visiting the Google.com webpage.
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9.2.2006 Playing catch-up with Google
At Ask.com, Steve Berkowitz didn't have enough resources to take on Google. Now, at Microsoft, he has plenty of money, but still has a lot of work to do.
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21.11.2006 No more replies from Google Answers
Google is pulling the plug on Google Answers, a service that allows people to submit questions over the Internet that researchers answer for a fee.
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29.11.2006 Google Groups gets an Update
Google Groups is all about helping users connect with people, access information, and communicate effectively over email and on the web. Now there's a new version on the block.
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24.1.2007 On antitrust, is Google the next Microsoft?
Not too long ago, nearly every move that Microsoft made seemed to draw complaints that the company was abusing its market dominance.
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23.7.2007 Google Toolbar 5 Beta
The Google Toolbar is a free and easy-to-use tool that allows you to take the power of Google with you anywhere on the Web.
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16.12.2007 Google Gets 70% of U.S. Searches
Seventy percent of U.S. searches in June were done on Google Inc.'s search engine, according to Web measurement figures from market research company Hitwise Pty. Ltd.
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21.7.2008 Google Gmail Outage
Google is having a really bad day. The Mountain View-based search giant revealed that an outage affected its email service for approximately four hours.
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24.2.2009 Google releases Chrome 3
Google has released its third major revision of Chrome. The updated browser boasts a 150% (25% over its most recent stable release) increase in javascript performance since the launch of version 1.
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15.9.2009 Google Chrome 4.0.211.4
With the Google Chrome 3.0 stable release barely out the door, the Google team is not looking back and the web browser reached 4.0.211.4 in the developer channel with the latest release.
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21.9.2009 Google Chrome 4 Beta
he Chrome beta channel has been updated to version 4. If you're already in the beta channel, you can go ahead and run the auto-update (if it hasn't ran already).
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4.11.2009 Google Video Integrates Media
Search engine's videos now play within a browser; no additional software needed. Google has improved its Google Video service by eliminating the need for users to download software to play back videos, the Mountain View, California-based company has announced.
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Google Gmail had a serious bug, claim
Google has managed to keep the lid on a serious bug in Gmail that had enabled hackers to take over accounts, read the contents and use them to send spam, since the service started.
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16.11.2005Google 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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21.12.2005TiVo 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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23.11.2006Google 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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23.08.2007New 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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25.06.2008Google AdSense Beta to Apply Direct Sales Model to Advertising
Google today confirmed rumors
that it will experiment with
an approach to advertising
sales that Michael Dell might
appreciate: a
cost-per-action model
where the advertiser pays when
the sale is made. The new
payment model will make its
initial appearance in an
upcoming AdSense beta, and
advertising experts are
already sensing a big change
in the winds of the Web...
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21.03.2007Android 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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18.02.2009Google Reader Numbers
Here are some interesting facts about
Google Reader:
*
Google Reader has two kinds of feeds:
- feeds that have one subscriber (two thirds from the number of feeds, they're updated every 3
hours)
- feeds that have more than one subscriber (these feeds are updated every hour)
* Google Reader uses 10 TB for
storing all the raw data
* Google Reader crawls 8 million feeds
* Google Reader is the only major feed
reader that keeps the entire history for all the feeds.
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13.09.2007Google Pays for Android Support
The next step in Google's ambitious wireless strategy became clear May 7 as the search giant agreed to sink $500 million into the revitalization of
struggling wireless Internet provider Clearwire.
Google is looking for support for its Android mobile operating system.
Google, along with Intel, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks, is investing $3.2 billion for the union of Sprint
Nextel's and Clearwire's wireless broadband businesses into a new wireless communications company.
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08.05.2008Microsoft 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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28.07.2009Pakistan YouTube incident adds to international outage
After a two hour stretch yesterday of refusing service to YouTube users across the globe, the Google-owned site said Pakistan is to blame...
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26.02.2008Microsoft: 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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27.10.2006Sneak 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
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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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17.06.2009Where 2.0: Google Launches Streetside View
This morning Google gave their
2D maps an incredible
realworld addition. Its a
street-view, that in certain
cities, will let you get a
street side view of the area
you are currently in. This is
not just a static, A9-style
image. It will also let you
move along the street in a
smooth manner and even more
amazing it will let you change
your angle and continue moving
that way. This will be
formally launched at Where 2.0
later today.
As you
can see from my
probably-confusing-words
above, this is something that
you must interact with to
really understand. It's
awesome.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=
q&hl=en&q=612+Howard+St,+San+F
rancisco,+CA+94105&sll=37.8488
33,-122.420654&sspn=1.051842,1
.867676&ie=UTF8&ll=37.787776,-
122.39984&spn=0.004892,0.01091
1&z=17&om=0&layer=c&cbll=37.78
6074,-122.401763&cbp=1,242.867
730823863,0.516966638948982,0>
Go. Check. It.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=
q&hl=en&q=luxor,+las+vegas,+nv
&ie=UTF8&ll=36.099394,-115.173
24&spn=0.010004,0.021822&z=16&
om=0&layer=c&cbll=36.095172,-1
15.173058&cbp=1,302.3614147909
97,0.5,0>Out. Now.
Where did they get this
from? They are working with
Immersive Media, a company
that has an eleven lens camera
capable of taking full,
high-res video while driving
along city streets. Each
captured pixel that is
geotagged and primed for
consumer use. Their main
clients up till now have been
city planners and the defense
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29.05.2007Western 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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