Archive for June, 2005
Intel president and chief executive Paul Otellini fired back AMD recent law suit against Intel, stating the company would not change its business practices and expects any court decision to be resolved in its favor.
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“Intel has always respected the laws of the countries in which we operate,” Otellini said in a statement. “We compete aggressively and fairly to deliver the best value to consumers. This will not change.”
Well, fair or not, wait til the result comes out. :)
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Intel : Won’t Change Business Practices
Google has just unveiled on Wednesday, June 29, 2006, a beta version of its newly developed Personalised Search service. Personalised Search allows the serch engine searched results based on what’s most relevant to the user.
For example, by using Personalised Search to search the word “tackle” might give different results for a footballer and a guy who is looking for ways to tackle a girl. :D The service builds on the Google My Search History feature launched as a beta in April. The service ‘remembers’ past searches, allowing users to quickly retrieve a recently visited page.
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Google Personalized Search
AMD (Advanced Micro Devices Inc.) says it will try to speed up the process of its antitrust lawsuit against Intel Corp. and break what it claims is a chokehold on the corporate desktop market.
AMD officials said on Tuesday, June 28, 2005, that they would like to bring the case to trial in 18 months – the same amount of time it took the government to bring its case to trial against Microsoft Corp. in 1998. That would put the trial sometime in late 2006 if AMD is successful in its efforts.
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AMD Wants Settlement By Late 2006
Dear all,
I’ll try my best to deliver the latest breaking news on this interesting AMD Sues Intel case in coming days. Stay tuned !!
Updates from sources saying AMD will have to show thousands of e-mail messages as proofs to the antitrust complaint against Intel, including emails from its key partners if needed.
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“There is going to be a lot of ‘he said, she said’ in this case,” Charles Diamond, a lawyer at O’Melveny & Myers and AMD’s lead outside counsel said, noting that AMD’s legal team is asking its potential witnesses to begin securing e-mail and other correspondence.
Attorney Diamond said AMD initially based its complaint on some 80 interviews between AMD and its partners and customers. AMD’s legal team said it will now use the “period of discovery,” where companies may be required to submit corporate data as evidence, to support their claims in this case.
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AMD – Intel Lawsuit Continues …
This is no joke, dude !!
When I come across this news, I was like “Oh Ow, this finally happens !”.
AMD (Advanced Micro Devices), the world’s No.2 maker of computer microprocessors, said Tuesday, June 28, 2005, it had filed an antitrust lawsuit against Intel Corp., the world’s largest maker of chips, in U.S. federal district court for the district of Delaware accusing Intel of unfair competition, which limited market share growth of AMD.
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The antitrust complaint against Intel Corporation was filed under Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act, Sections 4 and 16 of the Clayton Act, and the California Business and Professions Code.