Now everyone knows, AMD sued Intel in U.S. District Court and in Japan early this month.

Anyway, Intel president and CEO Paul Otellini dismissed charges from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. in Japan on Tuesday, July 17, 2005. He denies the claims that Intel illegally dampened competition in the microprocessor market and said that Intel only agreed to sanctions in a recent ruling in Japan in an effort to resolve the legal suit.

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“I want to be absolutely clear where Intel stands,” Otellini said during a conference with press and analysts Tuesday as the company released its second-quarter earnings report. “Intel competes aggressively and fairly around the world. This formula has led to Intel’s success and it will not change. … We unequivocally disagree with AMD’s claims and are confident this latest suit, like the others, will be resolved favorably for Intel.”

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Intel CEO : Intel Will Win

According to representatives for AMD and Intel said on Friday, July 15, 2005, lawyers with the two companies will sit down in August to discuss for the first time their latest antitrust case.

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The meeting has been scheduled for the first week of August 2005. Attorneys are expected to swap names and addresses of people and documents they are likely to use at trial to defend their side of the story.

By the way, Intel has until Sept. 6, 2005 to file a response to AMD’s complaints, court documents filed in Delaware show either to deny all claims, or, you know…… :D
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The Fight Starts – AMD vs Intel

It’s like a twin happiness to seeing news regarding the released of new version of Firefox 1.0.5 and the increase its market share to 8.71%.

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NetApplications.com, an Aliso Viejo, California, maker of applications for monitoring and measuring Web site usage, said this week, Firefox increased its market share to 8.71%, up from 8% in May 2005, while IE’s share shrank to 86.56% from 87.23%.

According to NetApplications.com, since the beginning of 2005, Firefox has increased its market share every month between 0.5 percent and 1 percent, mostly at the expense of IE. Besides, as Firefox approaches the 10% market share milestone, it is expected to gain “significant traction” once its acceptance grows among corporations.
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Firefox Increased Market Share

It seems to me blogging is full of potential to be one of the driving forces on the Internet to help promoting information sharing among individuals as well as enterprises.

Otherwise IBM wouldn’t announce two blogging tools, taking advantage of a practice of enterprise blogging which starting to be a new trend in big companies like Google, Microsoft, etc. Take for instance, we have seen Google Blog from Google teams and IE Blog from Microsoft.

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IBM sees blogging as a key way for companies to promote information sharing. “In an enterprise, corporate knowledge is in employees’ heads most of the time. We are providing tools that help to capture that knowledge and share it through the organisation,” said Ed Brill, business unit executive for Lotus and Domino sales at IBM.

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IBM Into Blogging Too

After filing suit against Intel 2 weeks ago , AMD finds its chips taking a prominent place in PC market as Fujitsu Siemens has launched new PC with AMD chip. :)

Fujitsu-Siemens is taking orders for Esprimo E small form-factor PC and Esprimo P tower models with AMD processors, and will ship them at the end of the month to customers in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, according to Fujitsu-Siemens spokesperson Sabine Twest. For more information of Fujitsu-Siemens Esprimo E and P models, please visit their product webpage.

In the lawsuit filed June 28 in the U.S., AMD wrote that its chips once powered over 30 percent of Fujitsu-Siemens’ consumer PCs, but that in early 2003, they claimed that “Intel offered Fujitsu-Siemens a ‘special discount’ on Celeron processors which Fujitsu-Siemens accepted in exchange for hiding its AMD computers on its website and removing all references to commercial AMD-powered products in the company’s retail catalog.” Seems that, Fujitsu-Siemens scared of the lawsuit. =))
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AMD Chip In New Fujitsu Siemens PC

As the AMD sued Intel case continues, here is another update to the antitrust lawsuit.

Six distributors have been subpoenaed in the antitrust lawsuit filed by Advanced Micro Devices alleges that the six distributors received financial or other pressure from Intel. This including the following claims :-
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AMD vs Intel Lawsuit Continues …