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1. EU ombudsman slams Intel antitrust ruling

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   ... Dell executive held on 23 August 2006, even though the meeting directly concerned the subject matter of the Commission's anti-trust investigation of Intel. The Ombudsman found that the meeting of 23 August ...

2. Apple sued over camera patent by litigant with a past

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 29 October 2009

   ... Clair sued Samsung, Matsushita, Victor, JVC, Nokia, HP and Eastman Kodak. Kodak and Samsung have licensed the technology.In 2006, St Clair sued Siemens, BenQ, AUdiovox, UT Starcom, Sprint Nextel, Cingular, ...

3. Ex AMD CEO named in insider trading scandal

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 28 October 2009

   ... $25 million profit on deals made between 2006 and 2009 involving companies such as AMD, Google and Sun in return for monetary reward. Wire taps were put on the suspects after an anonymous tip-off. The ...

4. NASA finds most distant galaxy cluster yet

   (Space/Space Features)

   Thursday, 22 October 2009

   ...  JKCS041 was originally detected in 2006 in a survey from the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope. The distance to the cluster was then determined from optical and infrared observation. The Chandra data ...

5. YouTube offers chance to quiz Nobel winners

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Tuesday, 20 October 2009

   YouTube viewers worldwide have the unique opportunity to ask a Nobel laureate a question on the official Nobel Prize channel. NASA's John Mather, recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for measuring ...

6. Otellini: Intel ‘knew nothing’ about insider trading probe

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 19 October 2009

   ... late last week. The men are accused of using inside knowledge to help investors make an illegal $25 million profit on deals made between 2006 and 2009 involving companies such as AMD, Google and Sun ...

7. Dell says it will behave from now on, honest

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 28 September 2009

   ... probe into Dell's accounting procedures back in 2006, after shareholders complained that the outfit’s management and board members sold stock at inflated prices while misrepresenting the company’s actual ...

8. EU publishes lurid details of Intel antitrust ruling

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 21 September 2009

   ... were conditioned on Lenovo purchasing its CPU needs for its notebook segment exclusively from Intel. For example, in a December 2006 e-mail, a Lenovo executive stated: "Late last week Lenovo cut a lucrative ...

9. Mayor Nagin named in Dell conspiracy case

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 16 September 2009

   ... his vendors and associates, Mark St. Pierre, set up a deal with Dell. When Meffert left City Hall in 2006, it was to take up a $600,000 consultancy job with St. Pierre's company, NetMethods, at the same ...

10. Insurance company sues HP for server melt-down

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 11 September 2009

    ... it bought from a an  HP dealer Razor, Inc. and had it installed at a secure datacenter operated by SunGard Recovery Services in 2006.  However,  according to court papers a year later  ...

11. Microsoft sued over Windows Genuine Advantage

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 04 September 2009

    ... program.The class action alleges that the WGA was dramatically expanded in April 2006 and altered the means which the program delivered, "violating the law".Instead of identifying the WGA as an anti-piracy ...

12. NASA releases detailed pictures of Mars

    (Space/Space Features)

    Thursday, 03 September 2009

    ... has been studying Mars with an advanced set of instruments since 2006, and has returned more data about the planet than all other past and current missions to Mars combined, says NASA. The newly-released ...

13. Help crack Nazi Enigma messages

    (Security/Security Features)

    Wednesday, 02 September 2009

    ... to break three original messages generated by a famed electro-mechanical Enigma machine and intercepted in the North Atlantic in 1942. The project, which started in January of 2006, succeeded in breaking ...

14. Infamous hacker to serve 15 years behind bars

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 28 August 2009

    ... card data breach in the United States - claims that Gonzales and his co-conspirators began researching various credit and debit card systems in October 2006. The trio then devised a "sophisticated attack" ...

15. Epson coughs to price fixing scam

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 26 August 2009

    ... US Justice Department. Epson Imaging Devices pleaded guilty to conspiring to fix prices of LCD panels sold to Motorola for use in its Razr phones between fall 2005 and summer 2006. A one-count felony ...

16. Frenchman glassed by exploding iPhone

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 25 August 2009

    ... was a bit of a cause célebre in 2006 when a machine burst into flames in Japan.  ...

17. UK police admit CCTV cameras are useless

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 24 August 2009

    ... in car parks. A House of Lords committee also reported that in the ten years to 2006, £500 million ($818 million) had been spent on CCTV installations, rather than on improving street lighting and other ...

18. Swedish ISP forces Pirate Bay to walk the plank

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 24 August 2009

    ... Bay Source noted that the organization had been prepared for takedown attempts since 2006. The latest shutdown order was issued after the Motion and Film Industry Association of America (MAFIAA) filed ...

19. Finjan wins extra damages against Secure

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 20 August 2009

    ... injunction we obtained.” Finjan accused Secure of the patent infringement back in 2006, and a federal jury awarded Finjan $9 million in damages. But the District Court reckoned the infringement was ...

20. Police hacker informer stole 130 million credit card details

    (Security/Security Features)

    Monday, 17 August 2009

    ... that, along with two Russians, made off with more than 130 million credit and debit card numbers from late 2006 to early 2008. Prosecutors called it the largest case of computer crime and identity theft ...

21. Feds indict infamous SQL hacker on conspiracy charges

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 17 August 2009

    ... Gonzales and his co-conspirators began researching various credit and debit card systems in October 2006. The trio then devised a "sophisticated attack" to breach the networks and steal credit/debit card ...

22. Rumor: MySpace to buy iLike for $20 million

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 17 August 2009

    MySpace is reportedly in talks to buy iLike for a lucrative $20 million. The music recommendation service - which launched in 2006 - boasts more than 50 million registered users and is the top music application ...

23. Pachter: Console price cuts 'imminent'

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 10 August 2009

    ... by maintaining current price points for 'too long.' "The Wii remains at its November 2006 launch price of $249.99, and the core PS3 SKU has not seen a price cut since October 2007," said Pachter. "We ...

24. Motorola Morrison surfaces: The iPhone the ROKR should have been?

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 10 August 2009

    ... not work. 2005 and even 2006 were very successful years for Motorola’s mobile division and allowed the company to be lazy. But the RAZR got old and Motorola had no real replacement and dropped down the ...

25. Twitter goes up before the beak

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 05 August 2009

    ... patents in question are patent number 7,130,389, granted in October 2006 for a "digital notification and response system"; patent number 7,496,183, granted in February 2009 for a "method for providing ...

26. Hybrid vehicle rebates are money down the drain

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Wednesday, 05 August 2009

    ... offered hybrid rebates during 2007-2008. Researchers used Canadian vehicle sales data over a 17-year period from 1989 to 2006. They reckon the results extend to the US market, given the similarity in ...

27. Google's Schmidt quits Apple board

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 03 August 2009

    ... director since 2006, and Apple said the reason he was leaving was the increasing overlap between it and Google. The most recent conflict has been Apple's refusal to allow Google Voice to work on its iPhone ...

28. Firefox now officially past 1 billion downloads

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 31 July 2009

    ... later in October of 2005, going at a stable pace of about 50-60 million downloads every six months. Following the 200 million download mark that was hit in August of 2006, the counter started running ...

29. Steve Ballmer and Paul Otellini to headline 2010 CES

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 29 July 2009

    ... Otellini’s CES speaking history is not so glamorous. We especially remember the 2006 Core Duo introduction and a Paul Otellini who was somewhat among a Danny DeVito who accepted private phone calls from ...

30. Microsoft partners cautious about Windows 7 cash cow

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 27 July 2009

    ... around Windows 7, according to IDC. However, those partners say they heard all this before. In late 2006 Redmond commissioned a study from IDC that estimated that for every dollar Microsoft earned from ...

31. Microsoft confirms Windows 7 is done

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 22 July 2009

    ... Vista was released on January 30, 2006 and we heard of the first Windows 7 Milestone 1 release in January 2008. The software has been finalized within 18 months after the release of the M1 version, which ...

32. AMD loses $330 million in second quarter

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 21 July 2009

    ... down from $1.195 billion, including an impairment charge relating to the acquisition of ATI in late 2006. The operating loss was $249 million, down from $416 million in Q1 and down from $569 million in ...

33. UMPC, take 2: Samsung touts first WiMax MID

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 21 July 2009

    ... the initial UMPCs, which were launched in 2006, following Microsoft’s Origami hype, which promised a portable device you could bring anywhere and would stay connected to the Internet at any place on this ...

34. Apple 'helped Mafia to send death threats'

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Sunday, 19 July 2009

    ... player. McKenna bought an iPod shuffle in 2005 via eBay and an iPod mini that he claims to have bought in 2006 new from an Apple Store. He claims that both devices contain illegal receivers that Apple ...

35. Toshiba may surrender to Blu-ray, finally

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Sunday, 19 July 2009

    ... this was not so much a technology issue as the company has had access to Blu-ray products since early 2006, but a strategic and certainly emotional decision to give in to the format it so hard tried ...

36. Graphics market has worst ever year

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 16 July 2009

    ... to 2011. 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 % 20.6 20.2 10.1 12.7 17.5 11.1 ...

37. AMD launches five new 6-core processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 12 July 2009

    ... integer results posted for the Spec CPU2006 benchmark. 2439 SE and 8439 SE 2-way configurations seem to be right in the middle of Nehalem processor performance, somewhere between the Xeon E5504 and the ...

38. Rumormill: iPods to get cameras

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 06 July 2009

    ... the iPod as one of the most disappointing tech products of 2006, simply because of its lack of innovation. Flash forward, little has changed, a more than 10 years after the commercial release of the first ...

39. PS3 slim and price cut rumors surface again

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 01 July 2009

    ... costs. The original PS3 design was estimated to have carried a bill of materials of close to $900, which was far higher than the retail prices of $499 and $599 for the 20 GB and 60 GB PS3s in late 2006. ...

40. Joost retreats from consumer market

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 30 June 2009

    ... founded in 2006, never really made it in the consumer market, losing out to YouTube and Hulu. With its new business model, it will be competing with the likes of Brightcove and Ooyala. Joost plans to ...

41. ZeniMax creates FPS empire with id Software acquisition

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 24 June 2009

    ... developer Bethesda Game Studios – creators of the 2008 Game of the Year, Fallout 3, and the 2006 Game of the Year, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Bethesda Softworks will publish the titles of id Software ...

42. TG Daily’s Dads and Grads Product Giveaway: Play along and win!

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 19 June 2009

    ... is not a Tie:” The Cyberoptix TieLab was started in 2006 after noticing a void in creative yet sophisticated neckwear. The TieLab Studio is currently located on the second floor of an old furniture warehouse ...

43. Big Blue ploughs $100 million into mobile research

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 17 June 2009

    ... for Business Value, the number of mobile users will grow by 191 percent from 2006 to 2011 to reach approximately one billion users. An IBM pilot scheme forming part of IBM's first-of-a-kind (FOAK) program, ...

44. Microsoft to launch free anti-malware software as beta “soon”

    (Security/Security Features)

    Friday, 12 June 2009

    ... 2006; the retail version of the software is now scheduled to be phased out by the end of this month. No replacement for OneCare has been announced so far. “Customers around the world have told us that ...

45. Mind that monitor: computer related injuries on the rise

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 08 June 2009

    ... System, over 78,000 cases of acute computer-related injuries were treated in US emergency departments between 1994 and 2006. Approximately 93 percent of injuries occurred at home. The number increased ...

46. Pirate Party wins European Parliament seat

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Monday, 08 June 2009

    ... won a seat in the European elections. The party won 7.1 percent of the vote in Sweden, giving it a seat in the 785-seat European Parliament. The Pirate Party was founded in 2006, and wants to cut the ...

47. Another Express Upgrade? Windows 7, June 26, $50

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 05 June 2009

    ... Vista Express Upgrade program, which was put in place by Microsoft so it could cash in on the Christmas business back in 2006. This time, Microsoft will make the Christmas season, but retailers will ask ...

48. Patent trolls live under the bridge

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 04 June 2009

    ... Bartur in 2006. The suit claims that Dell breaches its patent on systems using its Remote Desktop system, including XenServer and XenDesktop thin clients. HP, it's alleged, breaches the patent with its ...

49. Curry could cure Alzheimer's

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Wednesday, 03 June 2009

    ... using brain scans." Clinical trials on Alzheimer's patients are currently underway at the University of California, Los Angeles, to test curcumin's effects. Research in 2006 suggested that the curcumin ...

50. Microsoft preps Windows 7 for Christmas

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 02 June 2009

    ... program that pushed consumers into buying a Windows XP PC with a free or fee-based Windows Vista upgrade back in late 2006.Chicago (IL) – Microsoft has confirmed the October 22 launch date of Windows ...