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Micron and Oracle Settle DRAM Price Fixing Lawsuit

Marking one of the rare cases when an antitrust lawsuit actually ends instead of being started, Micron and Oracle have reached a settlement in their antitrust battle. With all the legal fights going on, there are few occasions where we can actually sit back and say that progress is being made. As such, Micron and...

30 March 2012
12:41 GMT

Deus Ex Diary: Mister Sarif, I Presume

Deus Ex games are ambiguous affairs, with stories that begin shrouded in fog and end complete with over the top conspiracy theories and often the characterization of the people one meets in them suffers a little, because most of them talk about the craziest things like they are everyday occurrences.This is no differe...

19 September 2011
18:21 GMT

Deus Ex: Human Revolution Delayed by Square Enix

Publisher Square Enix has announced that Deus Ex: Human Revolution, the mix between action and adventure that was initially supposed to be launched on March 15, 2011, has been pushed into the company's next fiscal year, which is slated to begin on April 1, 2011.At best this means that the new Deus Ex title might...

16 December 2010
06:55 GMT

Six LCD Makers Fined 649 Million Euro for Price Fixing

It seems that the European Commission will be getting a quite solid monetary gift for Christmas, though technically is is a fine issued to six LCD makers found to have participated in a price fixing cartel.It seems that the holiday season is a favorite of lawsuits because yet another one has become the subject of th...

8 December 2010
11:09 GMT

Memory Price Fixing Cartel Lawsuit Settles for $173

The ongoing month, if one were to count out Computex, may have come out as either somewhat dull or packed, mostly because IT news has consisted of nothing much besides consecutive product launches and related rumors. Unfortunately, the development that has now come to freshen up the industry, in a manner of speaking...

29 June 2010
08:25 GMT

Samsung and Eight Others Fined by EU for Chip-Price Fixing

There have been multiple investigations and charges of price fixing over the years, and while most of them were either dropped or are still not over, some are moving swiftly towards conclusion. Such is the case with the EU's actions against the memory chip cartel made up of Samsung Electronics, Hynix Semiconduct...

18 May 2010
06:48 GMT

Dell Files Lawsuit over Alleged LCD Price Fixing

It seems that there is never a dull moment in the IT industry, as there is also someone, somewhere with enough of a reason to give the Court some work to do. While Intel and NVIDIA keep fighting over chipsets and AMD accuses the latter of bribing game developers, there seem to be even more shadiness going on in other...

15 March 2010
09:32 GMT

LCD Price Fixing-Conspiracy Participant Comes Clean

In the wake of the joint investigation carried out by the Department of Justice Antitrust Division’s San Francisco Field Office and the FBI in San Francisco, six companies have pleaded guilty so far or agreed to plead guilty when charged with participating in the LCD price-fixing conspiracy, which ran between S...

10 December 2009
05:25 GMT

The Secret of the Astronaut Carved in 12th Century Church Walls

The cathedral in the Spanish city of Salamanca was constructed in 1102, and is therefore one of the oldest such constructions in the world. It features magnificent stone carvings on all its walls, but one of them is a bit more special than the others, so to speak. It bears the depiction of what appears to be a fully ...

26 January 2009
11:31 GMT

Psystar Accused of Conspiracy

After filing (and being granted) a motion to amend its complaint adding a claim of violation of the DMCA, Apple is charging Psystar with ever more claims. The company now believes that there are corporations and/or individuals behind Psystar. An excerpt from the latest court filings, available courtesy of Groklaw, r...

4 December 2008
04:27 GMT

First Details of Deus Ex 3 Emerge

We've known for a while that Deus Ex 3 is in development at Eidos Montreal. We've also known little about the title until now, when PC Zone has managed to snatch a detailed report from the developers; it will publish it in issue 200.The developers say that they are really trying to create a game that will b...

6 October 2008
21:21 GMT

Matching Reality to Our Superstitions

When people lack control and outcome predicting possibilities, they tend to think there's something wrong with reality, that there are incomprehensible forces at work, and their frustration and previous experiences twine into unnatural explanations and behaviors.There's no better explanation to how our min...

3 October 2008
07:14 GMT

The Bourne Conspiracy - Passport Locations

The Bourne Conspiracy, created in collaboration with Ludlum Entertainment and Bourne scriptwriter Tony Gilroy, promises to deliver an original story uncovering Bourne's past and the conspiracy shrouding his origins. Of course, the main attraction will be our hero as a definition of the "perfect weapon" concept -...

23 July 2008
08:26 GMT

Alicia Keys "Gangsta Rap" Controversy in Blender

Alicia Keys is either bored with her own success and looking for some controversy to "keep things real", or simply hasn't yet learned that for an artist of her caliber and of her exposure, some topics are simply taboo. Controversy travels very fast and wide these days, and there are more than enough quite recent...

14 April 2008
03:12 GMT

MMORPG Set in Modern Day Earth from Foncom

Tired of games that have constantly repeated storyline, endless foes to kill for God knows what reason and short campaigns that make you wonder why the heck you even bought the game in the first place? If so, how about switching to a game inspired by history and mythology, modern conspiracy theories and ancient myste...

11 May 2007
18:21 GMT

iTunes Conspiracy! Beware!

Looks like there's no limit to people's imagination when faced with the possibility of exposing an attempt to manipulate the global population and, eventually, rule the world. I came across "some surprising results" on CNET today that were just too good to pass by.David Braue has launched a conspiracy theor...

9 March 2007
09:36 GMT


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