At Davos: citizenship, apostasy and $100 laptops
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| Nicholas Negroponte, longtime director of MIT's Media Lab, was toting
| around a working version of his so-called "$100 laptop" (which will
| initially cost about $150). Everyone from Michael Dell to Google's
| Vint Cerf was seen playing with it. The little green-and-white computer
| is so sexy that many pronounced it "cooler than the iPhone."
|
| [...]
|
| The featured speaker at the digital divide session was Intel
| Chairman Craig Barrett, who has been outspokenly critical of
| Negroponte's laptop, in part because it is based on a processor
| chip from arch-rival AMD. Intel at Davos was trying to
| strike back by showing its own green-and-white "Classmate PC,"
| which is considerably more expensive and whose clunkiness prompted
| no iPhone comparisons.
|
| Barrett and Negroponte traded barbs in which each accused the other
| of caring more about marketing than children. Then AMD President
| Andre Richard made a proposal - despite their rivalry on other
| matters, the two chipmakers should cooperate on special software
| for inexpensive educational computers.
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http://money.cnn.com/2007/02/01/technology/fastforward_davos.fortune/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote
Prepare for this recurring theme. Anyone who is affiliated with Intel and
Microsoft (plenty of them) is going to spread disinformation about this
laptop and lobby against it.
Related:
Debate widens over over deploying computers in the developing world
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| The controversy boiled over on Saturday at a meeting where Craig
| Barrett, chairman of Intel, squared off with Nicholas Negroponte,
| the former director of the MIT Media Laboratory and head of the
| nonprofit organization One Laptop Per Child, which is focusing
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| on the 1.2 billion children in the developing world.
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/28/business/cheap.php
Debate widens over over deploying computers in the developing world
,----[ Quote ]
| The controversy boiled over on Saturday at a meeting where Craig
| Barrett, chairman of Intel, squared off with Nicholas Negroponte,
| the former director of the MIT Media Laboratory and head of the
| nonprofit organization One Laptop Per Child, which is focusing
| on the 1.2 billion children in the developing world.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/28/business/cheap.php
Google did not boot AMD for Intel
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| Google's displeasure with Intel's blog gossip making its way to the
| press is evident in the company's terse statement. Such PR rumblings
| between the two companies are sure to make things uncomfortable next
| time Intel CEO Paul Otellini shows up for a Google board meeting.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/28/google_amd_xeon/
Intel: Only "Open" for Business
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| These vendors often want a quiet private discussion, because in a
| quiet private discussion they can continue to dismiss the requests and in
| the end do absolutely nothing. They do not want a noisy public
| discussion, because then they look bad. But they DESERVE TO LOOK BAD,
| because they are being bad to those who bought their hardware!
|
| [...]
|
| By withholding, Intel is being an Open Source fraud.
|
| [...]
|
| So let's win back the rights to run the hardware we purchased.
|
| Please feel free to let other open source communities know about this
| matter. Thank you.
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http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060930232710&mode=expanded
EU antitrust experts seek charges vs Intel-source
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| The Commission has been investigating chip-maker Intel for six years
| to see if it acts unfairly to keep its dominance over rival Advanced
| Micro Devices.
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http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20070117:MTFH01539_2007-01-17_10
AMD spells out what it wants from Intel
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| The two companies sessions have "defined the universe in dispute".
| Intel has declined to produce documents that could show
| limitations on customers to buy chips from AMD, quotas for
| chip buying, and "other coercion, including threats of
| retaliation or retribution, for doing business with AMD
| (or not doing sufficient business with Intel)."
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36736
AMD claims key victory in Intel antitrust suit
,----[ Quote ]
| AMD filed suit against Intel in June 2005, charging Intel with
| employing anticompetitive practices in the sale of PC chips.
| Intel has denied the charges.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7b4FC79547-9443-4262-BF1E-5AFC9FCDB046%7d&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo
http://tinyurl.com/ynfnkz
AMD says court seeks data from Intel in antitrust case
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| Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said a U.S.
| federal court had overruled Intel Corp.'s
| objections in an ongoing antitrust litigation.
|
| The court has ordered Intel to produce documents and other
| evidence bearing upon its "exclusionary conduct" outside
| United States, AMD said in a statement.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/061228/amd_lawsuit_intel.html?.v=1
Court tells Intel to hand over foreign documents in antitrust case
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| In June 2005, AMD filed a massive antitrust lawsuit against Intel, accusing
| the larger CPU maker of abusing its dominant position in the worldwide PC
| market to prevent AMD's CPUs from making significant inroads. The suit
| alleges that Intel customers like Toshiba, Gateway, Dell, Hitachi, and
| others agreed to exclusive deals with Intel in exchange for "cash payments,
| discriminatory pricing or marketing subsidies conditioned on the exclusion
| of AMD."
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061217-8436.html
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