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[News] [Rival] Trouble for Bribery-filled WIntel This Week in the EU

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Trouble for Bribery-filled WIntel This Week in the EU
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 05:03:31 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Freelance
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
[Microsoft's 'hardware department', Linux laptops saboteur]

Intel to fight EU antitrust charges next week

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| Chipmaker Intel Corp will fight European Commission charges that it abused 
| its dominance and gave illegal rebates to drive a smaller competitor from the 
| market at a two-day closed hearing next week.  
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http://in.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idINIndia-32361020080308


Recent:

Microsoft dropped Vista hardware spec to raise Intel profits

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/03/01/microsoft_intel_vista_capable_emails/


Microsoft 'Caves' To Intel 

http://www.forbes.com/2008/02/28/microsoft-vista-intel-tech-ebiz-cx_wt_0228vista.html?partner=yahootix


Intel overwhelmed by EU complaints

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| So many charges, so little time.
| 
| Intel Chairman Craig Barrett appears overwhelmed by a European Union 
| investigation into the company's actions. Earlier this month, European 
| Competition Commission officials busted open Intel offices in Munich, hunting 
| for documents related to alleged price fixing with retailers. That raid added 
| to an existing EC investigation into Intel's business practices.    
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/02/22/intel_barrett_eu_gripe/


Related:

Investors sue Dell on payments from Intel: WSJ

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| An investor lawsuit seeking class-action status accuses Dell Inc. of
| improper accounting in its relationship with chip giant Intel,
| according to a media report published Thursday evening.
| 
| [...]
| 
| The suit alleges that Dell received at times as much as $1 billion
| a year in "secret and likely illegal" kickbacks in the form of
| "e-Cap" or "exception to corporate average pricing" payments"
| from Intel to ensure that Dell used no other chip supplier,
| according to The Journal.
`----

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/investors-sue-dell-payments-intel/story.aspx?guid=%7B400315B0%2DE375%2D4920%2DB300%2D784220BEFE35%7D&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo


U.S. DOJ joins lawsuit against HP, Sun, Accenture

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| Suit alleges that the three companies formed an alliance with vendors
| and have been giving each other kickbacks on government contracts
| since the late 1990s. 
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/04/19/HNdojjoinshpsunlawsuit_1.html


Lenovo got financial help from Intel, claim 

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| Journalists on the title said Lenovo is being paid a "pretty
| penny" from Intel to use its chips.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37670


Laptop-Project Founder Faults Intel

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| Oscar Becerra Tresierra, general director for educational technology at 
| Peru's Ministry of Education, says that after the country recently agreed to 
| buy 272,500 OLPC laptops for primary-school students, an Intel sales 
|                                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^
| representative tried "to scare us" by claiming the machines and their power 
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| adapters didn't work. "I don't feel very happy about it," he said. "We  
| wouldn't like the project to fail because somebody is spreading gossip about 
|                                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| the machines that doesn't turn out to be true."     
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119948070480568405.html?mod=googlenews_wsj


Intel: doing the dirty on OLPC

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| Intel’s agreement with the OLPC Foundation included a ‘non disparagement’ 
| clause, under which Intel and One Laptop promised not to criticize each 
| other, according to Nicholas Negroponte in the latest article in the Wall 
| Street Journal.   
| 
| Still Intel tactics have violated that repeatedly to kill OLPC efforts in 
| Nigeria, Libya, Pakistan, India, China and Intel is also still trying to pull 
| those tactics in Mexico, Brazil.  
| This is simply disgracefull of Intel, scandalous.
| 
| But Negroponte has signed an agreement saying that he is not allowed to 
| criticize Intel, so he is not allowed to talk about these shameless tactics 
| even though Intel is the one violating the agreement.  
| 
| So only independant voices on the Internet can get those messages of truth 
| out about Intels tactics. 
| 
| In Nigeria, Intel came and donated 3000 laptops to counter OLPC efforts, then 
| sells 17 thousand Classmates to Nigeria at a loss. 
| 
| Then Microsoft corrupted Nigerian officials with 400 thousand dollars to 
| install Windows XP on those instead of Mandriva Linux. 
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http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14124


Negroponte says Intel should be "ashamed of itself" 

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| He is furious that Intel's CEO Craig Barrett called the One Laptop a
| gadget. The Negroponte initiative is caught in the middle of a vicious 
| fight between AMD and Intel, he said.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39733


Not Such a Harsh Toke, Actually

,----[ Quote ]
| This is socially, economically, politically and otherwise innovative. It is 
| good for democracy too in some of the few remaining places that good thing is 
| having trouble getting hold. We regard that thing too lightly, I fear.  
| 
| The Gates | Otellini axis directly hurts us deeply. To me, it is a 
| particularly American shame. 
`----

http://fussnotes.typepad.com/plexnex/2007/11/not-such-a-hars.html


Intel slapped with new antitrust investigation

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| New York state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has launched an antitrust 
| investigation of Intel, after his office served a wide-ranging subpoena on 
| the chip giant.  
| 
| Cuomo is investigating whether Intel violated state and federal antitrust 
| laws by coercing customers to exclude its main rival, Advanced Micro Devices 
| (AMD), from the worldwide market for PC central processing units (CPUs), 
| Cuomo said in a news release.   
| 
| The subpoena seeks information on Intel's pricing practices and possible 
| attempts to exclude competitors through its market power, Cuomo's office 
| said.   
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http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsID=11099&pagtype=all


US antitrust group urges Intel investigation

,----[ Quote ]
| The American Antitrust Institute (AAI), a Washington DC lobby group, has 
| written an open letter to the Federal Trade Commission urging an 
| investigation of Intel's allegedly monopolistic business practices.  
|
| [...]
|
| AAI say its insistence of an investigation is based on allegations by AMD in 
| a private case and information obtained by the EC's complaint, which have not 
| been made public  
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/30/aai_wants_intel_probe_expansion/


The Fight for Fair and Open Competition

,----[ Quote ]
| AMD is an undisputed technology and innovation leader.
| 
| However, Intel's abusive, illegal monopolistic behavior is preventing 
| businesses and consumers alike from choosing freely between AMD and Intel  
| products. 
`----

http://breakfree.amd.com/en-us/antitrust.aspx


EC says Intel influenced bids for computer projects

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| The third type of allegation, however, was new, and sounded like a variety of 
| predatory pricing. “In the context of bids against AMD-based products for 
| strategic customers in the server segment of the market,” the commission 
| press release said, “Intel has offered CPUs on average below cost.”   
`----

http://legalpad.blogs.fortune.com/2007/08/03/ec-says-intel-influenced-bids-for-computer-projects/


AMD chief condemns Intel 'abuses'

,----[ Quote ]
| In 2005, after the Japan Fair Trade Commission found Intel guilty of 
| offering illegal rebates to Japanese PC makers, AMD filed an anti-trust 
| suit against its competitor in the U.S. District Court in Delaware. The 
| case has not been decided.
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/06/21/amd_ceo_condemns_intel_abuses/


AMD: Intel Destroyed Evidence in Antitrust Case

,----[ Quote ]
| In an unpublished statement to the U.S. District Court of Delaware,
| AMD alleges Intel allowed the destruction of evidence in pending
| antitrust litigation.
`----

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=6352


,----[ Quote ]
| In 2005, a unit of Shenzhen Donjin countersued, saying Intel engaged
| in monopolistic practices.
`----

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070514/china_intel_settlement.html?.v=7


Intel's anti-trust memos started vanishing from the top

,----[ Quote ]
| Chairman Craig Barrett, CEO Paul Otellini and sales chief Sean Maloney
| have appeared on a list of Intel employees thought to have deleted 
| e-mails possibly relevant to AMD's anti-trust lawsuit against its
| larger rival. The missing e-mails have thrust a livid state of mind
| onto AMD's lawyers who have very serious problems with Intel's
| rather lax document retention policy.
| 
| [...]
| 
| CEO Otellini appears to have been one of these troublesome employees.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/11/intel_tortellini_episode/

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