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Chrome OS Means Google CEO Reviewing Role on Apple Board

Chrome OS Means Google CEO Reviewing Role on Apple Board

Speaking at the Allen & Company media and technology conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, this week, Google CEO Eric Schmidt indicated that Google’s newly-announced Chrome OS means that he will have to speak with Apple about how his role on the Apple Board of Directors might change. Google’s Chrome OS will presumably be in direct competition with Apple’s own Mac OS X operating system products. The position not only creates a potential conflict of interest, but federal law prohibits individuals from being on the boards of multiple companies if it decreases competition between them.

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LG Recalls 30,000 Phones Due to Poor 911 Capability

LG Recalls 30,000 Phones Due to Poor 911 Capability

Electronics maker LG, in conjunction with th Consumer Product Safety Commission, has issued a recall for 30,000 LG 830 Spyder mobile phones due to poor voice quality on calls to 911 emergency services and difficulties maintaining phone connections. The recalled phones have software versions T83LGV03 and T83LGV04; users can check the software version on their phone by selecting “Phone Information” from the handset’s Settings menu.

Impacted users can get a free software upgrade from their wireless carrier or LG Electronics MobileComm to resolve the problem. The handsets were sold from September through November 2008 at a number of retail outlets in the northwest and southeastern United States (Alaska, Idaho, Washington, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and Puerto Rico) via a number of regional wireless carriers.

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Sony CEO Knocks the Wii, Can’t Knock Sales

Sony CEO Knocks the Wii, Can

Just as in boxing, episodes of Jerry Springer, and presidential elections, things can get rather snippy between players in the console wars. Sony CEO Howard Stringer demonstrated that quite clearly last week with comments about the Nintendo Wii that knocked its viability as a competitor for Sony.

Speaking at a media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho , Stringer dismissed the Wii as competition for the PlayStation 3, despite Nintendo’s stranglehold on sales in the console market. “I’ve played a Nintendo Wii,” Stringer said, according to Bloomberg. “I don’t see it as a competitor. It’s more of an expensive niche game device. We’re selling a lot of PlayStation 3s now and it’s still the best way to buy a Blu-ray player.”

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HP Plans to Trim Back Printer Business

The Wall Street Journal has reported (and other sources confirm) tech giant Hewlett-Packard is planning to reorganize its printer business, downsizing from five units to three in an effort to achieve more operational efficiency. The changes will consolidate the company’s laser printer and commercial printer units, merge the inkjet printer unit with consumer supplies, and install a new head for its graphics unit.

HP told employees the changes will not involve any large-scale layoffs, but the company has already cut hundreds of printing-related positions in its Idaho, Washington, and Oregon facilities.  Read more...

TV Remote Co-Inventor Robert Adler Dies

TV Remote Co-Inventor Robert Adler Dies

Thousands of new inventions are registered (or stolen) and reach the global marketplace every year, but only a tiny handful become staples of modern life. The telegraph, the telephone, the lightbulb, and radio were each breakthroughs which had tremendous impacts on today’s culture, but one de facto standard of modern life probably rests in your hand every day: the television remote control.

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Sony BMG Settles with 39 States

Following immediately on its settlements with Texas and California, music label Sony BMG has agreed to pay some $4.25 million as part of settlement agreements with 39 U.S. states and the District of Columbia regarding copy protection software included on some of the labels music CDs which caused computers to malfunction and exposed users to security threats.  Read more...

DirecTV Settles for $5 Mln Plus Refunds

Satellite television provider DirecTV has agreed to pay $5 million and restitution to thousands of customers to settle a 21-state investigation into complaints about the company’s advertising and marketing practices, undisclosed fees, channel availability, and cancellation policies.

The settlement was announced by the office of New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. The investigation began in early 2003 in response to consumer complaints regarding DirecTV satellite service; customers reported that advertised shows and local programming weren’t always available, specific sports programming was sporadically blacked out, reception was poor, and cancellation fees were both unfair and not disclosed upon entering into a DirecTV subscription contracts.  Read more...

Samsung Pleads Guilty to RAM Price Fixing

Korean electronics manufacturer Samsung Electronics and its U.S. subsidiary Samsung Semiconductor, Inc., have agreed to plead guilty to charges it conspired with fellow chipmakers to fix prices from DRAM (computer memory) from 1999 to 2002, thereby cheating consumers who were forced to pay artificially inflated prices for computers and other technology. The company will also pay a $300 million fine, the largest criminal fine levied by the Justice Department since 1999, and the second largest in U.S. history.  Read more...

Crucial Ships 1GHz Ballistix Memory

Idaho’s Crucial Technology has announced the immediate availability of new high-performance 512 MB and 1 GB DDR2 memory modules. The high-bandwidth 1GHz PC2-8000 is a 2.2V DDR2-1000 module priced at $165.99 for 512 MB and $330.99 for 1 GB, with 5-5-5-15 latency timings. The new 2.1V PC2-6400 (DDR2-800) and PC2-5300 (DDR2-677) modules offer lower latencies (4-4-4-12 and 3-3-3-12, respectively) designed for use with Intel 925XE and 955X chipsets.  Read more...

Micron Heads Back Into The Black

But the revenue line and the fact that Micron, is back in the black, shows that the DRAM market is picking up at long last. Compare and contrast with Q1 last year, when the company, America’s last DRAM maker, produced a net loss of $315.9m on sales of $685.1m.

And the market will stay picked up in the medium term, according to IDC, which is forecasting industry revenue increases in 2004 and 2005. And then in 2006, as is the way of the memory market, over-production will see revenue falls once more.  Read more...

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