OLPC project distributes second round of beta units
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| According to the release notes, the final release version of OLPC's XO
| laptop will be faster and more durable than the BTest-2 units and will
| include several additional features.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070302-8962.html
Intel to target Brit education
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| Sadly the newspaper wasn't able to name which particular manufacturer
| Intel has in mind to provide the units for this particular project.
| Nor did it say whether the laptops will have to pay the infamous
| Redmond tithe rather than being Linux based.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37983
Intel is scared of OLPC. Not only does it cheat in order to compete with AMD
(see below), but it also spreads FUD. Their links with Microsoft are tight.
Related:
Video: Henri Richard comes out swinging at Intel during AMD press conference
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| [AMD's Henri Richard:] "I am sick and tired of being pushed around
| by a competitor that doesn't respect the rules of fair and open
| competition."
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=363
Intel says it's appealing $2.2 billion tax hit from IRS
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| Intel Corp. said in a filing to the Securities and Exchange
| Commission that it's appealing a ruling by the Internal Revenue
| Service over a tax benefit for export sales. If the IRS prevails,
| Intel could take a $2.2 billion plus interest hit on its federal
| income tax due 1999 through 2005.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7b97B9E67E-EC8D-42B6-A36A-4C1D04E97DC1%7d&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo
http://tinyurl.com/2vuoa7
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.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/investors-sue-dell-payments-intel/story.aspx?guid=%7B400315B0%2DE375%2D4920%2DB300%2D784220BEFE35%7D&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo
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_10-23-02_BRU005303&type=comktNews&rpc=44
Henri Richard: AMD's bad guy
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| At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Richard, at a
| breakfast meeting, did his duty again. He said the Intel Inside
| program and other marketing promotions Intel has used over the
| years have killed profitability for PC makers.
|
| "The industry was saddled with a very successful marketing
| program that sucked all of the profit out of the industry," he
| said. In China, PC makers can avoid these programs and "not
| become a hostage."
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http://news.com.com/2061-13053_3-6148717.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
http://tinyurl.com/yf475k
AMD bemoans Intel's benchmark presentation
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| "All I want is a level playing field where we are just talking the
| truth. I've never met a chief information officer that wonders
| what the nanometre [scale] in his processor is. They don't care,
| they don't want to care, " said Richard.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37934
Intel mocks OLPC, as usual. Microsoft did the same until it was too late and
now they try to be part of it.
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
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