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Intel's Unclear Laptop Program for Children in Developing World
Nicholas
Negroponte, head of the charity, stated that Intel
repetitively undetermined its non-for-profit scheme, meant to provide cheap
laptops to children living in developing countries.
Cosmetic Surgery Clinics Criticized for Pressure Advertising
The consumer magazine entitled Which? states that today cosmetic surgery provides various
procedures available at low and in less time spending.
According to the magazine its representatives were
able to find 8 clinics that presumably violate the rules by doing, what is
called, "pressure
advertising".
Samsung Hopes to Restrict Sharp's LCD Panels on the U.S. Market
This time Samsung
is the one to fill in the
The patent-infringement
lawsuit that Sharp filed some time ago against Samsung Electronics presumably served as the reason why the biggest
producer of semiconductors recently decided
to fill a patent-infringement lawsuit against the manufacturer of LCD panel. The lawsuit is filled with
the U.S. International Trade Commission
and the Tokyo District Court.
1.5 Billion Pounds Spent on Games
Statistics registered that gamers from the
A $1 Million Award for Developers of Open Source Software
Officials from the American vendor of computers, components,
software, and IT services, Sun
Microsystems, have stated that the company started a new program aimed
towards independent software
developers. The winner of the program will receive a prize of $1 million. Companies willing to take
part in the program will have to contribute to the open source software projects
launched by the company.
AMD Says Sorry in Front of Financial Analysts
The annual meeting with financial analysts, held by AMD, turned into a wave of apologies
from the company's representatives to experts from Wall Street. AMG said sorry for the mistakes that occurred this
year. The company stated that in 2008 it would get in full shape by launching
its renewed version of
More Privacy Guaranteed by Ask
InterActive Corp.'s search engine, Ask,
announced the introduction of a new online tool that will be able to help
people who surf the Internet keep their history of search private. The new tool was entitled AskEraser and with its help users will be able to delete any data
regarding the searches they made on the Ask website, this includes the
elimination of information from the company's servers.
One More Complaint over Microsoft
A Norwegian company that develops Web browsers, being supported by an industry coalition, has filed a complaint against the software giant to the European Commission. It is worth mentioning that this is the first complaint after earlier this year Microsoft lost a case regarding the landmark antitrust.
Yahoo to Use Content from CNBC
One of the most popular news websites, Yahoo Finance, on December 12, will
start the distribution of its content from CNBS,
a channel for business news.
According to the executives, the deal between the two parties will serve well for the video options of Yahoo as well as for the visibility of CNBC.com.
China and India Registered Huge Growth in Mobile Service Industry
Statistics for the last year show that Chinese users of mobile phones sent about 429 billion text messages. At the same
time