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| Posted: Make a Site. It couldn't be any easier. You simply click file / new project, then a new project will form. Once you complete that, whenever you want to add a page, you go to the top left hand corner, and click the add button. It will ask you what kind of page you want - From Blog and Photo pages, to Blank and Contact pages as well. Simple as that. You can now choose from the abundance of themes that RapidWeaver has to offer, of you can download more themes form the Realmac Web site. Editing your site is also very easy and straightforward. You simply hit the edit button to edit the photos and text on that page, and if you want to see a preview of your site, just click preview to see a version of your site as it were up online. Publish a site. To publish your Web site you created with RapidWeaver, you press the publish button, and where you are presented with two methods of publishing. You can ether publish using your own domain name, or using your MobileMe account (previously .Mac). You fill out the form and push publish, and within a few minutes, you have a professional Web site. Features: You can mainly adjust almost anything you want about your Web site, whether it be the font, or the color a section of a theme, its all at your fingertips. Navigating through RapidWeaver is a breeze. Its so simple, straightforward, and professional. The buttons are laid out perfectly, and the menus are super easy to use and customize. Overall: I love RapidWeaver 4. It's so simple to use, and it gives me better results than iWeb ever will. With RapidWeaver 4, you can finally make sites with ease, and have them looking like a professional graphic artist designed it. I would definitely recommend giving RapidWeaver a try and see just how good your Web site comes out. You can try RapidWeaver for free for up to 30 days. My only gripe is that RapidWeaver 4 can only be used on a Mac running OS X 10.5 Leopard. RapidWeaver 4 retails for $79, but can be found on Realmac's Web site for $59. Happy Weaving! Related Articles: |
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| Posted: The Casual Entertainment label of Electronic Arts Inc. today announced plans to bring America's #1 educational bestseller, Brain Quest, to the Nintendo DS handheld system, just in time for back-to-school this September. In partnership with the New York based Workman Publishing Company, Inc., EA will release two Brain Quest games centered on the curriculum-based series that has sold more than 28 million copies: one for third and fourth graders, and another for fifth and sixth graders. "Brain Quest is EA Casual Entertainment's first educational game and we are thrilled to bring this beloved brand into the videogame space," said Robert Nashak, VP of Casual Studios, EA Casual Entertainment. "By adapting the series to the DS, we are able to reach today's tech savvy children and provide them with an educational experience that is interactive, engaging, and fun." Staying true to the curriculum-based card deck series, the Brain Quest video games are loaded with over 6,000 unique questions in each game, developed specifically for the third/fourth and fifth/sixth grade levels and can keep kids entertained whether in the car, at home, or while waiting for the school bus. The game's Brain Mode provides quick to the fun action that enables kids to jump right in, immersing themselves in fast-paced quiz games, as they answer questions on their favorite subjects: English, history, math, science, and geography. Brain Quest adds another element to the fun-a Quest Mode where players follow a light story that pits them against successively more difficult challenges in each category. The game's Multiplayer Mode allows players to challenge their friends and siblings or play cooperatively, so kids of all ages can get in on the action and enjoy the brain-twisting fun! Throughout the game, players who answer questions correctly score points to redeem collectibles that can be unlocked by winning achievements. These collectibles can then be used to customize up to six scenes in the game. The popular Brain Quest card decks, on which the games are based, are a phenomenon. "Brain Quest is a brand recognized by teachers, trusted by parents, and adored by kids," said Janet Harris, Brain Quest Publisher, Workman Publishing Company, Inc. "We are very pleased that Brain Quest will now be able to educate and entertain children through another medium, as a video game." Both Brain Quest games will be available September 2008 in North America and have a U.S. MSRP of $29.99. The games have not yet been rated by the ESRB. For more information or assets, visit the official Web site. [rssbullet:http://rss.api.ebay.com/ws/rssapi?FeedName=SearchResults&siteId=0&language=en-US&output=RSS20&catref=C5&sacur=0&from=R6&saobfmts=exsif&fts=2&dfsp=1&saslc=0&floc=1&sabfmts=0&saaff=afcj&ftrv=1&ftrt=1&fcl=3&frpp=25&afcj=471546&satitle=brain+quest&saslop=1&sacat=-1&fss=0]Related Articles: |
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| Posted: THQ Inc. today announced that UFC 2009 Undisputed, the company's debut videogame based on the renowned Ultimate Fighting Championship mixed martial arts organization, is in development for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, the PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system, and mobile devices. Featuring an authentic and comprehensive UFC atmosphere, including an extensive roster of the best mixed martial arts fighters in the world, UFC 2009 Undisputed is expected to begin shipping to retail outlets worldwide in spring 2009. "As the leading fighting videogame publisher, we feel the rising popularity of the UFC brand and its incredible mixed martial arts experience make UFC 2009 Undisputed the perfect addition to our expanding portfolio," said Bob Aniello, senior vice president, worldwide marketing, THQ. "UFC 2009 Undisputed is certain to be the most realistic fighting game to date, including advanced collision detection and AI systems that incorporate individual fighter styles." "UFC offers the fighting videogame genre a fresh and innovative look inside today's most exciting live sporting event in the world," said Dana White, president, UFC. "UFC 2009 Undisputed represents a significant opportunity for us to expand our growing, global audience and allow fans to step into the virtual Octagon to compete against the world's most prominent mixed martial arts fighters." More information about UFC 2009 Undisputed can be found here. [rssbullet:http://ah.pricegrabber.com/export_feeds.php?pid=hjehfab&document_type=rss&limit=25&topcat_id=all&category=topcat:all&col_description=1&form_keyword=ultimate+fighting]Related Articles: |
| Turmeric Shows Promise In Combating Diabetes And Obesity Posted: Turmeric, an Asian spice found in many curries, has a long history of use in reducing inflammation, healing wounds and relieving pain, but can it prevent diabetes? Since inflammation plays a big role in many diseases and is believed to be involved in onset of both obesity and Type 2 diabetes, Drew Tortoriello, M.D., an endocrinologist and research scientist at the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center at Columbia University Medical Center, and his colleagues were curious what effect the herb might have on diabetic mice. Dr. Tortoriello, working with pediatric resident Stuart Weisberg, M.D., Ph.D., and Rudolph Leibel, M.D., fellow endocrinologist and the co-director of the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center, discovered that turmeric-treated mice were less susceptible to developing Type 2 diabetes, based on their blood glucose levels, and glucose and insulin tolerance tests. They also discovered that turmeric-fed obese mice showed significantly reduced inflammation in fat tissue and liver compared to controls. They speculate that curcumin, the anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant ingredient in turmeric, lessens insulin resistance and prevents Type 2 diabetes in these mouse models by dampening the inflammatory response provoked by obesity. Their findings are the subject of a soon-to-be published paper in Endocrinology and were presented at ENDO 2008, the Endocrine Society's annual meeting in San Francisco this week. Turmeric (Curcuma longa) has no known dose-limiting toxicities in doses of up to at least 12 grams daily in humans. The researchers tested high-doses of a dietary curcumin in two distinct mouse models of obesity and Type 2 diabetes: high-fat-diet-fed male mice and leptin-deficient obese female mice, with lean wild-type mice that were fed low-fat diets used as controls. The inflammation associated with obesity was shown several years ago by researchers in the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center to be due in part to the presence of immune cells called macrophages in fat tissues throughout the body. These cells produce "cytokine" molecules that can cause inflammation in organs such as the heart, and islets of the pancreas, while also increasing insulin resistance in muscle and liver. Researchers hypothesized that by suppressing the number and activity of these cells, with turmeric or a drug with similar actions, it may be possible to reduce some of the adverse consequences of obesity. Curcumin administration was also associated with a small but significant decline in body weight and fat content, despite level or higher calorie consumption, suggesting that curcumin beneficially influences body composition. "It's too early to tell whether increasing dietary curcumin [through turmeric] intake in obese people with diabetes will show a similar benefit," Dr. Tortoriello said. "Although the daily intake of curcumin one might have to consume as a primary diabetes treatment is likely impractical, it is entirely possible that lower dosages of curcumin could nicely complement our traditional therapies as a natural and safe treatment." For now, the conclusion that Dr. Tortoriello and his colleagues have reached is that turmeric -- and its active anti-oxidant ingredient, curcumin -- reverses many of the inflammatory and metabolic problems associated with obesity and improves blood-sugar control in mouse models of Type 2 diabetes. In addition to exploring novel methods of curcumin administration to increase its absorption, they are also interested in identifying novel anti-inflammatory processes invoked by curcumin and in adapting those processes in the development of more potent curcumin analogues. [Alex Lyda @ Columbia University Medical Center] [rssbullet:http://ads.advertizer.net/api/rss.ashx?c=GB-147E&q=spice&ip=64.60.22.52]Related Articles: |
| Posted: Imagine a plane that has wings made out of glass. Thanks to a major breakthrough in understanding the nature of glass by scientists at the University of Bristol, this has just become a possibility. Despite its solid appearance, glass is actually a 'jammed' state of matter that moves very slowly. Like cars in a traffic jam, atoms in a glass can't reach their destination because the route is blocked by their neighbours, so it never quite becomes a 'proper' solid. For more than 50 years most scientists have tried to understand just what glass is. Work so far has concentrated on trying to understand the traffic jam, but now Dr Paddy Royall from the University of Bristol, with colleagues in Canberra and Tokyo, has shown that the problem really lies with the destination, not with the traffic jam. Publishing recently (22 June 2008) in Nature Materials, the team has revealed that glass 'fails' to be a solid due to the special atomic structures that form in a glass when it cools (ie, when the atoms arrive at their destination). Royall explained: "Some materials crystallize as they cool, arranging their atoms into a highly regular pattern called a lattice. But although glass 'wants' to be a crystal, as it cools the atoms become jammed in a nearly random arrangement, preventing it from forming a regular lattice. "Back in the 1950s, Sir Charles Frank in the Physics Department at Bristol University suggested that the arrangement of the 'jam' should form what is known as an icosahedron, but at the time he was unable to provide experimental proof. We set out to see if he was right." The problem is you can't watch what happens to atoms as they cool because they are just too small. So using special particles called colloids that mimic atoms, but are just large enough to be visible using state-of-the-art microscopy, Royall cooled some down and watched what happened. What he found was that the gel these particles formed also 'wants' to be a crystal, but it fails to become one due to the formation of icosahedra-like structures -- exactly as Frank had predicted 50 years ago. It is the formation of these structures that underlie jammed materials and explains why a glass is a glass and not a liquid -- or a solid. Knowing the structure formed by atoms as a glass cools represents a major breakthrough in our understanding of meta-stable materials and will allow further development of new materials such as metallic glasses. Metals normally crystallize when they cool, unfortunately stress builds up along the boundaries between crystals, which leads to metal failure. For example, the world's first jetliner, the British built De Havilland Comet, fell out of the sky due to metal failure. If a metal could be made to cool with the same internal structure as a glass and without crystal grain boundaries, it would be less likely to fail. Metallic glasses could be suitable for a whole range of products that need to be flexible such as aircraft wings, golf clubs and engine parts. [Cherry Lewis @ University of Bristol] [rssbullet:http://xml-us.amznxslt.com/onca/xml?Service=AWSECommerceService&Version=2005-07-26&Operation=ItemSearch&ContentType=text%2Fxml&SubscriptionId=1TNCMT2927RM2D7Z0FR2&ResponseGroup=Large&Style=http%3A%2F%2Ftagjag.com%2Fcss%2Famazon.xslt&SearchIndex=Blended&Keywords=aviation]Related Articles: |
| Leukemia Drug Could Save Lives Of Stroke Patients Posted: The drug tPA is the most effective treatment currently available for stroke patients, but its safety is limited to use within the first three hours following the onset of symptoms. After that, tPA may cause dangerous bleeding in the brain. However, in a study published today in Nature Medicine, investigators from the Stockholm Branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR) and the University of Michigan Medical School show that these problems might be overcome if tPA is combined with the leukemia drug, imatinib (Gleevec). The results demonstrate that imatinib greatly reduces the risk of tPA-associated bleeding in mice, even when tPA was given as late as five hours after the stroke had begun. The LICR team, in collaboration with the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, is now planning a clinical trial with imatinib in stroke patients. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 80 percent of the 15 million strokes that occur each year are caused by the type of blood clots in the brain that tPA can dissolve. Today, less than 3% of patients with this type of stroke receive tPA because the narrow safety window has often passed by the time a stroke patient reaches a hospital and is diagnosed. If the planned clinical trial with stroke patients in Sweden confirms the findings of the present study, there is great promise that imatinib or similar drugs could be administered to stoke patients to increase the therapeutic window of tPA. The basis for this novel proposal is the key growth factor PDGF-CC, which has now been discovered to control the blood brain barrier (a structure that normally shields the brain from the blood). When tPA acts on PDGF-CC, the blood-brain barrier becomes porous and can start to leak. Imatinib inhibits the detrimental effect of PDGF-CC by binding to its receptor PDGFR alpha, seemingly without hindering tPA's therapeutic effect, which is to break down clots that have lodged in the brain's blood vessels. "Ten years ago our research group identified the growth factor PDGF-CC, and we are now very excited having unraveled a mechanism in the brain involving this factor," says Professor Ulf Eriksson, who leads the LICR team. "This finding has indeed the potential to revolutionize the treatment of stroke." [Sarah White @ Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research] [rssbullet:http://rss.api.ebay.com/ws/rssapi?FeedName=SearchResults&siteId=0&language=en-US&output=RSS20&catref=C5&sacur=0&from=R6&saobfmts=exsif&fts=2&dfsp=1&saslc=0&floc=1&sabfmts=0&saaff=afcj&ftrv=1&ftrt=1&fcl=3&frpp=25&afcj=471546&satitle=stroke+screenings&saslop=1&sacat=-1&fss=0]Related Articles: |
| Olympics 'net Coverage from NBC - Microsoft Locks it Down Posted:  NBC announced two significant technology partnerships with Microsoft and Wavexpress today to provide 2008 Olympics coverage over the web. The new initiatives embody a natural evolution for Olympics coverage considering the times???but they're available only to users of Vista or Silverlight. Powered by Wavexpress' TVTonic Internet video service and client, NBC Olympics on the Go will allow owners of Media-Center-capable Windows Vista PCs (that's Home Premium and Ultimate) to download "up-to-HD" coverage on a sport-by-sport basis. Users can chose from a number of channels in Wavexpress' TVTonic client that NBC's coverage of the Beijing Games will be categorized into, and the NBC Olympics on the Go client will be able to access event coverage roughly 12 hours after an event ends. Ars Technica confirmed with Wavexpress that users will not be able to keep downloaded coverage indefinitely, though videos will remain playable at least for the duration of the games.Right away, the money makers must subvert one of the positives of the Olympics, keeping memories of the best of human endeavors - making money on memories is more important, so that anyone who wishes to keep a personal copy is out of luck. Never mind that the DVDs that will be for sale may not cover the event cherished, or offer only incomplete viewing. In addition to going Vista-only for this downloadable Olympics coverage, NBC will be cross-promoting the MSN brand on NBCOlympics.com and featuring Olympics coverage prominently on MSN.com. As Bill Gates announced at CES back in January, all video at the NBC Olympics site requires Silverlight, Microsoft's rich web application and video streaming technology that competes with Adobe's market-dominant Flash. Microsoft's been pushing Silverlight pretty hard lately, and if a lot of consumers don't have a reason to install it yet, the Beijing Games in August should be a good a reason as any.That gives two meanings now to the phrase 'Microsoft rich web application'. No matter what the legacy of Bill Gates becomes, it will, first and foremost, be that of master promoter. This is a story repeated over and over during the Microsoft years - from DOS 1.0 to the Windows tax. "Over the past 20 years, we have continually expanded our coverage of the Olympics to new platforms as they have become available, and the Beijing Games will mark another milestone," said Gary Zenkel, President, NBC Olympics, in a press release. "By teaming up with MSN and Microsoft, we can give both the core fan and casual consumer of the Olympic Games an amazing online experience, combining high-quality video with the storytelling and analysis that we're known for. We chose to partner with MSN and Microsoft," Zenkel continues, "because technologies such as Silverlight help us deliver the kind of next-generation online viewing experience that will change the way the Olympics is experienced for millions of fans in 2008."Obviously, someone must pay for this technology and content delivery, but isn't it possible to step away from the trough of greed during the Olympiad's two weeks? Providing summer Olympics coverage in a downloadable format like this is a natural evolution for NBC. For the 2004 Olympics, all the buzz was about the sheer amount of coverage NBC would be broadcasting (over 1,200 hours in total), as well as the introduction of over 300 hours of HD coverage from NBC and its affiliates. With NBC Olympics on the Go, consumers will have a convenient new option for bringing Olympics video footage with them, though the coverage will be sandboxed to PCs???and then just the ones running compatible versions of Vista.Vista or Silverlight wasn't needed for?? 7/7/07 (save the planet), and Microsoft was behind that too - was that the end of its philanthropy for the decade? As far as portable media players are concerned, "We are not addressing portable players with this service," Wavexpress told Ars Technica. "NBC has other distribution outlets for other platforms and types of experiences." NBC has yet to make any announcements for those hoping to bring 2008 Olympics footage in something more portable like an iPod, Zune, or PlaysForSure-compatible deviceMoney makes the world go round, but NBC and Microsoft could have been the world's benefactor for two weeks, and everyone would have acknowledged their beneficence - it would translate to dollars and good will down the line. Why was that not enough? - Technorati Tags: Microsoft - NBC - Olympics - Vista - Silverlight - Bill Gates Related Articles: |
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| Posted: Sandvine creates deep packet inspection (DPI) gear that is used by ISPs like Comcast to inspect and sometimes throttle Internet traffic, and the company has been the target of a fair amount of online ire for its work. But CEO Dave Caputo says that it's all one big misunderstanding; what he really wants to do with his company is focus on "improving the quality of the experience of the Internet and trying to make the world a better place." Caputo made the remarks in an interview with the CBC's Peter Nowak, and it's worth reading in full. Apart from one odd interlude where Caputo suggests that those who favor network neutrality laws also want to destroy copyright, it's an interesting conversation that largely circles around a single point: ISP overselling.So rather than blame the users, lets lay the blame where it belongs, with the ISPs who oversell ,and have been making lots of money on infrastructure that was paid for years ago, and should be updated anyway. Like operators of other networks (road, airlines, etc.), just about every ISP in the world attempts to sell bandwidth to users on the assumption that it will not be used 24/7.?? In fact, it can't be used continuously at top speed because the ISP lacks a connection to the Internet that can handle simultaneous full-speed traffic from all users. (We've noted before that the Internet backbone has plenty of room at the moment; it's last-mile providers and their networks that are experiencing congestion issues.)It is amazing to hear this, as other reports state that the problem is the back bone, and needs updating ??? either way, the infrastructure is in need, and the problem is that the ISPs are wanting to soak the users, when in fact those very same users have paid many times over for the upgrades.?? All the time that people were paying around $20 dollars per month for dial-up, the ISPs should have been putting that money in accounts reserved for upgrades. Now that most have moved to broadband, they want to take advantage of the plan that was offered ??? all you can eat access. That was the promise that was given by the ISPs to gain lots of user dollars, it is now time to keep to their part of the bargain. As Sandvine puts in it a white paper on net neutrality ("A Broadband Wild West?"), "This over-subscription model is observed regularly in our modern life.?? For example, with water supply???everyone has experienced a hot-water scalding when another household member flushes the toilet.?? This is a graphic example of the water supply unable to fulfill the simultaneous demands of different users." (Note to whichever Sandvine employee wrote this: please contact a professional plumber. This should not, in fact, be happening, and your scalded back will thank me for making you fix the problem.)As the author points out, this is a bad example. When people are presented with this fact, one common response is to call the ISPs thieving bastards who should "give me what I've paid for." ISPs are quite careful not to promise the speeds they advertise, though, and this response generally misses the fact that dedicated bandwidth would cost far more than people currently pay. This realization often leads to the second response, which is, "Give me some way to pay for the bandwidth I actually want to use, don't just hobble certain applications or block encrypted traffic or reset my BitTorrent transfers." This in turn usually spawns a debate about metered Internet access, which is complicated by the fact that it seems ultra-fair, on one level, but it would also likely stymie the development of new, high-bandwidth services.This should not be a problem with unlimited access, all that is needed is a quick trip to the dictionary, to refresh the memories of the ISPs. And should that not work, the companies trying to push content could simply pay for the users extra bandwidth ??? but that assumes that the first, and best, plan has not worked. For instance, I've become a helpless devotee of Hell's Kitchen on Hulu, the NBC/FOX joint online venture; it's so bad that I don't even know when the show actually airs. But if I paid by the gigabyte for an unthrottled, uncensored connection, I'd find out when Hell's Kitchen aired on TV, watch it then, and stop watching Hulu. No big deal, except that by not watching Hulu, I wouldn't have discovered the flawed but still-fascinating show Startup Junkies, and I wouldn't be contributing to the on-demand video revolution. Net neutrality is "laughable" What Caputo seems to think he's doing with Sandvine is enabling "all-you-can-eat" models at reasonable prices. People who argue for network neutrality are "painting the service providers into a corner," he says in the interview. "If all packets are created equal then it's equal utility and we should be charging on a per-packet basis, and I don't think anybody wants to go there."Perhaps this could be like other things, where we honor current agreements, and latecomers are under their own agreements ??? all sorts of companies do this, why should ISPs be any different? Without traffic management, especially of P2P, the idea is that prices would either go up or congestion might reach truly terrible new heights, and Caputo believes that most users would rather just throttle P2P; let it work, but slowly and in the background, so that ISPs don't need to make expensive infrastructure improvements and everyone can continue eating at the buffet for $30 or $40 a month. We might also see tiers emerge that allow P2P users free rein for, say $70 a month, while non-P2P users could keep paying lower prices. Caputo insists, "it's going to be laughable in the next two or three years that people used to say all packets should be treated equally."Again we are back to faulty reasoning. It also shows that there needs to be more, not less competition. For instance, if you like McDonald???s burgers, but the price of a Quarter Pounder with Cheese is too much to take, you can go to Burger King or Jack in the Box, and get a good, and almost equivalent burger. If everyone felt the same, because the price went up on the QPC for no apparent reason, McDonalds would soon get the picture, and reduce the price to reasonable levels. The fact that McDs had to buy new grills would have little to do with it, you would not stand for them raising prices for a new grill, as you would expect the profits from all of the previous QPCs sold should have paid for necessary maintenance and upgrades. If it did not, the company would not survive (forgive me here, for this analogy, we are assuming that McDs sells little other than QPCs) Of course, it's probably no accident that Caputo's vision of a tiered Internet where throttlers are the good guys just happens to need his products in every network. And while his vision has a compelling logic too it, it's a logic that only makes sense in a truly competitive environment where ISPs can't simply install such tools as a way to artificially hike per-bit prices and pick "winners and losers" on the 'Net.Yes, self-interest tends to cloud judgement. But Caputo didn't get into the DPI business because he loved controversy; he did it because real-time traffic identification was a "cool" problem to solve. "We're going to attack a problem where we can't imagine there's a more difficult problem," he said of setting up Sandvine. "I take nothing away from rocket scientists or biologists who are trying to cure cancer, but in our domain we really couldn't think of a more difficult problem, and that really excited us."This is the problem with many voices in this debate. Self-interest, bad logic, and superficial reasoning will not get us anywhere, it only makes clear choices impossible. - Technorati Tags: net neutrality - tiered service - ISP - last mile congestion - infrastructure Related Articles: |
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| Posted:  The people at the FTC must have some kind of a phobia when it comes to investigating Intel. It seems when they get bored, they start on a Intel witch hunt, which usually doesn???t amount to anything. It smacks of when Congress calls in the oil companies to determine if they are making excess profits. Nothing happens in those investigations either. ?? So today when I read of another FTC investigation of Intel, I did a Google and found this from October 2007 ?? Source of FTC not wanting to investigate. ?? ?? in which the FTC appeared to be slow in investigating Intel once again for unfair tactics against AMD. ?? This story from back in September 1997, in which it stated:
For years, chip rivals have complained about the aggressive business practices of Intel, whose chips serve as the central processing ''brain'' in more than 80 percent of personal computers. PC makers who use Intel's chips have at times bridled at their dependence on a single supplier. ?? Source 1997 FTC investigation
?? There are other articles which basically show a pattern of abuses by Intel that usually end up with a hand slapping, but never really address the main issue. That is that large corporations know that they can get away with illegal competition practices since the profits far out weigh any penalty that may be imposed. ?? South Korea just fined the chip maker $25 million for alleged rebate kick backs. But no one has mentioned how much Intel actually made from the illegal activity. ?? So the question is should the FTC even bother investigating Intel? Does anyone really care? ?? Comments welcome.
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