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Computer News Headlines Beware: Scamming results on Yahoo! Continue FTC presses on with Intel probe...nVidia lawsuit info 12-04-09 The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is pressing ahead with efforts to build an antitrust case against Intel, the world's largest maker of semiconductors, according to an attorney at rival Advanced Micro Devices and other people who have been contacted as part of the investigation. The FTC inquiry goes beyond issues raised in a now-resolved clash with AMD and involves Intel's relationship with rival Nvidia in the US$12 billion market for graphics chips, which handle computerized images, the people say. Regulators' efforts show Intel remains dogged by allegations of anticompetitive behavior despite the resolution in November of a long-standing antitrust lawsuit by AMD. In court papers filed in 2005, AMD accused Intel of bribing computer makers not to use its chips. Intel said on Nov. 12 it would pay US$1.25 billion in exchange for AMD's agreement to drop pending litigation. Read more  Google wants to unclog Net's DNS plumbing 12-04-09 The DNS is a crucial part of the Internet. It converts the text addresses people can remember into the numeric Internet Protocol addresses actually used to locate information on the Internet. Google wants to speed up a key part of the Internet's inner workings called the Domain Name System and is inviting technically savvy folks to try their ideas out. When you visit a Web page, a DNS server that's part of a vast distributed network often must perform that conversion--called resolving a host--many times. With the Google Public DNS service, Google wants to be that server. Read more Microsoft to plug critical IE hole targeted by exploit code 12-04-09 Microsoft said on Thursday that it will offer six updates for 12 vulnerabilities next week including a critical hole in Internet Explorer that affects Windows 7 and other current versions of the operating system for which exploit code has been released. Late last month, Microsoft said it was investigating an IE vulnerability after someone released proof-of-concept code affecting IE 6 and IE 7 that could be used to take control of computers. Read more |
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