Federal prosecutors on Friday in Boston has alleged that Biswamohan Pani (who was fired by AMD in 2008) had downloaded Intel’s some of “most valuable” design and manufacturing documents back in June 2008 – the chip giant Intel was not aware at the time of the downloads that Pani and stated that he had begun working at AMD. Intel estimated the company secrets to be worth at least $200 million to $400 million. Pani faces upto 20 years in Jail on each count and is scheduled to be sentenced on August 8. Drew Prairie, a spokesman for...
A controversy rounded up in the wake up of Fox News’ discovery – reports via BoingBoing – that the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a United Nations organization, has shipped around $50,000 of computer equipments to North Korea, against UN sanctions. The purpose of the computer equipment was to give North Korea access to the WIPO’s...
Samsung has unveiled a pink color of its five million selling device Samsung’s Galaxy Note has been made available in South Korea today. The company explicitly states its desire to go after women with the product. There is still no confirmed news year that whether it is out for sale in the country or not – but better fit – since the company has made it debuted,...
Talking with the Wall Street Journal, Cisco CEO John Chambers identified his company’s biggest rival: China’s Huawei, stating that the Chinese company does not always play by rules in areas such as intellectual protection and computer security. Huawei image has been increasingly under fire, as earlier Australian government banned the company to bid for contracts in country which later was backed up. Huawei’s response, as the WSJ reports, was to emphasize that it does have “a strong history of respect for the intellectual...
Earlier last week we reported that Asus was working on releasing a free GPS dongle to Transformer Prime owners to help fix some of the tablet’s positioning issues and now the company has confirmed to AllThingsD that the said to be rumors are true. The company stated in its plans to address GPS reception issues with its Transformer Prime tablet by releasing kit...
VR-Zone – via Gadgets Tip – claims to have leaked specification sheet detailing the company’s next generation of Tegra chips, codenamed “Wayne”. There will be at least four different Tegra models coming in 2013 on which the company is working on, alleged that all are having the same architecture as that of Tegra 3. The flagship 1.8GHz T40 is said to...
Sony announced through its blog post that it is working on to resolve audio issues that have resulted in its PS3 Stereo Headset problem ever since version 4.10 of the console’s firmware was release back in February. The software update added a new feature “sidetone” to the headset, allowing gamers to better hear their own voice during online multiplayer sessions....
Reuters – via the Japanese Nikkei business daily – is reporting that Sony is planning to cut its global workforce by 10,000 workers, or about 6 percent of its entire workforce by as early as the end of 2012. The cuts are part of a broader cost-cutting measure that may include asking seven of the company’s executive directors including Chairman Howard Stringer to return their bonuses. The company’s CEO Kazuo Hirai even to brief on business plan on April 12th. ...
The social giant last month unveiled Messenger for Window and now Facebook for Android is running towards making in the Google Play Store’s top ten. Facebook has released an update to Facebook Messenger with the update includes tweaked UI and has made it simpler and faster to start up both one-on-one and group conversation. Better support for Ice Cream Sandwich...
When BioWare flips the switch on the Mass Effect 3 patch, Shepard will look like his/her old self next week, which is expected to resolve many of the requested problems with the space opera. No. The patch is expected to go live on April 9 for PC and April 10 for Xbox 360 and PS3. The biggest fix for Mass Effect is that if players imported their Mass Effect 1 custom...
