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Dell trying to sidestep chip 'cartel'
News I think we saw cartel-like behaviour by a couple of DRAM suppliers. Dell has opened up relationships with a wider variety of memory manufacturers to curb the effect of recent price hikes in memory chips, chief executive Michael Dell said on Tuesday.
[May 1, 2002, 16:48]
Crack the network cartel, analysts warn
News If there is too much of a cosy cartel, bodies like the EU and the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) will step in to make sure the free market is upheld," he said. Currently, the ownership of the networks that make up the Internet is in the...
[February 17, 1999, 14:56]
EC smartcard cartel raid companies named
Blog The semiconductor companies raided by European Commission anti-competition inspectors in October were STMicroelectronics, NXP, Infineon, and Renesas, according to a Reuters article. Inspectors were looking for evidence of price-fixing, customer...
[January 8, 2009, 16:35]
EC raids smartcard firms in cartel investigation
News The European Commission has carried out a number of unannounced inspections of smartcard firms in various European Union member states as part of an investigation into anti-competitive behaviour. The raids of "several" European semiconductor...
[January 7, 2009, 16:34]
AMD fires another antitrust salvo at Intel
News This latest complaint was filed last week with Germany's Federal Cartel Office, or Bundeskartellamt. AMD had already received similar information, so we decided to file a formal complaint with the Federal Cartel Office," explained AMD spokeswoman...
[July 17, 2006, 13:50]
Monti to Microsoft: Guilty as charged
News The highest fine so far was for Roche in a vitamin cartel case. It's a much finer line in abuse of dominance cases than when you're dealing with a cartel. Dominance cases are generally considered more complex than cartel cases, said Francis of...
[March 24, 2004, 10:25]
Amazon.com implicated in CD-import row
Talkback The UK recording industry is operating an illegal cartel with the big retail chains, Virgin, HMV, etc. Disgraceful. Neither can understand the principle of free trade, and are simply running scared as they see their ridiculous profit margins, and...
[February 5, 2004, 9:49]
Paris offered Microsoft discount
Talkback Worse than a monopoly, Microsoft acts like a drug cartel, and unlike other "monopolies" (like AT&T, which was forced to cut up it's morp into divisions while competitors were allowed to branch into all of the telecom areas and cable unstopped...
[January 3, 2005, 5:31]
Software giant threatens mikerowesoft
Talkback I guess I'd better take my angelsoft.com site down before I'm taken to court by the toilet paper cartel.
[January 19, 2004, 15:57]
Software giant threatens mikerowesoft
Talkback An yet we continue to support the Microsoft cartel. Unreal . This guy is using his own name to build a nice little web design business and doesnt need the hassle of the arrogant Bill Gates. Although he believes Microsoft rule the world, they dont.
[January 21, 2004, 13:10]
CDWow.com settlement means dearer CDs
Talkback So yet again the British consumer is being taken for a ride, The BPI is nothing but a Cartel trying to keep the cost of CD's high. No wonder people resort to piracy.
[January 22, 2004, 15:40]
LinkedOut - when business networks don't let you network
Blog Comment A closed cartel. Sounds like they are shooting themselves in the foot! Of course there is always the possibility that this is how they want things.
[October 13, 2008, 23:08]
Amazon.com implicated in CD-import row
Talkback If shops here are having their minimum sell price controlled by a cartel then the law is being broken. Just a few sticky points for the BPI to consider. Isn't price fixing illegal ? Am I breaking the law if I pick up a copy whilst in a different...
[January 15, 2004, 9:25]
Murdoch versus the Net? Game on.
Blog Comment I think it would have to be all or nothing, I think both the telcos and the media moguls know this, and I think that it's well within their abilities to form a de-facto cartel to facilitate themselves.
[November 11, 2009, 8:51]
Star Trek: Star Fleet Command
Downloads Experience Romulan retribution on a sinister Orion Pirate cartel. The Starfleet Command demo includes a limited number of Federation and Klingon ships, just a few single player and multiplayer scenarios, and a starter set of Federation tutorials...
[May 6, 2000, 7:00]
Most Wanted Fugitives
Downloads Lend your support to the efforts of the FBI to put an end to the global terror plans of Usama Bin Laden; to the drug cartel of Diego Leon Montoya Sanchez, the Columbian drug leader; to the numerous murder writs by the crime syndicate of James J.
[June 14, 2007, 8:00]
Oiling the wheels of education
News Even by oil-cartel standards, Qatar's wealth is extraordinary. Qatar sits on 14 percent of the world's proven reserves of natural gas, ranking it third behind Russia and Iran. Its $30bn gross domestic product has grown an average of 19 percent in...
[January 23, 2006, 12:20]
(Game) - BruceLee - Nokia N-Gage
Downloads Unfortunately, Won took to a life of crime, as the head of the Oolong cartel. Bruce Lees master has been murdered by Oolong assassins, on orders from their leader ? Fei Won.Fei Won and Master were best friends, and top students at their school.
[February 23, 2006, 6:00]
(Game) - BruceLee - Nokia 6600
Downloads Unfortunately, Won took to a life of crime, as the head of the Oolong cartel. Bruce Lees master has been murdered by Oolong assassins, on orders from their leader ? Fei Won.Fei Won and Master were best friends, and top students at their school.
[February 23, 2006, 6:00]
Six arrested over 'Nigerian email' frauds
News South African police believe that the six people are part of an international fraud and drug-dealing cartel, and have been sending out many thousands of email and letters in an attempt to defraud. Six people were arrested in South Africa last...
[May 21, 2002, 14:13]
