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Intel Gets Slapped With A Huge Fine

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Intel has been hitting the news lately, some good & some bad. the European commission just hit Intel with a fine of US$ 1.45 billion for violating the EC treaty & abusing their power unethically between October 2002 & December 2007. AMD had already filed complaints along these lines with the EC in 2000, 2003 & 2006, which urged a further investigation into this issue.

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A summary of the claims are as follows:
Intel allegedly gave hidden rebates to computer manufacturers & encouraged them to only stock up on their x86 CPUs. They also allegedly paid a major retailer to delay the launch of their competitors products.

The manufacturers that have been identified are Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo & NEC.

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Nokia N900 Hands On Video

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Here is a Introductory video of new Nokia N900 from The Nokia Blog.

This is a Mobile Powerhouse in shape of a Mobile Handset. N900 is Nokia’s first ever handset powered by Maemo OS, a Linux-based operating system that is backed by major players like Intel and Nokia itself. The 600 MHz Processor and 256 MB of RAM making it a small computer. Graphics are powered by a PowerVR SGX 530 graphics processor (OpenGL 2.0).

The video is about 6:28 minutes long and 40 MB is size.

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Nokia N97 2.0 Firmwire 20.0.0.5

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This is a video review of Nokia N97 Firmware 20.0.0.5 from The Nokia Blog. This update will let you have kinetic scrolling and a lot of new apps in your existing N97. It also consumes less memory and freeing up and incresing the Built-in Phone Memory by 20%.

The newly introduced Applications contains some useful apps like Facebook Widget which lets you access your Facebook account easily from N97 and connect with your friends and social contacts.

It also have an app with which you can sync your contacts and calenders with Google (GMail) Contacts and Google Calender.

All the other pre-existing apps like Youtube, Flickr, Nokia Maps, OVI Store is also present. The scheduled worldwide release of this firmware upgrade is October, 2009.

This Video is about 3 Minutes and 30 Seconds long and a must watch video if you are planning to buy a new N97 or upgrade to the latest Firmware.

Below is another video from SymbianWorld,Its a long video of about 7 Minutes and 53 Seconds.

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