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Intel plans to defend Patents against AMD
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Intel Corp said on Tuesday it has "serious questions"
about a deal announced by Advanced Micro Devices to spin off its manufacturing
business and focus on chip design, and is ready to defend its patents.
Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy said that AMD and Intel have a patent
cross-licensing agreement under which AMD pays royalties to Intel.
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Posted on Wed, 8 Oct 2008 08:02:23 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Oracle buys Primavera Software
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Oracle announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Primavera Software, Inc., a leading provider of Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solutions for project-intensive industries. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close in the second half of 2008. Until the deal closes, each company will continue to operate independently.
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Posted on Wed, 8 Oct 2008 07:50:22 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
CBS wins weeklong Ratings Race
Topic: News Ticker
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - In the second week of the broadcast season,
CBS replaced ABC as the top network thanks to a strong lineup of competitive
performers.
CBS won the week in both total viewers and the key adults 18-49 demographic,
while ABC's "Dancing with the Stars" was once again the most-watched show.
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Posted on Wed, 8 Oct 2008 06:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
VeriSign sells Jamba Stake to News Corp
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp has taken full ownership of mobile content
provider Jamba by buying VeriSign Inc's 49 percent stake for about $200 million,
the two companies said on Tuesday.
Jamba makes content such as wallpapers, ringtones and games for mobile phones.
It also offers short episodes -- called "mobisodes" -- of some Fox TV series,
including "24," "Prison Break" and "Bones," for phones.
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Posted on Tue, 7 Oct 2008 10:33:43 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
X-Files Star David Duchovny leaves Sex Rehab
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor David Duchovny, who plays a womanizing novelist on
the cable television series "Californication," has completed a rehabilitation
program for sex addiction, his attorney said on Monday.
Duchovny, former star of the "X-Files" films and TV series, is married to
actress Tea Leoni and they have two children.
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Posted on Tue, 7 Oct 2008 10:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Bank savers run at the Click of a Mouse
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By Reed Stevenson and Steve Slater
AMSTERDAM/LONDON (Reuters) - What if there were a run on a bank and no one knew?
In recent days some U.S. media have focused on a "silent run" on the deposits of
Wachovia bank, which is now being taken over, after a bailout plan stalled and
its rival Washington Mutual was seized.
Commentators including Nouriel Roubini, Professor of Economics at New York
University's Stern School of Business, have highlighted the scope for quiet
withdrawals by depositors whose assets exceed guaranteed levels.
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Posted on Tue, 7 Oct 2008 08:52:26 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
The Foundry Company is officially launched by AMD and ATIC
Topic: News Ticker
AMD and Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC) officially announce the intention to create a new global enterprise, The Foundry Company. As reported earlier AMD is going fabless to cut costs.
The Foundry Company is said to begin with key strengths needed to build a successful leading-edge manufacturing company: a history of manufacturing excellence through AMD, committed capital, talented workforce and intellectual capital, and a strong, long-term technology partnership with IBM.
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Posted on Tue, 7 Oct 2008 06:46:32 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Oscar's new Documentary Rules become hot Topic
Topic: News Ticker
By Steven Zeitchik
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - A controversy is brewing over a change to
Oscar's feature documentary rules.
Because of the change -- which required a one-week qualifying run in New York by
August 31 -- one of the year's most buzzed-about documentaries, the Israeli
animated film "Waltz With Bashir," won't be eligible for consideration. A host
of executives and festival veterans are calling on the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences to revise the rule.
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Posted on Tue, 7 Oct 2008 06:37:23 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
AMD hives off Factories in bid to fight Intel
Topic: News Ticker
By David Lawsky
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices said on Tuesday it
will hive off its pricey manufacturing plants, get a cash injection and shrink
its debt to compete harder against bigger rival Intel for market share.
Two Abu Dahabi state-owned venture capital companies are backing the move. One
will put up at least $5.7 billion into the spun off factories and the other will
buy more than $300 million in AMD stock and warrants.
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Posted on Tue, 7 Oct 2008 05:21:20 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
U.S. Actors Union Leader confident on Strike Vote
Topic: News Ticker
By Steve Gorman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Screen Actors Guild leaders said on Monday they are
confident union members will support authorizing a strike against major
Hollywood studios if the issue is put to a vote, despite a faltering U.S.
economy.
Seeking to break a three-month-old deadlock in contract talks with the studios,
SAG negotiators last week urged the union's national governing board to call for
a strike authorization from union rank and file.
The board is set to decide the matter at its next meeting on October 18, the
first since a dissident faction of moderates made pivotal gains in union
elections last month.
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Posted on Tue, 7 Oct 2008 05:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Latest Russian Blockbuster fits Kremlin Script
Topic: News Ticker
By Michael Stott
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's latest blockbuster film hopes to woo big foreign
audiences with an epic tale of doomed love set amid the chaos of the Russian
Civil War; its politics conveniently chime with a Kremlin-sponsored mood of
patriotism.
"Admiral," which has its world premiere on Monday evening, glorifies Alexander
Kolchak, a former naval hero who led White Russian forces into battle against
the Bolsheviks in Siberia and briefly became Supreme Governor of Russia before
meeting an untimely end at the hands of a communist firing squad.
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Posted on Mon, 6 Oct 2008 12:49:37 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
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