Bumpgate Insurers bite back
By Charlie Demerjian Tuesday, 19 May 2009
A DOCUMENT HAS COME TO LIGHT that details the lengths to which Nvidia has gone to cover up the problems it has been having with its graphics chips. The most recent lawsuit against it by the National Union Fire Insurance Company (NUFI) claims the company has withheld information on the nature of its bad bumps. The very same information it has withheld from us or any other nosy hack or awkward analysts. The story was broken by a certain Mike Magee at TG Daily on Friday, and it has a lot of juicy bits. The short story is that the list of defective chips shipped by Nvidia goes back to the NV4x generation, and the list of OEMs affected counts ten and basically includes every Nvidia customer. NUFI complains bitterly that Nvidia has been covering up essential information it is entitled to receive as Nvidia's insurer by refusing to disclose even the most basic facts about the company's GPU chip failures. We had the same complaint. Let's go back over what happened so you can see the depths of this debacle.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Six months on, Macs still plagued by critical Java vuln
No Java applets for you!
By Dan Goodin, 19th May 2009
More than six months after Sun Microsystems warned that a flaw in its Java virtual machine made it trivial for attackers to execute malware on end users' machines, the vulnerability remains unpatched on Apple's Mac platform. Most other operating systems, including Windows and major Linux distributions, fixed the bug months ago. That's a good thing given it is actively being exploited in the wild. Penetration testers, including Immunity Sec and VUPEN Security, consider the threat significant enough to offer their customers exploit code that tests against the bug. And yet Apple has so far taken no action, despite issuing major OS X upgrades just last week.
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By Dan Goodin, 19th May 2009
More than six months after Sun Microsystems warned that a flaw in its Java virtual machine made it trivial for attackers to execute malware on end users' machines, the vulnerability remains unpatched on Apple's Mac platform. Most other operating systems, including Windows and major Linux distributions, fixed the bug months ago. That's a good thing given it is actively being exploited in the wild. Penetration testers, including Immunity Sec and VUPEN Security, consider the threat significant enough to offer their customers exploit code that tests against the bug. And yet Apple has so far taken no action, despite issuing major OS X upgrades just last week.
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Dell Reveals Windows 7 Much More Expensive Than Vista, Worries about Price
Microsoft is looking to cash in on its upcoming OS's popularity
By Jason Mick - May 19, 2009
Microsoft appears to be making all the right moves with Windows 7 -- a revamped and slimmed sequel to Windows Vista -- which is scoring critical acclaim with the press and beta-testing public. The OS is expected to be a hot seller, when it is released in October. And Microsoft is looking to do everything it can to promote a bountiful cash flow. DailyTech already detailed how the company sought to encourage customers to upgrade their OS purchase, by only allowing 3 applications to run simultaneously in the introductory "Starter Edition". Now new details have emerged from Dell, via CNET's Brooke Crothers, indicating that Windows 7 license prices will be much higher than with Vista.
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By Jason Mick - May 19, 2009
Microsoft appears to be making all the right moves with Windows 7 -- a revamped and slimmed sequel to Windows Vista -- which is scoring critical acclaim with the press and beta-testing public. The OS is expected to be a hot seller, when it is released in October. And Microsoft is looking to do everything it can to promote a bountiful cash flow. DailyTech already detailed how the company sought to encourage customers to upgrade their OS purchase, by only allowing 3 applications to run simultaneously in the introductory "Starter Edition". Now new details have emerged from Dell, via CNET's Brooke Crothers, indicating that Windows 7 license prices will be much higher than with Vista.
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Nvidia accuses Intel of unfair pricing
By Reuters May 18, 2009
Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive officer of graphics chip maker Nvidia, called Intel's chip pricing unfair but said his company will not seek antitrust action against the world's largest chip maker for now. Nvidia makes graphics chips that pair with Intel's low-powered Atom in lower-priced netbook computers. He said Intel sells an Atom chip by itself for $45, but sells a three-chip set for $25 to lure business away. "That seems pretty unfair," he said. "We ought to be able to compete and serve that market." Last week, the European Commission fined Intel $1.06 billion euros and ordered it to change its business practices for competing illegally against Advanced Micro Devices. Intel brushed off Huang's suggestion.
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Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive officer of graphics chip maker Nvidia, called Intel's chip pricing unfair but said his company will not seek antitrust action against the world's largest chip maker for now. Nvidia makes graphics chips that pair with Intel's low-powered Atom in lower-priced netbook computers. He said Intel sells an Atom chip by itself for $45, but sells a three-chip set for $25 to lure business away. "That seems pretty unfair," he said. "We ought to be able to compete and serve that market." Last week, the European Commission fined Intel $1.06 billion euros and ordered it to change its business practices for competing illegally against Advanced Micro Devices. Intel brushed off Huang's suggestion.
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NEC debuts first USB 3.0 add-on cards
by Thomas De Maesschalck May 19 2009
TPU spotted NEC has introduced the first USB 3.0 add-on cards, they are based on the company's new µPD720200 USB 3.0 host controller. The first motherboards with integrated USB 3.0 are expected to become available in 2010. or the desktop segment, the reference-design PCI-Express x1 add-on card provides two SuperSpeed USB 3.0 ports that are backwards-compatible with USB 2.0, 1.1, and 1.0. NEC also released an add-on card for notebooks, in the ExpressCard-34 form-factor based on the same controller, offering the same two ports.
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TPU spotted NEC has introduced the first USB 3.0 add-on cards, they are based on the company's new µPD720200 USB 3.0 host controller. The first motherboards with integrated USB 3.0 are expected to become available in 2010. or the desktop segment, the reference-design PCI-Express x1 add-on card provides two SuperSpeed USB 3.0 ports that are backwards-compatible with USB 2.0, 1.1, and 1.0. NEC also released an add-on card for notebooks, in the ExpressCard-34 form-factor based on the same controller, offering the same two ports.
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