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  • Microsoft's Windows 8 goals revealed

    Fast-boot slate, cloud services

    Microsoft's successor to Windows 7 is taking shape - and that shape looks suspiciously like an iPad supplementing a diet of media with online services. A set of Microsoft slides, apparently leaked online here and expanded here, have mapped out the company's design and feature goals for Windows 8. Among those goals: Windows 8 …

    Developer 29 Jun 00:15

  • Red Hat fights Microsoft for cloud profits

    Comment Pennies from open-source Heaven

    If making money from open source was hard, extracting it from clouds might prove to be even more difficult. Particularly when your main rival on the x64 server is none other than Microsoft. Red Hat got its start as Linux magazine publisher that tucked a Linux CD in the back, and then evolved into the largest commercial Linux …

    Virtualization 29 Jun 06:02

  • Gateway DS50 Core i3 desktop PC

    Review Small footprint, big impression?

    The main reason for wanting a compact PC is lack of room on or under a desk. The Gateway DS50 is not SFF in the Asus EeePC terms, but in the sense of something roughly half the volume of a midi-tower. It still has room for a full-height DVD rewriter, a 3.5in hard drive inside the case, an internal power supply and a 95mm cooler …

    reghardware 29 Jun 07:02

  • Hoodies swipe bus for YouTube joyride

    Video captures double-decker destructive jaunt

    Three Wiltshire hoodies have been arrested and bailed after taking a double-decker bus for an early morning jaunt, part of which popped up on YouTube. Two 16-year-old girls and a 21-year-old man swiped the vehicle from a depot in Amesbury in the early hours of 18 June and headed off down the A345 towards Salisbury. In the …

    Bootnotes 29 Jun 07:39

  • Nirvanix offers cloud taster to nervous customers

    Hybrid private/public cloud with outsourcing

    Nirvanix will set up a cloud file storage node in your own data centre, federate it to other nodes and provide an on-ramp to its public cloud storage. The idea is to effectively out-source storage of your large file-based data sets to Nirvanix. It installs and manages a so-called hNode, with "h" meaning hybrid, in your own …

    Storage 29 Jun 08:42

  • House of Commons to digitise parliamentary questions

    'We'll get it right this time'

    The House of Commons Commission has said it plans to switch to electronic delivery of Hansard's parliamentary written questions and answers. The commission is "vigorously pursuing a new approach" to set up a secure electronic means of transferring questions and answers to and from government departments to the house, according …

    Government 29 Jun 08:48

  • Europe approves US mass data grab

    Feds get all our bank info

    Europe has signed a deal to hand over all bank transaction data to the US in order to help the ongoing war on terrorism. The SWIFT agreement was signed yesterday in Brussels by Spanish minister for home affairs Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba and the US embassy's economic economic officer to the EU, Michael Dodman. Rubalcaba welcomed …

    Government 29 Jun 08:52

  • Notorious Kraken botnet rises from the ashes

    With help from Eboc gang

    The Kraken botnet, believed by many to be the single biggest zombie network until it was dismantled last year, is staging a comeback that has claimed almost 320,000 PCs, a security researcher said. Since April, this son-of-Kraken botnet has infected an estimated 318,058 machines - about half as big as the original Kraken was …

    Crime 29 Jun 08:58

  • Flying car gets helpful road-kit weight exemption from feds

    Terrafugia gets headroom for airbags, crumple zones etc

    The Terrafugia Transition, closest thing to a flying car yet built, has received a unique exemption from the US government allowing production models to be 110 pounds heavier than a normal "light sport aircraft". This will permit the car/plane combo to satisfy safety requirements when driving on roads. Now with airbags. The …

    Science 29 Jun 09:24

  • HTC posts Android 2.1 update for Hero phone

    Finally...

    HTC has posted the long-awaited - and much promised - Android 2.1 update for its Hero smartphone. Early online reactions suggest the installation process is neither as smooth nor as quick as it might be, but once past the system hangs - real and seemingly so - your Hero will emerge with the latest version of Google's OS. At …

    reghardware 29 Jun 09:42

  • Developers plug critical PNG graphic bug

    Potential problem nipped in the bud

    Developers have plugged a critical hole in a PNG reference library used by many browsers to render graphics file. The 1.2.44 and 1.4.3 updates to the libpng open source reference library address a bug that, left unfixed, created a mechanism for hackers to inject code onto vulnerable systems. Older versions of the Portable …

    Developer 29 Jun 09:49

  • Bono doubles down on Facebook

    It's no secret at all

    Elevation Partners, the private equity firm backed by bad-backed U2 frontman Bono, has stumped up $120m for just over 0.5 per cent of Facebook. The deal values the dominant social network at $23bn, and takes Elevation Partners' total stake to 1.5 per cent, having invested $90m at a $9bn valuation last year. Reports earlier …

    Financial News 29 Jun 09:51

  • BI 2010 - The State of Play

    White paper BI broken, you tell us

    Your data is more scattered and more inconsistent, takes too long to reach the people who need it, and is incomplete, inaccurate or out of date more often than three years ago. That's what 239 Reg readers told Freeform Dynamics. Your problems with the information we need to run our business are the basis of our new hard-hitting …

    Platform Evolution 29 Jun 09:58

  • Microsoft badmouths Google competition - again

    'Get your superior customer service here, darlink'

    The days of Microsoft being able to ignore the competition or overstep “dirty words” are long gone, as evidenced by a corporate Office 2010 blog post written by the company’s customer service and support veep yesterday. Perhaps Barbara Gordon has heeded the cry from her workmate Frank X Shaw, who late last week urged Microsoft …

    Applications 29 Jun 10:13

  • Romford coppers try to stopper young snapper

    'You can't just go round taking photos'

    Despite fine words from high-ranking police officers, an unpleasant incident in Romford last week suggests that officers on the ground are no nearer understanding or respecting photographers’ rights. This comes just a day after the Met shelled out a large wad of cash to two professional photographers for almost identical …

    Policing 29 Jun 10:33

  • Google opens Docs to iOS crowd

    View only, though

    Google has updated its Google Docs Viewer to allow those who walk the iOS path to share in the joy of viewing - though not editing - their Google-hosted documents. There's also now an Android version and both will happily display .doc and .docx formats, the latter being used by more recent versions of Microsoft Office, along …

    Applications 29 Jun 10:35

  • Let’s hear it for service centricity

    Lab Do all roads lead to services?

    An elderly lady attended a public lecture given by an astrophysicist on how the Earth goes around the Sun and how the Sun circles about with countless other stars in the Milky Way. During the question and answer session, the woman stood up and told the distinguished scientist that his lecture was nonsense, that the Earth is a …

    Platform Evolution 29 Jun 10:48

  • It's non-stop fun in Zero Carbon Britain, 2030

    Comment What do the Greens have in store?

    A hundred years ago, the socialist utopians had a vision of what they called "a world without want". The Zero Carbon Trust published its vision of Britain in 2030 earlier this month, and it's one where people's "wants" will substantially increase. Particularly anyone wanting, say, a lamb chop with rosemary and garlic, or a …

    Environment 29 Jun 11:02

  • China threatens Google's internet licence over HK redirect

    Mountain View tells Beijing, go censor yourself

    Google has agreed to halt the automatic rerouting of its China search engine users to Hong Kong after Beijing officials threatened to not renew the firm's internet licence if it continued with the switcheroo. On 22 March this year Mountain View closed its China-based search engine and announced that it would redirect Google.cn …

    Government 29 Jun 11:18

  • Secret docs reveal Dell knew PCs were faulty

    Welcome to a world of lawyers

    Dell is in court accused of knowingly selling thousands of computers which it knew were likely to be faulty. Documents seen by Ashlee Vance at the New York Times show Dell staff were aware that problems with capacitors from Nichicon were likely to hit at least 11.8 million OptiPlex machines shipped to customers between May …

    PCs & Chips 29 Jun 11:20

  • SkyFire massacres own proxies

    Too much content, can't cope - on the way out?

    SkyFire, pioneer of mobile browsing by proxy, has been shutting down those proxies around the world as the cost of processing everyone's content gets too much for it. The disappearing proxies were noticed by All About Symbian, which started compiling a list of countries in which SkyFire had stopped working, but rapidly …

    Mobile 29 Jun 11:28

  • Security - policies, processes and people

    Workshop How much is good enough?

    The problem with building foolproof systems, so the saying goes, is that the world seems to generate a better class of fool. This seems to be particularly true with systems charged with managing security. In the inseparable troika of policies, process and people, getting to grips with the first two is (almost) easy as long as …

    Security that Fits 29 Jun 11:41

  • Secret ancient code, basis of all modern civilisation, cracked

    'As big as Jesus' diary' claims ex IT-guy prof

    A former IT type, nowadays a part-time professor of scientific philosophy, says he has cracked a "hidden mathematical musical code" in the works of the famous ancient Greek savant Plato. According to Dr Jay Kennedy, a visiting scholar at Manchester uni, his discovery "shows us how to combine science and religion", perhaps …

    Science 29 Jun 12:01

  • RIM BlackBerry Pearl 3G phone

    Review Redesigned keypad that's strikingly familiar

    What's this, a BlackBerry without a keyboard? In phone circles it's akin to a Factor without its X. The Pearl 3G 9105 is BlackBerry's first handset to sport a standard numeric keypad, rather than a Qwerty keyboard or its own SureType alphanumeric blend, which assigns two letters to each key. It's likely that this is something of …

    reghardware 29 Jun 12:02

  • Hadoop goes 'open core' with Cloudera Enterprise

    Hadoop Summit All-star startup fattens stuffed elephant

    Cloudera – the commercial Hadoop outfit – has unveiled its first for-pay product: Cloudera Enterprise, an augmented version of the open source distributed data crunching platform designed specifically for production environments. Cloudera Enterprise – announced today at the Hadoop Summit in Santa Clara, California – beefs up …

    Software 29 Jun 12:02

  • Google wonk buzzes off to Facebook... bitch

    VMware vet also makes move to Web2.0 mothership

    A Google engineering director and key player in the company's Chrome OS and WebGL projects has quit Mountain View in favour of a job over at Facebook. Matthew Papakipos confirmed on Twitter yesterday that he had made the move. "Now that Chrome OS & WebGL are in good shape, it's time for something new. I'm going to work @ …

    Developer 29 Jun 12:10

  • Nasa returns to the moon... in 3D game

    Grand Theft Astro, anyone?

    President Obama may have knocked on the head Nasa's plan to put real people back on the moon, but the space agency is still going ahead with a scheme to get you there virtually. Next month will see the release of Moonbase Alpha, not some piece of retro sci-fi telly action but a 3D game [surely 'serious simulation' - Ed] that …

    reghardware 29 Jun 12:17

  • Security threats for mobile users

    On Demand How to find them and stop them

    If you've got security in your remit and an increasingly mobile work force then we could have just the tonic for your day job, a webcast discussing just these challenges. Our old friend Jon Collins, from Freeform Dynamics, is fronting the affair and he's joined by Ian Moyse from Webroot. The pair of them rattle through some …

    Tech Panel 29 Jun 12:22

  • Confidential report reveals ContactPoint security fears

    ICO orders much-delayed publication

    An independent study on the previous government's controversial child protection database highlighted significant security and privacy risks. Deloitte found significant shortcomings in the security of the ContactPoint database when it evaluated the system back in 2008. But only a summary of its report was ever published prior …

    Government 29 Jun 12:36

  • Russian spy ring bust uncovers tech toolkit

    Feds flush flame-haired femme fatale

    The FBI's case against an alleged deep cover Russian spy ring relies heavily on surveillance of their use of ad hoc Wi-Fi networks, bespoke software, encryption and the web. After a counter-espionage operation lasting several years, 10 people were accused on Monday of being covert agents of the SVR, Russia's foreign …

    Government 29 Jun 12:43

  • Seagate reveals 'first' 3TB external desktop drive

    Storage monster

    Seagate had become, it claimed today, the world's first hard drive maker to ship a 3TB external hard drive. Part of the company's 3.5in FreeAgent GoFlex Desk line-up, the unit comes with a USB 2.0 adaptor, but you can buy USB 3.0 and Firewire 800 plug-on ports if you fancy something faster. Pre-formatted with Windows' NTFS …

    reghardware 29 Jun 12:48

  • HDS flashes pay-per-use private cloud storage

    PFT we say

    Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) is announcing an on-site, fully-managed, pay-per-use storage system for businesses to use globally, and for use by service providers to build their own services. It is the Hitachi Cloud Service for Private File Tiering (PFT) product, and HDS claims it is "the industry's first service that …

    Storage 29 Jun 12:59

  • iPhone 4 Sim shrink sorrow solved

    Trim your Sim

    Those of you buying an iPhone 4 or an iPad 3G will face the issue of getting Micro Sim card replacements. You have three options: Either fork out for a new plan, exchange your old Sim - or cut the old Sim to the right size. That's where the Micro Sim Cutter from Asian gadget seller Brando comes in. Place your Sim into the …

    reghardware 29 Jun 13:01

  • BBC grabs stock photo of own building

    I can't be arsed walking outside. Check Getty Images...

    The TV licence payers among you are going to like this: The BBC has apparently turned to Getty Images for a stock photo of its own building... Evidently, the taxpayer-funded (despite what Peston says) telly monolith is a bit strapped in the digital photography operative department, which is a bit of a shame cos you can get a …

    Bootnotes 29 Jun 13:02

  • Singularity

    Shootin' through spacetime

    I'm not sure why I'm writing this review when you've already played Singularity countless times before. Don't worry, though. Your memory isn't failing you. Quite the contrary, it's working far too well. Now now, you've gone and got a head of yourself You see, you fought Singularity's amorphous mutants in Dead Space and its …

    reghardware 29 Jun 13:12

  • Oracle adds Fibre Channel to 7000

    Doubles capacity as well

    Oracle has updated Sun's ZFS-using 7000 unified storage system, adding Fibre Channel connectivity and doubling its capacity. The Sun 7000 was Sun's last independent storage product and has turned out to be a winner with its hybrid flash and hard drive storage pools, DTrace analytics software, and ZFS file system with its …

    Storage 29 Jun 13:38

  • Obama okays spectrum auction

    Nothing comes for free, see

    President Obama has nodded through the spectrum auction proposed by the National Broadband Plan, knocking back the idea of any freebies in favour for revenue-generating auctions. Following best-practice PR, the 500MHz to be put on the auction block is being billed as a new initiative to open up the airwaves, but in fact it's …

    Mobile 29 Jun 14:02

  • SAP hit by competition complaint

    Just the same as Microsoft in 2004

    German software company SAP has been hit by a competition complaint from a company which previously won a $139m patent infringement case against it. Versata Software has complained to the European Competition Commission, alleging that SAP illegally excluded it from selling to three quarters of SAP's customer base by …

    Applications 29 Jun 14:03

  • Online ads need standards

    US body says time to raise the bar

    Online advertising methods and terminology should be standardised to help advertisers and publishers navigate the complex internet advertising process, US trade body the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has said. The IAB has published a set of guidelines that it wants advertising networks and exchanges to follow to help …

    Developer 29 Jun 14:23

  • Baidu begins search for Silicon Valley talent

    Go long, John!

    Baidu reportedly plans to hire software engineers from the US in an effort to pick up more technology prowess outside of China where it dominates the local search market. The decision comes as Google agreed late yesterday to stop redirecting its China web servers to Hong Kong, after Beijing authorities threatened to pull the …

    Developer 29 Jun 14:32

  • Google's Wi-Fi snoop prompts Early Day Motion

    We're watching you, watching us

    Harlow's new Conservative MP Robert Halfon has tabled an Early Day Motion with concerns about Google, a first for the company. The Motion notes "concerned that the firm may have failed to disclose that it was building a massive database of wi-fi networks across the UK without people's consent". It also registers concern that " …

    Government 29 Jun 14:35

  • Data slicer cuts itself off from hardware

    Cleversafe serves up software-only licenses

    Cleversafe has untied the knot between its data protection hardware and software with a set of software-only licenses for customers wanting to use third-party hardware. The company's products cut data into slices, using an Accessor server, and distributes them across many dsNet servers or Slicestors in a scheme which can have …

    Storage 29 Jun 14:54

  • MIT boffins exhibit self-forming 'programmable matter'

    Vid Next: Terminator 2 robot blob-assassins multitools

    Almost unbelievably lazy boffins at Harvard and MIT, fatigued no doubt by the onerous task of fashioning paper planes for use during academic debates, have developed electrically powered self-folding paper able to do this without human input. Here's a vid: "Smart sheets are Origami Robots that will make any shape on …

    Science 29 Jun 14:55

  • Qualcomm looks to emerging markets to up Brew

    New lease of life in mass market 3G

    Qualcomm's Brew content platform has enjoyed something of a revival lately, moving beyond its CDMA base into the growing market for affordable mobile web devices. AT&T has adopted the system, and so Qualcomm is holding its annual Brew conference, now renamed Uplinq, with a new sense of confidence. CEO Paul Jacobs will kick off …

    Developer 29 Jun 15:40

  • White Space delivers green tech to Sierra Nevada Mountains

    Spectrum Bridge brings trial networks to mountain folk

    Spectrum Bridge has been busy working out how to use the white spaces between the TV channels, while the FCC continues dithering over who gets to run the database of such channels. The latest deployment put in by Spectrum Bridge connects up electricity sub-stations around the Sierra Nevada Mountains, allowing remote monitoring …

    Wireless 29 Jun 15:56

  • Stayin' alive: Ten years of Linux on the mainframe

    Comment How an odd couple lasted

    It would be hard to find two technologies that would seem to be more diametrically opposed in the data center than the IBM mainframe and the open source Linux operating system. But the combination of the two, which then-IBM president and now IBM chairman and CEO Sam Palmisano championed (or more precisely, gets credit for …

    Servers 29 Jun 16:15

  • Mozilla turns out Firefox 4 beta candidate builds

    Updated RIP Firefox 3.7

    Update: This story originally said that Mozilla had released the first Firefox 4 beta. But the beta has not been officially released. Last week, Mozilla told us the first beta would arrive "within days." Mozilla has released a candidate build for the first Firefox 4 beta. Developer builds of the open source outfit's next- …

    Developer 29 Jun 17:05

  • Adobe pushes out emergency patch for Reader apps

    Authplay peril purged

    Adobe Systems has pushed out an emergency update that patches at least 17 holes in its Reader and Acrobat applications, including two serious bugs that are being used by online criminals to install malware on end-users' machines. The fixes address a vulnerability in Windows, Mac, and Linux versions of the reader that allows …

    Malware 29 Jun 18:16

  • Double-Take helps Microsoft Flex HPC muscles

    Diskless iSCSI booties

    Microsoft is trying to wiggle its way into HPC shops with its Windows HPC Server 2008 variant, which includes similar tools that a Linux distro uses to support parallel supercomputing workloads. Redmond apparently sees a nascent opportunity in the HPC space. Although the jury is still out about whether or not supercomputer …

    HPC 29 Jun 18:31

  • Yahoo! girds Google's bastard grid child

    Hadoop Summit Open sources Hadoop with Security

    Yahoo! has released a beta version of Hadoop with built-in security, while open sourcing the latest version of its in-house workflow engine for the Google-mimicking distributed number-crunching platform. Speaking this morning at the Yahoo!-sponsored Hadoop Summit in Santa Clara, California, company Hadoop guru Eric …

    Developer 29 Jun 19:04

  • iPhone consumed by solar 'death ray'

    Touching destruction

    An enterprising solar-energy enthusiast has discovered how an iPhone reacts to what he calls a "65-inch death ray". As this video demonstrates, the iPhone's audio capabilities hold up well under the fresnel lens–focused attack, even as the Jobsian handheld itself is consumed in flame: For reasons not fully understood by …

    Mobile 29 Jun 19:14

  • Jobs' solo Flashturbation lent unlikely second hand

    Pr0n makes strange HTML5 bedfellows

    The puritanical Steve Jobs has won an unlikely ally in his campaign to kill Flash: the very porn industries he's blocked from the iPad and iPhone. Digital Playground, one of the porn industry's biggest players in the US, has said it'll dump Flash and deliver online video using HTML5 as soon as desktop browsers provide "full" …

    Mobile 29 Jun 19:17

  • Disgruntled fanbois sought for iPhone 4 Apple prosecution

    Owners with thumbs wanted

    A California law firm is trolling for iPhone 4 owners frustrated by flaws in their recently purchased Cupertinian handsets. The firm, Kershaw, Cutter & Ratinoff LLP, as pointed out by Valleywag, is the same group of worthies that sued Facebook and Zynga late last year, alleging that "Most, if not all, of the online offers …

    Mobile 29 Jun 19:23

  • Yahoo! brews HTML5 mail for iPhone

    Hadoop Summit When the App Store punts urls

    Yahoo! is developing an HTML5 incarnation of its web-based mail service for use on the Jesus Phone. The company's new chief product officer — former Microsoftee Blake Irving — unveiled this new-age version of Yahoo! Mail this morning at the Hadoop Summit in Santa Clara. What does this have to do with Hadoop, the open source …

    Mobile 29 Jun 19:52

  • Apachesourcers claw out major Tomcat revision

    Need for speed felt

    One of the Apache Software Foundation's earliest projects has seen its first major update in four years, with the twin goals of easing development and boosting performance. Tomcat 7.0 has been updated to fully implement Java Servlet 3.0, JavaServer Pages (JSP) 2.2, and Expression Language (EL) 2.2 to improve support for …

    Developer 29 Jun 21:03

  • Amazon punts Kindleware for Androids

    Available worldwide. Within limits

    Amazon has released Kindleware for Android handhelds. The company's free Kindle application is now available — worldwide — from the Android Marketplace, but if you're outside the US, you may not have access to the Amazon's entire ebook catalog. Amazon is already offering iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, Mac, and Windows apps that …

    Mobile 29 Jun 21:07

  • Pillar Data ditches staffers, shrugs

    Ain't no thing

    Pillar Data has fired some of its workforce, but it's no big deal according to the company. ESG's senior analyst and co-founder Steve Duplessie revealed the news in a tweet late yesterday, saying: "Looks like Pillar canned a bunch of folks. Unfortunately predictable" — implying that the firm was downsizing in response to …

    Storage 29 Jun 21:11

  • Cisco uncloaks Android video tablet for suits

    C U looking at Cius

    Cisco Systems has announced a business-centric, HD video—capable touchscreen Android tablet it claims, er, "redefines industry paradigms" for mobile communication and collaboration. The Cisco Cius was announced Tuesday at the company's Cisco Live 2010 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. The seven-inch, 1.15lb (0.52kg) tablet …

    Mobile 29 Jun 21:15

  • Seagate's 3TB external drive

    New 3.5 inch areal density heights

    Seagate has breached a barrier and introduced a massive 3TB external drive in the form of an updated FreeAgent GoFlex. The GoFlex line comes with a USB 2.0 adapter which can be changed to either a USB 3.0 or FireWire 800 one. The good news is that can hold masses of videos, movies, music files, or whatever. The drive will …

    Storage 29 Jun 21:29

  • Twitter to open source MySQL-to-Hadoop tool

    Hadoop Summit Data Crane

    Twitter intends to open source an additional piece of the Hadoop-happy infrastructure it uses for internal data analysis. Known as Crane, this is a tool for moving data from MySQL into Hadoop, the open source data-crunching platform based on Google's proprietary infrastructure. Twitter uses Hadoop for ad hoc analysis of data …

    Developer 29 Jun 23:13

  • InfiniBand to outpace Ethernet's unstoppable force

    Comment Run faster or be crushed

    Every good idea in networking eventually seems to be borged into the Ethernet protocol. Even so, there's still a place in the market for its main rival in the data center, InfiniBand, which has consistently offered more bandwidth, lower latency, and often lower power consumption and cost-per-port than Ethernet. But can …

    Servers 29 Jun 23:32

  • Verizon iPhone set for January touchdown?

    Hyperactive déjà vumor mill

    "Stop us if you've heard this one before: there's a new report that Verizon may soon offer Apple's iPhone, ending AT&T's US exclusivity for the überpopular handset." That's the opening sentence of a Reg article from exactly one week ago. And it works equally well for the news item you're reading right now. This Tuesday, …

    Mobile 29 Jun 23:44

  • New project leader wears the Fedora

    Taking over for 'Laughlin' 14 release

    Paul Frields, who has been getting his paycheck from Red Hat to run the Fedora development Linux variant since 2008, is moving back inside the company to work on Enterprise Linux, and an outsider named Jared Smith is being brought in as the new Fedora Project Leader. Frields joined Red Hat in February 2008, replacing Max …

    Developer 29 Jun 23:45

  • LCD maker cops to international price-fixing conspiracy

    Apple, Dell, HP bilked

    Yet another seller of LCD panels has copped to international price-fixing that bilked Apple, Dell, and HP, among others. Taiwan-based HannStar Display Corporation has agreed to pay a $30m criminal fine for its role in a global conspiracy to fix prices of monitors that use TFT-LCD, or thin-film transistor-liquid crystal display …

    Crime 29 Jun 23:52