Japanese Fair Trade Commission raids Intel offices
anon Apir 08 2004 Tokyo -

Japan's Fair Trade Commission raided offices of Intel Corp. today on
suspicion that the world's semiconductor leader pressured personal
computer manufacturers to spurn competitors' products, a commission
official said.

Fair trade authorities suspect that Intel improperly urged clients not
to include central processing units - the key chips that do computers'
thinking - made by Advanced Micro Devices and other companies, said
Masaru Matsuo, a manager at the Fair Trade Commission ...

- http://snipurl.com/5l7a
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1081418975032&call_pageid=968350072197&col=968705923364

I wonder where they learned that little trick from ?

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On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 17:59:55 +0100,
 Daeron <daeron@demon.net> wrote:
> Japanese Fair Trade Commission raids Intel offices
> anon Apir 08 2004 Tokyo -
>
> Japan's Fair Trade Commission raided offices of Intel Corp. today on
> suspicion that the world's semiconductor leader pressured personal
> computer manufacturers to spurn competitors' products, a commission
> official said.
>
> Fair trade authorities suspect that Intel improperly urged clients not
> to include central processing units - the key chips that do computers'
> thinking - made by Advanced Micro Devices and other companies, said
> Masaru Matsuo, a manager at the Fair Trade Commission ...
>
> - http://snipurl.com/5l7a
> http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1081418975032&call_pageid=968350072197&col=968705923364
>
> I wonder where they learned that little trick from ?


Well, didn't the Japanese raid Microsoft's offices there a few weeks
ago? :)

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And somewhere around the time of 04/08/2004 11:01, the world stopped and
listened as Jim Richardson contributed the following to humanity:

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> On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 17:59:55 +0100,
>  Daeron <daeron@demon.net> wrote:
> 
>>Japanese Fair Trade Commission raids Intel offices
>>anon Apir 08 2004 Tokyo -
>>
>>Japan's Fair Trade Commission raided offices of Intel Corp. today on
>>suspicion that the world's semiconductor leader pressured personal
>>computer manufacturers to spurn competitors' products, a commission
>>official said.
>>
>>Fair trade authorities suspect that Intel improperly urged clients not
>>to include central processing units - the key chips that do computers'
>>thinking - made by Advanced Micro Devices and other companies, said
>>Masaru Matsuo, a manager at the Fair Trade Commission ...
>>
>>- http://snipurl.com/5l7a
>>http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1081418975032&call_pageid=968350072197&col=968705923364
>>
>>I wonder where they learned that little trick from ?
> 
> 
> 
> Well, didn't the Japanese raid Microsoft's offices there a few weeks
> ago? :)
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Hey Jim, think there's a connection?  Or is this just Nihon's way of
protesting the reach of US businesses?

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Daniel Rudy

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