Dutch startup Nowi is today launching a small energy-harvesting chip that could solve one of the biggest bottlenecks in the internet of things industry: the need to change batteries. The tiny device, which is being showcased as part of Huawei’s latest narrowband IoT chip, can turn light — even from relatively dim indoor bulbs — into enough energy to power a small IoT device indefinitely. …
Chip maker Qualcomm has been having a rough couple of months, not only getting sued by Apple — one of its largest customers — for unfair licensing costs, but also being accused of anti-competitive tactics by the Federal Trade Commission. In the case of the latter, now some of Qualcomm’s biggest rivals have chimed in, offering statements to the FTC in support of their monopoly accusations. Back …
Chip and Joanna Gaines are having some legal trouble — again! A San Antonio woman is suing Magnolia Market, the popular tourist attraction owned by the stars of the hit HGTV show “Fixer Upper,” for an alleged head injury she suffered back in June 2016. Nancy Brown claims that low-hanging steel rods, which support the canopies attached to picnic tables on the premises, caused her “serious and …
The lawsuit claims that AMD bosses, including Rory Read and Lisa Su, made “false and misleading statements to investors about the manufacturing and subsequent launch of, as well as the demand for, its Llano microprocessor” back in 2011 and 2012. Their case claims that AMD and its management violated the Securities Exchange Act. The court has ruled that anyone who bought AMD stock between April …
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has been awarded $3 billion in a lawsuit it brought against Oracle five years ago over a now largely forgotten Intel processor. The two sides had been fighting over Oracle’s decision to stop developing versions of its software for Intel’s Itanium, a server chip that never found much success in the market. After the jury verdict Thursday, Oracle said it planned to appeal.
by Avivah Litan | March 14, 2016 | Submit a Comment In a little noticed but highly significant event, two small Florida merchants are lead plaintiffs in a potential class action suing the financial services industry for conspiring to get the merchants to eat more fraud. The merchants point out that their fraud rates and charges have risen more than twenty times since the October 2015 EMV …