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3 Firms Confess To Fixing LCD Prices, Agree To Pay $585M Fine 417

Posted by timothy on Wednesday November 12, 2008 @05:37PM from the win-friends-and-influence-people dept.

Oldyeller89 writes "LG, Sharp, and Chunghwa Picture Tubes pleaded guilty to charges of price fixing in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. They fixed the prices on LCD screens used not only in their products but also in other products such as Apple's iPods. The three companies agreed to pay $585 million in fines. Perhaps this will cause the price of our TVs to drop?" The New York Times also has a story on the outcome of this case.

Comment Re:Dollars to Donuts I say... (Score 4, Funny) 356

by curiosity on Thursday October 02, 2008 @03:31PM (#25237135) Attached to: Fossett's Plane Found

Exactly. Gravity is just an unproven theory. Intelligent Falling is clearly to blame.

A Foolproof Way To End Bank Account Phishing? 436

Posted by kdawson on Monday May 07, 2007 @08:15PM from the worth-a-try dept.

tcd004 writes "F-Secure's Mikko Hypponen proposes an elegant solution to the problem of bank account phishing in the latest Foreign Policy magazine. Hypponen thinks banks should have exclusive use of a new top-level domain: .bank. 'Registering new domains under such a top-level domain could then be restricted to bona fide financial organizations. And the price for the domain wouldn't be just a few dollars: it could be something like $50,000 — making it prohibitively expensive to most copycats. Banks would love this. They would move their existing online banks under a more secure domain in no time."

Hubble Discovers Dark Spot on Uranus 330

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 04, 2006 @09:10AM from the matches-dark-spot-on-my-soul dept.

TheDawgLives writes "Just as we near the end of the hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean, winds whirl and clouds churn 2 billion miles away in the atmosphere of Uranus, forming a dark vortex large enough to engulf two-thirds of the United States."

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