Rambus Files Anti-Trust Suits
Without a hint of irony, Rambus has filed anti-trust suits against memory giants Micron Technology, Siemens, Hynix and Infineon Technologies for alleged price fixing. Rambus has been embroiled in lawsuits with the other memory manufacturers for years, after Rambus patented the DDR RAM specification without telling the other memory manufactures, then attempted to charge outrageous licensing prices so that memory manufactures would choose to produce Rambus memory instead. A good synopsis of the entire Rambus saga can be found here.

Mozilla Malware
This story is actually a couple weeks old, but it hasn't been reported much, if at all, but it seems pretty important. According to the post linked above on The Mozillazine forums, a few pieces of spyware have been discovered that affect the open source browser Mozilla. The spyware uses an exploit in the plugin system for Mozilla to install a browser hijacking app. It also apparently contains a virus. This is interesting because Mozilla has up until now had the protection of security through obscurity as the vast majority of people use IE. In a related story, Eweek examines whether a worm could have much success if one were to be written that exploited Mac or Linux.

Apple Pressured to Raise iTunes Prices
In the RIAA's continuing crusade to combat free music in the most inept way possible, they have apparently been lobbying Apple to raise prices in their iTunes music store up to $1.25 for some singles and up to $16.99 for some albums. "That will really ingratiate the public and discourage piracy, won't it?" says a music industry source to The Register. Apple claims they won't raise prices at this time. In further RIAA news, last week they sued 477 more file sharers.

SCO Stock Watch
Down 4.1% on the week to 5.99
Disclaimer: I own no stock and hold no financial interest in SCO, IBM, Novell, Red Hat, DaimlerChrysler, Autozone, Baystar, Royal Bank Of Canada or any any other company SCO has sued or done business with. I just really enjoy watching SCO's stock tank. I know Darl McBride probably cashed out at $22.00. It still gives me jollies.

Royal Bank Of Canada Cashes out of SCO
Speaking of SCO, Royal Bank of Canada has sold 1/3 of their A-1 preferred stock to Baystar, and converted the rest to approximately 740,000 common shares. If you haven't been following the SCO soap opera, I cannot easily explain what this means, so for background it would be best to go here, here and here. Even if you have been following the day-to-day activities of Darl McBride and Co., it's still pretty difficult to tell what this exactly means for SCO's future, although the general consensus is that it's pretty bad, which is of course, good. In further SCO news, US National Retail Federation has proclaimed SCO's Copyright claims meritless. For more SCO news Groklaw is by far the best resource.

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