Having concluded my trip to Seagate's R&D headquarters in Pittsburgh, there's a giant pile of notes to go through, quotes to review and tales to tell. The lowdown on tomorrow's storage tech is on its way: not just patent filings, statistics and marketing, but an up-close and personal look at the drives you won't be buying until 2012, and the people behind them.
For now, satisfy yourself with a roundup of today's wonders. We already noted that LCD maker LG.Philips was under investigation: now Europe, South Korea and Japan have all launched probes into the possibility of a price-fixing cartel among panel makers. Samsung, Sharp and NEC join LG.Philips on the rack.
More bad news for Samsung: RIM is suing them over the Blackjack smartphone, openly claiming that the name is so similar the public can't tell the difference: "Samsung is misleading the public into falsely believing that Samsung's goods and services are connected with RIM's business."
David took a look at a violent fundamentalist video game -- for the faithful, a more intruiging title might be a murder mystery about a Rabbi's quest to uncover the truth behind a strange gift.
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