Chi Mei Optoelectronics, a major LCD maker who sells to companies including Apple, HP and Dell, has admitted to a wide-scale price fixing conspiracy between late 2001 and late 2006. The details are being kept under wraps, but Chi Mei has pleaded guilty to the charges in a San Francisco court, and in addition to the monetary penalty, nine executives are also under investigation. [FBI] More »
The Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia keeps some of the most accurate climate records which are key to many climate change debates. Its email archives were hacked, and now it’s the centre of another conspiracy claim. More »
I’d say that I’m no conspiracy theorist, but I’ll be honest, I spotted this 1697 sketch while looking through a UFO conspiracy site. And as far as I’m concerned, it’s clearly an ink rendition of two Xbox 360 logos floating in the sky.
Gizmodo readers and conspiracy theorist aficionados Nathan Ziehnert & Friends have spent a few hours analysing the footage from the WWDC08 keynote like CSI agents investigating the Zapruder film. The result: they found what they believe could be a front-facing videocamera in Applemeister Phil Schiller’s demo iPhone 3G. Is this a prototype or just a—likely—greasy fingerprint? Check out the video and the captures and tell us what you think.
This morning, we wrote about a stat that Europe's HD-DVD title sales had spiked and surpassed Blu-ray sales. That's wrong. That writer actually used US data. But what about that US spike? It didn't have anything to do, actually, with the fact that HD-DVD has over 100k non-Xbox players in the field. That would have revealed itself with a more gradual climb in the charts.
Apparently, the spike occurs the same day that HD-DVD fanboys at AVSForum, the AV enthusiast site, had organized an mass buy of HD-DVD titles. For an immature format, even a few individuals can make a difference, if only on a day.
This post lays down their gameplan for the buy on April 15th, the one year anniversary of HD-DVD's launch:
