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InternetNews October 19, 2006 Roy Mark	More Indictments in DRAM Price-Fixing Probe Two former Samsung officials and a former Hynix executive are the latest to be charged in the Department of Justice's ongoing investigation into a DRAM chip price-fixing conspiracy.
InternetNews September 22, 2006 Clint Boulton	Samsung Exec's DRAM Guilt Leads to Jail The Department of Justice this week said an executive from Samsung Semiconductor pled guilty and will go to jail for joining a global conspiracy to fix DRAM prices. Thomas Quinn will serve eight months, pay a $250,000 fine and help the Justice Department in the DRAM case.
InternetNews March 22, 2006 Roy Mark	DRAM Slam: Prison Time For Samsung Execs Three more executives in the dynamic random access memory chip industry are heading to prison for their roles in a global price-fixing conspiracy.
InternetNews March 1, 2006 Roy Mark	Hynix Execs Head For Jail in DRAM Scandal Four Korean Hynix executives are heading to a U.S. jail for their roles in a global conspiracy to fix prices on dynamic random access memory, a key type of memory found in most PCs.
InternetNews November 16, 2006 David Needle	Another Guilty Plea in DRAM Price Fixing Scandal The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that a former executive of Elpida Memory, a large Japanese manufacturer of DRAM chips, agreed to plead guilty for his participation in a global conspiracy to fix prices.
InternetNews January 30, 2006 David Needle	Elpida to Plead Guilty to Price Fixing The latest chapter of an ongoing Department of Justice investigation into price fixing in the dynamic random access memory market has resulted in Japanese manufacturer Elipida forking over an $84 million fine.
InternetNews October 13, 2005 Roy Mark	Price-Fixing Costs Samsung $300M The Korean chip giant is latest DRAM maker to plead guilty in US courts to its role in a global price-fixing conspiracy. The size of the fine is historic in proportion. Infineon and Hynix had already plead guilty to similar charges.
InternetNews December 1, 2005 Roy Mark	Samsung Pleads Guilty to Price Fixing Korean electronics giant Samsung agrees to pay second-largest criminal antitrust fine in U.S. history.
InternetNews April 10, 2007 Roy Mark	Not Enough Memory in DRAM Suit Sun Microsystems and Unisys' civil lawsuit against Hynix and other dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chipmakers is dead. At least for now.
InternetNews April 21, 2005 Roy Mark	Hynix Cops Guilty Plea in DRAM Debacle Korean chipmaker agrees to third-largest criminal antitrust fine in U.S. history in RAM chips price-fixing conspiracy.
InternetNews December 1, 2006 Roy Mark	DoJ Issues Subpoena to Nvidia Nvidia said today the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating possible antitrust violations at the world's third-largest maker of computer graphics chips.
InternetNews September 15, 2004 Roy Mark	Infineon Pleads Guilty to DRAM Price-Fixing The German chipmaker agrees to $160M fine... Other DRAM manufacturers under investigation, the DOJ says.
InternetNews September 5, 2006 Roy Mark	Sun, Unisys Sue Hynix Over DRAM After negotiating a plea bargain with the U.S. Department of Justice and a $185 million fine last year for its role in a global price-fixing scandal, Hynix was sued Friday in civil court by Sun Microsystems and Unisys.
InternetNews December 2, 2004 Michael Singer	Infineon Execs Plead Guilty to Price-Fixing Four Infineon executives agreed to plead guilty to charges they conspired to fix prices in the computer memory sector, officials said Thursday.
InternetNews October 31, 2006 Roy Mark	Sony Hit With SRAM Subpoena Sony Corp. joined a growing list of static random access memory chipmakers touched by a Department of Justice antitrust investigation.
The Motley Fool December 6, 2004 Rich Duprey	Infineon Executives Pay High Price Four officers from the dynamic random access memory (DRAM) maker go to prison for their role in a price-fixing scheme. The company and its stock have been in the doldrums, though the stock price has rebounded some 20% from its summer lows.
InternetNews July 14, 2006 Ed Sutherland	34 States Hit Chipmakers With Price-Fixing Suits Seven computer memory chip makers, including Micron Technologies and Infineon Technologies, face price-fixing charges lodged by 34 states.
InternetNews September 16, 2004 Michael Singer	Infineon Price-Fixing Probe Tip of Iceberg? DRAM computer memory makers point fingers while the U.S. Justice Department's investigation continues.
InternetNews January 2, 2004 Michael Singer	DOJ May Settle with Memory Chip Maker Micron Technologies' possible amnesty deal with the Department of Justice is a boon to rival Rambus.
InternetNews February 27, 2004 Michael Singer	Antitrust Case Fuels DRAM Price Fixing Probe A federal case dismissed against Rambus opens a door for a price-fixing probe involving other DRAM manufacturers.
InternetNews April 27, 2005 Michael Singer	Is Rambus Right About Collusion? Rambus claims even more legal victories in the wake of last week's admission by Hynix.
InternetNews April 20, 2006 Roy Mark	School Official Hit With E-Rate Fraud Charge A former South Carolina school technology director is facing charges she committed mail and wire fraud in a scheme to defraud the federal E-rate program that helps schools and libraries connect to the Internet.
InternetNews April 24, 2006 Roy Mark	Feds Nab E-Rate Fraudsters A Houston-based networking company agreed Friday to pay more than $4.6 million in fines and restitution to settle E-Rate fraud charges.
The Motley Fool October 13, 2004 Rich Duprey	Elpida Memory IPO a Risk The DRAM chip maker is set to go public next month. Though Elpida Memory is Japan's sole dedicated manufacturer of the chips and it seeks to gain enough market share to take over the No. 3 position, U.S. investors should not get too excited about the spinoff just yet.
InternetNews June 29, 2006 Roy Mark	Indiana Pays Up For E-Rate Fraud Earlier this week, Indiana agreed to pay nearly $8.3 million to the U.S. government as part of a civil settlement involving the state's now-defunct Intelenet Commission, which handled E-rate payments.
InternetNews November 28, 2007	Samsung Predicts End of DRAM Oversupply Samsung Electronics said the oversupply of memory chips used in personal computers was expected to ease in 2008 as growing demand for portable gadgets prompts a shift in production to Flash chips.
InternetNews July 5, 2006 Roy Mark	NEC Barred From E-Rate Program The FCC reduces a possible three-year ban from the E-Rate program for NEC-Business Network Solutions'.
InternetNews March 21, 2005 Michael Singer	Infineon, Rambus Lay Lawsuits to Rest The two chip companies issued a statement Monday saying they've cleared all outstanding litigation between them.
InternetNews April 30, 2004 Michael Singer	DDR2 Held Up By Rambus' Legal Woes Analysts are concerned DDR2 makers working with Rambus are using the company's fight against Infineon to delay paying licensing fees.
InternetNews January 9, 2008	Hynix Sees DRAM Rebound Hynix Semiconductor, the world's second-largest memory maker, predicts a comeback for the computer-chip market as demand remains strong.
Chemistry World November 9, 2015 Rebecca Trager	Pharma kickback claims lead to individual prosecutions Two pharmaceutical powerhouses will have to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to address US government claims that they gave kickbacks to physicians to induce them to prescribe their drugs.
InternetNews December 8, 2004 Roy Mark	Inter-Tel Pleads Guilty to E-Rate Fraud The company agrees to pay $8.71 million to settle charges of bid rigging and wire fraud in dealing with the E-Rate program. E-Rate helps schools and libraries connect to the Internet.
BusinessWeek May 13, 2010	Former Hewlett-Packard Chairman Patricia Dunn The former Hewlett-Packard chairman on fighting criminal fraud charges in 2006 after a company investigation of leaks to reporters
The Motley Fool July 21, 2004 Rich Duprey	Infineon Does Infinitely Better The computer chip manufacturer sees sales surge, though antitrust woes throw it for a loss. Now it only remains to keep the lawyers out of the mix for shareholders to be able to realize their full profit potential.
InternetNews December 6, 2006 Roy Mark	AMD, Nvidia Subpoenas Raise Eyebrows, Questions Is the $22 billion graphics card and chip industry next on the Department of Justice's antitrust radar?
InternetNews September 14, 2007 Andy Patrizio	DOJ Investigating Flash Disk Vendors SanDisk has confirmed that it is one of 24 companies under investigation by the Department of Justice for antitrust violations in the flash memory market, although the company has no idea why.
InternetNews January 6, 2004 Colin Haley	IBM Korea Scandal Prompts U.S. Inquiries The DOJ and SEC are reportedly looking into bribery and bid-rigging allegations against the IT giant's South Korean subsidiary.
InternetNews April 27, 2006 Roy Mark	Feds Charge Five More in Warez Crackdown Five more individuals are facing criminal copyright charges as part of the Department of Justice's ongoing crackdown on warez dealers.
InternetNews March 9, 2005 Roy Mark	Feds Bag Warez Convictions Key leaders of Internet piracy rings face prison sentences of 5 to 10 years.
InternetNews May 22, 2006 Roy Mark	Warez Dealers Headed to Jail The Department of Justice tightened the noose around warez dealers Friday with the first sentencing of individuals for their Internet music piracy activities.
InternetNews January 19, 2005 Roy Mark	DOJ Scores First Criminal P2P Convictions The U.S. Department of Justice bagged its first-ever criminal convictions for peer-to-peer copyright theft Tuesday when two men arrested in last summer's Operation Digital Gridlock pleaded guilty.
InternetNews April 7, 2005 Roy Mark	Federal E-Rate Indictments Grow Six companies and five individuals charged with wire fraud, collusion, aiding and abetting, and conspiracy.
InternetNews May 14, 2007 Roy Mark	'Fastlink' Downs 50th Conspirator Feds continue law enforcement campaign targeting warez groups.
The Motley Fool December 24, 2009 Anders Bylund	Micron's Price War Is Totally Dead Last quarter, Micron Technology signaled an end to the brutal price compression of memory chips. This quarter, the company proved once and for all that the recovery is real.
BusinessWeek September 20, 2004 Moon Ihlwan	How Hynix Got Out Of Its Fix A state bailout, tech smarts -- and luck -- have recharged the Korean chipmaker.
InternetNews February 21, 2007 Roy Mark	Feds Finally Extradite Alleged Warez Kingpin Hew Raymond Griffiths, an alleged warez kingpin, appeared in a U.S. district court and was charged with conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement and criminal copyright infringement.
InternetNews August 16, 2007 Roy Mark	IBM, PWC Settle Kickback Charges IBM and PriceWaterhouseCoopers agreed today to pay $5.9 million to settle allegations that the companies made illegal kickbacks to obtain government technology contracts.
InternetNews April 1, 2008	Chip Suppliers Cut Back as Demand Remains Weak The drop in global chip inventories is a reflection of supply cutbacks, not strong demand.
InternetNews November 26, 2008 Richard Adhikari	ID Thieves Hit Federal Credit Unions, Consumers Sophisticated crooks are charged with filching funds from credit unions for the Senate, Navy and State Department while stealing millions from consumers' home equity lines of credit.
The Motley Fool December 2, 2009 Anders Bylund	Nokia Sues the Entire LCD Industry The Finnish mobile phone giant is suing an entire industry for 10 years of price-fixing.