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Intel Details e-Mail Lapses

Ryan Blitstein writes in The Mercury News:

An Intel lawyer "lost track" of the fact that she was supposed to tell 378 staffers to save relevant e-mails. Company employees remained unaware for months that they were supposed to back up their e-mail. And miscommunication between Intel workers in Germany and England led to the loss of data for hundreds of employees.

Intel acknowledged such lapses in a court filing late Monday in an antitrust case brought against it by rival Advanced Micro Devices. AMD sued Santa Clara-based Intel in June 2005 for allegedly coercing computer makers, retailers and distributors to buy its chips instead of AMD's.

The filing in U.S. District Court in Delaware, which detailed mistakes during 2005 and 2006, was meant to explain how Intel lost relevant documents and suggest to the judge a way to remedy the situation.

posted by Fergie @ 4/24/2007 10:26:00 PM