nVidia and Infinium to Partner at CES

JonLatane writes "It seems that nVidia is going to allow Infinium to demonstrate their Phantom "game service" at their CES booth. Since its inception, Infinium has proven to be rather belligerent about its product and will probably stay in court for a long time."

Infinium stock tumbles

[dannytaggart]

In other news, Infinium Labs' stock tumbled [yahoo.com] 11% today.

Re:Infinium stock tumbles

[ProfaneBaby]

It was trading at $0.58 on 2004/12/22 - it closed at $0.90 today (2004/12/30) after peaking around $1.41 at the opening Tuesday (2004/12/28).

If you bought last Thursday, and sold on Tuesday, you could have made 240% - a modest $1000 investment would have made you $1431 profit.

If the fax really was a pump-and-dump, it worked.

Re:Why does MS/nVidia care?

[shark72]

"Or, why is MS and nV giving up booth space at CES?"

They're probably in the Microsoft Partner Pavilion along with a metric squillion other vendors. Doesn't take much to get space there. It's part of their strategy of showing off how many friends they have, at the same time that they recoup some of the cost of their booth space.

"And, are they concerned about the well known flap between Infinium and [H]ardOCP."

Well known among OCP and /. readers.

Re:Poor nVidia...

[TarrVetus]

Startups are not allowed in the US anymore? True some mistakes were made by IL. Too bad Kyle can't understand that companies have to start somewhere when they don't start with a couple billions.

Ah, thank you for that wonderfully misinformed opinion. This gives me the opportunity to point out the obvious lies, deceit, and chicanery [hardocp.com](thank you Penny Arcade [penny-arcade.com]) produced by the Infinium Labs 'company.' Please, observe the Infinium Labs HQ [hardocp.com]--yes, that is a mail depot.

Add some ethics / Contact Nvidia

[augustz]

It's one thing to sell your product broadly.

It's another thing to ACTIVELY PROMOTE this type of company by putting them in your trade show booth.

These companies can do better.

Send a little note:

We don't care who you sell your product too, but don't actively promote scum like infinium.
Who's side are you on? The nice guys, or the litigation prone?

Mention the Nvidia CES booth.

I'm including some address below.

Carrie Cowan
Consumer/Games/Partner PR Manager
[e-mail]
[phone]

Brian Burke
Desktop PR Manager
[e-mail]
[phone]

Bryan Del Rizzo
Platform Products PR Manager
[e-mail]
[phone]

Infinium is the company that is suing an enthusiest site and its operator personally for $20,000,000 for providing what appears to be basically accurate information about its products.[1]

The gaming / enthusiest market is a core market for Nvidia. Not only does Nvidia have to wake up in the morning knowing they are supporting a litigation prone (and otherwise apparently unsuccesful) company (infinium), but they also have to live with the business decision of actively supporting a company that is engaged in litigation with the very folks who buy and promote their product! And that the litigation appears to be pretty unjustified.

[1]
PLEASE READ THE LINKS IN THE ARTICLE AND REACH YOUR OWN CONCLUSIONS. THESE ARE SIMPLY OPINIONS BASED ON A QUICK REVIEW OF THE LINKED MATERIAL.