Occupy activists are building their own more flexible and trustworthy Facebook, using of old formats, authentication protocols and open source software. But 2012's hottest login will require an invitation, so you better start attending those interminable General Assembly meetings today.
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So why is the Raspberry Pi foundation, the organization behind this charming device, making the computers in the first place?
We spoke with Eben Upton, executive director of the Raspberry Pi foundation to find out why. Here's what we learned:
And here's the full interview:
BUSINESS INSIDER: Why did you guys want to build such a cheap computer?
Eben Upton: We came up with the idea because we'd been interviewing potential undergraduates to come to Cambridge university about 5 years ago. Both the number of people applying and the stuff you could have relied on them already done was getting worse. The numbers were going down and could hardly rely on the people you did get to know anything about computers.
We looked around for reasons why this happened. The thing that came to me, the people of my generation had small computers when they were kids. They had TRSATs, they had these machines and they were programmable. You turn them on and the first thing you could do was print "hello world." These are going away and have been replaced by game consoles or PCs, which are programmable.?
I started looking for a way you could provide a machine cheaply enough that you could give you children, settling on this $25, $35 price point. Over the last 5 years, we've been looking at ways for making a machine like this. I joined Broadcom and it turns out Broadcom made chips that ware really cheap. You could build a pretty respectable computer at the $25 point and the foundation is really an organization that brings out the possibilities of this.
Now you've got a chip that can meet the price point, the foundation is a way to do that.
BI: So it's a shot at getting kids to learn how to program??
EU: Yeah, they're so cheap you can give them to all the children or they can buy them like they buy textbooks. That's the idea, children are enormously illiterate now, but what they know how to do is use computers. They see them as bits as functional magic and have no idea how they work. That's fine for Facebook and browsing, but if you want a career out of this stuff or create something that's high value, you have to understand how the thing works
This is almost nationalist. We were concerned about Cambridge's problem and the university's problem of getting enough qualified students. Then we were concerned about Britain's problem, not producing enough engineering graduates. It was a quite parochial initial view we had. AS soon as news got out that we were going to do this, most of the interest we saw was in the undeveloped world. Russia and Brazil, a lot of people very interested in this.
The project has broadened out from this educational thing to adult hobbyists. A lot of the biggest cheerleaders are guys my age who want to build robots and media centers. Also people in the developed world where you can get performance out of places with televisions but not computers. It turns your TV into a workable productivity computer.
BI: Why show off the video game performance of it, then?
EU: I guess what we tried to do, we showed you running a web browser, a piece of productivity software. We wanted to emphasize everything the chip can do. It's a maddeningly powerful process, it will run a desktop. It won't set the world on fire with its desktop performance, but it has a lot of multimedia performance. It can do 1080p HD video playback. We wanted to put out a series of videos capturing it doing these things that surprise people at that price point.?
BI: Do you guys ever plan to make money? Or turn this into a business??
EU: There is no corporate organization. The Raspberry Pi foundation has six trustees, I'm the executive director of the foundation. The foundation owns all the intellectual property embodied in the device and is the business entity procuring the manufacturing and handling distribution. It's a limited company under English company law. It's possible to take a company like that and register it as a charity. The company is registered as a not-for-profit.?
The money you get is recycled back into the business. The bearers of the trustees have given loads of money to the foundation. That provides the working capital required to pay for chip infantry. The primary limit on our scale is the working capital to hold our infantry and buffer it as it runs through the company, we have pretty insignificant fixed overheads.
We've raised capital in 10,000 unit batches to build the devices. That's the money we need, that will provide us, but there's an upper limit to how many devices you can build in a year at that rate. With best use of working capital you can build 100,000 devices each year, to scale we'll have to raise additional capital. We're intending to release the designs for the device at due cost. We can't make any money out of this, we have no incentive to keep the design of the device secret.
We do hope third parties will be able to manufacture clones. We can expand the concept without having to expand the capital base.
BI: Does that mean you guys are planning on releasing a second version??
EU: We're comfortable with our multimedia performance, we do realize our ARM performance is kind of retro. 700MHz is enough, but it could be more, but we don't currently have any plans for a successor.
Obviously we're careful not to speculate. We'll see how this one goes. The history is full of computer companies that have imagined the next product and talked about it and then people have fallen out of sway. There are no concrete plans. Look at?Apple, it's a company that I really admire in a lot of ways and they are extremely good at controlling information and their image. We're going to do that.
BI: So when are you taking reservations for the device??
EU: We actually haven't taken pre-orders. We built an initial prototype batch, alpha boards, we've had those for several months. We've built a very short run of the final device, a test run to make sure the design is sound. It does appear to be sound, we found one small design defect, it's a five minute fix and we've fixed that now. We're in the process of committing a manufacturing run. We've bought parts for 10,000 devices and we are in the process of committing a manufacturing run for that.
When those devices come back in a few weeks time, we have a web store that we'll turn on. We'll turn the storefront on with a few thousand devices for sale. I suspect it's gonna take an hour to sell through it at that point, I'm going to hold a few hundred in reserve. We have developers we've committed priority devices to.?
We've been unusual in not taking pre-orders, a lot of people try to fund the capital requirements of the project by taking pre-orders. I think we could do that, but it's always felt very risky to me. It creates the risk of, if something goes wrong, we're going to end up having defrauded a lot of people a lot of money. Even now, with a workable device, we're still very careful about not taking people's money until we have a physical device in our hands.
BI: How often do you expect to have Raspberry Pi computers available?
EU:?I suspect we can do a batch slightly more than once a month. Looking at the supply chain, it will require some careful planning to do that within our capital requirement. I think that's pretty achievable. The aim very early on is to get these designs into the hands of the parties. We would like nothing more than some company in China to make a million of these. It would be perfect, we would achieve our goal, which is ubiquitous presence of cheap computers without having all the requirements of doing capital raising to scale.?
Fingers crossed. I hope that'll be in the first half of next year, clones will be a factor.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) ? China's listed banks are expected to raise over 100 billion yuan ($15.78 billion) through equity financing next year as they face pressure to replenish capital due to rapid loan growth and tighter regulation, the China Securities Journal reported on Tuesday.
Citing analysts, the official paper said banks facing such pressure included Agricultural Bank of China (601288.SS) (1288.HK), Industrial Bank Co Ltd (601166.SS) and Bank of Communications (601328.SS) (3328.HK).
Banks are also expected tap the debt market for funding, it said.
The bulk of the expected equity financing would be funded by government shareholders, the paper said. Listed banks raised more than 270 billion yuan via equity financing in 2010 and nearly 290 billion yuan worth of debt this year, according to the article.
Chinese banks will be under fundraising pressure because new lending next year is expected to exceed 8 trillion yuan -- a level necessary to support economic expansion -- potentially weakening lenders' balance sheets, the newspaper said.
Major Chinese banks, or systematically important ones, would be required to have minimum capital adequacy ratio (CAR) of 11.5 percent, while smaller banks must have at least 10.5 percent, according to rules published by the banking regulator in August.
However it is still unclear when they will be implemented.
China International Capital Corp estimates banks' assets to expand by around 14 percent next year and that would reduce the average CAR of listed domestic banks to around 10.7 percent, meaning some lenders would be under pressure to raise money, the paper said.
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Newest Review:?... happen that often and it doesn't make the phone itself bad since it might not be Samsung's fould but Android's.... more
This is my real first smart phone. Before this, I have had a touch screen phone as well, but you could barely call it that. I bought this phone with a contract so it was free, but I bought if for the phone, not the contract.
I'm really happy with my Galaxy S2. It is in a lot of ways better than an iPhone:
-The Galaxy S2 is faster the the iPhone.
-The battery is just way better than with the iPhone. I can use it up to three days, + you can get spare batteries with the Galaxy S2, you can't with the iPhone.
-The camera is better than with iPhone (8MP, Full HD film)
And I could go on like that for ages. The only disadvantage is that android isn't always working as it should be. Sometimes things happen like an app crash, or sometimes the whole phone crashes (with certain apps only). But this doesn't happen that often and it doesn't make the phone itself bad since it might not be Samsung's fould but Android's.
Summary: Great phone for all your needs!
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Newt Gingrich failed to make the primary ballot in Virginia after a weeklong scramble by the former House speaker?s campaign to gather sufficient signatures.
?After verification, RPV has determined that Newt Gingrich did not submit required 10k signatures and has not qualified for the VA primary,? the Republican Party of Virginia wrote on its official Twitter account early Saturday morning.
Continue ReadingThe party announced Friday evening that Rick Perry had failed to meet the qualifications as well. That leaves the race in the state between Mitt Romney and Ron Paul. Other candidates did not submit signatures.
And the Gingrich campaign?s response ? that it would mount a write-in campaign ? won?t solve the problem.
?Gingrich cannot have voters write in, because Va. Code section 24.2-529 prohibits write-in ballots in primary elections,? Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond School of Law, explained via email.
Gingrich?s campaign director Michael Krull pledged a fight Saturday.
?Only a failed system excludes four out of the six major candidates seeking access to the ballot. Voters deserve the right to vote for any top contender, especially leading candidates,? Krull?s statement read. ?We will work with the Republican Party of Virginia to pursue an aggressive write-in campaign to make sure that all the voters of Virginia are able to vote for the candidate of their choice.?
The Virginia primary isn?t until March 6 ? Super Tuesday ? but the effort to get on the ballot was seen as a test of Gingrich?s organizational ability, which has been in doubt despite his burst in the polls.
Gingrich himself trumped up the stakes Wednesday night, after pulling away from early state campaigning to shore up the effort.
?Once again in Virginia we?re going to disappoint the Republican establishment, because tomorrow in Richmond, we?re going to turn in vastly more signatures than you need,? Gingrich told about 200 people.
The next day, he did two events in Richmond ? one hosted by the Republican Party of Virginia that drew a crowd, and another ?Virginians with Newt? rally that drew only 35 people.
The failure could prove significant if there is the protracted primary fight Romney predicted to POLITICO earlier this month, which would enable the former Massachusetts governor to capitalize on his better-organized operation to hold off Gingrich.
It also saps Gingrich of one of the states where his numbers were highest. In a Public Policy Polling survey earlier this month, Gingrich had a strong lead in the Virginia primary, receiving 41 percent of the support with Romney in second with 15 percent. A Dec. 21 Quinnipiac poll of Virginia Republicans found a closer margin, with Gingrich leading Romney 30 to 25 percent.
This is the second primary ballot Gingrich has failed to make. He missed a deadline in Missouri last month to appear in their primary vote. He struggled to get on the ballot in Ohio.
Gingrich, who lives in the Washington suburb of McLean, had put in a last-minute effort to get on the ballot, paying contractors more than $1.50 per signature collected.
Gingrich submitted about 11,000 signatures. The party was required to review each one and to ensure they had at least 10,000 were from valid registered voters.
Romney and Paul submitted 15,000 signatures, preempting the signature-by-signature review process.
There are 49 delegates at stake in the Virginia primary.
James Hohmann contributed to this report.
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In barely enough time to get out of the app store and into the hearts of retro gamers everywhere, the iMAME emulator on iOS has already been erased from iTunes -- just days since its release. Alas, that lack of any official endorsement may have reared its ugly head. Well, it was good while it lasted. Guess we'll carry on saving up for that Vita purchase...
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A newly-purchased Air Jordans sneaker is shown in front of a line of customers at the Nike Store at Union Square Friday, Dec. 23, 2011 in San Francisco. The release of Nike's retro Air Jordans caused a frenzy at stores across the nation early Friday, with hundreds of people lining up for a chance to buy the classic basketball shoes and rowdy crowds breaking down doors and starting fights in at least two cities. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
A newly-purchased Air Jordans sneaker is shown in front of a line of customers at the Nike Store at Union Square Friday, Dec. 23, 2011 in San Francisco. The release of Nike's retro Air Jordans caused a frenzy at stores across the nation early Friday, with hundreds of people lining up for a chance to buy the classic basketball shoes and rowdy crowds breaking down doors and starting fights in at least two cities. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
Kristopher Rush, 14, shows off the Nike Air Jordan shoes he got for Christmas from his parents Friday, Dec. 23, 2011, outside the Lafayette Square Mall in Indianapolis, where he waited in line with his father and brother for over three hours. Police were called in to control crowds of shoppers flocking Lafayette Square and Castleton Square malls in Indianapolis to control the crowds waiting for the shoes. The release of Nike's retro Air Jordans caused a frenzy at stores across the nation early Friday, with hundreds of people lining up for a chance to buy the classic basketball shoes and rowdy crowds breaking down doors and starting fights in at least two cities. AP Photo/The Indianapolis Star, Danese Kenon) NO SALES
Police officers make their way through the crowd waiting to buy Nike's newly released Air Jordan 11 Retro Concords to "back up" outside the Trax shoe store Charlotte, N.C. Friday, Dec. 23, 2011. The release of the new basketball shoes caused a frenzy at stores across the nation Friday as scuffles broke out and police were brought in to stamp out unrest that nearly turned into riots in some places. (AP Photo/The Charlotte Observer, Todd Sumlin)
Kristopher Rush, 14, shows off one of the Nike Air Jordan shoes he got for Christmas from his parents Friday, Dec. 23, 2011, outside the Lafayette Square Mall in Indianapolis, where he waited in line with his father and brother for over three hours. Police were called in to control crowds of shoppers flocking Lafayette Square and Castleton Square malls in Indianapolis to control the crowds waiting for the shoes. The release of Nike's retro Air Jordans caused a frenzy at stores across the nation early Friday, with hundreds of people lining up for a chance to buy the classic basketball shoes and rowdy crowds breaking down doors and starting fights in at least two cities. AP Photo/The Indianapolis Star, Danese Kenon) NO SALES
Kristopher Rush, 14, stands near a door that was taken off its hinges as a large crowd rushed in to buy the newest Air Jordan shoes at Lafayette Square Mall in Indianapolis Friday, Dec. 23, 2011. Rush waited in line at the mall with his father and brother for over three hours to get his shoes. Police were called in to control crowds of shoppers flocking Lafayette Square and Castleton Square malls in Indianapolis to control the crowds waiting for the shoes. The release of Nike's retro Air Jordans caused a frenzy at stores across the nation early Friday, with hundreds of people lining up for a chance to buy the classic basketball shoes and rowdy crowds breaking down doors and starting fights in at least two cities. (AP Photo/The Indianapolis Star, Danese Kenon) NO SALES
SEATTLE (AP) ? Scuffles broke out and police were brought in to quell unrest that nearly turned into riots across the nation Friday following the release of Nike's new Air Jordan basketball shoes ? a retro model of one of the most popular Air Jordans ever made.
The mayhem stretched from Washington state to Georgia and was reminiscent of the violence that broke out 20 years ago in many cities as the shoes became popular targets for thieves. It also had a decidedly Black Friday feel as huge crowds of shoppers overwhelmed stores for a must-have item.
In suburban Seattle, police used pepper spray on about 20 customers who started fighting at the Westfield Southcenter mall. The crowd started gathering at four stores in the mall around midnight and had grown to more than 1,000 people by 4 a.m., when the stores opened, Tukwila Officer Mike Murphy said. He said it started as fighting and pushing among people in line and escalated over the next hour.
Murphy said no injuries were reported, although some people suffered cuts or scrapes from fights. Shoppers also broke two doors, and 18-year-old man was arrested for assault after authorities say he punched an officer.
"He did not get his shoes; he went to jail," Murphy said.
The $180 shoes went on sale Friday in a limited release at stores, and the lines began forming several hours before businesses opened.
As the crowds kept growing through the night, they became more unruly and ended in vandalism, violence and arrests.
A man was stabbed when a brawl broke out between several people waiting in line at a Jersey City, N.J., mall to buy the new shoes, authorities said. The 20-year-old man was expected to recover from his injuries.
In Georgia, officers said they had to break a car window to get two toddlers out after a woman went in after the shoes. They said she was taken into custody when she returned to the car.
In Richmond, Calif., police say crowds waiting to buy the Air Jordan 11 Retro Concords at the Hilltop Mall were turned away after a gunshot rang out around 7 a.m.
No injuries were reported, but police said a 24-year-old suspect was taken into custody. The gun apparently went off inadvertently, the Contra Costa Times reported.
Seventeen-year-old Dylan Pulver in Great Neck, N.Y., said he's been looking forward to the release of the shoes for several years, and he set out at 4:30 a.m. to get a pair. After the first store he tried was too crowded, he moved on to a second location and scored a pair.
"I probably could have used a half a size smaller, but I was just really happy to have the shoe," he said.
The frenzy over Air Jordans has been dangerous in the past. Some people were mugged or even killed for early versions of the shoe, created by Nike Inc. in 1984.
The Air Jordan has since been a consistent hit with sneaker fans, spawning a subculture of collectors willing to wait hours to buy the latest pair. Some collectors save the shoes for special occasions or never take them out of the box.
A new edition was launched each year, and release dates had to be moved to the weekends at some points to keep kids from skipping school to get a pair.
But the uproar over the shoe had died down in recent years. These latest incidents seem to be part of trend of increasing acts of violence at retailers this holiday shopping season, such as the shopper who pepper-sprayed others at a Wal-Mart in Los Angeles on Black Friday and crowds looting a clothing store in New York.
Nike issued a statement in response to the violence that said: "Consumer safety and security is of paramount importance. We encourage anyone wishing to purchase our product to do so in a respectful and safe manner."
The retro version of the Air Jordan 11 was a highly sought-after shoe because of the design and the fact that the original was released in 1996 when Jordan and the Bulls were at the height of their dominance.
Pulver said they were a "defining shoe in Jordan's career."
Other disturbances reported at stores in places like Kentucky and Nebraska ranged from shoving and threats to property damage.
In Taylor, Mich., about 100 people forced their way into a shopping center around 5:30 a.m., damaging decorations and overturning benches. Police say a 21-year-old man was arrested.
In Toledo, Ohio, police said they arrested three people after a crowd surged into a mall.
In Lithonia, Ga., at least four people were apparently arrested after customers broke down a door at a store selling the shoes. DeKalb County police said up to 20 squad cars responded.
In Northern California, two men were arrested at a Fairfield mall after crowds shoved each other to get in position for the Nikes, police said.
In Stockton, Detective Joe Silva said a person was taken into custody at Weberstown Mall on suspicion of making criminal threats involving the shoes. Police also were investigating an attempted robbery in the mall's parking lot. The victim was wrongly believed to have just purchased Air Jordans.
In Tukwila, Officer Murphy said the crowd was on the verge of a riot and would have gotten even more out of hand if the police hadn't intervened.
About 25 officers from Tukwila and surrounding areas responded. Murphy said police smelled marijuana and found alcohol containers at the scene.
"It was not a nice, orderly group of shoppers," Murphy said. "There were a lot of hostile and disorderly people."
The Southcenter mall's stores sold out of the Air Jordans, and all but about 50 people got a pair, Murphy said.
Shoppers described the scene as chaotic and at times dangerous.
Carlisa Williams said she joined the crowd at the Southcenter for the experience and ended up buying two pairs of shoes, one for her and one for her brother. But she said she'll never do anything like it again.
"I don't understand why they're so important to people," Williams told KING-TV. "They're just shoes at the end of the day. It's not worth risking your life over."
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AP Business Reporter Sarah Skidmore contributed to this report from Portland, Ore. AP Writer Michelle Price contributed from Phoenix.
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Government forces surround residents of a restive Syrian village and kill all those trapped inside ? more than 100 people ? in a barrage of rockets, tank shells, bombs and gunfire that lasts for hours, The attack pushes the death toll for two days of violence across Syria to more than 200, and is one of the deadliest single events of the entire nine-month uprising against President Bashar Assad's authoritarian rule. The White House reacts by renewing its call for Assad to step down.
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Egypt's powerful Muslim Brotherhood, leading in parliament elections, refuses to join calls by secular and liberal activists for the ruling military to move up its handover of power to civilians. Activists are seeking to capitalize on anger over the military's heavy-handed crackdown on protesters in Cairo the past week to pressure the ruling generals to step down before the current target of the end of June.
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YEMEN
Nearly 200 people, among them 15 foreigners, have been killed in clashes over the past few weeks between an ultraconservative Islamist group and former Shiite rebels in northern Yemen. Four Russian citizens are among the dead. The tension between the Salafi Islamists, who are Sunni, and the former Hawthi rebels, who are Shiite, escalated in late November just as Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh signed a U.S.-backed proposal to transfer power to his vice president in exchange for immunity from prosecution. Saleh agreed to step down after a 10-month uprising.
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LIBYA
Moammar Gadhafi's captured son and one-time heir apparent, Seif al-Islam, is being treated well but has not had access to a lawyer, an international rights group says after visiting the prisoner. Seif al-Islam, who has been charged with crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court, was captured in November by fighters from the town of Zintan in Libya's western mountains. Libya's national leadership in Tripoli is insisting on trying him at home, though they have yet to establish a functioning court system.
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BAHRAIN
The U.N.'s top human rights official urges Bahrain to release political detainees as a step toward reversing "deepening mistrust" between authorities and anti-government protesters. Navi Pillay, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, says Bahraini authorities must unconditionally release those convicted in military tribunals or awaiting trial merely because they exercised their "fundamental rights" of expression and assembly.
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A group of officials from the task force of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office enter a building that houses three firms acquired by Olympus Corp. in Tokyo Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011. Japanese prosecutors on Wednesday raided the headquarters and related facilities of Olympus Corp. which has been under investigation for dubious accounting and covering up massive losses. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, FRANCE, HONG KONG, JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA
A group of officials from the task force of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office enter a building that houses three firms acquired by Olympus Corp. in Tokyo Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011. Japanese prosecutors on Wednesday raided the headquarters and related facilities of Olympus Corp. which has been under investigation for dubious accounting and covering up massive losses. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, FRANCE, HONG KONG, JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA
A group of officials from the task force of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office walk toward the residence of former Olympus Corp. Chairman and President Tsuyoshi Kikukawa in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011. Japanese prosecutors on Wednesday raided the headquarters and related facilities of Olympus Corp. which has been under investigation for dubious accounting and covering up massive losses. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, FRANCE, HONG KONG, JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA
TOKYO (AP) ? Japanese prosecutors raided the headquarters of Olympus Corp. and the home of its former president Wednesday as part of an investigation into the cover-up of massive losses at the camera and medical equipment maker.
A trail of dark-suited officials was shown on national television marching solemnly into the company's downtown Tokyo office building.
Olympus said it would fully cooperate with the investigation by prosecutors, police and financial authorities.
"We apologize deeply again for the great troubles and worries we have caused our shareholders, investors, customers and others," it said in a statement.
Tokyo prosecutors said the home of former President Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, who is suspected of helping to orchestrate the cover-up, was also raided, as were the offices of three companies used in the scheme.
The deception at Olympus dates back to the 1990s and involved an elaborate scheme to hide 117.7 billion yen ($1.5 billion) in investment losses. It only came to light in October when then President Michael Woodford blew the whistle on what he thought was strange and excessive spending.
Woodford, a Briton, had been a rare foreigner to head a major Japanese company.
The scandal has raised serious questions about corporate governance in Japan, and whether major companies are complying adequately with global standards.
Woodford was fired after he confronted the company's board of directors with his doubts. In recent weeks, he has been trying to stage a comeback to the top, by appealing to shareholders, employees and others that his return will work to clean up Olympus.
Woodford had questioned exorbitant fees for advice on the acquisition of British medical equipment maker Gyrus Group and other expensive acquisitions in 2008.
Woodford is demanding the resignation of the entire board, including President Shuichi Takayama, who replaced him and initially declared in a news conference that the spending was legitimate.
The battle over who will lead the camera and medical equipment maker and its 40,000 employees could come to a head at the next shareholders' meeting. A date has not been set.
The new Olympus management has expressed a willingness to consider alliances in an effort to get its finances back in order.
Olympus delayed reporting earnings because of the accounting irregularities, but met the stock exchange's deadline earlier this month, averting automatic removal from the market.
The company could still be delisted if the criminal investigation discloses major misbehavior.
In the past, erring executives have rarely got prison time for their roles in shady bookkeeping.
Covering up for investments that went sour after the 1980s "bubble" economy burst was so widespread in Japan that a special term describes the practice, "tobashi."
Olympus stock plunged amid the scandal but has recouped some of those losses in recent weeks. On Wednesday it slipped 1.4 percent to 1,050 yen.
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