It's part of the union's strategy to convince the company to pressure subcontractor Aramark into negotiating a better deal with striking service workers. And after today's festivities, a group of Diggnation groupies will be delivered by CalTrain after a boozy ride from San Francisco for a live taping of the show at 6:30 p.m. after the day-long conference. Both the activists and the fanboys will surely add color to the official company line CEO Jen-Hsun Huang pitched at the keynote. (Photo by AP/Mark Lennihan)

She writes that Trevett sent her a platinum American Express card to cover expenses on a trip to Vietnam. But she captioned a photo of herself holding the card, "Guess who loves this douchebag?" Before, maybe it was just Piggy, Chinh. But even though we're not sure quite what's going on here, you can count us as fans, too.

There's just one problem. AMD has survived as an also-ran to Intel because of a cross-licensing agreement that gives it access to Intel technology. That agreement would not transfer to Nvidia, and Intel's unlikely to strike a new deal with Nvidia. Antitrust concerns would also be significant as AMD recently bought Nvidia's biggest competitor, ATI. Then again, those same worries could work in Nvidia's favor. Since Intel is aggressively moving into Nvidia's graphics market, regulators might force it to strike a deal.

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It came time to head across the street to the Khonke-hosted I-Play party at the Mars Bar.

The party was supposed to celebrate the launch of 24, the cell phone game, but it ended up being a forum for the leftovers of the Marketing conference to get drunk on Khonke's dollar.

And therein the gossip flowed. The bullet points:

nVidia spends a shitload of cash on charities. Investors, remember this as you quickly remove your dough from the company.

Future Network USA, formerly Imagine, was nowhere to be seen at the event. Not a huge defeat, since this was the first time for this event, but unsettling none-the-less. Look for Future Network to be a platinum sponsor next year if for no other reason than to piss off Ziff and the 1up gang.

EA almost bought I-Play, before Digital Bridges got ahold of them. We'll see who's laughing and who's crying in a year.

There were some new terms created for the show. One is the "paid-by-schwag" employee. This term is used to designate gamers who have been bribed with labeled goodies as an incentive to go out and post hype in forums.

Earlier: ConFonz at the Game Marketing Conference: gamers vs. little old ladies [Valleywag]