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- Frugal Friday: Verizon DROID, Intel Antitrust, V-Block, Oracle/EU, ICCA
- Frugal Networker Ken Hess and I discuss the new Verizon DROID smartphone, the recent Intel anti-trust complaint filed in the State of New York, the Oracle/Sun merger delays by the European Union, and speak with ICCA founder Steve Epner. by Jason Perlow
- Tags: Antitrust, Verizon Communications Inc., Intel Corp., Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Security, Business Operations, Investment, Finance, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- Oracle giving EU a hard time over Sun buy
- Oracle is taking a hard line in dealing with EU objections to its planned acquisition of Sun, according to a Financial Times report on Tuesday. Oracle is taking a hard line in dealing with EU objections to its planned acquisition of Sun, according to a Financial Times report on...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., European Union, Corporate Law, Regulations, Open Source, Databases, Business Operations, Government, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Oracle, Sun, EU, merger, Stephen Shankland CNET News
- News items 2009-11-04
- Antitrust: Time to break apart the phone companies -- again?
- Actually,those 'guaranteed revenue' companiesAre not so rare. Food companies, oil and gas companies, phone companies, electric companies, water utilities.... the list goes on and on if I had enough time to think of them all.That is why we need to break up any company that gets more than a 10%...
- Tags: Corporate law, Telecom & Utilities, Network technology, Food & Beverage, 360Networks Corp., phone company, phone, antitrust
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- EU, US looking at MSFT-YHOO search deal: Is competition for GOOG anticompetitive?
- M$ is anticompetitive by natureGoogle on the other hand is a good citizen for everyone.RE: EU, US looking at MSFT-YHOO search deal: Is competition for GOOG antico"Even if it does cause ?antitrust effects,? wouldn?t the end result be a stronger competitor for Google? Clearly. That would be good for consumers...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Digital media, Digital music, Investment, Businesses, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-16
- DOJ requests more info on Microsoft-Yahoo search deal
- DOJ?Why does DOJ put its nose everywhere. this deal will create a company that will have half the market share as its competitor, let the market and shareholders take the decision.becuase.....why should one company which has 90% of the desk market have the same control over the Internet?It is good...
- Tags: INTERNET, Yahoo Search, Exchange 14, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., U.S. Department of Justice
- Discussion threads 2009-09-11
- Windows Mobile 6.5: How touchy will it be?
- Windows Mobile 6.5: How touchy will it be?It should be made clearWindows Mobile has supported gesture based applications for a long time now. I was using gestures years ago in Pocket Player and I've been using a gesture enabled keyboard called TouchPal for months now. HTC TouchFlo has also supported...
- Tags: Keyboards, Mobile operating systems, Monitors & displays, Operating systems, Smart phones, HTC TouchFLO, gesture, Windows Mobile 6.5, Microsoft Windows Mobile, phone, touch screen, Apple iPhone, Richard, High Tech Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-07-09
- Will you be joining the Opera boycott?
- Opera's antitrust complaint against Microsoft from 2007 has now ballooned into a full-blown EU antitrust case into browser bundling. As you'd expect, this antitrust case isn't popular with everyone, and one Windows enthusiast website has launched campaign calling on users to boycott the Opera browser. Will you be boycotting Opera?...
- Tags: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Antitrust, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Opera Software ASA, Security
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- Windows enthusiasts launch 'Boycott Opera' campaign
- Windows enthusiasts launch 'Boycott Opera' campaignYeah, ok, Apple too, along with Microsoft.I did forget Apple: I don't get that either. HansWhat is a "Windows Enthusiast"?This is something I don't understand. I've never understood how someone could get behind a for profit company like this. I could...
- Tags: boycott, Microsoft Windows, Opera Software ASA, Windows Enthusiast
- Discussion threads 2009-06-15
- EU fines Intel record $1.45 billion in AMD antitrust case
- EU fines Intel record $1.45 billion in AMD antitrust case10 percent of it's global turnover?Since when has any country the right to fine on a percentage of sales NOT made it's country?To allow something like that opens the door to countries to arbitrarily fine a company looking to get 10%...
- Tags: Corporate law, Processors, antitrust, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-05-13
- News to know: Safari 4, HP, Gmail outage, Ballmer's bets, SaaS adoption
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Safari 4 coverage: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Safari 4 - This is one fast browser! Ryan Naraine: ...
- Tags: Google Gmail, Software-as-a-service, Larry Dignan, Apple Safari, Hewlett-Packard Co., Steve Ballmer, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Outage, Sam Diaz, Web Browsers, Cloud Computing, Internet
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- Google seeks to join Internet Explorer antitrust complaint
- Microsoft's competitors are continuing to pile onto the Opera antitrust complaint against Microsoft over Internet Explorer IE. The latest to seek the right to join is Google. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Google Inc., Antitrust, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Web Browsers, Corporate Law, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Business Operations, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-02-24
- Microsoft on the other end of the EC antitrust stick?
- Microsoft on the other end of the EC antitrust stick?I would not say that "But the timing is amusing"but rather more towards "not unexpected", and actually quite logical.It is about time. If every other competitor of Microsoft is going to run crying "Anti-Trust" to the EU every other week their...
- Tags: Network technology, IBM Corp., EC antitrust, T3, Neelie Kroes, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-01-21
- Microsoft on the other end of the EC antitrust stick?
- Financial Times blogger Richard Waters makes a convincing case for Microsoft being one of the unnamed forces behind a complaint filed with the European Commission EC that claims IBM is abusing its mainframe monopoly. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: European Commission, Antitrust, T3, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Mainframes, Corporate Law, Network Technology, Servers, Hardware, Business Operations, Networking, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-01-21
- Opera CTO: Here's how to level the browser playing field
- I had a chance to ask Opera Chief Technology Officer Hakon Wium Lie a few questions (via e-mail) about the European Commission's preliminary findings around Opera's 2007 antitrust complaint against Microsoft for its browser-related business practices. Here is our exchange. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Internet, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp., Opera Software ASA, Standards, Web, Web Browser, Web Browsers
- Blog posts 2009-01-20
- Psystar's revised counterclaim feels weaker than original
- Psystar, the Mac clone maker, has filed a revised countersuit against Apple, though this time it reads more like a defense instead of an allegation. A few weeks ago, a federal judge tossed the original counterclaim back at Psystar and gave the company 20 days to file...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Operating System, Apple Inc., Psystar, Mac OS User, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-10
- Latest twist in Apple vs. Psystar
- Latest twist in Apple vs. PsystarPretty funny"..APPLE intentionally embeds code in the Mac OS that causes the Mac OS to malfunction on any computer hardware system that is not an Apple-Labeled Computer Hardware System.."Talk about arrogance. Apple, selling Apple hardware, should concern itself with its software running on other platforms...
- Tags: Operating systems, Apple Mac OS, Apple Inc., Psystar, operating system, hardware
- Discussion threads 2008-12-10
- Apple dodges antitrust bullet
- Apple dodges antitrust bulletApple = $$$ = Better lawyers. Pystar is right.The only reasonThe only reason it is not yet anti-competitive is because of Apple's pathetic marketshare.Let's flip this around: Imagine MS starts making computers and stops OEMs from selling Windows on the computers. You know, just...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows, Corporate law, Operating systems, antitrust, Pystar, tendancy, Apple Inc., Psystar
- Discussion threads 2008-11-18
- Transcript: PDC08 Keynote â€" Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson
- Todd Bishop, TechFlash; Ed Bott, ZDNet; Kip Kniskern, Liveside; Rafael Rivera, Within Windows; Paul Thurrott, Windows Supersite; and Tom Warren, Neowin; and Long Zheng, Istartedsomething â€" and yours truly--did a group blog of the first PDC keynote. Here's the live blog transcript (speakers: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava,...
- Tags: Keynote, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Liveside, Neowin.net, Tom Riley, Signal God, Paul, MJ, Azure, Z, Red Dog, Download Link, Saruhan, Bluehoo, MOS, SSDS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- Antitrust suit against Apple, AT&T moves forward
- A federal judge has ruled that an antitrust suit against Apple and A&T over exclusivity deals for the iPhone may move forward, Ars Technica reports. Apple and AT&T signed a five-year exclusive deal but only told consumers they would have to sign up for a two-year...
- Tags: Antitrust, Consumer Protection, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
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