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News Corp. prepares to destroy more online value

You can't force the market. If you're selling something others are giving away they won't buy from you. The price you charge must be related to what everyone else charges. And if you try to make everyone else charge it's called collusion. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Collusion, Dana Blankenhorn, News Corp.

Blog posts 2009-10-26

How health reform and health IT reform are linked

Socailist Government controlGovernment to 'peasant':I know your medical history.I know when you go.I know how many ailments you had.I will ration you on treatment.This may be viewable to a potential employer.Dictator driven government by someone who will call people un-American for not wanting this, or they are a fringe when...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care, collusion

Discussion threads 2009-09-21

Open Books Alliance: Google Books is nothing less than price-fixing and collusion

Open Books Alliance accuses Google of creating Rockefeller-like collusion that defeats antitrust and copyright law. by Richard Koman

Tags: Google Inc., Alliance, Collusion, Corporate Law, Strategy, Business Operations, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-09-08

Collusion 1.1 (Windows)

Collusion is an application that checks all the documents within a folder against each other for evidence of plagiarism. Trial version is limited to checking the first 250 words of each text. Costs $10 to buy. Ideal for teachers checking homework or developers checking source code. Example files included to...

Tags: Collusion, Nimisis, Trial Version, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-04-01

Eric Schmidt with the axe in the Blogosphere

SearchViews says "Eric Schmidt firmly denied that money had been reserved from the Google/YouTube deal to buy off media companies." Then, the posting goes on to make a completely mistaken assertion about my posting that suggested that the deal may have involved some collusion:His words give a firm ax to...

Tags: Business &, Technology, SearchView

Blog posts 2006-11-09

NY AG talks to labels about pricing collusion

Is New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer onto something around the pricing of digital music? His office has issued subpoenas to Sony, Warner, EMI and Vivendi in some sort of antitrust probe. Most media coverage suggests the labels want to pressure Apple to switch to a variable pricing model, where...

Tags: collusion, NY AG, pricing

Blog posts 2005-12-27

Additional Resources

Will Microsoft always be seen as open source Astroturf?

Long ago......people gave up any semblance of being able to separate the message from the messenger. We saw it with the anti-Bush tirades, we see it now with the anti-Obama (and the anti-anti-Obama) tirades, as we see it in the anti-Microsoft tirades. Microsoft could announce that the sun was going...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., publically-traded company, open source

Discussion threads 2009-09-11

News to know: Windows 7; Verizon; RightNow; Salesforce; Palm; HP

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. Ryan Naraine: Windows 7, Vista exposed to 'teardrop attack' Microsoft patches gaping Windows worm holes Firefox to run...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Larry Dignan, Patent, Hewlett-Packard Co., Palm Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Microsoft Corp., RightNow Technologies, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Microsoft Windows 7, Cable, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Telecommunications, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2009-09-09

Open Books Alliance: Google Books is nothing less than price-fixing and collusion

Open Books Alliance: Google Books is nothing less than price-fixing and colHow many FREE books is Amazon offering?How is Google books price fixing, but Amazon isn't??Like the previous post, how many free books is Amazon giving away??

Tags: Google Book, Open Books Alliance, Amazon.com Inc., Google Inc., alliance

Discussion threads 2009-09-08

Google: Pot, kettle, black, Chrome OS and a potential antitrust

Apple should also be under fire.----Why can?t Microsoft ship a Windows edition without including a browser or at least come under fire from a zillion lawsuits yet Google can?----Well, what about Apple and its tight integration of Safari on the Mac? They are all doing the same bundling but then...

Tags: Corporate law, Web browsers, Operating systems, Google Inc., Chrome, Chrome OS, Microsoft Corp., operating system, antitrust, Web browser

Discussion threads 2009-09-04

Back to school special: QWERTY messaging phones

Do we have to have a contract?I have a T Mobile account, but mine is the pre-paid variety. because I don't use the cell phone " all that much," this is enormously cheaper. Is it possible to find one of these qwerty machines that does not require the...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, phone, QWERTY messaging phone, messaging phone, Back-to-School, QWERTY, Xenon, messaging, LG Electronics Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-31

The brain drain from Apple to Palm

People generally don't leave if......they are happy and challenged. I guess, on top of Mr. Jobs considerable skills, he can be quite a tyrant. If you are a very talented and highly knowledgeable/skilled individual at the higher levels of corporate management, you probably have the backbone and confidence to discretely...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Apple Inc., U.S. Department of Justice, Palm Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-20

Apple, Palm rivalry redux: Poaching examined

Former Palm CEO Ed Colligan reportedly rebuffed Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who wanted to prevent Palm from hiring his employees. According to a Bloomberg report , Colligan rejected a proposal from Jobs to refrain from poaching each other's employees. The August 2007 missive between Jobs and Colligan...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Palm Pre, Recruitment & Selection, Smart Phones, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-20

Apple: Won't somebody please think of the cellphone towers?

Apple: Won't somebody please think of the cellphone towers?24 season 9 plot thread?Jack Bauer has to foil an assassination attempt on Steve Jobs. Chloe arms him with a jailbroken iPhone that cripples every cell tower in Cupertino. Jack activates the iPhone, only to find out that Steve Ballmer has already...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., cell phone, Jack Bauer

Discussion threads 2009-07-29

Data Mining and Collusion Resistance

The field of data mining provides techniques for new knowledge discovery - finding patterns in the data set such as classifiers and association rules that may be useful to the data miner. Privacy preserving data mining seeks to allow users to share data while ensuring individual and corporate privacy concerns...

Tags: Bowling Green State University, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing

White papers 2009-07-03

Expose Fraud Rings and Stop Repeat Offenders With Device Reputation

The convenience and excitement of gambling online has been the driving force behind the phenomenal growth of the online gambling industry. But as more people turn to online poker, roulette, blackjack, sports books and other casino games, cyber criminals are becoming more sophisticated in finding ways to defraud legitimate players...

Tags: Industry, IOVATION, Internet, Strategy, Management

White papers 2009-06-22

Washington digs in on text message pricing; asks about carrier exclusivity

Washington digs in on text message pricing; asks about carrier exclusivityGimme? No, its socialism in actionWhy do you figure the government has any right to dictate what phones are available through what carriers? I don't happen to like the iPhone - but I know a lot of people...

Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular phones, Telecom & Utilities, text message pricing, carrier exclusivity, phone, text messaging

Discussion threads 2009-06-17

Washington digs in on text message pricing; asks about carrier exclusivity

Congress continued to take the wireless carriers to the mat over the wrong issue, specifically the cost of a text message. Now, it looks like there may be an effort to pin them down on a matter  that will likely resonate with a greater a number of people: carrier exclusivity...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Senator, Wireless Carrier, AT&T Corp., Pricing Strategy, Wireless, Pricing, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Marketing Research, Cellular Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-17

Windows 7 OEM pricing: What could and should Microsoft do?

Windows 7 OEM pricing: What could and should Microsoft do?Bigger flaw in the analysis.We're talking about the per-copy price of Win7 as if it were a fixed amount, which it probably is - but the tacit assumption is that the price of the netbook it's running on is *also* a...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Pricing, Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), REAL QUESTION, Microsoft Windows 7, Linux, OEM, pricing strategy, Microsoft Do, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., netbook

Discussion threads 2009-06-16

Are tech companies agreeing not to steal top execs?

Are tech companies agreeing not to steal top execs?If there is collusion...Definitely should be prosecuted. If these companies are truly trying to avoid a lawsuit you can't necessarily blame them ? Normally these things are cut-throat and they are trying to hire each other's execs from each other.RE:...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, tech company, recruiting, recruiting firm

Discussion threads 2009-06-03