Oracle hasn't completed its Sun Microsystems acquisition yet, but the restructuring is already underway. In a regulatory filing, Sun said Tuesday that it will lay off 3,000 workers across the globe. The company added that it had to restructure as it waits for Oracle's purchase of the...
The European Commission is extending its probe into the $7.4 million takeover of Sun. Neelie Kroes, the European Union’s competition commissioner, expressed concern about MySQL, the open source database that competes with Oracle's SQL products. by Richard Koman
The European Union ombudsman reportedly criticized antitrust regulators over its evidence collection against Intel. According to the Wall Street Journal, EU ombudsman P. Nikiforos Diamandouros said that the European Commission, which fined Intel $1.45 billion in May for monopoly abuse, failed to record evidence from a Dell...
At the end of the day Microsoft acknowledged its plan to ship a browser-less version of Windows 7 in the European Union to attempt to appease antitrust regulators, those same regulators and Opera Software weighed in on Redmond's plan. by Mary Jo Foley
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Regulators: iPhone card counting app a felony"I guess I know what I?m doing this weekend :)"And WHEN you get caught...I hope you have a very good lawyer, because you're going to need one.They act like card counting is an exact science, its not.Its essentially a guestimation of odds. Sort...
I live about 15 miles from Atlantic City and was surprised to see the iPhone land on the front page of our local newspaper this morning, and not in a good way. The AP story "Card Counting iPhone application prompts Nevada to warn casinos" is about an...
Google is halving the time it keeps your IP addresses on its servers. Billed as "another step to protect user privacy" the move is really to keep regulators at bay. Google used to keep your IP addresses on its servers for 18 months, a time that was...
In reading Partnoy's complaint (aka "Infectious greed") I was struck by the extreme simplification of his views and moved to push them forward a bit by suggesting that companies like AMD could issue performance based derivatives in place of shares - and not only benefit from this in many ways,...
Comcast, BitTorrent kiss, make up in attempt to keep regulators awayhahahcomcast finally swallowed. I hear nothing but bad stuff about them.. its good to hear this.RE: Comcast, BitTorrent kiss, make up in attempt to keep regulators awaythere are other net providers and p2p sites. Why should comcast and bitorrent...
Comcast and BitTorrent said Thursday that they will collaborate and figure out the best way to manage peer-to-peer traffic on the cable giant's network. Regulators began holding hearings after Comcast had used network shaping techniques to manage P2P traffic much to the chagrin of BitTorrent. But now...
EU regulators cool on Microsoft open-source moveEU regulators cool on Microsoft open-source moveOh jeez, is there anything that will please the EU? Despite Microsoft even going as far as offering source code these regulators still can't accept it. Money laundering is what its really turning out to be....
Google has reportedly reached out to Yahoo to thwart Microsoft's unsolicited $44.6 billion bid. And in case that doesn't work Google has already started working policymakers. Simply put, the games have begun Techmeme. Get ready for the FUD fest folks. As noted on Friday just a few...
European antitrust regulators are kicking off two new Microsoft antitrust investigations, one of which involves products and technologies for which Microsoft allegedly is withholding interoperability information, including its .Net framework, Office Open XML OOXML document format and various server products. According to the European Commission's statement on...
The National Lottery Commission NLC licenses and regulates the running of the National Lottery in the United Kingdom, maximising funds for good causes and protecting players' interests. From administrators to board members, NLC employees produce many research documents and reports every day that they often need to share with other...
Although Microsoft and other Google rivals tried, they were unsuccessful in their lobbying to derail the $3.1 billion Google-Doubleclick merger. On December 20, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission issued a statement claiming they found the proposed buyout unlikely to lessen competition in the online advertising market. ...
 Over on this other blog I do, I wrote that EU European Union Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson is in Washington D.C. trying to talk influential U.S. Congresspeople to overturn a U.S. ban on Internet gambling. It would appear that Mandelson's concerns are being...
When a company loses an appeal of a negative antitrust ruling, how do they satisfy regulators whose strides have suddenly been lengthened by the stamp of approval handed down by an upper level court? If Microsoft's recent decision is any guide, they do whatever the hell that regulator tells them to...
Unless you have been living under a technology rock, you know by now that Microsoft lost its antitrust appeal. The European Court of First Instance rejected most of Microsoft's arguments. The court also ruled that they EC went too far by appointing a Microsoft-paid "special master" to oversee Microsoft's compliance,...
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