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Anti Competition behaviour
Talkback This is where the EU should step in rather fast and act to prevent such anti competition behaviour. Microsoft got well hammered by the EU for supposed similar behaviour and this is an even more blatant example of monopolistic suppression of...
[April 7, 2009, 9:03]
Microsoft lifts lid on EC Vista probe
News A senior Microsoft executive has revealed details of the European Commission's anti-competition probe into its upcoming Vista operating system. Microsoft and the EC have been in protracted discussions regarding Vista since March, over the EC's...
[October 24, 2006, 17:10]
Europe won't back down on Vista
News The European Commission has refused to sanction Microsoft's release of Vista in Europe, despite the company's promise to make changes to its operating system to try to allay anti-competition concerns.
[October 16, 2006, 17:20]
Commission silent on details of Vista probe
News On Monday, the Financial Times reported that the European Commission had expanded an anti-competition probe into Vista, as it is concerned about the encryption and handwriting recognition software that is slated to be included in the operating...
[October 3, 2006, 17:00]
Analysts: Judge's decision won't hurt Microsoft shares
News He also ruled that Microsoft violated another section of the law by "unlawfully tying its Web browser to its operating system" and could be sued under state anti-competition laws. Jackson went on to say Microsoft violated the Sherman Antitrust Act...
[April 4, 2000, 10:00]
Predatory monopoly abuse
Talkback Hopefully the next political administration will engage in appropriate enforcement of anti trust laws and try to help restore competition to the computer industry. Judge Jacksons comments at the end of the US anti trust case are as appropriate...
[October 14, 2008, 8:13]
Microsoft pulls out of EC browser hearing
News Opera, the browser company that sparked the European investigation with its anti-competition complaint against Microsoft in 2007, noted that if the cancelled hearing had not been scheduled so quickly, it could have drawn out the proceedings.
[May 22, 2009, 15:04]
Online music services accused of anti-competitiveness
News Boucher added that offering preferential licensing terms could have anti-competition implications. Rick Boucher, Democrat-Virginia, warned on Monday that the recording industry's efforts to sell music on the Internet could have anti-competitive...
[July 9, 2002, 10:41]
Oftel: BT's Surftime is anti-competitive
News Oftel has told ZDNet that British Telecom is guilty of anti-competitive behaviour pointing the finger at its beleagured unmetered access service, Surftime. Significantly Oftel agrees that Surftime is anti-competitive.
[April 19, 2000, 12:36]
Internet Explorer gets a new evangelist
Talkback My understanding of the Anti trust Settlement was that the market should be opened up, while it is quite clear that M$ are pulling in the opposite direction and slamming the door on competition - and no-one is commenting or acting to preserve the...
[June 23, 2004, 11:59]
EU directive 'could spark patent war'
News If there were concerns about patents being used anti-competitively, these should be handled under competition law, he wrote. The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII), which lobbied in favour of the amendments, responded that it...
[October 3, 2003, 13:20]
Microsoft on Trial: MS 'crossed the line' says economist
News If software developers believe that Microsoft will engage in anti-competitive acts to impede any innovation that threatens its monopoly, they will have substantially reduced incentives to innovate in competition with Microsoft," he continued.
[January 6, 1999, 11:57]
Unbundle IE in Europe? Why stop there?
Blog So, EU regulators, are you up for this, the real battle to stop anti-competitive practices and open up the platform market to consumer-benefiting real competition? Microsoft has already been embedding this kind of technology in Windows for years...
[June 15, 2009, 9:24]
Europe heading down DMCA route, warns think tank
News The most controversial provision of the DMCA, mirrored in the EUCD's Article 6, criminalises the circumvention of anti-piracy technology, such as the anti-copying encryption on DVDs. However, many member states are not making use of this...
[September 16, 2003, 15:45]
Google Books opposition stacks up on deadline
News As expected, lawyers for Microsoft, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a coalition called the Open Book Alliance attacked the deal as anti-competitive and detrimental to consumers. Gary Reback, who helped prosecute Microsoft in the 1990s for...
[September 9, 2009, 9:06]
WorldCom takes on BT, offers alternative Surftime
News MCI WorldCom is to roll out an alternative version of Surftime following a successful anti-competitive complaint against BT it is revealed Tuesday. Oftel agrees that BT has acted "anti-competitively" over Surftime.
[April 18, 2000, 15:36]
Freeserve's broadband complaint bites the dust
News Oftel has once again rejected Freeserve's claim that BT is guilty of making anti-competitive broadband price cuts, some 20 months after the original allegation was made. Oftel has spent the last seven months reassessing this part of Freeserve's...
[November 21, 2003, 12:10]
A Year Ago: Sun and Netscape lambast Microsoft
News Sun chairman Scott McNealy and Netscape chief executive Jim Barksdale called on the Justice Department to bring a new and broader anti-trust suit against Microsoft for leveraging monopoly power. The harsh anti-Microsoft rhetoric continued at...
[March 2, 1999, 7:04]
IBM buys mainframe maker, sparks antitrust fears
News Platform Solutions counter-sued in January 2007, accusing IBM of anti-competitive behaviour in the mainframe market. According to CCIA, IBM is taking advantage of the decision in 2001 by the US Department of Justice to dissolve a 49-year-old...
[July 3, 2008, 17:01]
BT throws down broadband gauntlet
News Either way, any significant price reduction is certain to put BT on a collision course with the regulator, as its rivals will complain that the telco is acting in an anti-competitive manner. Obviously we welcome any price cut, as long as they aren...
[February 8, 2002, 15:36]
