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Talkback Is this not anticompetitive behaviour? Likewise, the new integrated search tool should help users find documents that they or their colleagues have created. Although alternative search tools are freely available on the web, having one integrated...
[December 6, 2006, 11:15]
French Music Store Claims IPod 'anticompetitive'
Talkback Stephen, the two are completely different situations. You are free to install any office suite you like on your PC, and there are a number of 'free' suites that will read and let you edit documents stored in Microsoft file formats.
[August 9, 2004, 14:56]
French Music Store Claims IPod 'anticompetitive'
Talkback This borders on hilarious! We have a company that makes two of a couple dozen music players in the market and they are called anti-competitive. Yet, we have another company whose Office suite dominates the desktop computer market with proprietary...
[August 7, 2004, 13:25]
French Music Store Claims IPod 'anticompetitive'
Talkback to virgin: it's called 'capitalism', quit whining and stop being an asshole because apple won't share what they made themselves.why would they open their books to you if it would potentially hurt their profits.thats what companies _do_, they make...
[August 6, 2004, 17:03]
French Music Store Claims IPod 'anticompetitive'
Talkback Funny, you can't listen to Free Radio Virgin on a Mac because Virgin' technology doesn't support Macs but its okay for them to complain about iPod beinf anit-competitive.
[August 6, 2004, 16:34]
French Music Store Claims IPod 'anticompetitive'
News French online music store Virgin Mega has filed a complaint against Apple Computer, claiming that the company's refusal to license the copy-protection technology used in its iPod is harming competition.
[August 6, 2004, 9:05]
PeopleSoft Buyout 'would Be Anticompetitive'
News .IBM has told the US Department of Justice (DoJ) that if Oracle was allowed to acquire Peoplesoft, it would reduce the enterprise software market to dependency on a few huge players. According to a report in Tuesday's Financial Times, IBM was...
[September 9, 2003, 17:20]
Proof Emerges Of SCO's Microsoft Link
Talkback With Microsoft having a desktop monopoly is this not a serious breach of anticompetitive laws? Escpecially after the settlement they reached with the USA government a few years ago in which they promised to stop such anticompetitive behaviour.
[March 12, 2004, 13:54]
Intel Makes IA-64 Patent Move
News The recent move by Intel to take out patents on its next-generation chip technology may strike some observers as verging on the anticompetitive -- blocking other manufacturers from "cloning" its processors -- but industry observers say such...
[November 2, 2000, 7:00]
AMD Vs Intel: The Chips Are Down
News AMD filed a lawsuit against Intel in the US courts accusing the chipmaker of anticompetitive practices. Intel has been investigated before for anticompetitive practices, and is experienced in defending itself.
[June 29, 2005, 13:15]
Microsoft Admits Targeting Wine Users
Talkback On the contrary, intentionally making it more difficult for WINE users to make use of their legally purchased software equates to anticompetitive "bundling" that is in all likelihood illegal under current US antitrust law, and almost certainly is...
[February 27, 2005, 3:56]
Justice Dept: Why Oracle Won't Win
News The government's lawsuit, filed in mid-February, argues that such a deal would be anticompetitive and violate antitrust laws. When we announced the challenge to the merger, we thought the decision here was clear and that the evidence will...
[March 9, 2004, 10:45]
Microsoft On Trial : Consumers Not Harmed By MS
News And integrating the browser into Windows is "procompetitive," not anticompetitive as the 12 DoJ witnesses have claimed. Proper economic inquiry into whether a company has engaged in anticompetitive conduct should end if it concludes that consumers...
[January 12, 1999, 10:31]
Apple Joins Critics Of Microsoft Deal
News But Apple, which has a big stake in the education market, criticised the settlement as anticompetitive. To the extent that this influx of Microsoft products undermines Apple, one of Microsoft's few remaining competitors, whose base of strength...
[November 28, 2001, 9:55]
Did Ofcom Force BT's Broadband Price Rises?
News Rival telecoms operators have for some time claimed that BT's IPStream pricing is anticompetitive. Datastream users, though, have alleged that the prices that BT has been charging for IPStream and Datastream respectively are anticompetitive.
[August 5, 2004, 16:15]
Microsoft Petitions For Browser Rehearing
News The Court of Appeals found there were certain anticompetitive acts from Microsoft's combining Internet Explorer with Windows 95 and 98," said Rich Gray, a Silicon Valley attorney closely following the trial.
[July 19, 2001, 10:35]
2001: In The Courts
News The EC's action is aimed at "anticompetitive" actions taken by Microsoft to use its dominance in the desktop operating system market to improve its position in the server software market. The facts: Despite the pending settlement in the US, the...
[December 26, 2001, 6:31]
Appeals Court Reaffirms Microsoft Settlement
News Far from abusing its discretion, therefore, the district court, by remedying the anticompetitive effect of commingling, went to the heart of the problem Microsoft had created, and it did so without intruding itself into the design and engineering...
[July 1, 2004, 9:30]
EC Says No To Oracle
News If the merger is ultimately prohibited on anticompetitive grounds in either the United States or Europe, it will be a deal-killer for Oracle, according to attorneys who specialise in antitrust. How many government rulings does it take before Oracle...
[March 15, 2004, 7:55]
Windows XP Needs Passport To Travel
News If anything, it's pro-competitive, not anticompetitive," Gavil said. But reaching those millions via Windows -- a monopoly product according to US District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's antitrust ruling -- is anticompetitive, some Microsoft...
[June 22, 2001, 9:26]
