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Consumer Choice
Talkback I wonder if the individual consumer's requirements have been overlooked in this analysis. Companies now thriving can provide their computers either immediately in the shops or virtually by return of post, unlike Dell.
[February 2, 2007, 12:17]
Naked PCs
Talkback If a vendor sells a PC and offers the consumer a choice of OSs the consumer gets the choice the EU is after and the vendor would still pre-install the OS before taking the machine home, either by slotting in a pre-loaded HD and applying a license...
[October 2, 2007, 12:32]
MPEG-4 backers protest Microsoft licence
News Proponents of MPEG-4 are decrying Microsoft's new licensing fees for rival technology, saying that the pricing poses unfair competition and threatens consumer choice. But while Microsoft is pushing for adoption of its proprietary technology by...
[January 10, 2003, 7:51]
Consumer Protection and Quality of Service (QoS), Including Network Neutrality and Cyber-Security Issues
White Papers The deployment of Next Generation Networks (NGN, using IP connectivity to support fixed, wireless and mobile voice, video, data, and broadcast TV services, provides new opportunities to increasing consumer choice.
[July 17, 2008, 0:00]
Get more secure - or else!
News The tech industry has a choice: Develop real proposals for protecting consumer privacy and network security or stand back and watch the US government do it. Although he said government regulation of general consumer privacy issues is premature...
[March 15, 2000, 9:58]
Solving Microsoft's Linux problem
Talkback Computer suppliers like Dell, HP, and Gateway are anti-competitive and anti consumer choice. Don't do business with these companies if you care about consumer choice. Boycott Dell, HP Gateway Microsoft doesn't have Linux problem.
[August 17, 2005, 16:26]
Government rejects calls for DRM ban
News DRM does not only act as a policeman through technical protection measures, it also enables content companies to offer the consumer unprecedented choice in terms of how they consume content, and the corresponding price they wish to pay," said the...
[February 20, 2007, 12:47]
EU sets court date for Microsoft ruling
News The company is also accused of gaining an unfair advantage over rivals and of limiting consumer choice, by bundling its media player with Windows. The issue is the same one of consumer choice versus the benefits of integration that lay at the heart...
[March 16, 2004, 16:20]
Apple vs Real: Is the user the loser?
Talkback Unlike Real's store - which only works with a PC and where is REal's converter for the thousands of RM & Real's RAM fies scattered across the internet - where's the consumer's choice there? How about a converter and a mac & PC store before you...
[August 9, 2004, 17:44]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog They decided to throw a party and invite the neighbours, the Sabines, for a bit of a bash -- doubtless saying how a few ales and goat en croute would benefit the consumer by offering more choice and convenience over dull old fish and olives.
[May 7, 2004, 18:10]
HP increases PC competition with itself
News What it really comes down to is: Can we provide two distinct products that, from a consumer standpoint, offer a good choice? Hewlett-Packard, which merged last year with Compaq, plans to tweak its two-brand consumer PC strategy with the...
[June 6, 2003, 11:08]
EC wants software makers held liable for code
News EU consumer commissioner Kuneva said that more accountability for software makers, and for companies providing digital services, would lead to greater consumer choice. Software companies could be held responsible for the security and efficacy of...
[May 8, 2009, 16:29]
Unbundle IE in Europe? Why stop there?
Blog Comment We've seen this in the Microsoft-Novell agreement to subvert the GPL2, the implementation of ODF in SP2 that actually reduced interoperability between office suites and compatibility between document-format implementations, and this ludicrous...
[June 17, 2009, 9:42]
Windows XP to reflect antitrust changes
News However, nine other states and the District of Columbia, which rejected the settlement, have argued that the change is not up to the task of ensuring competition or consumer choice. In theory, this change means programs from AOL Time Warner...
[April 7, 2002, 7:01]
Firefox continues to gain ground
Talkback Nowedays we call this: consumer choice. Might it be because that consumer choice that we seem to have is not so easy to invoke afterall? But if so then what value has consumer choice anyway? Could it be that there are in fact other forces in play...
[May 17, 2006, 0:52]
Corel knocks Microsoft off HP desktops
News Currently, Pavilion PCs come with a choice of the full version of Office XP or Microsoft's stripped-down consumer alternative, Works. Hewlett-Packard is booting Microsoft Office software from its Pavilion line of consumer PCs in favour of software...
[August 27, 2002, 9:10]
P3P: A green light for privacy on the Web? Part II
News Consumer data is the coin of the realm, and that means there won't be a lot of sites that offer great privacy. The original vision included a way of negotiating the terms of any information sharing between a Web site's policy and a consumer's...
[July 5, 2000, 13:54]
MS takes aim at RealNetworks... again
News But Rob Grady, Real's director of consumer product marketing, said it comes down to a matter of choice. Having one app for everything reduces that, and we want to optimise consumer choice. The more transparent this becomes, the more successful it...
[July 18, 2000, 10:00]
US Congress votes for net neutrality
News Walter McCormick, president of the United States Telecom Association (USTelecom), pointed to the pre-vote discussion when saying "the committee members understand that this misguided and reckless legislation could hamper investment and innovation...
[May 26, 2006, 9:10]
Linux community upset by desktop deals
News Two major moves by well-known Linux companies have the open-source community worried that the consumer is being left behind. On Monday, in an expected move, Red Hat said it would stop supporting all consumer versions of Red Hat Linux by the end of...
[November 5, 2003, 9:00]
