Europe and U.S. try to calm storm over Microsoft
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| Majoras had a hand in fashioning the U.S. remedies against Microsoft in 2001
| after the company was found to have violated U.S. antitrust law. The U.S.
| remedies requiring limited licensing of some Microsoft connection
| information--far less than the Europeans--won approval from U.S. courts. But
| some states have criticized the U.S. sanctions as ineffective.
|
| Majoras said Europeans and Americans need to aim for "cooperation and
| enhanced discussion" about their antitrust treatment of individual company
| behavior.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6210508.html
Microsoft to senators: Google-DoubleClick deal is bad for America
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| The hearing is about to start and can be watched via Webcast. Anne is there
| and will be writing about the hearing later Thursday.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9786446-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
On Capitol Hill, Google and Microsoft spar over DoubleClick
http://www.news.com/On-Capitol-Hill%2C-Google-and-Microsoft-spar-over-DoubleClick/2100-1030_3-6210513.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
http://tinyurl.com/32ynqa
Microsoft the Antitrust Crusader
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| It is hard to figure out who to take with a bigger grain of salt: Microsoft
| and AT&T, or the politicians the companies testified in front of today.
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http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2007/09/27/microsoft-the-antitrust-crusader/?mod=yahoo_hs
The fine print: Brookings study on Google-DoubleClick deal funded by Microsoft
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| I missed the fine print when I first checked out the 51-page AEI-Brookings
| Joint Center for Regulatory Studies paper on the Google-DoubleClick deal:
| This is yet another piece of research funded by Microsoft (and, in this case,
| AT&T).
|
| [...]
|
| Microsoft ended up spending its $6 billion DoubleClick allowance on
| aQuantive. If Google isn’t allowed to buy DoubleClick because of antitrust
| concerns, it will be interesting to see who, if anyone, snaps up the company.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=755
AT&T -- king of censorship, eavesdropping
Microsoft -- worst privacy fiend (desktop spying)
"Research funded by..."
And /these/ are the ones protesting against Microsoft? And after Microsoft had
acquired aQuantine for double that price? What type of hypocrisy is /that/?
Sadly, Google is drawn into the same s* that ruins democracy ("but they started
it!" excuse):
Google's PR Scam
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| Google's PR Scam Buttering up EU regulators, not runaway hiring, is at the
| heart of the search giant's recent statement that it will boost its European
| staff.
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http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/video/strategysession/10381714.html?cm_ven=YAHOO&&cm_cat=FREE&&cm_ite=NA
Google will apparently survive this. Some of the latest:
Senate Panel Probes Google's Acquisition
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| Senators Express No Opposition to Google's DoubleClick Purchase, but Say It
| Warrants Scrutiny
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070927/google_doubleclick.html?.v=15
Microsoft is not a software company. It's a diplomatic bully.
Related:
Big businesses boast of patent benefits, for small businesses
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| A report published by an EU task force on intellectual property claims
| that small businesses benefit from a patent system, despite lacking
| almost any participation by the small business community.
|
| Instead, the report, titled IPR (intellectual property rights) for
| competitiveness and innovation, was written up almost entirely by
| large corporations and the patent industry.
|
| [...]
|
| The report does note objections from the likes of patentfrei.de and
| Sun Microsystems, which were recorded at some length in the report.
| But this does not appear to have impacted the conclusion of the
| report in any way
|
| [...]
|
| Jean-Pierre Laisne, of ObjectWeb, an open source software community,
| said that he found the report useless: participants were told that
| all their contributions would be recorded but at the end only
| those of Business Software Alliance and Microsoft were used.
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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/99155/big-businesses-boast-of-patent-benefits-for-small-businesses.html
Getting lobbyists to come clean
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| The National Security Division of the Department of Justice recently
| announced the launch of the enhanced Foreign Agent Registration Act Web site.
| The site claims to improve access to public information about foreign agents
| and their activities within the United States.
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http://news.com.com/2010-1028_3-6195884.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
Bonnie Garcia - Enter the FUD Brigade
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| In opposing California AB 1668, Bonnie spreads a heaping
| helping of fear, uncertainty and doubt by discussing
| wholly unrelated IT projects that failed.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpfu7pwabLY
Packing The Court At The ISO?
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| ...P member countries ('participating member' countries) sending
| representatives, and I am interested to note the majority of
| their representatives are, as individuals, also Microsoft employees.
|
| [...]
|
| How can they not see that OOXML (ECMA 376) is unwanted by anyone outside of
| Microsoft? How about it Brian Jones? Are you really so desperate that you
| have to resort to that?
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http://lnxwalt.wordpress.com/2007/03/23/packing-the-court-at-the-iso/
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