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http://topnews.us/content/251574-ericsson-lay-1500-employees-sweden

No wonder Ericsson desperately wants money.

Google has been hacked several times. Last time it happened in 2010 as a company-wide hack. Chrome is also hacked daily. Hell, it was the first browser to fall in this years pwn2own. Google is bad with security. Really bad. I guess that comes with the NSA package.

http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/itunes-now-70-digital-music-sales-amazon-growing/2010-05-27 I know this is kind of an old link but 70% of the market qualifies as monolopy. Plus the fact that they are about 30% of all music sold in the us every month.

Monopoly does not mean highest marketshare. Marketshare is only one test of monopoly power. One of the other tests of monopoly power is whether you can get suitable alternatives. Another test is barrier to entry.

In the case of music, iTunes is not the only source of music. You can buy music by buying CDs through brick and mortar as well as online sales. Even if you limit the market to online music, you can get music through iTunes, Amazon, Zune Marketplace, etc. The only limitation is that you have to get music in a compatible format with your player. Since AAC or MP3 can be played by many players (and isn't controlled by Apple) there are alternatives.

Secondly, if you didn't have alternatives to iTunes could any company launch an alternative without significant barrier to entry. Both Amazon and MS did after iTunes was launched. The real barriers to entry are approval of the RIAA companies which is not within Apple's control and money to build your web store.

They are even under a DOJ invistigation. http://topnews.us/content/221070-apple-under-doj-investigation also kind of an old link.

From what I know about the situation, Apple did not like it when they heard that Amazon was going to get exclusive content from the record companies.

Stone cited "people briefed on the inquires," who said investigators have been particularly interested in allegations that Apple used its market power to seek to prevent the labels from participating in exclusive music distribution deals with rival Amazon.

My reading of that is Apple was trying to prevent exclusivity. They did not prevent Amazon from getting content but rather exclusivity of the content. Slight difference.

Then they are trying to dictate other stuff, like the whole thing with flash. IMHO if the DOJ is investigationg you for anti-trust laws, then your pretty much a monolopy or on the verge of becomeing one.

There's a difference between what Apple has done with Flash and what MS did (which is the counterpoint). Apple has dictated that their own players will not use Flash. Apple has not dictated what Android or MS does with Flash. MS told Intel not develop a Java VM or MS would "favor" AMD in their next version of Windows.

Also investigation != conviction. Not every investigation leads to charges or conviction. Sometimes the investigation is settled or even dropped.

http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/itunes-now-70-digital-music-sales-amazon-growing/2010-05-27 I know this is kind of an old link but 70% of the market qualifies as monolopy. Plus the fact that they are about 30% of all music sold in the us every month. They are even under a DOJ invistigation. http://topnews.us/content/221070-apple-under-doj-investigation also kind of an old link. Then they are trying to dictate other stuff, like the whole thing with flash. IMHO if the DOJ is investigationg you for anti-trust laws, then your pretty much a monolopy or on the verge of becomeing one.

It's already started! Yay!

If you have a company who manufactures things like...communications equipment do you want them selling that to national enemies?

National enemies like Iran and China, right? Suddenly, the loosening of restrictions seems a bit more disingenuous.

You can't just say ""Shares the blame". No, she IS to blame." as if you're some higher force of knowledge and wisdom.

Believe me, it's not just him. This was a widely talked about court case back when it happened. The vast majority of people I talked with thought it was a ridiculous case and she was to blame for the spill.

Another important case was a Domino's pizza delivery driver who got in an accident because he was hurrying to meet the 30 minute time limit. The ensuing court case caused Domino's to get rid of the 30 minute guarantee, and people were pissed.

but they had 700 accidents recorded over ten years, so ...

Which works out to something like 1 in 24,000,000... And of those 700 recorded accidents, what was the average level of severity?

If you really blame McDonalds for this out of true concern for people (and not, say, eagerness to get money from a big corporation) you'd be doing a lot more good tackling the evil bathtub manufacturers, whose products injure 43000 children each year in the US alone... and a bunch of adults too.