eWeek.com reports that “European Union consumer chief Meglena Kuneva has hit out at Apple’s bundling of its popular iPod music players and its iTunes online music store,” saying that “something has to change” about Apple’s business model.
The Guardian writes that “there are huge problems in offering Linux on mass-market PCs”, mainly because of the large number of different Linux versions out there, the very high cost of Linux support, and the usually higher price of PCs running Linux compared with PCs running Windows.
According to the International Herald Tribune, “telecom companies may face a significant challenge in persuading even their own kind, let alone ordinary consumers, to subscribe to IPTV, or Internet protocol television”, the main reason being that “consumers already have plenty of ways of bringing digital television into their homes.”
The Washington Post suggests that the effect of America’s current immigration policy, which for the past few years has limited the number of visas reserved for skilled workers to 65,000 annually, is to shut out the very people who are the most able to help the U.S. compete for technological world leadership.
In a similar vein, the Washington Times points out that “[t]he strict regimen that Congress imposed on corporate boardrooms and securities in the wake of the Enron scandal in 2002 is prompting companies to avoid U.S. markets by going private and offering their stocks on overseas exchanges, recent studies show.”