Nokia pays dearly for bundling free music with handsets
The Register reports that “Nokia faces a crippling financial bill for its strategy of bundling free music with handsets, which will give users unlimited song downloads with Nokia phones. The [...]
CFIUS Issues Proposed New Regulations
On April 21, 2008, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) issued proposed regulations governing national security reviews of foreign investments in U.S. businesses. These new regulations [...]
Doing business with bad guys could result in fines, or even jail time, for U.S. companies
DarkReading has an interesting article today which explains why “[n]ew and little-known regulations could mean fines, or even jail time, for [American] companies that do business with bad guys.” The [...]
Watch Out, Germany! Googzilla is Not a Stuffed Animal…
How neutral and unbiased can the search for information be if a de facto monopolist is conducting it? That is the question posed today by German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung in [...]
Looking a gift horse in the mouth.
The blogosphere has been all aflutter with the analysis that Tom Kemp at Centrify has done of the draft protocol-patent mapping provided by Microsoft for its Microsoft Communications Protocol Program [...]
Federal officials and business leaders point to benefits of trade pacts
Inc.com writes that “Federal officials and business leaders this week dismissed calls by the Democratic presidential candidates to renegotiate NAFTA, saying free trade deals help American small businesses and the [...]