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...FINED. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS and its U.S. subsidiary, Samsung Semiconductor; $300 million, in connection with charges of price-fixing; by the U.S. District court; in San Francisco. Samsung was charged with colluding with industry rivals from 1999 to 2002 to fix the prices of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips, used in everything from cell phones to laptops, forcing major computer manufacturers such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Apple to raise prices to compensate. The fine is the second-largest criminal antitrust fine in U.S. history...
Just recently, Lufthansa unveiled the world's only terminal exclusively for first-class passengers, and announced the start of business-class-only flights across the Atlantic. But not content with these moves to court well-heeled customers, it's played another ace: access to Europe's largest fleet of private jets...
Many telecoms will charge you less for your communication services if you sign up for more than one from them. Buy cable TV and high-speed Internet access together with a digital phone line, for instance, and you may end up paying 20% less than you would have if you had purchased each from a separate provider. As Verizon and other carriers start to offer television over phone lines, expect more price competition...
...good set-top antenna can boost your reception. And to cut your telephone costs down to zero, use online tools such as Google Talk or Skype, which let you place free calls from your computer (if whomever you are calling has the proper software). As for Web access, check for free wi-fi in your neighborhood before you pay a lot to go online...
Vonage, AT&T CallVantage and other digital phone services offer home calling more inexpensively than traditional providers. Upstart Net-access companies have also cut the cost of getting wired. Sites like abtolls.com and thelist.com can help identify the most competitive offerings...