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...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...
...that operating system (iTunes, iMovie, Safari Web browser, etc.). It also makes the consumer-electronics devices that connect to all those things (the rapidly multiplying iPod family), and it runs the online service that furnishes content to those devices (iTunes Music Store). If you smooshed together Microsoft, Dell and Sony into one company, you would have something like the diversity of the Apple technological biosphere...
...anyway. Under the traditional, capitalist, Adam Smithian model, new and better things arise as a result of freedom and open competition, but Apple is essentially operating its own closed miniature techno-economy. What is this, Soviet Russia? Why not license Mac OS X to Dell, see what hardware it comes up with and let the market decide whose ride is flyest? Is Steve Jobs afraid of a little healthy wrasslin' in the great American bazaar...
...major label songs which they can burn to CDs or load onto their iPod. Those tracks, it further transpires, have an interesting feature: they can only be loaded onto an iPod—not a Sony “Network Walkman,” nor a “Dell DJ Ditty,” nor even a “MobiBlu DAH.” There are other music stores, of course—Sony has their own, Napster has been rebranded from a dotcom-era law-defiant hotbed of copyright criminality into a legal market for music...
...handbag-loan entrepreneurs ventured out this past year, and jewelry will soon be added to the mix. If that's not prestigious enough, some new clubs offer a rotating selection of vintage cars or the latest extravagant ones. "I believe this is a game-changing business model," says Adam Dell, brother of computer magnate Michael and a venture capitalist who in June invested an undisclosed amount in Bag Borrow or Steal. "Ownership is something that consumers are beginning to recognize as a fleeting thing...