The real problem with Google isn’t privacy, it is market dominance

Today, the Guardian reports, the EU will, via the French body responsible for data protection, CNIL, address Google’s disregard for Europe’s data protection laws and authorities in respect of its decision to press ahead with unifying its privacy policies.  However, the real problem with Google will not be solved properly until its market dominance is addressed. [...]

Nokia & Microsoft: The only question analysts should be asking is ‘Who owns the source code?’

Quite simply, if Microsoft has done this deal and retained ownership of the source code, Nokia is dead.

Thirty years ago, the OS represented a tiny fraction of the purchase price of a PC. Over the decades that have followed, hardware manufacturers have seen scant reward for their constant innovation and IBM exited [...]