monopoly
Games
11:30PM Mark Wilson | No, that’s not a snarky business headline. Google and Hasbro are launching a worldwide game of Monopoly using Google Maps as the board. It’s called Monopoly City Streets. More »
Google Maps’ Giant Game Of Monopoly Begins Tomorrow
11:30PM Mark Wilson | No, that’s not a snarky business headline. Google and Hasbro are launching a worldwide game of Monopoly using Google Maps as the board. It’s called Monopoly City Streets. More » 
Business
Obama’s Pick For Anti-Trust Chief Sees Google As a Monopolist Threat
1:00AM Jack Loftus | This week, we learned President Obama’s anti-trust chief pick said Google, and not usual suspect Microsoft, may be sent directly to jail for monopolistic behaviour. My oh my, how the tables have turned, eh?
Computers
Apple Fires Back At Psystar: ‘We’re Sooo Not A Monopoly’
8:10PM John Herrman | Remember when Psystar turned their little hardware dalliance with Mac OS X into an ideological crusade against monopolies? Apple isn’t having any of it. The company has just filed to dismiss Psystar’s antitrust lawsuit, and, as if channeling John McCain from the last debate, seems pretty angry that Psystar just doesn’t understand: More »
Games
EA Announces SimCity and the Sims 3 for the iPhone: Spore Coming on September 7th
8:16AM Sean Fallon | EA has announced that nine new titles are currently in development for the iPhone: Yahtzee Adventures, EA Mini Golf, Lemonade Tycoon, Mahjong, Monopoly: Here & Now The World Edition, SimCity, Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 09, Need for Speed Undercover, and The Sims 3. Many of these titles have been mentioned before, but I was pretty pumped to hear about SImCity and the Sims 3 being added to the list. EA has also revealed that they are shooting to release Spore Origins on September 7th—the same day it is released on the Mac and PC. Hit the jump for some new Spore screenshots and the official press release. More »
Press
EU Antitrust Lands Intel with Three New Charges
6:56PM Kit Eaton | The EU antitrust investigation into Intel’s business practices has just got a little nastier for Intel. Three new charges are being levelled against the chip manufacturer, including charges that Intel paid a leading European retailer to sell only PCs powered by Intel, and also paid a “leading” OEM to delay the launch of an AMD-powered product line. Taken together, the charges indicate a “single overall anticompetitive strategy aimed at excluding AMD” according to the European Commission document. This may come as interesting news to AMD’s recently departed CEO. Intel has two weeks to respond. [EU Statement via Ars Technica] More »
Press
Intel Antitrust Investigation Officially Underway
12:18PM Brian Lam | In my mind, AMD and VIA comments can be summed up as, “No shit.” [NYTimes] More »
Computers
Mac Clone Maker Psystar Says Apple’s EULA Violates Monopoly Laws, Wants to Challenge it in Court
10:41AM Jason Chen | Psystar, who’s just announced that they’re going to sell a US$399.99 Mac clone called Open Mac, doesn’t care that Apple’s EULA prohibits using OS X on any machine not made by Apple. In fact, they say that Apple’s terms “violate U.S. monopoly laws“, posing the example of Microsoft theoretically saying you could only install Windows on Dell machines. More »
