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• Is that a hot iPhone 15 in your pocket, or... ?

  02-10-2023 15:59
  
  Every year a new scare story appears soon after Apple introduces new iPhone models. It’s a regular occurrence, and the stories almost always disappear once the initial furor dies down.This year’s scare story is no different — it’s not even new — though enterprise IT may want to add some third-party applications to its ban list for managed devices in response.iPhone feels the heat?
  The iPhone 15, we’re told, has a problem with heat. Literally tens of people wh
  
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• The antitrust suit against Google isn’t the DOJ-Microsoft fight redux

  02-10-2023 12:00
  
  For longtime tech industry watchers, the US Department of Justice’s antitrust suit against Google feels like déjà vu all over again. Many of the charges in the suit have almost eerie echoes to those levied against Microsoft in 1998.Both claim the targets used their monopoly power illegally — in Google’s case, to maintain its market dominance in search; in Microsoft’s case, to use Windows to squash competitors. In both cases, the very core of both compa
  
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• Will the FTC's Lina Khan succeed in breaking up Amazon?

  02-10-2023 11:15
  
  The FTC’s latest antitrust lawsuit accuses Amazon of using a web of anticompetitive strategies to maintain a monopoly, cut potential rivals off at the knees and generally make the market less friendly to consumers, but the process of getting a result will be complicated.The complaint asks the court for “structural relief,” which could entail court-ordered restructuring of the company that would break parts of its business into separate entities. The suit is one of several of i
  
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