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stanley cup rious about taking on Big Tech.Credit: European Commission Perhaps seeking to grab the limelight from the Department of Justicersquo ludicrously articulated antitrust suit against Apple, the European Commission this morning confirmed it will investigate the company, along with Google, Amazon, and Meta, for noncompliance with the Digital Markets Act.The Commission suspects that the measures put in place by these gatekeepers fall short of effective compliance of their obligations under the DMA, the statement says.In a statement today, Apple said: Wersquo;re confident our plan complies with the DMA, and wersquo;ll continue to constructively engage with the European Commission as they conduct their investigations. Teams across Apple have created a wide range of new developer capabilities, features, and tools to comply with the regulation.Apple has already adjusted some of the initial proposals for compliance. We shall find out if regulators agree those changes go far enough in the next 12 months or so.What Europe will investigateJust last week, Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice President of the European Commission in charge of competitio
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Microsoft seems to have come to its senses: Itrsquo cancelling the pointless Seinfeld-Gates ads and replacing them with ads that take direct aim at Applersquo Irsquo;m a Mac campaign. Microsoft claims this was its intent all along. Are we really supposed to believe that the grand plan called for Microsoft to pay Seinfeld $10 million for two pointless ads that ran for two weeks That $10 million payment to Seinfeld for disastrous work is rivalled only by the hundreds of millions paid to the CEOs of top financial firms for running our economy into a ditch. Seinfeld will be laughing all the way to the bank if he can find one still in business, that is , even if TV viewers didnrsquo;t get a chuckle out of his work. The new ad campaign is supposed to directly take on Applersquo Irsquo;m a Mac series, says Computerworld. For example, in one commercial, a
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owala tumbler e to the PC character in the Mac ads, says directly into the camera: Hello, Irsquo;m a PC, and Irsquo;ve been made into a stereotype. I havenrsquo;t seen the new ads yet, so Irsquo;ll withhold judgment. But they certainly sound supe
stanley tumbler rior to the first part of the campaign. Ads about nothing yield exactly that: Nothing. Like this blog Subscribe to the RSS feed! Related News and Blogs Preston Gralla: Seinfeld gets the Blue Screen of Death IT Blogwatch: Microsoft dumps Seinfeld for Hodgman-lookielikie Second Seinfeld-Gates
