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Playstation 3 Sells Out At Japanese Launch 250

Posted by Zonk on Saturday November 11, 2006 @02:46PM from the deeply-shocking dept.

s31523 writes "With its high price tag and stiff competition the PS3 was a gamble. Based on the reaction in Japan to the game console's release, there might be a new hot toy on everyone's Christmas list here in the states. According to the article there were 100,000 units [Z: actually, only 80,000 units] available and all were sold out in record time. There are 2 configurations currently offered, a 60GB WiFi enabled box and a 20GB non-WiFi box. The Japanese price for the lower end system is considerably discounted vs. the system to be released in the States." For a look at launch day, Kotaku has photos taken by Sony's Phil Harrison on the streets of Tokyo.

Time For Anti-Trust 2.0? 435

Posted by Zonk on Saturday November 11, 2006 @06:24AM from the taking-it-on-the-road dept.

An anonymous reader writes, "PC manufacturer Acer is complaining that Microsoft has jacked up the price of Vista, and that the basic versions are so basic no one will ship them. Since the collapse of the Microsoft anti-trust case under the Bush administration in 2001, manufacturers have no choice but to accede, adding hundreds of dollars to the cost of each PC. With Gates now proclaiming victory over European regulators, Microsoft once again seems unstoppable. But Microsoft had drawn itself close to the Republican Party. With the Republicans now evicted from the House and Senate, is it time to look at the Microsoft anti-trust suit? Could Microsoft be compelled to lower its inflating Vista prices, or to open their tech or even supply funding to Linux-flavored Windows such as Wine? What do Slashdot readers think about the likelihood of another go at breaking up the Windows monopoly?"

Comment Re:killing fair use/public domain through FUD (Score 1) 226

by CaVi on Saturday September 23, 2006 @07:10PM (#16170781) Attached to: Google Relents, Publishes Belgian Ruling

I get tired of defending a position that I don't support fully, but not everything is black and white as you seems to think. Why should Google make money from news that they didn't collect? Newspapers pay for information (by paying for AFP for exemple, and by sending journalists collecting information around the world, checking this info, analysing it, commenting it,...). Why could Google just aggregate those bits of information, and profit from them, without paying their sources?

Now, can we consider that the added value of Google News is such that users will stop at their page, and not click on the links? If users click, Google brings traffic to the newspaper sites, and thus money to them. If Google takes enough information, and displays it on their pages, such that users don't feel a need to click through the links to come to the newspapers sites, then those have lost revenue due to Google, when Google gained revenue from those information. And that's not fair.

Note: I know that Google News doesn't have commercials (yet), but they might have later. Also, Google News push the brand of Google, and as such brings revenue to Google. If it didn't bring them any revenue, why would they do it?

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