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Submission + - HP & Staples Face Anti-Trust for $8,000/Gallon (arstechnica.com)

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I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property

on Tuesday December 18, 2007 @06:18PM

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes: "HP and Staples are facing an anti-trust lawsuit over replacement printer cartridges. According to the lawsuit, HP paid Staples $100 million to refuse to stock competing ink cartridges. That's not so much money when you consider that printer ink can cost $8,000 per gallon and certain printers waste as much as 64% of their ink."

2007 Sees Wireless Spending Outstrip Landlines 81

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday December 18, 2007 @10:23AM from the and-what-about-now-okay-how-about-now dept.

prostoalex writes "Each December the Bureau of Labor Statistics prepares a report on telecommunications spending among US households. They analyze the previous year's data, so their most recent release says that in 2006 the average US household spent $542 on their landline, and $524 on their wireless bill. The way the curves are headed, 2007 is likely to become the first year when wireless spending will surpass landline spending. 'To be sure, when corporate cell-phone use is counted, overall U.S. spending surpassed land line spending several years ago, analysts said.'"

Comment This may help (Score 1) 437

by evren on Sunday September 09, 2007 @01:06PM (#20529421) Attached to: Making War On Light Pollution

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