Google and the Trans-Atlantic Antitrust Abyss

Framing the Antitrust Issues in the Google Books Settlement

A look at the European Commission’s antitrust investigation against Google

As the European Commission’s antitrust investigation against Google approaches its final stages, its contours and likely outcome remain obscure and blurred by a plethora of nonantitrust-related arguments. At the same time, the initial focus on search neutrality as an antitrust principle seems to have been abandoned by the European Commission, in favour of a more standard allegation of ‘exclusio...

The Role of Switching Costs in Antitrust Analysis: a Comparison of Microsoft and Google

Recently there has been a chorus of competition complaints asserting that Google's conduct and position today is parallel to Microsoft's position in the “Microsoft case,” the antitrust case brought by the Department of Justice in 1998. Any monopolization case against Google Search would have to be very different from the Microsoft browser case, because the cost for a user switching from Google ...

Trans-Atlantic UDP and TCP network tests

A VLBI trans-Atlantic connection would greatly extend the resolution of capabilities of eVLBI. So far igrid 2005 and SC 2005 saw the first UKlight connection to the US via Chicago. We report on UDP and TCP network tests performed between Jodrell Bank Observatory, UK, and Haystack Observatory, USA, utilising the UKLight dedicated lightpath, provided by the ESLEA project, to the Starlight connect...

Non-Tariff Barriers, Integration, and the Trans-Atlantic Economy