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Sony faces lawsuit over alleged “monopoly pricing” of PlayStation downloads

Enlarge / A gift card like this goes less far because of Sony’s monopolistic control of the PlayStation downloads market, according to a new lawsuit. In Apple’s opening statements in the Epic Games v. Apple trial on Monday, the company argued that “the law protects Apple’s choice to have a closed system just as it […]

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AT&T pays $12M for unlimited-data throttling, and it’s a good deal—for AT&T

Enlarge / Poor piggy. (credit: Getty Images | Aurich Lawson) AT&T has agreed to a $12 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit over its throttling of “unlimited” mobile data plans. As usual, refunds to individual customers amount to a fraction of what the customers paid for the hobbled service. The paltry nature of expected per-person […]