#googlesearchantitrust — Public Fediverse posts

Weekly output: Google search antitrust case, Acer Swift Air 16, T-Mobile + Southwest, Google display-ads antitrust case

I spent this week in Berlin for IFA, but most of the words that ran under my byline over the past seven days didn’t involve that tech trade show. You’ll see more from me about that gadget gathering over the next few days, maybe more than in recent years: The absence of the travel subsidy I’d relied on since 2012 meant that I bankrolled my own trip, and those flights and that Airbnb aren’t going to pay for themselves.

(The same goes for my airfare and hotel for the Online News Association’s conference in New Orleans this week, but not every event I go to for work has to pay for itself.)

9/3/2025: Google Gets to Keep Chrome, Must Share Some Search Index Data With Rivals, PCMag

A surprisingly light ruling in the Google search-antitrust case landed Tuesday, and I somehow found time to write it up between naps and IFA events.

9/3/2025: Acer’s Swift Air 16 Is So Light, You Might Think They Forgot to Put a Computer In It, PCMag

One of my PCMag colleagues suggested I check out this laptop, and I had the time to give it a hands-on inspection and then return to their demo area to check a few other details (again, between naps, by which I mean passing out in a series of chairs) before filing this post Wednesday evening.

9/4/2025: T-Mobile Sponsors Free In-Flight Wi-Fi on Southwest Airlines, PCMag

Writing while in the throes of jet lag led me to write the start of this free WiFi as “Oct. 25” instead of “Oct. 24,” but my editor promptly fixed that after I sent an apologetic message in Slack.

9/7/2025: Transatlantic Twofer in Google’s Display-Ads Case: EU Levies €2.95B Fine, DOJ Proposes Breakup, PCMag

This news did not drop at a convenient time for me, but since I’ve covered most of the previous plot twists in the U.S. and European cases, I felt obliged to step up. Also relevant: The stuff of this case is a huge part of the economic foundation of journalism.

#Acer #Berlin #google #GoogleAbuseOfPower #GoogleDisplayAdsAntitrust #GoogleSearchAntitrust #IFA #Southwest #TMobile #WN

Weekly output: Brendan Carr, next big things in robotics and automation and in space and telecom, Android 16, Starship flight test, Google search-antitrust case, 1Password

The last full workweek of November had me feeling very busy.

11/18/2024: Trump’s Pick for FCC Chair Has Vowed Crackdown on Big Tech ‘Censorship’, PCMag

President-elect Trump naming Brendan Carr as his next chair of the Federal Communications Commission gave me a reason to look through my notes of his talks at telecom events over the past couple of years.

11/19/2024: The 3 next big things in robotics and automation for 2024, Fast Company

I’ve spent a non-trivial part of the last few months assessing candidate companies for this list, and now the results of that work are public.

11/19/2024: The 3 next big things in space and telecom for 2024, Fast Company

My other part of this year’s version of Fast Company’s “NBTT” list involved a couple of  industry sectors that I enjoy covering for that publication.

11/19/2024: First Android 16 Dev Preview Is Here As Google Pushes Up OS Launch Window, PCMag

Google moving up the release cycle for the next version of Android meant that I did not have to write this post in a jet-lagged haze in an Airbnb room in Barcelona as I did in February.

11/20/2024: Starship’s Sixth Flight Test Skips the Tower Catch, Ends in Soft Splashdown, PCMag

Writing about this flight test was easier than covering Starship’s fifth flight test, because I did not have to get up before 7 a.m. on a Sunday.

11/21/2024: DOJ Wants to Force Google to Sell Chrome, License Search Data to Rivals, PCMag

Writing about a government proposal to force a tech giant to divest some core assets reminded me of covering the Microsoft antitrust trial some 25 years ago.

11/21/2024: 1Password Chief Wouldn’t Mind Apple, Google Getting Pushy About Passkeys, PCMag

I wrote up a conversation I’d had the previous Thursday morning at Web Summit in Lisbon with 1Password’s co-CEO Jeff Shiner; I needed another few days to check a few details about how that password-manager service that I’ve used since 2019 deals with passkey authentication.

#1Password #Android16 #FastCompany #FCC #FlockSafety #GoogleAntitrust #GoogleChrome #GoogleSearchAntitrust #JeffShiner #Luminar #MachinaLabs #NBTT #passkeys #SierraSpace #Skylo #SpaceX #SpaceXStarship #Starship #TMobile