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
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