Neowin News Feed for: Tactics

Connecticut AG investigating Best Buy sales tactics

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 22:59:18 +0000

Best Buy confirmed that some of its customers looking to confirm special prices for notebook computers shown on the company's public Web site were told those prices were no longer available, and shown a product... Read more...

Microsoft unveils anti-spam tactics

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 26 Feb 2004 09:46:01 +0000

BILL GATES addressed the "spam problem" in San Francisco yesterday, detailing Microsoft's "Coordinated Spam Reduction Initiative" (CSRI) and unveiling a proposal for an e-mail sender-ID system not unlike a mobile phone's caller ID system. Speaking... Read more...

Resellers sue Apple over sales tactics

Wed, 05 Feb 2003 00:50:34 +0000

A number of Macintosh dealers are suing Apple Computer, charging the computer maker with a host of business wrongs ranging from overbilling to poaching customers to stocking its own stores with new gear unavailable to... Read more...

Red Hat accuses Sun of Microsoft tactics

Fri, 07 Jun 2002 19:06:31 +0000

Last year, Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik thought Sun Microsystems' open source-based alternative to Microsoft's widely used Office software would encourage broader use of the Linux operating system on desktops and perhaps loosen the iron... Read more...