12 November 2020

HP PRINT FREE FOR LIFE dies

HP rolled out a subscription policy for home use of printer ink.

The low tier of the subscription was... free. 

If you signed up for the print free for life plan, you could print 15 pages for free each month.

Life is short at HP is seems: after 3 years HP terminated the print free for life plan, and customers need to pay $12/year now.

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EU takes on amazon for monopoly abuse

The EU has, in a preliminary report, accused amazon of using data of third party retailers on the platform to position its own products.

The EU is also opening an investigation on amazon promoting its own products and those of parties using its services over other third parties on the amazon platform.