Today's trade and development link...

Sony upping the ante in the mobile devices market is good news for innovation and great news for consumers.

Competition is the best platform for innovation, something regulators in Europe and the United States would do well to learn before they cripple other areas of technology by attempting to clobber Google, Microsoft and Intel, among others.  Consumers win when producers fight amongst themselves in an open marketplace.  But they lose when the same producers are forced to fight regulators.