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Formal antitrust proceedings have been kicked off by the European Commission to investigate the matter of e-book price rigging by several renowned publishers “with the help of Apple.” Apple maintains the iBookstore, a section of the iTunes store where iPad, iPhone and iPod touch owners can download paid a... |
6 December 2011
07:59 GMT |
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Neelie Kroes, vice-president of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, stated at the Forum d'Avignon that the fight against piracy is not at all effective, large sums of money being spent in vain.
According to TorrentFreak, Kroes doubts that the current copyright system is the best way of p... |
21 November 2011
10:28 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung says that they are fighting a fair fight against Apple both on shelves and in the court of law, although the feud with the iPhone maker has escalated to a new phase. It's no mystery that Apple and Samsung have been long fighting on the mobile market, and that their figh... |
4 November 2011
18:01 GMT |
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Microsoft welcomed a decision by the European Commission giving green light to move forward with its acquisition of Skype.
The Redmond company announced plans to acquire Skype in the first half of May 2011, but the deal needed clearance from regulators on both sides of the Atlantic ocean.
The United States F... |
10 October 2011
08:01 GMT |
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A new report coming from the European Commission says that when it comes to social networking Habbo Hotel and the Xbox Live service from Microsoft are the safest options available.The Digital Agenda study has surveyed nine different networks between march and June 2011 and the two safest options were highlighted... |
4 October 2011
05:09 GMT |
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YouTube has been drumming up interest in the political world, positioning itself as a natural platform for debate. The ability for everyone to post a video and share their view or have their questions heard makes YouTube a powerful tool.
The site has organized several events in which anyone could ask prominent pol... |
27 September 2011
07:51 GMT |
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The European Commission has signed a voluntary agreement with industry, civil society and data protection groups that establishes privacy guidelines for RFID use.Under the new framework, every European company will have to address all privacy implications before putting smart tags on the market.RFIDs (Radio Frequency... |
7 April 2011
03:15 GMT |
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Microsoft has taken its anti-Google stand in Europe to the next level by filing a formal complaint with the European Commission, accusing the search giant of foul play on the search market across the pond. Now, before the “pot calling the kettle black” criticism ensues, it must be underlined that Microso... |
31 March 2011
12:40 GMT |
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The European Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) were targeted in a major cyber espionage attack while preparing for an important EU summit.The BBC cites sources saying the attack is bigger than others that usually hit the Commission's infrastructure."The Commission and External Advisory S... |
24 March 2011
09:52 GMT |
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The European Commission has sent a letter to the UK government, asking it to justify why a lot of schools in the country are allowed to fingerprint children without parental approval.Fingerprint-based technologies are becoming increasingly popular in UK educational institutions where they are used to automate payment... |
16 December 2010
08:33 GMT |
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John Vassallo, Microsoft Vice-President of EU Affairs applauded a European Commission broad strategy designed to bring Europe at the top of the innovation game worldwide. With Innovation Union, the EU Commission is looking to have Europe as a world leader in science and business in just a decade, namely by 2020. Vas... |
7 October 2010
06:19 GMT |
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The European Commission has filed a complaint against the United Kingdom with the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for failure to properly implement EU directives on privacy and data protection.The shortcomings in UK's legislation have been identified while investigating BT Group's testing of targeting adver... |
4 October 2010
08:57 GMT |
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In Spring 2010, the Commission launched two parallel preliminary investigations into Apple's business practices relating to the iPhone, both of which may soon be lifted, thanks to Apple’s recent change in policy.One of the investigations in question was focused on the "country of purchase" rule, whereby re... |
28 September 2010
06:09 GMT |
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The European Commission is handling a fair number of antitrust litigations and it seems as though it just got two more to deal with. Apparently, IBM has now become the subject of scrutiny and it seems it now has to deal with its own share of antitrust charges. The EC claims that some of its rules were broken when it ... |
27 July 2010
11:47 GMT |
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IT professionals using Windows Server Update Services to administer updates in their organizations will notice that a new product category will be added soon, in relation to the browser ballot screen update that Microsoft is serving to users in Europe. “EU Browser Choice Update-For Europe Only” will be th... |
28 April 2010
09:12 GMT |
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Who would have ever thought that browser wars could ever spawn browser choice? At the start of March 2010, Microsoft began rolling out the Browser Choice screen via Windows Updates to all Windows users in Europe who have Internet Explorer set as their default browser. The update is automatically delivered to Windows ... |
6 March 2010
06:53 GMT |
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The European Commission announced on Monday the approval of the proposed merger of Orange UK and T-Mobile UK, the UK subsidiaries of France Télécom's (FT) and Deutsche Telekom's (DT). The EC also revealed that the decision has been taken upon the recently proposed give up of spectrum in the 1... |
2 March 2010
04:44 GMT |
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As it was bound to happen eventually, Google is now under anti-trust investigation in Europe after three separate companies have filed a complaint alleging that Google's size is hurting their businesses and that the search giant was abusing its position and competing unfairly. The three companies going against G... |
24 February 2010
05:21 GMT |
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For the next five years, Microsoft will be serving an update to all supported Windows clients in an attempt to promote end user choice when it comes down to the default browser associated with the operating system. The European Antitrust Commission accepted a solution proposed by Microsoft, designed to boost competit... |
16 December 2009
09:02 GMT |
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The web is booming, more and more people are online and more websites are popping up than ever. In fact, the number of websites and computers connected to the Internet is becoming so great, that we're running out of IP addresses to assign them. This shortage can be avoided by switching from the old and widely us... |
3 November 2009
09:52 GMT |
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Microsoft's proposal for a “ballot screen” that should be included on its operating systems sold within the European Union hasn't been received as well as expected, it seems. According to the Wall Street Journal, the proposal sees a lot of criticism from different parties, while the European Com... |
29 September 2009
05:32 GMT |
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It seems that mobile phone users in EU will soon be able to use one charger for a wide variety of mobile phones coming from more than one handset maker. The European Commission announced on Monday that top mobile phone makers agreed to back an EU-wide harmonization of phone chargers, a move that comes as great news f... |
30 June 2009
06:08 GMT |
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With a new edition of Windows 7 tailored especially for Europe, Microsoft revealed that with this release of its Windows client, it was doing things differentially. The company is attempting to fall in line with the antimonopoly regulations imposed by the European Antitrust Commission, which found the Windows-Interne... |
25 June 2009
12:16 GMT |
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The European Commission has sent a formal notice to the UK government calling for changes in the national legislation, which is supposed to protect the privacy of Internet users. This action was triggered by British Telecom's testing a behavioral advertising technology called Phorm during 2006 and 2007, without ... |
15 April 2009
08:31 GMT |
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Microsoft's increasing focus on opening up its proprietary software solutions and technology to third parties has not gone unnoticed by the antitrust regulators of the European Union. On March 4, 2009, the European Commission indicated that, because of the Redmond company's “good behavior” inter... |
5 March 2009
07:21 GMT |
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The European Commission is reported to have opened an infringement proceeding against Romania as a result of the confusion created with the telecoms regulator. Last year, the Romanian government decided to remove the President of the national telecoms regulator, going on with restructuring and renaming this authority... |
31 January 2009
07:20 GMT |
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The European Commission allowed for the imports of Monsanto's genetically-modified (GMO) soybean, known as MON 89788, or Roundup Rready2Yield, on the markets of all its 27 countries over the next decade, officials announced on Thursday. The products will not be grown for direct human use but, rather, will be use... |
5 December 2008
02:40 GMT |
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In mid July, the European Commission filed additional antitrust charges against the Santa Clara, California-based global leading chip maker, Intel. Back then, the company was accused of anti-competitive behavior, a charge with which the chip maker was already familiar, as this wasn't the first time that the Eur... |
27 November 2008
05:07 GMT |
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As expected, Intel is now being slapped with another Statement of Objections coming from the European Commission, in which the Santa Clara-based chip maker is accused of anti-competitive behavior. However, even if this is not the first time that Intel is facing this type of charges from the European Commission, the c... |
18 July 2008
08:42 GMT |
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The Council of Stellar Management is in session. The elections in EVE Online's democratic experiment have taken place and nine representatives of the various factions of the MMO have been elected to serve the Council. As CCP - the creators of EVE - promised, they flew to Reykjavik to meet the developers and make... |
8 July 2008
18:16 GMT |
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Back in 2002, when next gen consoles were a distant dream and when the Nintendo Wii was not even a formulated thought in the mind of its creators, Nintendo got sued and then fined by the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union, because it had conspired with some distributors to unfairly raise ... |
21 May 2008
09:03 GMT |
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The European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union, has given the all clear in regard to the attempted merger between Activision and Vivendi Games, part of the Vivendi Universal conglomerate.The Commission has been investigating the merger on the grounds of its possible impact on the economic competi... |
17 April 2008
03:59 GMT |
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The European Union has decided to set the roaming fee at the same pricing structure for all member countries. This is meant to protect the interest of those that frequently use their mobile phones when traveling abroad."This is putting an end to the saga of excessive roaming charges", said E.U. Telecommunications Com... |
24 May 2007
07:56 GMT |
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