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Following an extensive antitrust case between the European Union and Intel, the world's leading manufacturer of computer processors, recent reports claim that the EU Commission is just days away from fining Intel for anti-competitive behavior. The EU regulators are expected to demand Intel to pay a considerably ... |
11 May 2009
06:14 GMT |
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E-mail exchanges obtained by a member of the public under the British Freedom of Information (FOI) Act show the conversations between the UK Home Office and the Phorm advertising company. The archives, which have been sent to the BBC, show that the company influenced the way in which the authorities decided the polic... |
28 April 2009
05:19 GMT |
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The European Commission has recently begun an infringement proceeding against the United Kingdom over the way the Phorm advertising company conducts its online surveillance of Internet buyers' customs. Following extensive discussions with British authorities in the field, and numerous complaints from users in th... |
27 April 2009
08:24 GMT |
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The European Union is one of the main shark fin suppliers to the Chinese market, which absorbs this merchandise from all over the world. But, in order to be able to sell the delicacies, the EU must first have them. And the problem with that is the fact that these fins are usually attached to sharks. Stripping the ani... |
27 April 2009
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The European Union's Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) has been the main basis of Sweden's new Local IPRED Law, which states that ISPs can be forced to give copyright holders the personal data of their clients. On April 2nd, when the measure officially came into effect, monitoring s... |
3 April 2009
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On Wednesday, European lawmakers set the basis for one of their most ambitious projects to date, namely for the creation of a unified air space above the Union, in a move that is aimed squarely at reducing the amount of pollution created by airplanes traveling long routes in order to go around certain areas. That is ... |
26 March 2009
11:23 GMT |
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Responding to increasing growth in cybercrime, Microsoft is demanding that governmental organizations, educational institutions and members of the private IT sector step up their game and move to a new level of coordination and integration. In this regard, the Redmond company, in collaboration with academia as well a... |
10 March 2009
05:39 GMT |
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John Vassallo, Microsoft associate general counsel, and the lead of the company’s EU Corporate Affairs and Regulatory team, emphasized the need for the European Union to invest in innovation as one of the countermeasures for the global financial crisis. During the past week's EU Growth and Innovation Day, ... |
9 March 2009
03:20 GMT |
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European environment ministers have met today in Brussels to discuss the faith of the developing world, as far as climate funding goes. Because poor countries hold up most of the rain forests in the world, it's crucial for the international community to protect these sites of special interests. The problem is th... |
2 March 2009
09:41 GMT |
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The European Union (EU)'s environment chief announced on Friday that the Copenhagen conference, scheduled to take place at the end of this year, was the cornerstone in the fight against global warming. He cautions that, if important steps aren't taken to address this issue at the next global summit, then th... |
27 February 2009
09:08 GMT |
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The online safety of children worldwide is in question due to an ever-increasing number of attacks from various suspicious individuals, as well as from peers who have a larger inclination towards technology. On that background, 17 companies owning social media websites got together in Europe and signed on Tuesday an ... |
10 February 2009
11:03 GMT |
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The European Union is currently faced with having to take a very difficult decision on whether or not to allow products coming from cloned animals into the market of the Union. This is a very challenging piece of legislation, regulators say, because, on the one hand, consumers and religious groups are strongly agains... |
2 February 2009
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The European Union is about to vote on the decision of baning seal product imports from countries that kill the animals in an inhumane manner. Canada is one of the states where the seals are most brutally done away with. They are clubbed to death with spiked wood, with metal rods, and with hakapiks, which are the tra... |
22 January 2009
10:29 GMT |
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European researchers decided that the regular method of vocally asking software recognition programs at, let's say, banks, to perform tasks like displaying account information was too antique, and have begun developing a new system that will not be based on identifying a single word and executing an operation b... |
22 January 2009
04:50 GMT |
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The seeds of divorce have been planted in the marriage of Internet Explorer and Windows by the European Union's antitrust regulators. Sparked by a complaint filed by Opera in 2008, the European Commission debuted investigations into whether Microsoft illegally bundled IE into Windows, in a move designed to give ... |
19 January 2009
15:11 GMT |
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The European Commission has taken a strong stand on demanding new taxes for some cell phones. The reason for such a tax implementation is not very clear, but in any case, as expected, the mobile manufacturers are not happy about the decision.Since the mobile industry is not at its peak and as the next year seems to a... |
18 December 2008
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged Poland not to veto any proposed climate deals that may result from the European Union summit, which will end today in Gdansk, Poland. The problem with any deals is the fact that many of the newest EU members, states that were part of the Soviet Union, including Romania, Bulgaria... |
12 December 2008
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While in Europe at the start of October 2008, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer underlined the company's commitment to continue investing despite the global financial crisis and the perspective of lower revenues. In this regard, one investment the software giant is doing in Europe is related to gra... |
4 December 2008
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Microsoft's fight against companies allegedly selling illegal software has gone sour. Back in May 2008, the Redmond company announced a lawsuit against HW Trading BV and its principal, Samir Abdalla, as an integral part of its strategy to tackle illegal software products sales. Nevertheless, Samir Abdalla is now... |
1 December 2008
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The United Kingdom took another important step in its fight against global warming recently, as government officials decided to review the policy that would regulate the exact amounts of carbon that could be legally emitted in the atmosphere by all industrial or economical processes in the country. The new form of th... |
31 October 2008
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Sources are reporting that the EU's directive for restricting hazardous substances (RoHS) is asking from companies like Apple to make it easy for the consumers to replace their own device battery.The EU's Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive forced Apple to alter its product line before. In fact, t... |
8 October 2008
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After carrying a study on a total of 558 web pages that specialize in providing mobile phone ringtones and wallpapers, the EU has found that a staggering 80% of them are suspicious. The study, which was conducted at the beginning of June on all 27 EU member states, has revealed that most of these sites fail to provid... |
18 July 2008
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Starting back in 2004 with a 462 million Euro fine imposed against Microsoft by the European Union Antitrust Commission, the Redmond giant has consistently found itself losing battle after battle in the Eu anti-monopoly arena. In early 2008, the relationship between the company and the EU culminated with a $1.35 bill... |
30 May 2008
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Microsoft made a new move at the end of the past week designed to take the European Union financial penalties saga one step further. The Redmond company has had a rough ride in the European arena cumulating a total of $2.5 billion worth of fines, but it has not hesitated to raise the stakes in its apparently continuo... |
12 May 2008
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The second demonstrator spacecraft for Galileo, Giove-B, has been scheduled by the European Space Agency to launch somewhere in late April, in order to test key technologies to be used in the Galileo project. The main goal the European Union is hoping to achieve with the launch of the Galileo spacecraft is to create ... |
10 March 2008
09:32 GMT |
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Whatever hopes Microsoft might have still had, after Google's acquisition of DoubleClick was approved in Australia and the United States, should have died by now. As a matter of fact, the Redmond-based company could have reached resignation after the deal was given the OK in the US, because historically there ha... |
6 March 2008
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If the European Parliament's initiative to criminalize copyright infringement is going to happen, it will most definitely make Internet users think twice about downloading something off the web. Member states of the EU have been asked to press ahead with the plan and ministers from each country were advised to a... |
22 February 2008
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By the next meeting of the working party of EU regulators dealing with online privacy, there will be some guidelines ready to be set down. I'm not sure news could get any worse for Microsoft and Yahoo!, the decision to be made will affect them directly in the core of their search platforms, based on cookies and ... |
11 February 2008
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Stuck at a negligible share of the browser market, Opera has filed a formal complaint with the European Union Antitrust Commission pointing to the bundling of Internet Explorer into Windows, as the reason for what it referred to as a lack of consumer choice. But Firefox seems to have no problems growing from under In... |
30 January 2008
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Six members of the European Game Developers Federation, founded just one year ago, have signed a "Video Game Manifesto". With this, they are hoping that the government ministers all over the European Union will understand the cultural impact video games have nowadays and allow tax credits to be given to game companie... |
10 December 2007
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A few months ago, the European Commission decided to sign a deal with the online video sharing service YouTube in order to publish clips about people, environment and culture. Today, EUtube, the YouTube channel, reached the 1,000,000 views milestone which is pretty amazing if we think it attracted such an impressive ... |
16 October 2007
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DotAsia, a Hong Kong organization, finally received the OK to set up the .asia domain which will represent the new suffix when it comes to Internet websites. This new domain is pretty important because the .eu and the .us extensions already grew up a lot and the web consumers were looking for .asia domains in order t... |
10 October 2007
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As you already know, most security problems come from people ignoring some things that shouldn't be ignored. More than that, a lot of users and companies don't care about cyber-security because they see the same attitude in people around them. It's like a vicious circle of some sort - but someone needs... |
26 September 2007
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In the future, Linux might very well have a fighting chance on European soil, against Windows. Following Microsoft's Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Brad Smith did not rush to anticipate a worry free outcome for the Redmond company over the pond. Although the dismissal of the company's appeal by ... |
24 September 2007
10:21 GMT |
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The EU/Microsoft case has finally ended and, even if the Redmond software giant refuses to admit that it doesn't like the decision, the company struggles to remain fairplay and appreciates the court's judgment. In a statement rolled out on Monday, Brad Smith, Microsoft Corp. Senior Vice President and Genera... |
23 September 2007
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Microsoft's presence on the European market has ended up costing the company €497 million as a consequence of an antitrust ruling passed by the European Commission antitrust regulators in March 2004. The EU decision was almost entirely upheld by the European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg and the financia... |
21 September 2007
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The European Court of First Instance's judgment, in the European Commission vs. Microsoft, upheld the ruling passed in March 2004 against the Redmond company for abusing its Windows near-monopoly in order to gain an unfair advantage on the digital media player and server work group markets. However, the conclusi... |
19 September 2007
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Yesterday, the Court of First Instance in Luxembourg upheld the European Commission's March 2004 antitrust decision against Microsoft, finding that the company had abused its dominant market position with its Windows client. Back in 2004, the EU antitrust regulators ruled that the Redmond company had leveraged i... |
18 September 2007
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The European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg announced that it was upholding the European Commission's decision on Microsoft's abuse of its dominant market position with the Windows operating system initially delivered in March 2004. Losing the antitrust battle with the European regulators has not man... |
17 September 2007
12:29 GMT |
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Microsoft reacted immediately to the ruling of the European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg that dismissed its appeal and decided to support the 23 March 2004 antitrust decision of the European Commission against the Redmond company. The Court underlined the fact that the EU antitrust regulators were right in a... |
17 September 2007
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This week debuted with a bang of bad news for the Redmond company from over the pond. The antitrust authorities in Europe have won their face-off with Microsoft. Today, September 17, the European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg (Grand Chamber) found that Microsoft abused its dominant market position leveraging ... |
17 September 2007
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Microsoft could end up paying financial penalties of in excess of $1 billion because of its monopolist business practices on the European market. On September 17, the 13-judge Grand Chamber of the Court of First Instance in Luxembourg is scheduled to rule over the March 2004 European antitrust case. Microsoft faces t... |
11 September 2007
07:24 GMT |
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The EU investigation over the DoubleClick acquisition by the super giant Google continues and it is now involving even the customers of the Mountain View company. As you might have heard, Google announced a long time ago that it wants to acquire DoubleClick, one of the top solutions when it comes to the advertising p... |
7 September 2007
09:14 GMT |
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The deadline for carriers to adopt the European Union's regulation on the Eurotariff ended in July. Non-compliant companies will be posted online by the end of the week as to make their subscribers aware of the rights that they ripped of.All roaming service providers in the European Union were given the chance t... |
3 August 2007
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The European Union announced that it cooks a new set of rules for broadcasting and on-demand content, a category that also includes Google Video and the popular online video sharing service YouTube, also owned by the Mountain View company. According to Patricia Moll, European Policy Manager, the EU split the content ... |
17 July 2007
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Google's DoubleClick acquisition caused a lot of problems for the Mountain View company and they are not ended because the European Union will analyze the transaction soon. The entire case was started by numerous companies that required the US regulators to investigate the acquisition because Google might infrin... |
9 July 2007
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The European Union made its debut on the popular video service YouTube by uploading a "soft porn" clip to promote the European cinema. The video, currently with 283.770 views and 559 users who rated it as favorite, shows several sex scenes from multiple European movies. Under the title "Film lovers will love this!", ... |
3 July 2007
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The European Commission launched a brand new channel on the popular online video sharing service, in a move meant to keep the users up-to-date with the latest efforts of the organization. According to Eux.tv, the channel already contains 50 videos including cartoons and other programs, all of them being a part of the... |
29 June 2007
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The EU Roaming Regulation will be published in the Official Journal at the end of this week. With this, the legal aspects of roaming services across the EU will be applied starting with the 30th of June.Almost a year ago, the European Commission started working on ways to reduce roaming charges which affect a large ... |
26 June 2007
04:26 GMT |
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After the recent complaints concerning the privacy of the best search engine on the Internet, Google kept the first page of the newspapers, and the European Union decided that it's the time to get involved into the business and stay in touch with all the search engines. According to iTWire, the European Union�... |
22 June 2007
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