EU calls for biometric passport delay
News Frattini claims interoperability and security issues with the biometric readers are taking longer than expected to address and that only six EU countries - Austria, Belgium, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg and Sweden - are currently in a position to...
[April 1, 2005, 17:00]
UK drives plans for united tech Europe
News While hard and fast details clearly still need fleshing out, Nigel Hickson, head of European ICT policy and regulation at the DTI, told attendees at an EEMA conference in Leuven, Belgium: "There is still some work to be done on improving the...
[June 13, 2005, 17:50]
Intel introduces fast Wi-Fi to Europe
News The availability of fast wireless LANs in Europe is the result of Intel's negotiations with regulatory authorities in various European countries, and the 802.11a products are therefore only available in France, the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium...
[May 28, 2002, 17:06]
Microsoft's legal problems not over yet
News The settlement strengthens the Commission's case," said Thomas Vinje, an antitrust attorney with Clifford Chance in Brussels, Belgium. Microsoft's settlement with RealNetworks on Tuesday eliminates one lingering headache for the embattled software...
[October 12, 2005, 9:35]
UK councils fail e-service test
News The Netherlands performed best, closely followed by the US but the Austria, Belgium, Germany and the UK were all rated as "poor". UK councils are delivering poor online customer service compared to other countries, with some taking over three weeks...
[August 13, 2003, 11:10]
Cashing in on the euro
News Obviously, much of the euro work will take place in the 11 affected countries: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. On Jan. European nations will begin adopting the Euro as their...
[January 4, 1999, 7:07]
Europe initiates cloud community
Blog The industry organisation is launching in seven European countries including France, Denmark, Finland, Belgium, Luxembourg and Spain, and has won backing from 29 SaaS and cloud vendors, including Amazon, Salesforce.com, and Microsoft.
[October 20, 2009, 17:32]
Orange to squeeze out GPRS in March
News Orange operates networks in France, the UK, Belgium, Denmark, Switzerland and Poland. Business customers in the UK and several other European countries will be able to get an Orange GPRS account before the end of March 2002, the network operator...
[February 19, 2002, 17:15]
Open source's lessons from userspace
Talkback Jan (a boy with a girl's name for Flanders - Belgium) hello rupert, How does open source work ? Are there common standards, connectivity and integration between program's form different 'vendors'. In other words.
[June 4, 2005, 19:39]
Pro-Intel purchasing under fire in Europe
News And the commission currently is in talks with Austria, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Finland. European regulators are investigating procurement processes that call specifically for Intel chips in the computers purchased by government...
[April 22, 2004, 8:50]
Linux Alliance protests software patenting
News These are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain and Sweden. International organisation The EuroLinux Alliance announces Friday an online petition against the European Parliament's proposed...
[June 16, 2000, 10:27]
Developers and mimes protest software patents
News The protest's organisers, which included software developer and digital-rights lobbying groups from France, Germany, Belgium, Catalonia, Spain and Denmark, estimated that between 400 and 500 people took part in the demonstration, with 500 the...
[August 28, 2003, 15:35]
Microsoft puts business apps in UK cloud
News Microsoft said that Exchange Online and SharePoint Online are available for trial now in the UK, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden...
[March 2, 2009, 16:13]
Apple adds photo capability to iPod
News Apple also announced that, starting today, its iTunes Music Store will be available in more countries -- namely Austria, Belgium, Finland, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. Apple on Tuesday unveiled a colour screen version...
[October 27, 2004, 8:35]
Businesses reap rewards of e-government
News Country-wise, Sweden and Ireland show the highest level of online sophistication, although in Luxembourg, Belgium and Germany, the online presence of service providers such as towns, cities, universities, and libraries is above average.
[February 7, 2003, 13:52]
EU members ignore spam directive
News In December 2003 and on 1 April, 2004, the EU sent warning letters to the offending countries, which include Germany, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Greece, Portugal, Luxembourg and Finland. The EU's anti-spam directive, which was passed in July...
[April 27, 2004, 15:00]
European GPS rival is 'folly' says MP
News But Septentrio, a satellite-navigation company based in Ghent, Belgium, is promoting the technology as a supplement to the US GPS system. A committee of MPs has called for a full review of the UK's involvement in the European Galileo satellite...
[November 12, 2007, 15:28]
AutoRoute 2006 with GPS locator review
Reviews Street-level mapping and address-finding is included for Austria, Belgium, Denmark, south-central Finland, Germany, Athens, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, England, Scotland and Wales, and for urban areas of France, Italy...
[December 19, 2005, 12:05]
Lots of .biz-ness for Icann
News The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions in Brussels, Belgium, is sticking with the ".union". Some want vengeance. A lot want .sex. Even more want to make it their .biz-ness. Nearly four dozen groups ponied up $50,000 apiece this week...
[October 4, 2000, 13:03]
Microsoft asks for emergency EU order
News Frank Fine, an antitrust attorney for law firm DLA in Brussels, Belgium, said earlier this month that Microsoft faces a challenge in winning a stay, given recent decisions by Europe's highest court. Microsoft plans to ask a European court in the...
[June 25, 2004, 9:35]



