union articles, videos, photos and opinions

Sort by Relevance | Date | Popularity

European e-identity plan to be unveiled this month

The European Commission is set to lay out proposals for a EU-wide e-ID scheme, it has revealed as it outlined a pan-European strategy aimed at protecting children from harmful online content Read more

3 May, 2012 by David Meyer

Programming languages can't be copyrighted: EU court

...The highest court in the European Union issued a ruling on Wednesday that essentially declared programming languages are not... Read more

4 May, 2012 by Rachel King

Schmidt: UN treaty a 'disaster' for the internet

...things such as naming and DNS to the UN's International Telecommunications Union (ITU) would divide the internet, allowing it to be further broken into... Read more

29 February, 2012 by Ben Woods

UK signs ACTA as activists urge resistance

...The UK and 21 other European Union member states have signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, better known as... Read more

26 January, 2012 by David Meyer

Europe agrees on changes for cheaper roaming

The various parts of the EU administration have thrashed out a compromise on the maximum levels people can be charged for using mobile roaming services Read more

28 March, 2012 by David Meyer

Union: HP plans to 'butcher' 1,300 more UK jobs

...automation push it announced earlier this year, according to Britain's largest union. Unite said the plans were announced to staff on Monday. HP said... Read more

12 October, 2010 by David Meyer

BT and union leaders agree pay deal, avert strike

...BT has agreed a pay deal with union leaders, in a move that will avert a strike if approved by... Read more

9 July, 2010 by David Meyer
EU floats settlement with e-book publishers

EU floats settlement with e-book publishers

...The European Union may settle its investigation into e-book publishers as long as they... Read more

13 March, 2012 by Don Reisinger

EU calls time-out on Google privacy change

...European Union officials have asked Google to refrain from implementing its plans to share... Read more

6 February, 2012 by Elinor Mills

Firms face tougher data-protection rules in Europe

...to disclose security breaches within 24 hours of their occurrence under European Union proposals being made this week to strengthen data-protection rules. New rules... Read more

23 January, 2012 by Steven Musil

HP appeals to EU over Oracle's Itanium decision

...HP has asked European Union antitrust officials to investigate whether Oracle acted improperly by ending support for... Read more

24 November, 2011 by Lance Whitney

Fujitsu workers go on strike in Manchester

...relations with the IT services giant. The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union was lined up to join in the 24-hour strike on Monday... Read more

19 September, 2011 by David Meyer

Fujitsu strike will hit DVLA, HMRC and MoD

...workers goes ahead on 19 September. A strike by PCS and Unite union members at Fujitsu is likely to affect work at HMRC and the... Read more

8 September, 2011 by Jack Clark

Fujitsu staff to strike over worker's treatment

...members voted to take industrial action over alleged unfair treatment of a union activist. The ballot on Thursday was over the treatment of Alan Jenney... Read more

24 June, 2011 by David Meyer

Nokia prepares to negotiate over job cuts

...Nokia will start negotiations over job cuts with employees and union representatives in April, the company has said. "We have communicated to employee... Read more

23 March, 2011 by David Meyer

Get ZDNet UK's daily newsletter

Enter your email address to sign up

ZDNet UK Live

Dean Talboys

What a farce! Hopefully the European court will see where this is leading.

12 minutes ago by Dean Talboys via Facebook on Assange loses extradition battle in Supreme Court
SoapyTablet

Wouldn't surprise me if Samsung actually really had problems producing the white model (as Apple did - it would make more sense) and this non-story...

1 hour ago by SoapyTablet on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
Lonnie

those conformation letters are hard to figure out what is which letters it is a pain in the back side. Please make it more Ledge-able being better...

4 hours ago by Lonnie on Screenshots: Photoshop CS6 Beta
BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

11 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

12 hours ago by Horace Ontalhold on Fusion-io lays minefield with a billion IOPS
BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

13 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
bobandroid

496,999 BT Fon Hotspots lovingly situated in your next door neighbours garden, no matter how you dress that up its still a pup... Not where I need...

15 hours ago by bobandroid on London Olympics: BT needs 25,000 more Wi-Fi hotspots
apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

17 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

17 hours ago by Smilig Eddie on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

17 hours ago by SRist on Photoshop users attack Adobe upgrade policy change
Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

19 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

20 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

21 hours ago by debsmk on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

22 hours ago by Atangana on UK's 15-year-old World Excel champion offered £100k job
BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

23 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

1 day ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

1 day ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

1 day ago by mrbigdong on A minor Bitcoin miner injury?
Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

1 day ago by Mike Denton via Facebook on Security on the farm: Accounts and permissions
minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

1 day ago by minzhu on RIM CEO: Time to squash BlackBerry myths