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Europe shoots to top of digital camera boom
News Digital camera sales have almost doubled this year, with Europe ahead of the US and Japan in terms of sales and revenues, according to a Japanese industry group. Europe received 4.57 million units, 20 percent more than the US, which consumed 3.82...
[July 29, 2003, 15:56]
Europe should accept US settlement, says Microsoft
News In a confidential 102-page court filing obtained by the Associated Press, Microsoft said that "all of the areas" of Europe's investigation are covered by the US settlement, which has not yet been approved.
[December 4, 2001, 12:34]
Europe's email to get VeriSign security
News Amid similar moves by rivals, VeriSign has started selling its email security services in Europe. VeriSign, based in Mountain View, California, is making its push into Europe as other software players are testing the waters there.
[February 3, 2005, 8:30]
Europe threatened by Nasdaq
News The decision of Nasdaq, the US' technology-oriented stock market, to launch a sister market in Europe has experts worried that Europe will lose out in the battle to dominate the Internet economy. Europe should have had an alternative to Nasdaq but...
[October 29, 1999, 14:59]
Europe to allow 3G services over 2G spectrum
News Europe has approved the use of 3G services over spectrum currently reserved for 2G. Under the GSM Directive of 1987, which harmonised spectrum use across Europe so mobile-phone services could take off, part of the 900MHz frequency band was reserved...
[July 28, 2009, 15:33]
Europe leads Microsoft push to mobilise business apps
News Microsoft launched its Mobile Workplace programme in Europe at its IT Forum conference for IT managers in Copenhagen on Thursday. Europe will take off fastest" said Peter Wissinger, marketing manager for Microsoft's mobile devices division.
[November 22, 2002, 11:08]
Europe: endless speculation about Firefox
Blog Comment I think the language/localization issue will be one of the biggest factors in Firefox's acceptance in Europe. I can think of two more, which I initially thought of as one, but the more I try to figure out how to write it, the more I realize it...
[January 29, 2008, 19:01]
Europe and the US philosophically divided on open source?
News Birmingham City Council, the largest local authority in Europe, is moving 1,500 desktops and all the associated back-end servers in its library service to open source software for a year-long trial. UK | US | France | Germany | Norway | Spain...
[November 8, 2005, 10:15]
Secret Agent: Europe
Downloads Secret Agent Europe is a crime solving game in which the player travels around Europe following trivia based clues in order to catch up with crooks. Visit 49 cities in 39 different countries Fact file packed with concise, easy to understand...
[June 29, 2005, 8:00]
Commander - Europe at War
Downloads Designed by the wargame experts at Firepower Entertainment and Slitherine Software, Commander ā€“ Europe at War spans World War II, allowing the player to control the Axis or Allied forces throughout the entire European Theatre.
[December 19, 2007, 7:00]
Europe asserts its right to regulate
News Europe's changing role in competition regulation was first recognised about three years ago, when the EU's Competition Bureau disapproved General Electric's proposed merger with Honeywell -- a move that came after US regulators had already signed...
[June 11, 2004, 10:40]
Europe could take five years to catch US in e-commerce
News With various local success stories, like Freeserve in the UK, Pixel Park in Germany, and Wanadoo in France, there are reasons to be optimistic, but more soberingly Europe is yet to produce a global net giant to compete with the likes of Yahoo!
[January 24, 2000, 17:21]
Europe to get Windows 7 without browser
News Microsoft plans to remove Internet Explorer from the versions of Windows 7 that it ships in Europe, ZDNet UK's sister site, CNET News.com, has learned. Reacting to antitrust concerns expressed by European regulators, Microsoft plans to offer a...
[June 12, 2009, 8:40]
Europe catches up on e-learning
News The group, which was created out of the May 2001 eLearning Summit, will work with the European Commission, national governments -- who recently established e-learning as a priority in forthcoming plans for e-Europe 2005 -- and academia to...
[April 25, 2002, 17:40]
Europe needs Galileo to find its way
Leader There can be no more ironic comment on Europe's near-farcical failure to advance its Galileo satellite navigation system beyond a couple of prototype placeholders in space and utter disorganisation on the ground.
[May 21, 2007, 17:18]
Europe to take Wi-Fi crown from US
News America will be jostled off the top of the Wi-Fi heap within four years, researchers have predicted, as businesses and users in Western Europe and Asia rush to embrace high-speed wireless networking. A significant chunk of these new hot spots will...
[November 27, 2003, 15:40]
Web of Porn: Europe moves to protect children
News The Internet Content Rating for Europe (INCORE) -- made up of European consumer groups, ISPs and broadcasters -- was awarded the contract to develop the system in January. The key will be ease of use and a wide variety of settings, taking account...
[March 9, 1999, 13:14]
Europe sees rise in R&D spending
News But PotoĨnik added that the only way for Europe to improve its R&D performance is for more companies to see the benefit of investing. In Europe, Nokia was number six with €3.7bn and Ericsson was ninth, spending just under €3bn.
[October 9, 2007, 9:04]
Europe's IT industry gets wake-up call
Talkback sw patents will prevent that independence if they are allowed in Europe. Putting aside the questionable nature of the procedural violations the EC carried out this week, the CIID would allow all US sw patents to be valid in Europe.
[March 10, 2005, 16:11]
A Year Ago: Europe catching US in e-commerce says IDC
News "Europe has become much more aggressive in the use of Internet on the buying and selling side," says Frank Gens, senior VP of IDC. Whereas Europe has previously been one to two years behind the US in the takeup of Web technology Gens says it is now...
[September 7, 1999, 7:00]
