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EC pares down plans for telecoms super-regulator
News The group, described in Friday's statement as "substantially smaller in size and competences than initially envisaged", will be known as the Body of the European Telecoms Regulators (BETR). The proposals had also included folding network and...
[November 11, 2008, 11:38]
Privacy groups take efforts to European level
News Ten European privacy and civil rights groups, including two from Britain, have joined forces to create an international body for lobbying at a European level. The new body, based in Brussels, will focus on developments in the European Union and the...
[June 13, 2002, 16:10]
EC investigating Microsoft over OOXML
News The European Commission's antitrust regulatory body has sent queries to several European countries to investigate how the standards-setting process worked, a spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday. In a letter seen by ZDNet.co.uk sister site CNET News...
[April 3, 2008, 14:12]
BCS joins European e-skills push
News The British Computer Society (BCS) announced on Tuesday that it had joined the e-Skills Industry Leadership Board (e-Skills ILB), a body which works with European public authorities and industry to help implement European Commission e-skills...
[May 28, 2008, 15:10]
European Net registrars boycott ICANN
News A fight has broken out between a key Net standards body and Web address administrators in Europe. ICANN, however, said the stability of root servers can only be achieved through a cooperative effort by many organisations, not through a single body.
[January 18, 2002, 11:36]
EC reluctant to recommend OpenDocument
News Last October, Barbara Held from the eGovernment services division (IDABC) of the European Commission — an EC body that promotes the use of open document formats in public administrations — said that IDABC will start recommending OpenDocument if it...
[May 8, 2006, 11:05]
ICANN signs in .eu
News ICANN, the international body in charge of managing Internet domains, has given the official go-ahead to the creation of a European top level domain, .eu. At a meeting of its managing committee, the body authorised its president, Vint Cerf, to sign...
[March 24, 2005, 16:20]
EC voices formal objections to Oracle-Sun deal
News The European Commission on Monday formally dug in its heels over Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun, but Oracle accused the regulatory body of "profound misunderstanding" in a rebuttal that declared its intention to fight the opinion.
[November 10, 2009, 7:58]
Green Party urges EU to go open-source
News The European Free Alliance is a collective body of MEPs who represent stateless nations. The move met opposition from Intellect, an industry body that represents about 1,000 UK IT companies and is backed by developers including Microsoft, IBM...
[September 16, 2003, 18:25]
ISO crunch time for OpenDocument
News European Commission, said it can only recommend the open file format to member states if it is issued by a public standardisation body, such as The OpenDocument Format has been submitted to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO...
[October 18, 2005, 17:45]
EU votes through software patent changes
News However, the European Council, which is a body that represents all the governments of the European Union, gave the amended text of the proposal to an independent body of experts for redrafting. The European Council on Tuesday voted through...
[May 18, 2004, 13:55]
Comms managers: UK businesses need fibre
News Many European countries have already deployed fibre to the home (FTTH), and a European body that deals with NGA issued a report on Friday in which it said such improvements in broadband speeds clearly resulted in more usage.
[July 4, 2008, 15:09]
Microsoft makes last-gasp OOXML push
News Microsoft chose the European standards body, Ecma, Robertson said, because it has a "very high standing in the community". It also isn't unusual, Robertson continued, for a standard that has already been approved by a respected body to go through...
[January 29, 2008, 7:57]
WiMax spectrum row heats up
News Supporters of WiMax technology are up in arms after a mobile industry body called for key bands of spectrum to be reserved for 3G services. Pringle suggested that mobile WiMax could itself become an IMT-2000 technology, for which it would have to...
[July 18, 2006, 16:50]
Biometrics council wants to fill standards gap
News The formation of the IBAC follows calls from government and the private sector for a global standards body to oversee biometric development. As reported earlier this month, Robert Mocny, deputy director of the US-VISIT programme, US Department of...
[November 15, 2005, 17:35]
EU charter may outlaw routine spying
News However, an executive body of the EP on Thursday failed to reach final agreement on WatsonÂ’s proposals. The body -- the 'Presidents' ConferenceÂ’ made up of eight MEPs -- proposed a temporary Committee be set up to look at a mandate, yet to be...
[April 14, 2000, 12:23]
Microsoft licensing switch pleases Becta
News Becta, the government body in charge of IT in education, has welcomed a pilot Microsoft licensing programme for schools and has said it is "pleased" about the company's progress on making its products more interoperable.
[September 16, 2008, 18:08]
XML 5: What's the story with OASIS? The XML champion examined.
News On September 15th, OASIS joined forces with the United Nations body for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business to launch a project to standardise XML specs in business. UN/CEFACT is the United Nations body that covers policy in ebusiness, and...
[November 10, 1999, 11:03]
Europe to push open source for e-government
News Intellect, a UK IT industry body which counts Microsoft, Oracle and other large software companies among its members, recently criticised the UK government's position on open source, which has been developed as part of the eEurope initiative.
[July 21, 2003, 13:34]
Icann gains independence from the US
News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the body that oversees some of the core mechanisms of the internet, has been granted independence from the United States government. On Wednesday, Icann and the US Department of Commerce...
[September 30, 2009, 15:58]
