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Commission Magician
Downloads The Commission Magician is a spreadsheet program designed to facilitate the payment process for businesses that rely on commission based sales. It serves as a storage area for transaction and sales agent information associated with commission...
[September 22, 2006, 21:52]
Commission silent on details of Vista probe
News The European Commission confirmed on Tuesday that it still has a range of concerns over Microsoft's upcoming Vista operating system, but declined to reveal full details. On Monday, the Financial Times reported that the European Commission had...
[October 3, 2006, 17:00]
Commission refuses to rewrite patent directive
Talkback The only way to punish the commission for this. Send them a message they understand ! Vote NO to the referendum for the constitution in your country. Make your politicians know that you intend to vote no for this reason.
[February 28, 2005, 21:26]
Commission refuses to rewrite patent directive
Talkback Suppose the Commission is simply corrupted. Perhaps somebody should start "following the money".
[March 1, 2005, 9:06]
Commission extending without remit
Talkback I am of the considered opinion that this is a matter well outside the remit of the European Commission and that the EC should not expend public funds nor employ publicly funded staff interfering in such as this.
[January 16, 2007, 17:01]
Commission refuses to rewrite patent directive
Talkback The problem is that the Commission is unaccountable since it is not elected. The Parliament has shown some initiative in limiting this stupid idea to patent software. There have been suggestions that McCreevy (the Commissioner in question) is...
[February 28, 2005, 20:52]
Commission refuses to rewrite patent directive
News The European Commission (EC) has rejected requests to rewrite the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive (CIID), sparking a furious response from campaigners who accused the EC of acting undemocratically.
[February 28, 2005, 15:45]
Oftel faces wrath of European Commission
News Telecoms regulator Oftel finds itself under scrutiny Tuesday as the European Commission considers whether the watchdog has breached European telecoms rules. The EC's telecoms directorate has written to the UK government to request details of how...
[May 24, 2000, 14:16]
Commission refuses to rewrite patent directive
Talkback A "computer implemented invention" is as pure a software solution as a software solution can get, and by saying that it is an Invention in the sense of patent law, you subscribe to the partisan view of the Commission on this matter.
[February 28, 2005, 22:12]
European Commission report endorses open source
News The European Commission has issued a ringing endorsement of open source software, producing a confidence-boost for businesses considering the deployment of Linux and other free software. The European Commission has taken several strides towards...
[January 15, 2007, 13:20]
Shanghai Government Commission Moves Forward With Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
White Papers Shanghai Sci-Tech Information Centre (SSTIC) provides information systems for the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission to support the advancement of e-government and an information-based society.
[September 28, 2007, 1:00]
Capita-IBS merger sent to Competition Commission
News Capita has seen its acquisition of fellow public-sector software and services provider IBS OpenSystems referred to the Competition Commission by the Office of Fair Trading. The fact that we have referred this case, but recently cleared the parallel...
[November 24, 2008, 15:10]
Hewlett-Packard (HP) Case Study: Human Rights & Equal Opportunities Commission
White Papers The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) is an Australian Federal government agency charged with protecting and promoting the human rights of Australian citizens. HREOC was experiencing crippling technical problems with its...
[June 24, 2009, 16:01]
BT signs European Commission IT deal
News The contract with the European Commission's Directorate-General for Informatics (DIGIT) will see BT providing internet access and related services for the EC and ten other high-level European organisations, including the European Parliament and...
[April 3, 2007, 14:37]
Audit Commission signs Thus for next-gen network
News Thus has inked a £5m deal with the Audit Commission to supply the government agency with a next-generation network. The agreement will see Thus provide the Commission with a wide area network (WAN), which will carry all of the organisation's voice...
[May 5, 2006, 15:20]
Commission refuses to rewrite patent directive
Talkback Decisions in the EU are not made by the Commission but by the Council of Ministers. Some comments on this article are very ill-informed about how the EU works. Voting "no" to the Constitutional Treaty will not make things any better.
[March 1, 2005, 23:35]
Electoral Commission hopes for email voting next year
News The chairman of the Electoral Commission revealed on Sunday that Internet voting could be a reality for local council elections next May. The Home Office and Electoral Reform Commission however dispute the likelihood of this happening, and argue...
[April 30, 2001, 15:41]
European Commission to fund 'Safer Internet' hotlines
News The funding awarded by the European Commission will form the final part of the Safer Internet Action Plan, originally set up to tackle illegal and racist content on the Internet. A European Internet safety project has received six million euros to...
[November 12, 2001, 17:06]
Mobile phone firms referred to Competition Commission
News Oftel announced on Monday that it has formally asked the UK's Competition Commission to investigate whether Vodafone, mmO2, One2One and Orange are charging too much for mobile phone calls between their networks.
[January 7, 2002, 14:34]
European Commission investigates open source
News The European Commission has received a report from a team assigned to investigate the phenomenon of free software and come up with recommendations on what funding the European Community should provide for open source ventures.
[December 17, 1999, 10:49]
