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EC to investigate digital divide
News The EC's decision to look at the issue was announced as part of an online chat on Tuesday involving MEPs, officials from various European bodies and interested parties organised by Eping (European Parliamentarian's Internet Group).
[March 22, 2001, 14:12]
EC freezes Microsoft's punishment
Talkback But on the other hand, the EC don't tell car manufacturers to sell their cars without the radio, do they? You can change the radio if you don't like it, but you'd find it hard to buy a car without one.
[June 28, 2004, 12:39]
EC reluctant to recommend OpenDocument
Talkback The EC can't be decisive, people might just get the idea that they are a useful body. What do you expect. No they best wait and see if Microsoft catch up and then ratify their format (I can't imagine that they are an organisation that knows what...
[May 9, 2006, 12:13]
EC slams roaming scams
News The EC has hit back at mobile operators charging rip-off rates for international roaming. The EC is also investigating mobile firms in Germany and the UK following claims that their roaming fees are too high.
[October 5, 2005, 14:15]
EC freezes Microsoft's punishment
Talkback typical of the bunch of airy fairy wet between the ears twat the EC M$ Corp has paid someone a backhander and they get let out for nowt just what the hell do we have to do to get M$ Corp dealt with the way they SHOULD be ie Clobbered good and...
[June 28, 2004, 13:14]
EC to rival Google with massive digital library
News The European Commission (EC) is not prepared to sit back and let According to an EC announcement on Friday, the aim is to digitise and preserve records of Europe's heritage — including books, film fragments, photographs, manuscripts, speeches and...
[October 3, 2005, 12:35]
EC pushes on with patent directive
Talkback Perhaps the real topic here isn't software patents but rather if the EC has rights to exist in the first place. Given its totally ignorant and arrogant attitude towards changes of heart (perhaps inspired by better information gathering) within the...
[February 11, 2005, 21:19]
EC to investigate broadband rollouts
News Local loop unbundling -- as the process is called -- has long been feted by the EC as a way out of the stranglehold that incumbent telcos like BT and Deutsche Telekom have on telephone lines and by extension, Internet services across Europe.
[March 6, 2001, 9:09]
EC may extend MS antitrust probe
Blog The EC is to extend its antitrust investigation into Microsoft's behaviour during "a struggle last year to ratify its Office software file format as an international standard," the Wall Street Journal reports.
[February 8, 2008, 15:59]
EC reluctant to recommend OpenDocument
Talkback Apparently the EC is willing to spout about open standards, but lack the spine to actually "walk the talk". I'll applaud the move by the state govt in Massachusetts in the US to mandate ODF, and even testing a plugin to MS-Office that allows it to...
[May 9, 2006, 14:12]
EC expands Microsoft probe
News The EC's latest allegations against Microsoft focus largely on Windows 2000. In particular, the EC accuses Microsoft of withholding key information from competing server software vendors that would enable them to make their products interoperate...
[August 30, 2001, 14:14]
EC divided over software patents
News According to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, the EC Directorate responsible for Internal Markets is in favour of extending software patenting to cover basic business processes, arguing that this would be good for business, while...
[March 9, 2001, 17:10]
EC rule sends RAM prices up 30 per cent
News Unless you can prove the RAM was manufactured outside Korea or Japan, or prove the goods were sold above the EC's reference price, there is a tariff. "We're seeing price rises of between 25 per cent and 30 per cent," said Ian Boyle, group director...
[March 26, 1997, 17:02]
EC reluctant to recommend OpenDocument
News According to sources familiar with the issue, Microsoft's drive to get its own file formats standardised may deter the EC from backing OpenDocument. Last October, Barbara Held from the eGovernment services division (IDABC) of the European...
[May 8, 2006, 11:05]
EC outlines super-university plans
News The EC is hoping that the EIT will encourage companies to finance research into new technologies in return for a cut of the revenues they generate. The EIT will be bankrolled by the EC but individual member states will also contribute funding.
[February 22, 2006, 15:55]
EC: We'd accept software patent defeat
News The European Commission (EC) will not stand in the European Parliament's (EP) way if it decides to reject the draft directive on software-related patents, the Commission told the Parliament on Tuesday evening.
[March 9, 2005, 11:45]
EC unveils open-source guide
News The European Community (EC) yesterday launched a new set of guidelines designed to help government IT managers decide whether to make the switch from proprietary to open-source software and how to migrate their systems.
[October 23, 2003, 9:30]
EC demands Microsoft compliance 'within weeks'
News He said that Microsoft was aware of the specific date by which it must comply with the ruling, but the EC has decided not to publicise the date, as a "negotiation tactic". The EC rejected Microsoft's proposed solution to the server...
[May 11, 2005, 16:15]
EC refuses to relax 3G rules
News In a consultation paper published on Wednesday morning, the EC recommended that 3G licence conditions should not be altered, even though many experts are concerned about the massive sums of many paid by mobile operators for the licences.
[June 12, 2002, 15:38]
EC probes BT state aid claims
News The EC announced on Wednesday that it is examining whether BT is paying unfairly low rates of tax on its network infrastructure and associated property, giving it an undue advantage over UK telcos. The EC's action is the culmination of over a year...
[January 19, 2005, 16:20]
