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Rural Europe may get €1bn for broadband
News The European Commission has proposed a €1bn investment in rural broadband across member states, as part of a general economic recovery plan in the midst of the recession. The European Economic Recovery Plan set out a goal of developing broadband...
[January 29, 2009, 15:23]
EC calls for energy efficiency through ICT
News The European Commission has called on member states to use information and communication technologies to improve energy efficiency, in an ongoing regional push to combat climate change and aid economic recovery.
[March 13, 2009, 13:47]
Mobile operators attack 'stifling' EC legislation
News A conglomerate of IT industry players, mobile operators and content providers has added its voice to the debate surrounding the European Commission's attempts to regulate online broadcasting. Parodi said that MEF would seek a "grace period" from...
[July 26, 2006, 13:10]
BT may face £2bn bill for broadband delays
News BT could be hit by a £2bn fine if the European Commission decides that it has deliberately obstructed the development of Broadband Britain. For its part, BT puts the blame for local-loop unbundling delays down to the economic slowdown.
[September 19, 2001, 14:55]
Europe plays innovation catch-up
News The Commission has proposed a substantial increase in research funding at European level and within the collaborative research programme that we administer, 30 percent is going to ICT, a much higher percentage than the average.
[December 7, 2005, 11:05]
Roaming caps legal, advises EU advocate general
News A legal challenge to roaming caps imposed on operators by the European Commission is likely to fail, the European Court of Justice's advocate general has advised, citing inexplicable profit margins before the caps were introduced.
[October 2, 2009, 15:02]
Europe defends tech taskforce
News The European Commission has rejected claims that its ICT Task-Force represents only the interests of big business. The EC also rejected assertions that the ICT Task-Force membership composition "just represents the interests of the economic...
[July 6, 2006, 12:40]
EU creates loophole for personal data transfers
News Countries outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) will be able to receive personal data from businesses within EU member states under a standard contractual clause newly adopted by the European Commission.
[January 24, 2002, 16:12]
EC clears Nokia's Trolltech bid
News The Commission concluded that the transaction would not significantly impede effective competition within the European Economic Area (EEA) or a substantial part of it. The European Commission has cleared Nokia's acquisition of open-source software...
[June 5, 2008, 12:44]
Will Euro taxes hinder Net growth?
News Testifying in San Francisco before the US Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce, representatives of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the European Commission found themselves at loggerheads with members of...
[December 15, 1999, 9:02]
Monti's verdict on Microsoft - blow by blow
News To the extent that any of this interface information might be protected by intellectual property in the European Economic Area(6), Microsoft would be entitled to reasonable remuneration. The guilty verdict delivered to Microsoft by the European...
[March 24, 2004, 11:30]
EC launches antitrust probe against Qualcomm
News Failing to license the patents under such terms "could lead to final consumers paying higher handset prices, a slower development of the 3G standard, and all the related negative consequences for economic efficiency associated with inhibited...
[October 2, 2007, 8:46]
Europe extends open source resource
News OSOR will be run under contract to the Commission by Unisys, the Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology, Belgium-based consultants GOPA Cartermill and Spain's Rey Juan Carlos University.
[October 12, 2006, 17:25]
There's something about Mario
News Monti's star began rising in the European economic and political scene in 1985, when he joined the commission's macroeconomic policy group. The jab is old, but it's regained resonance in some quarters this week, after the European Commission...
[March 24, 2004, 14:30]
Europe launches £2bn nanotech push
News The European Commission has officially launched a €3bn (£2.3bn) public-private partnership aimed at the development of nanotechnology. ENIAC, which has a budget of €3bn over 10 years, is a concrete way to ensure that such a key industrial sector...
[February 26, 2008, 12:00]
Software patents vote delayed
News Blocking competition and free creativity in software is not good for consumers or cultural diversity, and it is a serious problem for the European economic fabric," he said in a statement. The proposed software-patenting legislation is the result...
[June 30, 2003, 12:30]
European IT chief backs net neutrality
News The European Commission appears to have thrown its weight behind the principle of net neutrality, after the telecommunications commissioner told a global internet forum that the issue was "a political question to be answered by the people".
[June 18, 2008, 17:23]
Microsoft attempts to overturn EC ruling
News The legal standards set by the Commission's decision significantly alter incentives for research and development that are important to global economic growth. Microsoft's appeal, filed on Monday with the Court of First Instance, had been expected...
[June 8, 2004, 14:10]
EC approves new BBC fees
News The Commission found that although the funds were to be considered state aid, the BBC was entitled to such aid for "delivery of services of general economic interest". Commercial providers of digital television programming are concerned that the...
[September 30, 1999, 16:06]
Europe takes a front seat in Net rulemaking
News Last month, the EU's Council of Economic and Finance Ministers agreed to require companies outside the EU to collect taxes on the goods and services they deliver digitally to European consumers, such as music, videos and e-books.
[January 16, 2002, 14:49]
