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EU consumer groups, ISPs plead for net neutrality
News European consumer groups and ISPs are pressing EU politicians to pass legislation to guarantee users cannot be thrown off the internet. Over the past few days, both the European Consumers' Organisation (Beuc) and the European ISP Association...
[October 20, 2009, 14:16]
EU says ICT is key to cutting carbon emissions
Blog I am planning a more considered news story on this but the first pass is that the EU seems have bought into the mantra that the IT industry has been banging on about of late. Here's the introduction to the EU's statement on this:
[May 13, 2008, 13:04]
EU members ignore spam directive
News The EU's anti-spam directive, which was passed in July 2003, has been ignored by most EU member states because it will not stop the spam problem, according to research published by the Institute of Information Law (IvIR) at the InfoSecurity...
[April 27, 2004, 15:00]
EU anti-piracy directive heads for final vote
News Intellectual property: Enforcing the rights, measures and procedures", known as the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive, is primarily aimed at cracking down on organised piracy and counterfeiting in the EU, a growing problem.
[February 26, 2004, 11:05]
EU considers changes to IP enforcement
News A new EU proposal for harmonising intellectual property law enforcement across member states has come under criticism from the first parliamentary committee to review it, which has suggested that the proposal may need to be modified to better...
[May 16, 2003, 16:06]
EU cap on text and data roaming clears hurdle
News The Commission wants to see consumers pay no more than 11 cents (10p), excluding VAT, per SMS when roaming in the EU outside their home country. Yesterday's vote in the European Parliament is very good news for consumers all over Europe," said the...
[March 11, 2009, 15:12]
EU agency backtracks on Skype crime claims
News Eurojust, an EU agency that co-ordinates judicial co-operation across member states, has significally altered a statement in which it said criminals were using Skype to avoid detection by the authorities.
[February 27, 2009, 14:13]
EU clashes with Microsoft over Vista features
Talkback So the EU is basically telling Microsoft that they must continue to make insecure software so as to not stifle the security market! Does the EU really thibk it's in our best interests to buy an insecure O/S and then have to buy as an added expense...
[September 13, 2006, 23:14]
News Burst: EU accused of music copyright bias
News On Tuesday one member accused the EU of indirectly funding the music industry's controversial Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI). According to media management consultant David Philipson, EU money given to the International Federation of the...
[September 28, 1999, 12:50]
News Burst: EU telecoms chief to be hauled into court
News The scandal is the latest in a series involving EU officials and is a serious blow to the EU's efforts to repair the tarnished image of its executive. Last week Bangemann was forced to take a leave of absence from his duties.
[July 12, 1999, 11:27]
EU throws support behind wireless-broadband rollout
News EU politicians have backed measures to help create a wireless broadband service that could work across Europe. The European parliament has backed a package of telecoms measures designed to simplify the rollout of EU-wide services, such as wireless...
[September 25, 2008, 9:24]
EU calls for 'Mister Cyber Security'
Blog Speaking on Monday in her weekly video address, Reding claimed that the 27 EU member states had been "quite negligent" in terms of co-ordinating cyber security strategy across the continent. Although the EU has created an agency for network and...
[April 27, 2009, 15:46]
News Burst: EU accolade for Welsh high-tech plan
News The WDA's scheme, together with a regional project in the Netherlands, was listed as the most successful in the EU. Some 50 separate projects involving 1000 organisations, pioneered under the Welsh Development Agency's (WDA) regional technology...
[October 21, 1998, 16:07]
EU refuses to mandate broadband for all
News The EU announced the universal service obligation that currently covers fixed landline telecoms - ensuring every European has access to landline service if they want it - won't be extended to cover broadband and mobile services.
[April 13, 2006, 10:00]
EU ploughs €18m into 1Gbps mobile broadband
News The development of LTE was aided by €25m (£21.5m) from the EU and, according to a statement issued by the European Commission on Tuesday, the new investment will help boost mobile broadband speeds even further.
[August 19, 2009, 16:54]
EU lacks common ID privacy specs, says agency
News European Union members lack a co-ordinated strategy on how to protect citizen data linked to ID cards, according to an EU agency. Out of the eleven countries in the EU that have eIDs, only six of them had systems that allowed primary data to be...
[February 5, 2009, 17:04]
EU passports get biometric data
News New EU passports will be embedded with a radio frequency ID chip that contains biometric data, after standards bodies put the technology on a fast-track to deployment. The move comes after the US introduced strict new laws that demand biometric...
[July 18, 2003, 15:27]
EU tech institute holds inaugural meeting
News By attracting and retaining the best and most talented students, researchers and staff from across Europe, and worldwide, the EIT will bring significant value added to the EU's research and innovation landscape.
[September 16, 2008, 11:54]
EU site pushes open-source education
News The site adds to the EU's substantial moves to support open source, which is seen by many EU member states as a way of cutting public-sector costs, stimulating the local software industry and fostering interoperability free of proprietary...
[December 22, 2003, 11:30]
US Report: EU privacy plan impact on US unclear
News E-commerce won't grind to a halt because of it, but the strict data privacy protection plan implemented by the European Union (EU) on Sunday is likely to cause some trepidation in US companies -- and the fallout could eventually be significant.
[October 27, 1998, 9:44]
