Europe's most powerful supercomputer launched
News A German research centre has begun operating what is though to be Europe's most powerful computer. Scientists from across Europe can now apply to have their projects run on JUBL, and Lippert hopes that the supercomputer will give a boost to...
[March 14, 2006, 7:25]
Virus Alert: Europe resists NakedWife's charms
News UK-based anti-virus company, Sophos says that between 10 and 15 firms in Europe have been affected. European product manager for McAfee, Jack Clark, says that because the virus began in the US, Europe was forewarned.
[March 7, 2001, 11:17]
Europe's Leading Customer Acquisition and Management Company Underpins New System Rollout With In-Depth Support
White Papers CPM is the UK and Europe's leading customer acquisition and management company. Its technology infrastructure was based on Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 and Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5, which was coming to the end of its support life.
[July 7, 2006, 0:00]
Europe asserts its right to regulate
News Europe's changing role in competition regulation was first recognised about three years ago, when the EU's Competition Bureau disapproved General Electric's proposed merger with Honeywell -- a move that came after US regulators had already signed...
[June 11, 2004, 10:40]
Europe and US lead rise in IT governance efforts
News More businesses across the globe are stepping up their IT governance efforts, with North America and Europe leading the way, according to a study. By region, North America and Europe have the highest adoption of IT governance initiatives globally...
[February 28, 2008, 9:34]
Europe's Christmas e-spending to surge
News The technology downturn will not stop Europe's Internet users from shopping online in the run up to Christmas 2001, with analysts predicting a significant increase in spending compared to a year ago. Europe's Internet users will spend over £6bn...
[October 23, 2001, 16:04]
Europe and the US philosophically divided on open source?
News Birmingham City Council, the largest local authority in Europe, is moving 1,500 desktops and all the associated back-end servers in its library service to open source software for a year-long trial. UK | US | France | Germany | Norway | Spain...
[November 8, 2005, 10:15]
Europe has RFID in its sights
News The European Commission has launched a wide-ranging consultation into the use of RFID tags in Europe. Viviane Reding, Europe's information society and media commissioner, told a press conference at the CeBIT trade show in Hanover on Thursday that...
[March 9, 2006, 16:45]
Europe to take Wi-Fi crown from US
News America will be jostled off the top of the Wi-Fi heap within four years, researchers have predicted, as businesses and users in Western Europe and Asia rush to embrace high-speed wireless networking. A significant chunk of these new hot spots will...
[November 27, 2003, 15:40]
Europe waits on electronic ads boom
News Europe's online advertising "is in the early stages and the picture is mixed so far, but I can't think of any big advertiser who is not thinking about it," said Wilfred Zorge, managing director of AdOn, based in Hamburg, Germany, an online...
[June 6, 1997, 9:57]
Europe tops world in PC growth
News Europe was the world's fastest-growing PC market in terms of units for the fourth quarter of last year; growth was driven by price cuts, a gradual renewal in spending by businesses and the strength of the euro, according to research published by...
[January 16, 2004, 10:45]
Europe's IT industry gets wake-up call
Talkback sw patents will prevent that independence if they are allowed in Europe. Putting aside the questionable nature of the procedural violations the EC carried out this week, the CIID would allow all US sw patents to be valid in Europe.
[March 10, 2005, 16:11]
Europe threatened by Sober 'epidemic'
News At the same time, Kaspersky Labs, a Russian maker of antivirus software designed to combat such threats, described the worm's spread in Western Europe as an "epidemic". The World Cup message could account for the rapid spread of the virus in Europe...
[May 4, 2005, 9:25]
Europe catches up on e-learning
News The group, which was created out of the May 2001 eLearning Summit, will work with the European Commission, national governments -- who recently established e-learning as a priority in forthcoming plans for e-Europe 2005 -- and academia to...
[April 25, 2002, 17:40]
Europe's IT industry gets wake-up call
News Europe must build up its own IT industry and reduce its dependence on that of the US if it is to stay competitive, said SAP chairman and chief executive Henning Kagermann, in a keynote speech opening the CeBIT trade show in Hannover, Germany, on...
[March 10, 2005, 13:00]
Web of Porn: Europe moves to protect children
News The Internet Content Rating for Europe (INCORE) -- made up of European consumer groups, ISPs and broadcasters -- was awarded the contract to develop the system in January. The key will be ease of use and a wide variety of settings, taking account...
[March 9, 1999, 13:14]
Europe won't back down on Vista
News The European Commission has refused to sanction Microsoft's release of Vista in Europe, despite the company's promise to make changes to its operating system to try to allay anti-competition concerns.
[October 16, 2006, 17:20]
Europe's IT industry gets wake-up call
Talkback The earlier post about Software patents is essencially correct, I would further add that alternatives that are actively developed in Europe, such as linux now face the real possibility of being wiped out on their home turf by the likes of...
[March 11, 2005, 13:42]
Europe's IT priorities revealed
News Cost reduction remains the top priority for Europe's IT directors in 2003, even though they are feeling generally optimistic about the future. According to the latest RoperNOP Technology Confidence Barometer, conducted in association with silicon...
[January 14, 2003, 9:31]
Europe to get Microsoft smartphone before US
News Microsoft's Smartphone 2002 software will make its debut in a matter of weeks in Western Europe in a handset manufactured by the UK's Sendo, beating its appearance with Cingular Wireless in the US. It has a 65,000-colour TFT display and uses the...
[March 19, 2002, 12:58]



