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E-Commerce Focus: Europe Learning From US Failures
News The UK and Europe may well be behind the U.S.in volume of e-commerce implementations but that could be a good thing according to new research. In the UK and Europe, IT, marketing and operations working closer together to drive e-commerce...
[July 7, 1998, 12:28]
IT Forum: Europe Can Be No. 1 In E-commerce
News The European IT Forum began today in Paris with speakers flagging a number of problems Europe must overcome if it is to become the largest market for e-commerce by 2003. Metered telephone billing was again attacked for hobbling Europe.
[September 13, 1999, 11:51]
Europe Spared From Industry Standard Job Cuts
News Standard Media Europe, the UK subsidiary launched late last year to publish The Industry Standard Europe, said the layoffs will not affect Europe. The Industry Standard, the weekly magazine covering the high-tech industry, said Monday it will cut...
[January 9, 2001, 9:12]
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]
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 Plays Innovation Catch-up
News As a percentage of total R&D expenditure, ICT accounts for only 18 percent in Europe as opposed to 34 percent in US and 35 percent in Japan. Our second aim therefore is to stimulate investment in ICT research and innovation as the seedbed of Europe...
[December 7, 2005, 11:05]
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 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]
SuSE Linux CEO: Europe Leads Desktop Revolution
News Europe leads the world in the desktop adoption of Linux, according to the CEO of leading German-based distributor SuSE Roland Dyroff, who spoke to ZDNet at the European Linux Conference Friday. Penetration of Linux has always been stronger in...
[June 5, 2000, 13:00]
Europe Needs Broadband Competition
News The demand for high-speed Internet access in Europe will rise, according to a recent study, but more competition is needed among local telephone providers if consumers want better broadband technology.
[February 26, 2002, 10:55]
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]
A Year Ago: Europe Catching US In E-commerce Says IDC
News "Europe has become much more aggressive in the use of Internet on the buying and selling side," says Frank Gens, senior VP of IDC. Whereas Europe has previously been one to two years behind the US in the takeup of Web technology Gens says it is now...
[September 7, 1999, 7:00]
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]
Europe's Tech Spending Set To Rise
News IT spend in Europe is set to rise by nearly 7 percent over the next 12 months, according to a survey of technology decision makers. The latest RoperNOP Technology Confidence Barometer, which is conducted in association with silicon.com in Europe...
[January 8, 2003, 14:58]
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 Leads Microsoft Push To Mobilise Business Apps
News Microsoft launched its Mobile Workplace programme in Europe at its IT Forum conference for IT managers in Copenhagen on Thursday. Europe will take off fastest" said Peter Wissinger, marketing manager for Microsoft's mobile devices division.
[November 22, 2002, 11:08]
Europe Search Partners Fight US Threat
News Upping the stakes in the European Internet-search market, one of the region's top providers of algorithmic, noncommercial search results has teamed with Europe's No.commercial listings provider to better compete against powerful US rivals.
[January 16, 2003, 11:16]
Europe To Push Open Source For E-government
News The paper, which will be used as a reference point for policy and decision-makers around Europe, is the latest document pushing forward the far-reaching eEurope initiative on e-government services. Linking up Europe: The importance of...
[July 21, 2003, 13:34]
Europe Shoots To Top Of Digital Camera Boom
News Digital camera sales have almost doubled this year, with Europe ahead of the US and Japan in terms of sales and revenues, according to a Japanese industry group. Europe received 4.57 million units, 20 percent more than the US, which consumed 3.82...
[July 29, 2003, 15:56]
Europe Could Take Five Years To Catch US In E-commerce
News With various local success stories, like Freeserve in the UK, Pixel Park in Germany, and Wanadoo in France, there are reasons to be optimistic, but more soberingly Europe is yet to produce a global net giant to compete with the likes of Yahoo!
[January 24, 2000, 17:21]
