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EC approves data flow with Canada
News The European Commission has ruled that Canada should be the third non-EU country to be allowed to transfer personal data with EU businesses. To date, Switzerland and Hungary are the only other non-EU countries whose laws are deemed to be compliant...
[January 9, 2002, 17:07]
EU gets internationalised domain names
News The European Commission has introduced the use of non-Roman characters in .eu domain names, allowing the names to incorporate characters from all twenty-three official languages of the European Union for the first time.
[December 14, 2009, 15:37]
Freeserve demands action on e-commerce VAT directive
News UK Internet service provider Freeserve insisted on Wednesday that the UK government must move swiftly to implement a European directive that would see non-EU companies that sell Internet services forced to pay VAT.
[December 19, 2001, 13:02]
Data protection laws still face uphill battle
News The European Commission on Friday issued its first assessment of the 1995 Data Protection Directive, arguing that data protection legislation has achieved many of its aims, but admitting it still faces steep opposition from businesses and non-EU...
[May 19, 2003, 16:24]
EU directive 'could spark patent war'
Talkback A US Patent has never been able to affect an EU transaction and vice-versa. The amendments to the EU directive forbiding software patents make no change. Should the US, EU and the rest of the world adopt the same practice so as to avoid cross...
[October 5, 2003, 12:29]
Strong quarter for Oracle as it nears Sun buy
News Meanwhile, Oracle said it expected the EU to approve its acquisition of Sun. Oracle president Safra Catz confirmed reports that the EU was leaning toward approval of the merger. On a conference call, Catz said that the Department of Justice...
[December 18, 2009, 16:58]
Governments failed to foresee IT skills gap
News It's quite hard to bring in non-EU people," Herbert said. Andrew Herbert, managing director of Microsoft Research UK, said there is a "huge talent pool" in Europe but added that it would be difficult to reduce the skills shortage by bringing in...
[October 26, 2007, 17:00]
EC lowers cap on voice-roaming prices
News Information society commissioner Viviane Reding announced on Friday that from 30 August the price cap for roaming calls on mobile phones would be reduced from 0.49 (39 pence) to 0.46 per minute (excluding VAT) for making a call, and from 0.24...
[August 29, 2008, 17:17]
TV without frontiers, lawmakers in tears
News This is neither desirable nor practical, as there is nothing to stop companies relocating outside the EU to bypass regulations. However, as with the Euro and the EU constitution, the UK Government is not exactly on the same page as European...
[July 11, 2006, 15:35]
Briton appointed to monitor Microsoft
News The battle between the European Commission and Microsoft entered a new phase on Wednesday with the appointment of professor Neil Barrett as a Commission "trustee" charged with ensuring that Microsoft complies with the remedies imposed after it...
[October 5, 2005, 13:35]
US demand for flight data worries Europeans
News The EU has been given an ultimatum by a European Parliament committee to come to an arrangement with Washington to protect the personal data of European transatlantic passengers in the next two months.
[October 7, 2003, 11:15]
Microsoft looks to European resolution
News You have to wonder about the psychological effect on the EU," he said. I think the decision will only assist the EU's analysis if the EU agrees with her conclusions," he said. As a matter of fact, I think the EU is going to make its own judgment.
[November 4, 2002, 7:58]
Lawsuit opens new can of worms for Microsoft
Talkback A citizen of the EU, for example, should be able to walk in to any shop in the EU, knowing that they are not being hearded in particular directions by unfair general market conditions, i.e.fully and openly denied choices, in a manner that will do...
[October 7, 2003, 14:35]
Europe sees rise in R&D spending
News Research and development investment from European Union-based companies has increased by 7.4 percent in the past financial year, but it continues to lag behind non-EU competitors. The R&D spend growth for the top 1,000 non-EU companies was 10...
[October 9, 2007, 9:04]
EU creates loophole for personal data transfers
News At the end of 2001, the European Commission ruled that Canada should be the third non-EU country to be allowed to transfer personal data with EU businesses. Switzerland and Hungary had previously been the only other non-EU countries whose laws were...
[January 24, 2002, 16:12]
Microsoft to publish APIs and list patents
News Microsoft has released details of how it will comply with the 2004 EU antitrust decision, including publishing "all" details of application-programming interfaces for its high-volume products, listing its software patents that cover...
[February 21, 2008, 16:06]
EC plans biometric border checks
News From 2009, all EU passports will feature a digital fingerprint and photograph and, from 2011, non-EU citizens who apply for a visa will have to give their biometric details. All EU states except Bulgaria, Cyprus, Ireland, Romania and the UK are...
[February 15, 2008, 7:20]
Trust no one, especially Microsoft
Talkback It is important to remember that under the EU ruling on Microsoft and the Anti-competitive behaviour, it was something that affected the "middleware" components of the OS like Media Player,Internet Explorer etc.
[June 15, 2006, 11:44]
WiMAX: MAC Layer Performance Assessments
White Papers The study presented in this paper has been carried out in the framework of the EU FP6 WEIRD project. A simulation approach has been adopted, based on the ns-2 environment to investigate the impact that real-time traffic has on non-real-time traffic...
[April 23, 2009, 1:24]
MobFinance EU Edition-Mobile Stock Tracker for European Investors
Downloads What is MobFinance EU Edition ? Mobfinance(EU Edition) is a new generation of BlackBerrybased investor assistant specifically designed for EU investors. Smart Portfolio Manager & Profit Tracker, Stock Shares & Market Value Management/Auto...
[December 17, 2006, 7:00]
