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EC probes BT-Phorm trials
News However, the Commission is unlikely to take any action over the trials, information society and media spokesman Martin Selmayr told ZDNet.co.uk on Wednesday, as the UK Information Commissioner's Office has ruled out any punitive measures...
[June 11, 2008, 15:14]
EC acts against UK over data protection
News However, in February the Commission threatened formal action against the UK, saying the government had failed to "provide a satisfactory response to the Commission's concerns on the implementation of European law in the context of the Phorm case".
[April 14, 2009, 16:53]
Watchdog: Protecting data is not 'rocket science'
News Ulf Dahlsten, director of emerging technologies and infrastructure for the European Commission, said that HMRC "needed to enhance its protection", and added that the European Commission had issued guidance on the use of privacy-enhancing...
[November 22, 2007, 13:43]
Scientists protest EU software patents
News A group of high-ranking scientists from around Europe is petitioning the European Parliament to prevent the patenting of algorithms and software ideas, the latest twist in the European Commission's attempts to create a unified patent regime across...
[April 28, 2003, 12:10]
UK failed to protect privacy over Phorm, says EC
News The Commission launched the infringement proceedings against the UK in April 2009, after the Information Commissioner's Office, the UK government, the UK police and the Crown Prosecution Service said BT had not infringed UK law by performing the...
[October 29, 2009, 16:54]
Shanghai Government Commission Moves Forward With Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
White Papers The commission especially welcomed the advanced filtering features for unsolicited e-mail messages, including connection filtering, sender/recipient selection, intelligent filtering, and the spam filtering for the Microsoft Office Outlook...
[September 28, 2007, 1:00]
Base3 Unifies and Standardizes Operations Across Branches by Integrating Systems on One Platform
White Papers Base3 SRL wanted to create an IT infrastructure that unifies operations across the company's central office in Argentina and branches in Spain and centralize business processes in Buenos Aires to accelerate administrative and accounting operations...
[November 3, 2007, 0:00]
Capita-IBS merger sent to Competition Commission
News Capita has seen its acquisition of fellow public-sector software and services provider IBS OpenSystems referred to the Competition Commission by the Office of Fair Trading. The fact that we have referred this case, but recently cleared the parallel...
[November 24, 2008, 15:10]
Information Commissioner 'low on power' for spam fight
News It will allow the Information Commission to prosecute offenders, who could face a fine of up to £5,000. Speaking to ZDNet UK on Tuesday, Elizabeth Dunn, compliance manager at the Office of the Information Commissioner (OIC), explained that her...
[October 7, 2003, 16:35]
EC warns gov't over Phorm foot-dragging
News The European Commission has threatened to take formal action against the UK government, which it says has not provided information it needs in its probe into Phorm ad-serving technology. The Commission has sent three letters requesting information...
[February 12, 2009, 14:39]
More cybercrime laws will be counter-productive, says thinktank
News Among its recommendations, Eurim said that the Home Office should coordinate constructive dialogue between all stakeholders and that the Law Commission must urgently review existing UK legislation to establish what changes are needed to ensure...
[April 25, 2002, 11:58]
Stock-swap programme costs Microsoft millions
News The unit lost $204m, as compared with a $234m profit in the same quarter a year earlier, according to a quarterly report filed on Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Microsoft's two other main units -- the client business, which...
[February 9, 2004, 9:25]
EC to push e-government agendas
News According to information distributed by the conference organisers, the commission is hoping to build "a framework to address eGovernment issues beyond the 2002 eEurope Action Plan. The European Commission is set to hold a conference on e-government...
[August 30, 2001, 16:54]
Home Office: We got data retention wrong
News These ranged from local authorities, to the NHS, the Postal Services Commission and the Food Standards Agency. The Home Office made a startling admission on Thursday morning that its plans for making ISPs retain details of customer emails and Web...
[December 5, 2002, 16:36]
Europe moves to monitor all Internet traffic
News The initiative is contained in a draft proposal from the European Commission on the processing of personal data in the electronic communications sector. European Home Office officials are supporting demands from law enforcement authorities for logs...
[May 17, 2001, 7:48]
Microsoft fine splits industry
News ECIS, whose membership includes a number of Microsoft competitors, from Oracle to Sun Microsystems to RealNetworks, filed a complaint with the Commission in February over making sure third-party software would be fully interoperable with Microsoft...
[July 13, 2006, 10:05]
Office, Windows bring in the big bucks
News In the routine filing with the Securities Exchange Commission, the company also revealed Windows desktop profit margins were as high as nearly 86 percent. The Client group includes desktop and embedded operating systems; Information Worker is made...
[November 19, 2002, 8:20]
Gov't: Comms database has to happen
News In a speech to an Institute for Public Policy Research commission on Wednesday, the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, said the introduction of new laws to monitor modern communications is necessary in order to combat terrorism and serious crime.
[October 16, 2008, 0:01]
EC investigating Microsoft over OOXML
News Specifically, the Commission sought information on attempts to influence the debate or vote over the standards proposal. The Commission raised its query with Standard Norge in February before the results of the ISO ballot were published.
[April 3, 2008, 14:12]
ID card database could double as voter register
News In its submission to the inquiry the Electoral Commission said that, although it could have no official view on the ID programme, the identity database could help with a voter register. The Electoral Commission told the inquiry that it supports the...
[January 26, 2005, 15:30]
