items tagged with EU
Sun cuts global workforce by 10 percent
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Open Source
2009-10-21 06:40:56
Sun Microsystems has announced that 3000 more jobs must go, and blames the bureaucrats in Brussels.
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Open Source
2009-10-21 06:40:56
Sun Microsystems has announced that 3000 more jobs must go, and blames the bureaucrats in Brussels.
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EU adopts mobile phone universal charger in 2010
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-29 21:33:39
A pact between the European Union and major manufacturers will speed the adoption of a universal charger for mobile phones.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-29 21:33:39
A pact between the European Union and major manufacturers will speed the adoption of a universal charger for mobile phones.
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Europe v Microsoft, gloves are on in farce of the century
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-06-14 06:17:03
It seems that the competition regulator of an unelected government purporting to represent the sovereign nations of Western Europe is waging a socialist war against US technology companies - and Microsoft is the key target. The battle has now come to a head with Microsoft acquiescing to yet another nonsensical demand from the European Commission but still not able to make peace.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-06-14 06:17:03
It seems that the competition regulator of an unelected government purporting to represent the sovereign nations of Western Europe is waging a socialist war against US technology companies - and Microsoft is the key target. The battle has now come to a head with Microsoft acquiescing to yet another nonsensical demand from the European Commission but still not able to make peace.
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Microsoft questions EU unfair treatment in browser hearing
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-05-25 03:37:07
Microsoft has lashed out at the European Commission over its treatment in a new antitrust case and for once the Redmond software company may have a point. The EC has brought a case against Microsoft over its long time inclusion of Internet Explorer as part of Windows.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-05-25 03:37:07
Microsoft has lashed out at the European Commission over its treatment in a new antitrust case and for once the Redmond software company may have a point. The EC has brought a case against Microsoft over its long time inclusion of Internet Explorer as part of Windows.
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AMD digs the knife into Intel over EU fine
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-05-13 23:56:04
Number two microprocessor player AMD is gleefully digging the knife into its much larger rival Intel over the US$1.45 billion fine imposed by the European Commission for antitrust activities. AMD, which has never had much higher than 20% market share is playing the EC ruling for all its worth, stating every single case where Intel is said to have abused its dominant market position.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-05-13 23:56:04
Number two microprocessor player AMD is gleefully digging the knife into its much larger rival Intel over the US$1.45 billion fine imposed by the European Commission for antitrust activities. AMD, which has never had much higher than 20% market share is playing the EC ruling for all its worth, stating every single case where Intel is said to have abused its dominant market position.
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Mobile industry keeps moving, despite downturn
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-30 04:07:58
Mobile operators are seemingly making a good fist of business and showing their resilience in the face of the economic downturn, with operators maintaining revenue and customer growth slowing but still continuing.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-30 04:07:58
Mobile operators are seemingly making a good fist of business and showing their resilience in the face of the economic downturn, with operators maintaining revenue and customer growth slowing but still continuing.
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Amazon and Wikipedia phactor Phorm out of the privacy equation
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-21 19:49:09
Even if the UK Government is not going to stop Phorm spying on Internet users on privacy grounds, it looks like some of the biggest brands on the Web will.
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-21 19:49:09
Even if the UK Government is not going to stop Phorm spying on Internet users on privacy grounds, it looks like some of the biggest brands on the Web will.
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GOTCHA! EU takes UK to court over Phorm snooping trials
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-15 04:48:15
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-15 04:48:15
The UK has structurally flawed data protection and privacy laws which allowed secret Internet snooping trials to take place. Now the European Union is stepping in to try and force the UK Government to take action.
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All your email are belong to us
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-07 17:31:28
EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow once said that "relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds." Guess who has just put the new blinds up in Britain?
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-07 17:31:28
EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow once said that "relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds." Guess who has just put the new blinds up in Britain?
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Microsoft turns over new leaf, allows IE8 to be removed from Win 7
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-03-05 03:30:10
The king of forced software bundling, Microsoft, is all of a sudden acting like a reformed citizen, enabling users to remove Internet Explorer 8 from the latest build of Windows 7 Beta. The build includes a dialogue box that easily enables users to enable and disable functions by ticking and unticking check boxes.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-03-05 03:30:10
The king of forced software bundling, Microsoft, is all of a sudden acting like a reformed citizen, enabling users to remove Internet Explorer 8 from the latest build of Windows 7 Beta. The build includes a dialogue box that easily enables users to enable and disable functions by ticking and unticking check boxes.
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IBM, SAP demonstrate application mobility for cloud computing
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Enterprise
2009-03-03 20:23:54
IBM and SAP have demonstrated the live migration of applications between servers in a cloud.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Enterprise
2009-03-03 20:23:54
IBM and SAP have demonstrated the live migration of applications between servers in a cloud.
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Brits in panic over lightbulb shortage
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Sustainability
Category: Energy conservation technologies
2009-01-07 08:55:51
File under strange but true: it seems that there is a veritable panic amongst Brits over fast dwindling stocks of traditional 100W incandescent lightbulbs.
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Sustainability
Category: Energy conservation technologies
2009-01-07 08:55:51
File under strange but true: it seems that there is a veritable panic amongst Brits over fast dwindling stocks of traditional 100W incandescent lightbulbs.
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British PCs can now hack your personal computer without a warrant
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-01-06 09:39:07
The friendly British Bobby has just been given the right to remotely hack into the computers of UK citizens without notifying the owners, or bothering with a search warrant, or even passing an act of parliament for that matter.
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-01-06 09:39:07
The friendly British Bobby has just been given the right to remotely hack into the computers of UK citizens without notifying the owners, or bothering with a search warrant, or even passing an act of parliament for that matter.
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What’s that? EU wastes money on mp3 loud sound risk study
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-10-14 04:36:28
Remember the warnings in the 80s about listening to your Walkman at too high a volume, and recent warnings the same was the case with mp3 players and iPods? EU scientists have released new “scientific opinion” that 5-10% of mp3 users risk permanent hearing loss. So, what’s new?
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-10-14 04:36:28
Remember the warnings in the 80s about listening to your Walkman at too high a volume, and recent warnings the same was the case with mp3 players and iPods? EU scientists have released new “scientific opinion” that 5-10% of mp3 users risk permanent hearing loss. So, what’s new?
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Opinion: Vint Cerf and EU talk up the Internet
Written By: Tony Austin
Section: A Meaningful Look
Category: Personal and Enterprise Computing
2008-09-28 19:19:24
The so-called father of the Internet Vint Cerf gives his prediction for the Web's next ten years, while the EU aims for all Europeans to be able to access it at broadband speeds by 2010. Where's it all leading?
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Written By: Tony Austin
Section: A Meaningful Look
Category: Personal and Enterprise Computing
2008-09-28 19:19:24
The so-called father of the Internet Vint Cerf gives his prediction for the Web's next ten years, while the EU aims for all Europeans to be able to access it at broadband speeds by 2010. Where's it all leading?
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Bad Phorm: UK Police give green light to Internet spying
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Regulatory
2008-09-22 10:11:19
BT is off the hook over those secret spying trials it conducted without bothering to inform, or should that be inphorm, customers about them until it was caught red handed. It looks like a very bad day for privacy, and a very good one for the monitoring of online user activity without consent.
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Regulatory
2008-09-22 10:11:19
BT is off the hook over those secret spying trials it conducted without bothering to inform, or should that be inphorm, customers about them until it was caught red handed. It looks like a very bad day for privacy, and a very good one for the monitoring of online user activity without consent.
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Google data retention policy battered by EU
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2008-09-09 09:51:47
It looks like Google has caved in to the growing pressure from the EU to reduce the amount of time it retains personal search data. Actually, it is more of an avalanche than anything else...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2008-09-09 09:51:47
It looks like Google has caved in to the growing pressure from the EU to reduce the amount of time it retains personal search data. Actually, it is more of an avalanche than anything else...
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