items tagged with European Union
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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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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EU signals further antitrust action against Microsoft
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2009-01-18 06:51:24
Not content with the massive €899 million fine levied on Microsoft last year, the European Commission is considering further action against the software giant. This time, Internet Explorer is at the heart of the issue.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2009-01-18 06:51:24
Not content with the massive €899 million fine levied on Microsoft last year, the European Commission is considering further action against the software giant. This time, Internet Explorer is at the heart of the issue.
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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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Intel launches antitrust counterstrike against European Commission
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Regulatory
2008-11-27 20:03:22
Intel has launched a legal assault against the European Commission aimed at getting the regulator to drop anti-trust charges brought against the chipmaker.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Regulatory
2008-11-27 20:03:22
Intel has launched a legal assault against the European Commission aimed at getting the regulator to drop anti-trust charges brought against the chipmaker.
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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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EU warns online music stores: change or be changed
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: E-Commerce
2008-09-19 02:02:42
EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes has warned the music industry that she is prepared to take action to ensure a competitive online marketplace across member states, especially for digital music sales.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: E-Commerce
2008-09-19 02:02:42
EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes has warned the music industry that she is prepared to take action to ensure a competitive online marketplace across member states, especially for digital music sales.
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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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Bad Phorm: Detectives question BT over secret trials
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Telecoms
2008-09-05 11:02:27
File under About Bloody Time. At long last UK police detectives have questioned BT about the secret Phorm trials it carried out without customer knowledge nor consent. Does this mean a formal investigation is to follow?
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Telecoms
2008-09-05 11:02:27
File under About Bloody Time. At long last UK police detectives have questioned BT about the secret Phorm trials it carried out without customer knowledge nor consent. Does this mean a formal investigation is to follow?
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D-Link claims 98 percent recyclability
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Sustainability
Category: Green IT
2008-08-26 02:47:22
While the IT industry makes various efforts to improve its green credentials through measures including reduced energy consumption and the reduction or even elimination of certain hazardous substances, the proper disposal of equipment when it reaches the end of its life can be a thorny point. D-Link thinks it has an answer.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Sustainability
Category: Green IT
2008-08-26 02:47:22
While the IT industry makes various efforts to improve its green credentials through measures including reduced energy consumption and the reduction or even elimination of certain hazardous substances, the proper disposal of equipment when it reaches the end of its life can be a thorny point. D-Link thinks it has an answer.
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"Feature expansion" of hi-tech products sparks EU-US trade dispute
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Information technology news
Category: Market News
2008-08-19 19:08:18
The European Union is at loggerheads with leading hi-tech exporting countries - The US, Japan and Taiwan - for applying import tariffs to goods that were previously tariff free, on the grounds that new features have expanded the functionality of these products.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Information technology news
Category: Market News
2008-08-19 19:08:18
The European Union is at loggerheads with leading hi-tech exporting countries - The US, Japan and Taiwan - for applying import tariffs to goods that were previously tariff free, on the grounds that new features have expanded the functionality of these products.
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Vodafone screws users over call costs, senior executive stabbed to death
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Mobiles
2008-08-19 10:35:41
Mobile phone network operators are pretty much like banks, for all the wrong reasons. Not least that if they are found to be indulging in rip-off charging scams and are forced to stop it by regulators they find another way to claw the money back. Which explains why Vodafone is screwing extra money out of its contract and pay-as-you-go customers as from next month...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Mobiles
2008-08-19 10:35:41
Mobile phone network operators are pretty much like banks, for all the wrong reasons. Not least that if they are found to be indulging in rip-off charging scams and are forced to stop it by regulators they find another way to claw the money back. Which explains why Vodafone is screwing extra money out of its contract and pay-as-you-go customers as from next month...
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Talking Turkey: bloggers ban themselves in protest over banned blogs
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2008-08-18 07:06:51
More than 200 bloggers in Turkey have taken the decision to ban their own blogs in protest at the Turkish government which has already banned hundreds of websites for insulting either the government or Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of the Turkish Republic.
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2008-08-18 07:06:51
More than 200 bloggers in Turkey have taken the decision to ban their own blogs in protest at the Turkish government which has already banned hundreds of websites for insulting either the government or Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of the Turkish Republic.
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Bad Phorm: EU demands UK Government response on intrusive web ad tracking technology
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Regulatory
2008-08-06 07:49:35
Controversial behavioral advertising targeting outfit Phorm, whose Webwise ad technology monitors user browsing habits to serve appropriate advertising messages, might have dragged the UK Government into a slugfest with the European Union over a possible breach of strict Euro data laws...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Regulatory
2008-08-06 07:49:35
Controversial behavioral advertising targeting outfit Phorm, whose Webwise ad technology monitors user browsing habits to serve appropriate advertising messages, might have dragged the UK Government into a slugfest with the European Union over a possible breach of strict Euro data laws...
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Spacecraft Jason 2 completes first surface maps of Earth’s oceans
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-07-31 12:51:55
According to the 7.30.2008 NASA news release, “Ocean surface topography mission/Jason 2 begins mapping oceans,” the internationally sponsored Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM) featuring the Jason 2 oceanography satellite is well on its way to completing its mission of monitoring and analyzing global climate change.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-07-31 12:51:55
According to the 7.30.2008 NASA news release, “Ocean surface topography mission/Jason 2 begins mapping oceans,” the internationally sponsored Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM) featuring the Jason 2 oceanography satellite is well on its way to completing its mission of monitoring and analyzing global climate change.
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Clean solar energy from Sahara could one day provide electricity to Europe
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Sustainability
Category: Energy generation
2008-07-23 10:02:16
The European Union is considering a giant energy project in which enormous numbers of solar panels and arrays would be placed in the sunny desert of North Africa’s Sahara to provide enough electricity for all the power needs of Europe. All it would take would be vast sums of money, labor, and time.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Sustainability
Category: Energy generation
2008-07-23 10:02:16
The European Union is considering a giant energy project in which enormous numbers of solar panels and arrays would be placed in the sunny desert of North Africa’s Sahara to provide enough electricity for all the power needs of Europe. All it would take would be vast sums of money, labor, and time.
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Time to toughen up on ringtone marketing rules
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-07-17 19:31:37
The European Commission is about to clamp down on the dubious practices of European websites selling ringtones. Which prompts the question: are the rules in Australia tough enough?
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-07-17 19:31:37
The European Commission is about to clamp down on the dubious practices of European websites selling ringtones. Which prompts the question: are the rules in Australia tough enough?
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Google Street View could meet Privacy Road Block in UK
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2008-07-05 08:32:34
The privacy related problems just pile up for Google as the first Street View vans are spotted in the United Kingdom and European Data Protection laws are rolled out to greet them...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2008-07-05 08:32:34
The privacy related problems just pile up for Google as the first Street View vans are spotted in the United Kingdom and European Data Protection laws are rolled out to greet them...
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