With Samsung planning to launch its Galaxy Tab 10.1 (or versions thereof) in India “on Wednesday” and Australia in September following the EU injunction that is seeing Galaxy 10.1’s taken off store shelves where it was already on sale.

Neeeeiiiiiin! Ze Germans haf banned ze Galaxy in ze country of Germany und ze rest of ze European Union except for ze Nezzerlands, und Samsung ist very annoyed while Apple ist happien. Achtung!

Customer frustration with the plethora and inconvenience of mobile charging devices is so great that they will be prepared to pay $US4.3b by 2014 for wireless charging devices, according to market research firm In-Stat

The European parliament wants to take away your rights to search the Internet in privacy, following the parliament’s adoption last week of a draconian proposal, known as "Written Declaration 29”, to retain all Internet search traffic and requiring  that search engines store all search traffic for up to two years for possible analysis by authorities.

Microsoft will start presenting Windows users in the EU with a browser ballot screen on March 1.

Sun Microsystems has announced that 3000 more jobs must go, and blames the bureaucrats in Brussels.

A pact between the European Union and major manufacturers will speed the adoption of a universal charger for mobile phones.

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.

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.

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.