The European Commission is investigating whether five major publishers have breached European Union rules by engaging in anticompetitive activity affecting the sale of ebooks, "possibly with the help of Apple".

The European Commission (EU) has given an unconditional clearance to the listed US global IT services provider, CSC, to go ahead with the acquisition of the troubled e-healthcare software giant, iSOFT.

Australia’s world-class ICT expertise will be on show at the European Commission’s biennial ICT three-day research event – ICT 2010:Digitally Driven – which opens in Brussels today with 5,000 researchers, innovators and influencers from around the world participating.

On Thursday, January 7, 2010, the European Union's European Commission awarded over US$1.44 billion (1 billion euros) to European companies in order to assure the Galileo global satellite navigation system is up and running by 2014. The progress of Galileo has been sluggish over the years, which has prompted this action.

MySQL co-creator Michael "Monty" Widenius has launched a web campaign to try and prevent Oracle from gaining ownership of the open source database which is part of the properties it acquired along with Sun Microsystems in April.

According to reports, the MySQL public statement by Oracle has swayed the EU to approve the merger. Monty Widenius, creator of MySQL doesn't like the deal.

As the battle to influence EU regulators over the issue of Oracle acquiring Sun Microsystems intensifies, evidence has come to light of Oracle approaching customers to discuss the matter.

In order to appease European regulators, Oracle has made a number of commitments to the future of MySQL.

Lawyers for Oracle emerged from the first day of hearings before the European Commission "pretty damn confident" that the company would satisfy the commission's concerns about Oracle's purchase of Sun. The EC is investigating whether it would be anticompetitive for the database giant to gain control of Sun's MySQL.

Fifty-nine U.S. senators have written to the European Commission, asking it to get on with its investigation of Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems. One of the senators suggested that the investigation was an attempt to obstruct American businesses.