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RSS EU'Bill shock' to come to an end as roaming caps land
News The tariff cuts, which complete a European Union ruling from 2007, were proposed by the EU's executive arm at the end of 2008 and won approval by the European Parliament and member states. Following the new price curbs,... [01 Jul 2009]
Apple, Nokia, RIM agree to one charger for all
News The new EU requirement will only apply to more sophisticated data-enabled phones, which includes smartphones and higher end feature phones. Apple and other big phone makers have struck a deal with the European Commission... [30 Jun 2009]
Microsoft hangs price tags on Windows 7
News The reason for excluding retail upgrades from the UK, Painell said, was that the EU judgement made it impossible for the company to include Internet Explorer on the desktop. Microsoft has set the UK retail pricing for... [25 Jun 2009]
e-Science Experiences: Software Engineering Practice and the EU DataGrid
White Paper The conduct of collaborative scientific study mediated by the internet - e-Science - is giving rise to a new type of large distributed software project. This paper reports initial experiences of one such project: the European DataGrid. [25 Jun 2009]
Multilingual XML-Based Named Entity Recognition for e-Retail Domains
White Paper This paper describe the multilingual Named Entity Recognition and Classification (NERC) subpart of an e-retail product comparison system which is currently under development as part of the EU-funded project CROSSMARC. [25 Jun 2009]
Portal Development and Integration Into Unified Environment
White Paper Finland Post is the leading company providing messaging and logistics services in Finland and in selected markets in the Baltic Rim European Union (EU) enlargement and the opening up of markets to competition have... [25 Jun 2009]
Offshore IT Outsourcing and Transition Economies: A Critical Comparison of Poland, Hungary and Ukraine
White Paper This paper considers an established evaluation model and empirical survey data over time obtained from IT and software development companies to critically evaluate the potential of Poland and Hungary with their relatively recent... [20 Jun 2009]
Signing off a gov't IT contract? Don't move a muscle
News The Digital Britain Report therefore recommends that the CIO Council agree a small number of potential areas for tender, and ensure the availability of a simplified, fast-track process (consistent with EU procurement... [16 Jun 2009]
Opera: 'IE-free Windows not enough to get competitive'
News A European Commission official said the EU watchdog will examine the conditions under which Microsoft will ship Windows 7 without browsers to manufacturers and suppliers, warning that the Commission will find out if... [15 Jun 2009]
Google books hit with copyright probe
News The European Union's executive body will study plans by Google to make millions of books available online after Germany said the internet company's project flouts EU copyright law. The bloc's industry ministers agreed on... [29 May 2009]
Compliance With EU Electronic Signature Regulations in Microsoft BizTalk Server Environment
White Paper All the software targeted at electronic commerce enterprises, both in Europe and elsewhere, will have to take into account local and unionwide laws and regulations regarding electronic document formats, signatures, authentication, and... [16 May 2009]
'Looking forward to a customer - not Intel - controlled world'
News Intel chief executive Paul Otellini said in a statement that his company's practices had resulted in "absolutely zero harm to consumers", and that the chipmaker did not believe it had violated EU law. [14 May 2009]
EC slams Intel with €1bn antitrust fine
News Such a serious and sustained violation of the EU's antitrust rules cannot be tolerated. The EU commissioners said these practices had harmed consumers throughout the European Economic Area and undermined... [13 May 2009]
Biometric scanners to delve inside your brain
News Scanners that probe brain activity and heart rate are among the next generation of biometric security sensors being developed by the EU. As part of an EU-backed trial, volunteers were sat in front of a... [12 May 2009]
Microsoft says EU regulators will give Google more power
News Microsoft says EU regulators will hand Google more dominance of the internet search business if they go ahead with planned regulations on Microsoft's Windows operating system, the Financial Times reported. [11 May 2009]
