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Comment And in the particular case of Microsoft, Fast's £1m per year is dwarfed by the fines totalling €1.68m imposed on Microsoft because EU judges determined that the company had abused its monopoly position.
[07 May 2008]
News But yesterday the company extended this target by 12 to 18 months and added it will reduce investment in the tech by around €100m during 2008 with no further "accelerated" investment planned for 2009.
[01 May 2008]
News European primary healthcare services are benefiting from broadband, says the European Commission, but there are still wide discrepancies in GPs' use of IT across Europe. An EC e-health survey has found the vast majority (87 per cent) of European...
[28 Apr 2008]
News Citi announced the building of the facility in July last year and apparently earmarked €170m for the construction of what it claimed at the time to be "one of the greenest data centres worldwide".
[14 Apr 2008]
whitepaper It has annual revenues of [EURO] 3bn and employs 28,000 people in 30 countries. The Netherlands-based company Atos Origin is a leading business and technology integrator that designs, builds and operates integrated IT solutions globally.
[10 Apr 2008]
News The paper, entitled Productivity, Growth and Jobs: How Telecoms Regulation Can Support European Businesses, suggests Europe's economy could benefit by up to €1,300bn over the next 20 years "with the development of seamless pan-European...
[08 Apr 2008]
News The Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa) directive came into operation at the beginning of the year and Faster Payments protocols are due to go live in May. Sepa allows organisations to offer services easily across the Euro area - but this also means...
[03 Apr 2008]
News The EU's €300bn telecoms market grew 1.9 per cent last year, with investment up for a fifth year running, showing EU telecoms rules were having an impact on boosting competition, Reding said. Investment in telecoms in the EU last year was over...
[20 Mar 2008]
News Last year, a European court upheld a landmark 2004 decision that Microsoft abused the power of its Windows operating system to damage competitors, along with a €497m fine. Google, the world's leading search engine, has said it is concerned...
[17 Mar 2008]
Round-Up In total, the EC has fined Microsoft €1.68bn for its original violation and for failing to comply with sanctions, more than any other firm. The European Commission has fined Microsoft a record €899m for defying sanctions imposed on the...
[29 Feb 2008]
News The European Commission has fined Microsoft a record €899m for defying sanctions imposed on the software giant for antitrust violations, far exceeding the original penalty. The Commission, executive arm of the European Union, has now fined...
[27 Feb 2008]
News The charge is £200 for vehicles not complying to Euro III levels for acceptable particle matter. London's Low Emissions Zone (LEZ) is using automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) technology to limit the number of high emissions vehicles entering...
[14 Feb 2008]
News On wholesale tariffs, she pointed out costs per megabyte can be as high as €7 and as low as 25 euro cents, adding "there really is room for manoeuvre". EU commissioner for information society and media, Viviane Reding, speaking today at the...
[11 Feb 2008]
whitepaper The Employee Insurance Schemes Implementing Body (Uitvoeringsorgaan Werknemersverzekeringen), also known as UWV, is a multi-billion euro organization that provides temporary income when it is impossible for its citizens to work.
[08 Feb 2008]
News The proposed seven-year outsourcing agreement is aimed at saving Deutsche Post approximately €1bn in reduced IT costs and by making better use of resources. Deutsche Post World Net, the global logistics organisation, is close to striking a...
[28 Jan 2008]
Cheat Sheet Ah well that's the billion dollar (or should that be Euro) question. At the time, it was reported the EU needed euro;2.4bn in public funds to complete the project. Well the government put around euro;31m into the pot in the summer of 2006, which is...
[28 Jan 2008]
News Luke Thomas, programme manager at the analyst house, said in a statement: "Carriers have realised that it would be [a] long [time] before the cost of the femtocell will reach €100. Femtocell technology - which boosts 3G network coverage...
[23 Jan 2008]
whitepaper After a comprehensive financial analysis, the company realized that upgrading to Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office system simultaneously will save about 750,000 Euro (U.S.million). Six years ago Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, a global...
[17 Jan 2008]
News Dew had been helping the company to meet its aggressive efficiency targets of €250m by the end of this year and he had been tasked with moving to a standardised global IT model, including a single global SAP platform.
[17 Jan 2008]
News Nato is to spend €4.2m upgrading tech systems at its headquarters. In 2006, EADS Defence & Security - with around 23,000 employees - achieved revenues of &euro5.9bn, with EADS as a whole generating revenues of €39.4bn and employing a...
[16 Jan 2008]
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