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Mobile TV: Europe switches on to DVB-H

News Viviane Reding, the EU commissioner for information society and media, said in a statement: "European mobile TV is a step closer to success following [the] endorsement by the Council of the Commission's... [30 Nov 2007]

It's official: Roaming will be capped - Reding

News EC commissioner for information society and media, Viviane Reding, has confirmed telecoms ministers agreed late last week at a meeting in Brussels there must be a cap both on wholesale and retail roaming charges, and... [19 Mar 2007]

RFID: Brussels wants your views

News Brussels wants to know what you think about RFID technologies. In October the conclusions of the workshops and consultation will be revealed, before the EC presents its official position to the European... [04 Jul 2006]

Enisa breaks free of Brussels red tape

News And while talk of specific Articles may seem of little relevance to anybody outside Brussels' corridors of power, the flurry of bureaucracy has brought the Agency into the spotlight and earned it glowing praise from... [03 May 2006]

Cheat Sheet: Sepa

Cheat Sheet The thing is the banks don't really know what they should do as wise men at the EC in Brussels haven't issued any strict guidelines. The EC decided that cross-border payments should cost no more than domestic payments... [14 Feb 2006]

'Super Mario' joins investment bank

News Monti, also known for his hard line on the merger between AOL and Time Warner, is currently chairman of the Board of the Brussels European and Global Economic Laboratory (Bruegel) and president of the... [14 Dec 2005]

Call to scrap levies on European music downloads

News The BSA has issued a report calling for the scrapping of these levies to coincide with a meeting of the European American Business Council in Brussels. European... [13 Oct 2005]

Europeans protest against software patents

News Hundreds of people from across Europe gathered in Brussels on Thursday to demonstrate against software patents. The demonstration in Brussels was timed to coincide with a meeting of senior members of... [21 Feb 2005]

Patents directive at the crossroads

News Florian Mueller, the campaign manager of an anti-patent website, said that the mood at a press conference following Thursday's anti-patent demonstration in Brussels was confident. Last May's political agreement in the... [18 Feb 2005]

Brussels digital snooping plans could hit your pocket

News The EU council of ministers is currently working on a framework document that could mean ISPs and telcos having to capture and retain details about their customers, including who they phone, text or email, and even the... [07 Jan 2005]

€72m EU contract success for BT

News The European Commission, European Parliament, Secretariat of the Council of the EU and other bodies will between them spend about €72m over four years. BT has scooped a major contract to... [30 Nov 2004]

Analysis: What Europe (still) doesn't get about tech

Comment Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist put it well in a floor speech in March when he said: "European economies are buried by public-sector debt; European economies are drained of their vitality by excessive... [23 Jun 2004]

Personal air traveller data - it's not yours any more

News The Parliament has stated its anti-agreement position to the EC and the European Council repeatedly - on 21 April, the MEPs decided to reject the deal outright and call on the European... [19 May 2004]

Email snooping bill enrages privacy groups

News In data protection debates Brussels often comes from the perspective that the citizen needs to be protected, when the citizen is actually extremely empowered. The final draft of the directive was voted on by the... [30 May 2002]

Email snooping bill enrages privacy groups

News In data protection debates Brussels often comes from the perspective that the citizen needs to be protected, when the citizen is actually extremely empowered. The final draft of the directive was voted on by the... [30 May 2002]

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