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Greens slam Vista 'landfill effect'

News The Green Party has claimed Microsoft's latest operating system, Vista, could lead to a mass upgrade of PCs that will result in old machines being dumped in landfill sites. Speaking ahead of the official UK consumer launch of Vista today, Derek...

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[30 Jan 2007]

Google cooks up eco mash-up

News Google has launched its first mash-up - a map-based website with information about earth-friendly locations in five of the US' top travel destinations. The site, at maps.google.com/green, features information on and video tours of spots in Las...

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[31 May 2006]

Sun pledges to open up Java

News When Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz repeated Greens' statement onstage, the audience cheered. Sun Microsystems will open source Java - it just has to figure out how to do it, company executives said on Tuesday.

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[17 May 2006]

Microsoft's race relations blunders revealed

News The difference in greens meant Kashmir was shown as non-Indian and the product was promptly banned in India. Microsoft's lack of political savvy has cost the Redmond behemoth millions and seen its products banned in some of the biggest markets on...

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[19 Aug 2004]

Microsoft offers the French 60 per cent off software licences

News Delanoë was elected for the Socialist party at the head of a coalition with the Greens in March 2001. Jens Mühlhaus, a representative of the Greens on the city council, said the decision wasn't taken solely for economic reasons - strategic and...

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[30 Jun 2004]

Vote on EU intellectual property law delayed by opponents

News MEPs including Social Democrats, Liberals and Greens argued that more discussion was necessary to understand the directive's implications, according to sources familiar with the situation. A proposed European Union law strengthening law-enforcement...

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[19 Nov 2003]

Software patent vote delayed by protests

News The directive, drafted by Labour MEP Arlene McCarthy, has generated political opposition from the Greens and the European Socialist Party (PSE), among others. Warnings that a controversial directive could devastate European software businesses have...

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[02 Sep 2003]

Greens pick peer-to-peer networks for better weather

News A Cambridge-based research institute has been created with the help of government money to examine how technology can be used to solve environmental problems. The National Institute for Environmental e-Sciences will research new ways to harness...

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[22 Jan 2002]