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Did Microsoft use desktop dominance in OOXML standard?

News Specifically, the Commission sought information on attempts to influence the debate or vote over the standards proposal. The European Commission's antitrust regulatory body has sent queries to several European countries to investigate how the...

Tags: standard, microsoft, ooxml

[04 Apr 2008]

We need more tech training, says small business

News European associations representing small and medium-sized enterprises have called for more European Commission-backed funding for SME employee IT training. A European Commission representative promised increased funding for small businesses, but...

Tags: europe, sme, skills, medium

[09 Mar 2008]

Women told: Tech isn't 'boring'

News The European Commission's (EC) commissioner for information society and media, and ambassador against rip-off roaming charges, Viviane Reding, has set her sights on debunking geeky IT stereotypes which she believes are putting women off working in...

Tags: skills, geek, women, decision making

[07 Mar 2008]

Microsoft slapped with record €899m EC fine

News The Commission said in a landmark 2004 ruling - upheld by an EU court last year - that Microsoft had withheld needed interoperability information from rival makers of "work group server" software. The Commission instead found the information lacked...

Tags: microsoft, fine, antitrust, ec

[27 Feb 2008]

Whose data is it anyway?

Whose data is it anyway?

Comment We also need independent auditing of how data is being used - greater power for the Information Commission was another of the RAE's recommendations that has belatedly been accepted. We understand why we need to give data to the tax office, a...

Tags: hmrc, data security, id cards, campaign

[17 Dec 2007]

Minister calls for ID cards review

News A full report is due in spring next year, which will take into account the Independent Police Complaints Commission investigation and consultation with the Information Commissioner's Office. Plans for a national ID database must be reviewed...

Tags: id cards, national identity register, hmrc, investigation

[27 Nov 2007]

ICO: HMRC breach - where were the tech safeguards?

News Ulf Dahlsten, director of emerging technologies and infrastructure for the European Commission, said that HMRC "needed to enhance its protection", and added the European Commission had issued guidance on the use of privacy-enhancing technologies.

Tags: hmrc, ico, privacy, questions

[23 Nov 2007]

Missing: 25 million child benefit records

News Darling admitted it is "highly likely" the Data Protection Act has been broken and said an inquiry into the missing data will be conducted by the Independent Police Complaints Commission. Two password-protected CDs containing the child benefit...

Tags: hmrc, alistair darling, security breach, activity

[20 Nov 2007]

Base3 Unifies and Standardizes Operations Across Branches by Integrating Systems on One Platform

whitepaper Base3 SRL wanted to create an IT infrastructure that unifies operations across the company's central office in Argentina and branches in Spain and centralize business processes in Buenos Aires to accelerate administrative and accounting operations...

Tags: infrastructure management, billing, efficiency, client

[02 Nov 2007]

Data breach notification laws are 'just the start'

News The European Commission is considering tightening some of the regulations around when companies have to reveal security leaks. Speaking at a keynote panel at the RSA Conference Europe 2007, Christopher Kuner, partner and head of the international...

Tags: rsa, data breach, full disclosure

[23 Oct 2007]

Stories of the Month - September 2007

News But still, despite such innovations there is still room for improvement - it seems the lack of tech skills in Europe is slowing down the implementation of new projects according to the European Commission.

Tags: iplayer, europe, contactless payment, vista

[28 Sep 2007]

Shanghai Government Commission Moves Forward With Microsoft Exchange Server 2007

whitepaper The commission especially welcomed the advanced filtering features for unsolicited e-mail messages, including connection filtering, sender/recipient selection, intelligent filtering, and the spam filtering for the Microsoft Office Outlook...

Tags: application servers, filtering, commission, science

[28 Sep 2007]

UK 'a closed shop for open source'

News One hundred thousand workers at the European Commission use Alfresco, along with three of the world's top investment banks, he said, but the company only makes five per cent of its revenue in the UK because of the country's fear of open source...

Tags: linux, westminster, open source

[13 Sep 2007]

£1.5bn farm subsidy chaos: "Inept" planning blamed

News A report into the fiasco by Whitehall spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee has found implementation of the project started before the final specification and regulations for the subsidy scheme were agreed by the European Commission...

Tags: public accounts committee, rural payments agency, farmers

[06 Sep 2007]

EC warns on data roaming costs

News Fresh from its victory over the issue of voice-roaming costs, the European Commission has again warned mobile operators that they could be forced to cut data-roaming charges. These price drops followed Reding's warning, expressed at the start of...

Tags: ec, roaming, mobile

[20 Jul 2007]

The Power of Currency: Achieving High Performance With Right-Time Information

whitepaper Money Laundering and the Security and Exchange Commission's proposed Regulation NMS all require financial institutions to maintain aggregated, highly accurate data. Whether it's a trader, investment manager, risk or compliance officer or back...

Tags: knowledge and data management, institutions, basel ii, compliance

[19 Jul 2007]

HP settles boardroom leak probe allegations

News HP "failed to disclose the reasons" that a board member had resigned, according to a statement released by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Marc Fagel, associate regional director of the SEC's San Francisco office, said: "The company...

Tags: leak probe, sec, hp

[24 May 2007]

Snatched laptop puts 40,000 at risk of ID fraud

News ID fraud continues to top the complaints reported to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In 2005, UC Berkeley warned more than 98,000 people that the theft of a laptop from its graduate school admissions office exposed their personal information.

Tags: id fraud, laptop, breach

[10 Apr 2007]

Fresh data leak scare at US university

News Identity fraud continues to top the complaints reported to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In 2005, UC Berkeley warned more than 98,000 people that the theft of a laptop from its graduate school admissions office exposed their personal...

Tags: breach, data leak

[05 Apr 2007]

HP's Dunn asked to appear before Congress

News In addition to the congressional probe, HP also faces inquiries from the FBI, the US Attorney's Office, the Securities and Exchange Commission and California's attorney general, who has said he has enough information to charge people both inside...

Tags: pretexting, dunn, leak, hp

[18 Sep 2006]

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