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RSS norway in newsMobile phones key to paperless air travel
News Jim Peters, CTO of Sita said some such services are already available to airline passengers, such as paperless travel on some routes in Germany, Japan and Norway. Mobile phones could be a godsend to the airline industry - saving time and therefore... [20 Jun 2008]
OOXML row continues
News Serious objections have been raised within the decision-making community about the approval vote - notably in Norway, by the head of that country's technical committee - but none yet have come officially from any country's national standards body. [02 May 2008]
OOXML standard: ISO calls for end to 'personal attacks'
News The move came as an ISO committee meeting in Norway attracted protesters, who gathered to call for the retraction of Open Office XML (OOXML) from the ISO standardisation process. The International Organization for Standardization has called for... [15 Apr 2008]
Changes to retail bricks to match online clicks
News According to a report from Visa Europe, more than a quarter of 300 retailers in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the UK expect a drop in store numbers over the next seven years.silicon.com Retail & Leisure [09 Apr 2008]
Did Microsoft use desktop dominance in OOXML standard?
News In a letter seen by silicon.com sister site CNET News.com, European regulators raised queries with the national standards body in Norway to gain details into the local standardisation process. The head of the committee established to form Norway's... [04 Apr 2008]
EU border checks go biometric
News All EU states except the Bulgaria, Cyprus, Ireland, Romania and the UK are part of the border-free area, to which non-EU members Norway and Iceland also belong. Under plans to strengthen checks at European borders laid out by the European... [14 Feb 2008]
Oil company outsources to BT and HP
News A total of 29 Aibel employees, 28 of whom are based in Norway, will transfer to BT or HP as part of the deal. Aibel CEO Rasmus Sunda, said Aibel wants to be able to move into new territories and set up operations quickly, linking information back... [15 Nov 2007]
Counterterrorism gets $200m tech backing from EU
News More than 400 companies, universities and public bodies are involved, including organisations from European Union member states, the US, Norway, Turkey and Israel. The European Commission will commit $212.16m to research on counterterrorism... [13 Sep 2007]
'DIY' offshoring on the increase
News The increase is on the back of growth in the continental European market in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Norway and Switzerland, and Europe now accounts for more than half (54 per cent) of new outsourcing contracts signed globally. [12 Jul 2007]
Apple to sell DRM-free music through iTunes
News Torgeir Waterhouse, senior advisor to the Consumer Council of Norway, said he watched the announcement with interest. Apple and EMI have announced they have taken the first steps towards DRM-free digital music - but only for those who are prepared... [02 Apr 2007]
Dot-gov safest domain around, says McAfee
News It is safer to surf to websites in the domains for Finland (dot-fi), Ireland (dot-ie) and Norway (dot-no), McAfee said. The safest websites on the internet end in dot-gov, according to McAfee. McAfee found no risky websites within the domain for US... [13 Mar 2007]
Cuba gripped by open source fever
News Other governments, including Brazil, China, Norway and Venezuela, are evaluating a partial or total migration from Windows to open source. The Cuban government is to migrate thousands of its computers to open source software, in a move that... [19 Feb 2007]
€700k European ICT prize finalists get the nod
News Germany spawned the greatest number of finalists with seven companies up for the prize, followed by France with four finalists, Austria (three), Sweden (two) and Finland, Israel, Norway and the UK with one finalist each. [19 Feb 2007]
Watchdog hits back at Jobs' DRM dream
News Norway is one of a number of European countries engaged in legal action against Apple, claiming the company's DRM unfairly ties consumers to Apple hardware. Norway is one of three Scandinavian countries - along with Denmark and Sweden - that is... [07 Feb 2007]
'Abandon DRM' shocker: Apple CEO pens open letter
News The letter appears to address critics of the iTunes Store in Europe, most recently evidenced by a decision in Norway, where regulators deemed the iTunes Store illegal. In a rare open letter from CEO Steve Jobs, Apple has urged record companies to... [07 Feb 2007]
