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News The Direct Marketing Association and industry experts have welcomed a decision by a European committee to continue to offer members a choice of 'opt-in' or 'opt-out' spamming systems. The European Civil Liberties committee yesterday approved a... [12 Jul 2001]
European PC vendors suffer post-Y2K slump
News European computer vendors are still nursing a Y2K hangover, according to first quarter figures released today. The corporate sector fared even worse than the general European market, with an increase of just 3.1 per cent in unit sales. [05 May 2000]
European IT outlook 'positive' for 2004, says IDC
News European CIOs and IT directors are becoming increasingly sceptical about the returns on some new technologies despite a more positive outlook for their IT spending over the next year, according to new research from IDC. [04 Mar 2004]
European IT firms too pricey, says KPMG
News European IT suppliers are too expensive and are being beaten on price by rivals in Asia and the US, research has found. IT buyers say European firms are less appealing to do business with because of their "lack of price competitiveness and... [08 Dec 2005]
European PC vendors suffer post-Y2K slump
News European computer vendors are still nursing a Y2K hangover, according to first quarter figures released today. The corporate sector fared even worse than the general European market, with an increase of just 3.1 per cent in unit sales. [05 May 2000]
European Merger Control: Do We Need an Efficiency Defence?
White Paper Should a merger control system and, in particular, the European system of merger control, include an "efficiency defence", i.e.a system allowing to take into account the possible efficiencies from mergers and how should a system be designed to... [24 Jun 2005]
Idtechex Case Study: European and US Laundries
White Paper The clients were European and US laundries. Developers wanted to improve processing throughput on garment identification systems originally implemented with barcode. The challenge as originally posed for RFID was to provide a means of automatically... [10 Apr 2008]
ESDP and Missile Defense: European Perspectives for More Balanced Transatlantic Partnership
White Paper While many issues have the potential to complicate U.S.European security cooperation, few are more pressing than the U.S.pursuit of missile defense and Europe's construction of European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP). [27 Dec 2004]
European Institute of Technology on its way?
News The EC has launched a consultation into whether the continent needs its very own European Institute of Technology. One proposed answer to the problem is the creation of a European Technology Institute (EIT), which could help to attract and retain... [19 Sep 2005]
European Parliament stirs up Bangemann controversy
News The European Parliament (EP) has added to the controversy surrounding ex-EU Industry and Telecommunications Commissioner, Martin Bangemann, by calling for his pension and other privileges to be withdrawn. [23 Jul 1999]
European tech spend outstrips US
News Stephen Minton, research manager at IDC claimed the growth in software sales, a thriving IT services market and the adoption of the internet by businesses all contributes to the boom being enjoyed by the European IT market. [25 Aug 2000]
European communications 'wide open' to interception
News Desmond Perkins, a senior official in the European Commission's cipher unit, has claimed that the superior technology deployed by US authorities means there is little Europe can do to prevent them listening in to its communications. [09 Mar 2001]
European Parliament may have lost its IT expertise
News The UK was stripped of its hi-tech MEPs in this month's European elections, according to one angry candidate - who was voted out. There's no-one to follow in my footsteps in the European Parliamentary Labour Party," she told Silicon.com. [18 Jun 1999]
European telcos must learn to work with the Net
News Old-school European telcos will only survive into the next century if they use Internet technology, according to Elek Straub, president and CEO of former Hungarian state telco, Matav. However, Eric Steeghs, European vice president of IT at ABN Amro... [24 Jun 1999]
European firms to get data protection standard
News European companies who put the recommended clauses in their contracts will be saved the bother of applying for a different license each time they want to transfer personal data outside the EU. But delays by most European governments mean that the... [25 Sep 1998]
