European Commission: Internet censorship in China is unacceptable
European Commission has said in a statement that they believe that the Chinese government’s internet censorship attempts are unacceptable.
The commission said in a statement: “The aim of this internet filter, contrary to what Chinese authorities contend, is clearly to censor internet and limit freedom of expression. We therefore [...]
European Commission has a mega fine in store for Intel
European Commission has announced that they are fining Intel a record 1.06 billion Euros in an antitrust case.
The US based microprocessor industry giant has also been told to halt illegal rebates and other practices which were designed to harm the competition specifically AMD.
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European Union to target Britain over privacy issues
European Union is all set to started legal action against Britain over privacy issues.
Britain is being targeted for not applying EU data privacy rules to protect their citizens.
The EU also warned that they might force social networking services like Facebook to hide information connected to their minor users [...]
Microsoft again targeted by European Union
European Commission has accused the US based software giant Microsoft of harming the competition by bundling their internet explorer web browser with Windows OS.
The commission said in a statement that they have reached the preliminary view that the company has undermined consumer choice and infringed EU rules.
EU said: [...]
Europeana.eu relaunches with a beta tag
European Commission has relaunched their online European library which crashed on the day of its original launch.
Europeana.eu was launched on November 20 with much fanfare but it failed to survive the high load it faced on the day of launch.
European Commission spoke about the relaunched website: “Europeana works [...]
Europeana digital library launched
The European Union has announced the launch of its Europeana digital library.
Europeana digital library is an online destination containing Europe’s cultural heritage.
This online database would consist of millions of digital objects, ranging from film, photographs, paintings, sound files, maps, manuscripts, newspapers, documents and books.
This project would have a staff of 14 [...]
Europe might soon require mobile phones to have replaceable batteries
Apple might soon face more problems in the European market as sources say that EU is planning to make it mandatory for mobile phone makers to offer phones with replaceable batteries.
Apple iPhone is one of the few high profile mobile phones which do not feature a [...]
European Union probing deal between Google and Yahoo
Yahoo earlier this year announced that they were collaborating with Google on a search advertising revenue sharing deal.
The deal would see Yahoo using Google powered ads on some of their search result pages in USA and Canada.
European Union has now said that they are probing into this deal [...]
European Union launches second Galileo satellite
The European Union has now launched the second satellite as part of their ambitious Galileo navigation system.
This system would become a potential challenger to the GPS system which is managed by USA.
EU said that this satellite was lifted into space by a Russian Soyuz rocket.
They would be using this satellite [...]
EU want search engines to remove user data within 6 months
A European Commission advisory body has said in a report that the online search engine companies should remove user data collected from their searching habits within a period of six months.
This could cause problems for the giants in the internet search market Google, Yahoo and [...]
