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EU raids smart card chipmakersOpen in New Window
(More) suspicions of price fixingAt least four makers of microchips have confirmed they were raided by European Commission investigators seeking information of collusion in the market for chips used read more »
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Open Knowledge Sharing for the Dynamic WebOpen in New Window
"The EU-funded OpenKnowledge program is a smart toolkit designed to unlock the hidden resources of the web that can't be accessed by web sites and browsers alone. With a small, downloadable piece o read more »
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EU's digital library back online after mass server overloadsOpen in New Window
"Europeana, the European Union's online digital library, has been brought back online nearly a month after massive server overloads. It's not officially relaunching yet, but you can still poke aro read more »
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Gov aims to extend dead artists' royalty denialOpen in New Window
"The Government has asked the European Commission for permission to continue to deny dead artists' estates a royalty on art sales. It has sided with the art sale industry over..." read more »
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Russian's emoticon trade mark won't wash with EUOpen in New Window
"A Russian businessman says that he has trade marked the emoticon and that commercial uses of punctuation marks to convey a wink will require a licence costing over $10,000. But a trade mark..." read more »
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Multifunction devices pose tax headache for EU policymakersOpen in New Window
"When is a mobile phone not a mobile phone? When is a printer not a printer? These may sound like the sort of riddles you'd find rolled up in a Christmas cracker, but to IT manufacturers, judges an read more »
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Reding still pushing Mob-TVOpen in New Window
"EU Telecoms Commissioner Viviane Reding hasn't given up pushing Mobile TV on anyone who'll listen, and has just published a set of guidelines in..." read more »
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Reding demands super-regulator to thwart US telco dominationOpen in New Window
Bill Ray writes, "EU Telecoms Commissioner Viviane Reding has been telling delegates at the Summit of the European Telecommunications Networks in Venice that letting the EU regulate their industries read more »
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