Items tagged with european

by Michael Cunningham - Mon, Jun 08, 2009

Filesharing Takes A Seat In European Parliament

Sweden's PiratePartiet (Pirate Party) has secured a win for the European Parliament in yesterday's Swedish European Parliament Elections, becoming - at least in this election - Sweden's 4th biggest party.According to official sources, the Pirate Party secured 7.1% of votes and elected to the European Parliament Christian Engstrom to voice... Read more...

by Marco Chiappetta - Fri, Jul 18, 2008

Intel Statement on European Commission Action

Intel Statement on Latest European Commission Action SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Intel Corporation today issued the following statement in response to allegations contained in the new Statement of Objections (SO) issued by the European Commission: We're naturally disappointed the Commission has decided to issue a new SO. The issuance of a second... Read more...

by Chad Weirick - Fri, Feb 22, 2008

Intel Raided By European Commission

The EU's antitrust regulators launched a fresh offensive against Intel while still awaiting an official response from the company. The newest round of raids encompasses Intel's offices in Munich as well as retailers in Germany, France and the U.K. The raids were supposedly carried out in order to discover if Intel was using noncompetitive... Read more...

by Michael Santo - Wed, Aug 22, 2007

T-Mobile, Orange, O2 Score iPhone European Deals

Contracts with the carriers and Apple were signed in the last few days. Of particular interest, however, is that the contract requires the carriers to give Apple 10% of iPhone revenues derived from phone and data calls. This is something the carriers have strongly resisted in the past, and shows just how much they wanted the latest must-have... Read more...

by Nick Welles - Fri, Mar 02, 2007

Microsoft Warned By European Union

Since Microsoft's failure to comply with the European Union's anti-trust rulings, the EU has decided to crack down further on the U.S. based giant warning that more fines may be imposed. After the 2004 case in which it was ruled Microsoft would pay nearly $497 million euros ($656 million USD) for asking unjustifiably... Read more...

by Gregory Sullivan - Wed, Feb 28, 2007

PS3 Gets A PS2-ectomy In European Clinic; Condition Downgraded To Blu-Ray Player

Sony's taking a beating with their latest generation console, the PS3. In an effort to save money, the european version won't have a PS2 chip in it to make it backwards compatible for existing games and will rely on software to achieve the same result. "The method used for playing PS2 games is going to... Read more...

by Marco Chiappetta - Mon, Aug 28, 2006

OCZ Technology Expands European Presence

OCZ Technology Continues to Expand European Presence in Commitment to Global Marketplace Sunnyvale, CA - August 28th, 2006 - OCZ Technology Group, a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory and power solutions, is proud to announce the expansion of its European headquarters in an effort to support... Read more...

by Matt Beauvais - Mon, Jan 16, 2006

European Union to Develop Search Engine?

With the largest search engine companies being based in the US, French President Jacques Chirac is proposing the creation of a rival search engine named "Quaero". One inteseting feature that's being planned for, is a translation tool that can translate audio."The ambitious project will probably not be available anytime in the near... Read more...