The European Court of Justice have ruled that those states within the European Union do have the right to force internet service providers (ISPs) to block websites which infringe on copyright. So any sites which stream movies, tv,...
Looking for the right charger for your mobile device in Europe might soon become very easy. The European Union has recently voted in favor of introducing a single universal mobile charger for all mobile devices. The legislation is...
Neelie Kroes, the European Commissioner, believes that more safeguards need to be in place to protect both businesses and people from the intrusions that were brought to our attention by Edward Snowden. Kroes spoke about these iss...
Edward Snowden has given testimony to an inquiry by the European Parliament regarding NSA surveillance that relates to European countries. In the testimony are Snowden’s qualms with the mass-surveillance that is being carrie...
The European Commission has announced that it believes that American influence over the internet needs to be lessened. Of course a lot of this has to do with the spying being done by the United States government, which was brought...
Google has reached a tentative agreement with the European Commission regarding the way it displays search results. This could and will most likely put an end to a three-year antitrust investigation on Google. If the company did n...
The European Union believes that harsher fines are necessary for companies that violate data privacy. The charge by the EU is being made Viviane Reding, its justice commissioner, and also vice-president of the European Commsion, w...
Google has been embroiled in a three year long antitrust battle with the European Commission for Competition. They recently offered the Commission a proposal to end the legal battle and avoid paying a fine that could be as much $5...
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of patent trolls suddenly cried out in terror as they were suddenly silenced. I feel something wonderful has happened. Yes, while you were sleeping, New Zealand’s parliament ...
When we were growing up back in the days, our parents or guardians usually claim if we eat lots of carrots, our eye sight would magically improve so much we could see in the dark. I thought this was true for a while, until I grew ...
Remember that $732 million fine Microsoft was hit with by the EU because Microsoft did not include browser ballot box in Windows 7 SP1? Yeah, well, as it turns out it the EU did not find out about the “error” by mistak...
Microsoft has just been fined 561 million euros (approximately $732 million) for breaking an antitrust agreement made in 2009. In that agreement, Microsoft complied with the EU’s request to include a “browser ballot bo...
Samsung had injunction requests against Apple for patent infringement in the UK, France, Germany Italy and the Netherlands. The keyword here is ‘had’, as Samsung has announced that it is dropping some lawsuits against ...
The European Parliament has voted for a unified patent system that, if ratified, would take effect beginning 2014. Members have voted in favor of the new system in three separate votes but ratification is needed by at 13 states an...
Earlier this year Google introduced a new one-policy-for-them-all privacy policy for all Google services. Essentially the new privacy policy consolidated all the privacy policies across Google’s various services into one sin...
