The prospect of downloading data, sending text messages and making calls without incurring huge roaming charges while travelling in Europe came a step closer on Tuesday when politicians voted in favor of new legislation. A call to end ...
Tags: Abolishing Roaming
Companies who have been assessing Google's planned remedies to anti-competitive practices called on the European Commission on Tuesday to reject them and to consider regulating Internet search. Google has been under investigation by the ...
Tags: Google, Utilities, Internet search, complainants
Photo courtesy of Heathrow Airport. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) 69th Annual General Meeting (AGM) overwhelmingly endorsed the resolution on “Implementation of the Aviation Carbon-Neutral Growth (CNG2020) ...
Apple didn't try to fix or raise the prices of electronic books when it entered into the market in 2010, according to Apple Senior Vice President Eddy Cue. Rather, he says, the company was only working to ensure a profit for itself. ...
Tags: Apple, Electronic Book Market
With an eye on next year's European elections, Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes on Thursday called on the European Parliament to support her longstanding plans to end roaming charges and guarantee net neutrality. Though contrary ...
Tags: Computer Products
Beger Company, a Thai maker and distributor of wood coatings and industrial paint products, plans to set up its first foreign plant in Indonesia in the next five years to tap demand there. Vice-president Worawat Chaiyosburana said the ...
Tags: Paint Maker, Paint
The European Commission has blocked a proposal by the German Telecoms Regulator (BNetzA) to set fixed termination rates three times (300%) higher than the average of countries which follow the recommended approach set out in EU telecoms ...
Tags: Service, EU telecoms
Swindon Silicon Systems, the mixed signal Asic designer, has signed with Redtree Solutions as its representative in the EMEA (European, Middle-Eastern and African) markets. The semiconductor supplier sees opportunities in Germany, Austria ...
Qtel Group has announced that all of its operating companies in emerging markets across MENA and South-East Asia will now adopt the brand Ooredoo. These companies, in which Ooredoo already has a controlling interest, include brands such ...
The European Commission (EC) has announced the final decision of the antidumping (AD) duty investigation launched in November 2011 regarding certain tube and pipe fittings of iron or steel with an external diameter of up to 609.6 mm, from ...
Tags: pipe fitting imports, iron, steel
The European Union Timber Regulation (EUTR) entering into force on the 3 March 2013 will make it a legal obligation for the packaging industry to do its bit in the fight against illegal logging. What do producers and users of packaging ...
The European Commission’s latest cyber security strategy has been slammed by a member of the European Parliament, who accused the strategy of being “incoherent and lacking in focus” on Thursday. The Cyber Security ...
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The UK food industry would face a labour shortfall, export uncertainty and a regulatory black hole if Britain walked away from the EU, experts have warned. Quitting Europe would bring ‘mind blowing’ consequences for the UK ...
Tags: Food Manufacturers, UK, EU
Firms such as Facebook and Google may have to significantly rein in their use personal data if European Union lawmakers get the go-ahead to give users more control over their data. In a report seen by Reuters, Jan Philipp Albrecht, a ...
Tags: Facebook, Google, personal data, data control, data protection
Osram has signed a contract with the Wuxi New District Administrative Committee to build a new assembly plant in the Chinese province of Jiangsu. LED chips will be packaged in housings at the new backend facility starting in late 2013; with ...
Tags: Osram, LED, China, lighting sector, LED chips