Google and the European Commission have agreed the outlines of a settlement to end a two-year investigation into the internet firm's alleged abuse of its dominant position in the search market. The news comes a week after Google submitted ...
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Virgin Media, Vodafone and Everything Everywhere are refusing to sign up to a new code of conduct for internet service providers (ISPs) aimed at guaranteeing full and open access to the internet. Ten ISPs, including BT, O2 and Talk Talk, ...
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BT today announced it had won the tender to roll out superfast broadband across Wales. The deal aims to provide 96%of the country with connections of up to 80Mbps by 2015,helping reach the UK's government's goal of having the best ...
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The European Commission(EC)plans to have its broadband policy formally adopted by member states by the end of 2012. EC vice-president and leader of the digital agenda,Neelie Kroes,outlined key aspects of the policy during a speech in ...
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LED lighting: call for a coherent European vision 10 Jul 2012 Public consultation on adoption of solid-state lighting calls for more co-ordination at European level. Philips Lumiblade A public consultation on the European ...
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IDG News Service-Members of the European Parliament rejected the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement on Wednesday by 478 votes to 39. The result had been widely expected internationally and means that the agreement cannot ...
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By 2015, the European Parliament wants all new cars to automatically alert emergency services in case of a crash, a service known as eCall. The Parliament adopted a resolution to this effect in a show of hands on Tuesday, and urged the ...
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IDG News Service-The National Telecommunications and Information Administration awarded ICANN the mandate to manage the assignment of IP addresses and the management of top-level domains until September 2015,the government agency announced ...
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Google has submitted several proposals in response to concerns by European competition authorities in an attempt to avoid punitive fines. In May, competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia set a July deadline for Google to respond to four ...
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The Guideline for Standardized Instrument Testing of Cotton [Guideline] is now available. The Guideline was developed under the auspices of the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC), and the Task Force on Commercial Standardization ...
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The European Commission's high-level advisory board on the competitiveness of the European Fashion and Luxury Industries,that includes the CEOs of LVMH brands Dior,Thomas Pink,Emilio Pucci,and Le Bon Marche,had its second meeting with ...
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Fiber laser firm EOLITE sold for$10M 20 Jun 2012 Oregon-based laser system vendor Electro Scientific Industries buys the French company in an all-cash deal. EOLITE Systems,the venture-backed fiber laser specialist that is based at ...
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For Europe to take full advantage of the spectrum on its shores,broadcasters must share their allocations with mobile broadband providers. This was the conclusion of Neelie Kroes,a vice-president of the European Commission and the lead ...
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Google and Amazon pay for faster connections Lack of transparency over traffic management EC could force net neutrality issue Consumers need to know about net management The questions of how to handle the growing amount of traffic on ...
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Emmaus Medical, a subsidiary of Emmaus Life Sciences, has received European orphan medicinal product designation for Levoglutamide (L-glutamine) for the treatment of sickle cell disease. Emmaus is at present conducting a trial, at over 30 ...
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