All the stories tagged with: eu
Google-Motorola Mobility merger review temporarily halted by EU antitrust regulators
12/12/2011, Despite pretty much the majority of the tech industry nodding their heads in approval at the Google-Motorola Mobility acquisition, and with Motorola Mobility’s shareholders giving them the greenlight to go ahead with this new venture, it appears that antitrust regulators [...]
myCopter project preps Europe for flying car generation
07/07/2011, Flying cars have long been the fantasy of many people, as it certainly beats the crammed seats of an Economy Class flight, and yet solves the trouble of traffic jams. Unfortunately, there are still many other issues to think about [...]
Right to be forgotten for European social networks users
03/20/2011, Social network users in Europe will be pleased to know that the European Union (EU) will be enshrining a “right to be forgotten online“, making sure that prospective employers are unable to check out previously uploaded Facebook photos of a [...]
European standardization bodies formalize micro-USB cell phone charger standard
12/30/2010, It’s been about a year since Nokia, Apple, RIM, Motorola and other major cell phone makers out there agreed on a Micro-USB cell phone charger standard for Europe. Now the two key European standards bodies have gone through all the [...]
FCC Moves To Tackle Phone Bill Shock
05/11/2010, We’ve all heard the horror stories of users getting some rather unpleasant surprises with their mobile phone bills, and now it seems that the FCC is moving to try and sort this issue out. The European Union model already requires [...]
JooJoo tablet ready to hit Europe
04/27/2010, The JooJoo tablet isn’t doing gangbusters sales exactly, but that has not stopped the company from rolling it out in Europe, where it retails for €359 with an additional €15 thrown in for shipping. This is slightly cheaper than the [...]
Opera Download Numbers Double Thanks To The Introduction Of Choice Screen
03/19/2010, The folks over at Opera must be smiling from ear to ear after Microsoft was forced to introduce the Windows Web Browser Choice Screen in Europe. The Web Browser Choice Screen prompts users if they want to download competing browsers [...]
EU caps data roaming charges
03/01/2010, Ever being slapped with an insanely high data roaming bill simply because you forgot to turn off the option to access data when you were abroad? Such expensive mistakes could be a thing of the past if the European Union [...]
Apple has new USB power adapter in Europe
01/21/2010, Apple has just rolled out a brand new USB power adapter for both the iPod and iPhone in a slimmer form factor, where it plays nice with just about the entire range of iPod nanos, iPhones, iPod touches, iPod classics, [...]
iPhones could see ban in Europe
09/29/2009, Word has it that there has been a handful of iPhone explosions in Europe, where whispers abound of the European Commission asking Apple for information on the alleged iPhone explosions. In fact, the European Commission also tipped Apple off that [...]
Volume limit on MP3 players
09/28/2009, The European Commission has decided to set volume limits for MP3 players in all European Union member states, which means your Zune HD won’t be able to output anything louder than 80 decibels under the default settings when the ruling [...]
