Paul Meller

Articles by Paul Meller

European GPS system gets second life

After years of setbacks and delays, the process of selecting companies to build a competing system to the U.S. GPS network will soon begin

EU antitrust hearing for Intel this week

Europe's top antitrust authority claims it handed out "substantial rebates" to computer manufacturers for buying most of their x86 processors from Intel.

EU sketches RFID guidelines

The European Union released guidelines for the use of RFID chips, but stopped short of issuing regulations for the technology

European politicians question proposed telecom regulation

A European Commission plan to increase competition in telecommunications have been attacked by the industry committee of the European Parliament.

EU debates privacy status of IP addresses

Internet search companies argue that an IP address merely locates a computer rather than identifying the user. But EU data protection officials say if a person can be identified by an IP address, it's private information

European trustbusters target Microsoft again

The European Commission has opened another antitrust investigation of Microsoft over some issues raised during its successful 2004 case against the company

EU has competition concerns over Google-DoubleClick deal

The European Commission opened an in-depth investigation into Google's planned acquisition of online advertising company DoubleClick Tuesday, citing the deal's potential impact on the online advertising market

Microsoft won’t appeal European antitrust ruling

Microsoft Corp. has decided not to appeal last month's appeal ruling against it from the Court of First Instance (CFI) and has finally agreed to comply with the European Commission's 2004 antitrust ruling that sparked the company's appeal.

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