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A parliamentary commission in Strasbourg, France is preparing to red-pencil a deal struck in mid-March between the European Commission and the United States over the protection of personal data.ZDNet France gained access to a "draft resolution" dated June 8 that asks the executive branch of the EU to "review without delay" the plan, dubbed "Safe Harbor.
BRUSSELS -- MCI Worldcom’s (Nasdaq:WCOM) proposed purchase of Sprint may be referred for European Commission regulatory approval despite initial reports to the contrary. “We're expecting notification by mid-November,” a Commission spokesman said Friday.
The European Union has raided all nine British and German mobile phone companies as part of the Union-wide investigation into price fixing, according to Competition Commissioner Mario Monti in Brussels. The raids took place on Wednesday morning, and are concerned with roaming charges between mobile networks in the two countries.
The Internet entrepreneur who hoped to make a quick buck from a "fire sale" of more than 300 domain names is in danger of breaking new European regulations relating to the sale of geographical domain names. Greg McLamore, who founded the dot-com incubator WebMagic, is to auction 333 domain names online over the next three months.
The European Commission has begun a four-month probe of the proposed merger between Time-Warner’s (TWX) music division and EMI Group Plc. The Commission said it was worried that the deal would create an oligopoly of four firms dominating the Western European record industry.
Gabon signed up to the World Intellectual Property Organization's international treaty on digital copyright protection Dec. 6, giving the pact the thirty ratifications it needed to move forward.
An international day of protest designed to jam the US-led communications spy system Echelon was a "rousing" success according to its organizers, who claim that the cyber-demonstration helped to raise public awareness about the surveillance system. Jam Echelon Day took place on October 21, and encouraged members of the Internet community to send out as many e-mail messages as possible, containing so-called trigger words that the Echelon system is believed to pick up on.
Some U.S. online companies could soon be required to take on a new role and collect taxes on the goods and services they deliver digitally to European consumers.
An unspecified computer problem is causing major disruptions to air traffic in the south-east of England, with flights delayed or cancelled at Gatwick, Heathrow and other airports.
Hans Eichel, the German Federal Minister of Finance, demanded at a meetingof the European Union Ministers of Finance in Luxembourg, a uniform valueadded tax on all Internet businesses. The tax should be introduced for alldigital contents such as software, videos, and music, which customers candownload in the European Union.