Air traffic control glitch hits London
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.
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.
VOIP has attracted 4.9 mln customers in Japan, 1 mln in the United States but only 110,000 users in Germany, 220,000 in France and 50,000 in Britain, according to European Commission.
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.
The German company Hypermedia GmbH has filed an application to trademarkthe word "MP3" in Europe.The Munich-based company submitted the application to the Office for Harmonization in theInternal Market, the body responsible for establishing uniformprotection of trademarks and industrial designs throughout the EuropeanUnion.
U.S. Internet services giant America Online Inc. (aol) and Time Warner Inc.
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.
The Eastern European IT market will grow three times faster than Western Europe between 2003 and 2007, creating opportunities and challenges for stakeholders following European Expansion on May 1st, 2004, according to Gartner.
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.