News (81)

  • Europe: No patents for software

    Software patent campaigners have reacted with surprise to an apparent change in the European Commission's stance on those patents.

  • Linux ensnares another European city

    Bergen, Norway, has opted to replace Windows and Unix machines with Linux on servers for its schools and city databases, and could later put the open-source operating system on desktop machines.

  • Microsoft faces AU$721m fine from EU

    Antitrust regulators from the European Union's 25 countries voted unanimously on Monday to levy new daily fines on Microsoft for flouting a 2004 ruling, two people close to the case said.

  • EC to decide Microsoft's fate by mid-July

    The European Commission may take until the middle of July to decide whether to impose on Microsoft a daily fine of 2 million euros, about US$2.6 million.

  • Microsoft antitrust decision on ice

    The European Commission will not make a decision on whether Microsoft has complied with its antitrust ruling until September, an EC spokesman said on Friday.

More News >

Features and Case Studies (27)

  • Bill Gates and other communists

    Free Software Foundation President Richard Stallman says Microsoft's chairman is blurring the issue of software patents.

  • SAP and on-demand: 'The switch is tougher'

    Henning Kagermann, chief of SAP, says new competition, fast-moving tech are driving the company to rethink how it builds its software and how to sell it.

  • FAQ: The Microsoft-Real agreement

    The settlement of RealNetwork's antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft marks a historic moment for both companies and could substantially alter the digital-music and online-media markets. Here's a quick look at the settlement's key points.

  • Winners and users: Tech prophecies for 2006

    IT remains a lively, exciting and suprising place. That makes predictions particularly foolish, but here are some picks for the winners and losers of the next twelve months.

  • Chizen: Friends, foes and China

    The big, booming nation is much on the mind of Adobe's CEO. Then there are the little matters of Apple and Microsoft.

More Features and Case Studies >

Reviews (5)

  • Tablet PCs off to solid start

    Shipments of tablet PCs topped 72,000 units in the fourth quarter of last year, and will "grow considerably" this year, research firm IDC said Friday.

  • Microsoft to tweak Smart Displays

    An update of the technology, which is due to launch late Wednesday during company Chairman Bill Gates' keynote speech at CES, is already under way.

  • Microsoft an antivirus vendor? I doubt it

    Despite its purchase of GeCad, a Romanian antivirus vendor, the software giant will continue to do what it does best--and the rest of the antivirus industry can breathe easy.

  • Microsoft CD copy protection advances

    The software giant digs its roots a little deeper into the music business as Macrovision agrees to license its Windows digital rights management technology for CDs.

  • Top ten reasons why Microsoft is a good citizen

    Why does everyone have to dump on Microsoft? Despite its antitrust troubles, the company has done some very good things for us all.

Create an e-mail alert for "europe"
ZDNet Australia Alerts is an e-mail alert service which provides personalised news, features and reviews to readers’ inbox on an hourly, daily and weekly basis.
Alert:
europe


Frequency: *

Filter Tags

  1. Popularity: 5 anti-trust
  2. Popularity: 17 antitrust
  3. Popularity: 3 ballmer
  4. Popularity: 4 becker
  5. Popularity: 3 chip
  6. Popularity: 5 copyright
  7. Popularity: 2 court
  8. Popularity: 5 crm
  9. Popularity: 2 data mining
  10. Popularity: 4 david
  11. Popularity: 2 dawn kawamoto
  12. Popularity: 3 doj
  13. Popularity: 7 ec
  14. Popularity: 3 erp
  15. Popularity: 22 eu
  16. Popularity: 6 european
  17. Popularity: 2 fine
  18. Popularity: 3 gates
  19. Popularity: 5 government
  20. Popularity: 2 java
  21. Popularity: 3 lawsuit
  22. Popularity: 14 linux
  23. Popularity: 4 longhorn
  24. Popularity: 2 media
  25. Popularity: 2 media player
  26. Popularity: 2 monopoly
  27. Popularity: 3 mp3
  28. Popularity: 3 music
  29. Popularity: 2 office
  30. Popularity: 6 open source
  31. Popularity: 2 open-source
  32. Popularity: 4 oracle
  33. Popularity: 2 oss
  34. Popularity: 2 passport
  35. Popularity: 11 patent
  36. Popularity: 3 piracy
  37. Popularity: 5 privacy
  38. Popularity: 2 real
  39. Popularity: 2 research
  40. Popularity: 2 ruling
  41. Popularity: 6 security
  42. Popularity: 2 settle
  43. Popularity: 2 settlement
  44. Popularity: 2 sp2
  45. Popularity: 5 sun
  46. Popularity: 2 sun microsystems
  47. Popularity: 6 union
  48. Popularity: 2 virus
  49. Popularity: 18 windows
  50. Popularity: 6 xml

Latest Videos

Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

  • David Braue NBN needs workers on board
    Without consensus on labour issues, the eventual winner of the NBN may end up as little more than a lame duck and a cashed-up symbol of the conflict between the desire for progress and the lack of mechanisms to deliver it.
  • Array D'Ascenzo: Read p23 of security review
    Following yesterday's admission by the Australian Taxation Office that its courier had lost a CD containing the details of 3,000 self-managed super funds, it wants to review how it handles information. My suggestion: go back to the review completed in April.
  • Array Opening the floodgates on missing drives
    News headlines about portable storage devices going missing are as common as muck, but the problem could be even more widespread than you suspect.
  • More blogs »

Back to top

Featured