Tag: Eu
Confused about in-flight mobile use? Key details below…
One of our brother blogs here at Shiny Media, Lost Weekend, has put together a brilliant piece detailing the allowance of mobile phones on planes.
According to the travel site, some airlines such as Ryanair claim they’ll be offering the service as early as summer, with Air France and Emirates offering in-flight calls later in the year. The cost of calls mid-flight are due to be extremely expensive, priced…
Microsoft hammered by EU anti-trust body again – handed record £680m fine
The European Union has just hit Microsoft a record fine of around £625m.
It’s in response to Microsoft charging “unreasonable prices” to developers for data on how to get their applications working happily on Windows. Naughty old MS was ordered by the EU in 2004 to start charging more reasonable fees for licensing out its patents – but clearly the EU thinks it hasn’t complied with that. Hence the cash windfall for Brussels…
All across Europe, the CityClickers are snapping the sights…
This week our crafty CityClickers have been taking in some culture, with a few snaps taken at a play at Sadler’s Wells in London, our Irish moblogger has been learning about perspective in Belfast, and the grimiest bar/club in Berlin gets a look-in too….
Our LG CityClickers mobloggers are still snapping away at European sights
It’s Friday, which means it’s time to show you a brief look at what’s been going on over at our CityClickers moblog, created in collaboration with LG.
Those European mobloggers of ours have been busy with their LG Viewty handsets, sending in snaps of graffiti in the Netherlands, a French rainbow and our Spanish moblogger has even posted some pics of him dressed as a hippy, Superman and a Viking. Glad someone’s got some time on his hands…!
Microsoft in trouble again with EU anti-trust people – Office and IE the offenders this time
The European Union is looking into another two Microsoft anti-competition issues, it said today, with its aggressive bundling and software interoperability coming under fire from the Brussels-based freedom fighters.
At the centre of the new EU competition worries is the way MS Office interacts with rival products (ie, it often doesn’t), plus the way some of its products are locked down and force users to use Internet Explorer…
UK iTunes prices to come down by 10% – thanks to EU pen-pushers
Hooray for European bureaucracy for once!
Apple has agreed to cut its UK iTunes prices by 10%, following pressure from the European Union’s anti-trust watchdog.
Prices for UK downloads were 10% higher than they were with the rest of Europe – which is unacceptable behaviour for companies within the modern, free European market…
Wind energy could power all UK homes by 2020
This is according to a man called John Hutton, who is calling for us lot to get our act together and install 7000 offshore wind turbines to take the lead in generating free electric out of the very air we breathe..
Hutton is the business secretary of the government. You wouldn’t think a secretary would be allowed to send out press releases about…
EU court rules telecom companies don't have to hand over details of suspected illegal file sharers
Possible good news for those who operate file sharing networks for distributing music and other media via the likes of KaZaA and other software. A top European Union court has ruled, in the civil case of Spanish music and audiovisual…
EU endorses DVB-H mobile TV format… but its decision is already causing ructions
Most UK mobile operators offer some form of streaming mobile TV over their 3G networks, and while the quality has improved, it’s still not exactly tip-top. Proper digital broadcasts would seem to be the answer, but there’s a cluster of competing formats, which each have different cheerleaders in different countries. It’s a bit of a mess.
EU camera tax to hit top-spec models
Get ready to pay the cheese-eating pen-pushers in Brussels an extra 4.9% for the privilege of owning a decent camera soon, thanks to the EU giving the go-ahead for a new tax on digital cameras that are also capable of recording top-quality video.
The video recorder tax already exists – its charged on recording gadgets already…
