Jennifer Baker - Author - PC World Australia

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Article | 30/05/2012 Law to lower roaming charges the fastest approved in EU

A new law to lower the price of mobile phone roaming was approved on Wednesday, making it the fastest piece of legislation to be passed by the Europea...

Article | 10/05/2012 Critics say EU guidelines on avoiding software vendor tie-in ignored by Slovak authorities

Free software advocates are criticizing the move to penalize a company in Slovakia for failing to submit official documents via a system that only wor...

Article | 5/05/2012 EU Digital Agenda commissioner admits ACTA is probably dead

A European Commissioner for the first time said openly on Friday that the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is more or less dea...

Article | 4/05/2012 EU and Japan to make the Internet safer for children

Europe and Japan will work together on a strategy to make the Internet safer for children and teenagers.

Article | 2/05/2012 Programming languages not copyrightable rules top EU court

Europe's top court ruled on Wednesday that the functionality of a computer program and the programming language it is written in cannot be protected b...

Article | 28/04/2012 Germany misses EU data retention deadline, could face court action

Germany could face court action for failing to implement the European Union's Data Retention Directive, officials confirmed on Friday.

Article | 28/04/2012 Help us roll out high-speed Internet more cheaply says EU

European lawmakers have asked for help and advice on how to roll out high-speed Internet across the E.U. more cheaply.

Article | 27/04/2012 EU lawmakers warn six countries they must implement e-money rules

The European Commission on Thursday asked six E.U. countries to explain their delay in enforcing the binding e-money directive.

Article | 27/04/2012 Open software activists urge politicians to throw off digital shackles

What do Mitt Romney, the Pope, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and actress-turned-politician Glenda Jackson have in common? Answer: they were all sen...

Article | 26/04/2012 EU lawmakers take tough stance on independent data protection

The European Commission underlined its commitment to data protection on Wednesday by referring Hungary to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) over the...

Article | 26/04/2012 EU investigates Spanish aid for broadcasters going digital

The European Union's plans to free up radio spectrum for wireless broadband and other new technologies has raised sticky issues for television broadca...

Article | 25/04/2012 European data protection official criticizes ACTA treaty

Europe's top data privacy watchdog has strongly criticized the international anticounterfeiting trade agreement (ACTA), warning that it could lead to ...

Article | 21/04/2012 YouTube must filter content, rules German court

YouTube must filter content uploaded by users, a German court ruled on Friday.

Article | 19/04/2012 European Parliament agrees to send airline passenger data to US

The European Parliament on Thursday approved a controversial data transfer agreement with the U.S. that had sharply divided legislators.

Article | 18/04/2012 EU Parliament wants tighter monitoring of Internet censorship

The European Parliament has called for new rules to monitor Internet censorship by autocratic regimes.