Stories by Paul Meller

Article | 22/04/2010 Counterfeiting treaty, now public, confirms critics' fears
ACTA, the anticounterfeiting trade agreement that has ignited debate over its provisions for clamping down on copyright abuse on the Internet, was mad...
Article | 21/04/2010 EU IT ministers endorse open standards in tech procurements
European IT and telecom ministers called for the introduction of open standards and interoperability in government procurement of IT on Monday, sparki...
Article | 7/04/2010 Open-source advocate enters IBM antitrust fray
Software developer and political lobbyist Florian Mueller weighed in on the European Commission's investigation of monopoly abuse claims against IBM, ...
Article | 24/03/2010 IBM slapped with 3rd mainframe antitrust complaint in Europe
The third antitrust complaint against IBM's mainframe business was filed with the European Commission Tuesday, compounding the firm's regulatory probl...
Article | 18/03/2010 Parliament report stirs lobbying drive on Internet piracy
Should teenagers who illegally download music, films and the like in their bedrooms be treated like criminal gangs counterfeiting everything from life...
Article | 11/03/2010 European Parliament demands transparency in ACTA talks
The European Parliament demanded Wednesday that the European Commission open up secret negotiations about an anticounterfeiting trade agreement (ACTA)...
Article | 20/02/2010 Leaked ACTA draft treaty reveals plans for Net clampdown
The U.S., Europe and other countries are secretly drawing up rules designed to crack down on copyright abuse on the Internet, in part by making ISPs l...
Article | 19/02/2010 US DOJ, EC clear Microsoft-Yahoo search deal
The U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission on Thursday both unconditionally approved Microsoft and Yahoo's plan to work together in th...
Article | 13/02/2010 EU approves HP's 3Com acquisition
The European Commission has approved Hewlett-Packard's US$2.7 billion takeover of 3Com without attaching conditions, the Commission announced on Frida...
Article | 21/01/2010 European Union clears Oracle's purchase of Sun
The European Commission granted Oracle an unconditional approval to take over Sun Microsystems on Thursday, following a controversial and drawn out ex...
Article | 20/01/2010 Google to call for creation of EU privacy, security panel
Google is pushing for the creation of an E.U. group to look at security and privacy policy, the company's top privacy lawyer, Peter Fleischer, said Tu...
Article | 20/01/2010 Microsoft cuts time Bing stores some user data to six months
Microsoft announced plans to cut the length of time it stores IP addresses of Web searchers using its Bing search engine from 18 months to six in a bi...
Article | 19/01/2010 Oracle-Sun merger foes head East
With the European Commission seen as virtually certain to approve Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems in just a week, those campaigning to preven...
Article | 17/12/2009 EC, Microsoft settlement broadly welcomed
Microsoft's successful settlement of its antitrust issues with the European Commission was welcomed by the software company's foes and friends alike W...
Article | 15/12/2009 Oracle's pledges on MySQL are 'purely cosmetic', say critics
Oracle's latest commitments designed to address the European Commission's concerns regarding its acquisition of Sun Microsystems and the MySQL databas...

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