Paul Meller - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Paul Meller

Article | 25/10/2007 MS ANTITRUST - Microsoft withdraws remaining European appeals

Microsoft has dropped two outstanding appeals of European antitrust rulings, following the deal struck with the European Commission at the beginning o...

Article | 23/10/2007 MS ANTITRUST - 'Profound' effect seen from EU compliance

Changes Microsoft will make to its business practices to comply with the 2004 European Commission antitrust ruling will "profoundly affect the softwar...

Article | 18/09/2007 With Microsoft ruling, a precedent for IT in Europe

Microsoft suffered a humiliating legal defeat Monday when it lost a court appeal to overturn the European Commission's 2004 antitrust ruling against i...

Article | 18/09/2007 Knockout blow: EU court rules in favour of consumers ahead of Microsoft

Microsoft failed Monday in its bid to overturn a European Commission antitrust ruling against it, when the European Union's second highest court dismi...

Article | 12/09/2007 MS ANTITRUST - Microsoft, EC prepare for ruling next week

As judgment day in the nine year-long antitrust battle between Microsoft and the European Commission draws near, neither side in the protracted disput...

Article | 20/06/2007 Europe Awaits Apple Response to Antitrust Charges

Apple and four of the biggest record companies this week must submit written responses to antitrust charges that they restricted online sales of music...

Article | 21/03/2007 EU proposal sets sanctions for copyright violations

Companies from across IT face criminal sanctions, including prison time for employees, if their networks, software programs or online services are eve...

Article | 14/03/2007 EU tackles online copyright law

The European Parliament urged the European Commission Tuesday to propose a law that would force the dismantlement of the current method of distributin...

Article | 29/01/2007 Rivals slam Vista on antitrust grounds

As Microsoft gears up for the consumer launch of Vista, rivals slammed the new product, claiming that it breaks the very same European antitrust laws ...

Article | 18/01/2007 EU closer to antitrust charges against Intel

Formal antitrust charges against computer chip maker Intel in Europe are coming closer, after officials working on the case advised European Union Com...

Article | 27/11/2006 Google defends against Belgian newspaper copyright case

Google launched a robust defense of its practice of caching and summarizing newspaper articles on its news search engine Google News in a Brussels cou...

Article | 24/11/2006 Microsoft files more documents to avoid EU fine

Microsoft submitted the latest batch of technical information about its Windows operating system to the European Commission antitrust department Thurs...

Article | 4/10/2006 Microsoft appeals EU fine for noncompliance

Microsoft has filed an appeal against the latest antitrust fine imposed on it by the European Commission, a Microsoft spokesman said on Tuesday.

Article | 3/10/2006 E.U. welcomes moves to reduce U.S. control of ICANN

The European Commission welcomed moves in the U.S. to free ICANN, the internet domain name manager, from its historic ties to the U.S. government on M...

Article | 19/09/2006 Court to Google: Hands off Belgian newspapers' material

A court forced Google on Monday to remove all French and German language newspapers published in Belgium from its Google News search service.