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Microsoft under fire in Europe over Windows 8 UEFI Secure Boot
- Fresh from a €561 million fine for failing to comply with a previous antitrust agreement, Microsoft is once again being targeted in Europe over their allegedly anti-competitive business practices. This time the complaint focuses on Microsoft’s implementation of UEFI Secure…
Apple faces more heat over misleading warranty info in EU, Australia
- EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding called for closer monitoring of Apple's retail practices on Tuesday, citing concerns over the company's ongoing failure to inform consumers about their warranty rights. Under EU law, companies are required to provide a minimum warranty…
EU Commission: Piracy doesn't hurt music sales, may even help
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Although music labels remain adamant about piracy's harm to sales, illegal filesharing sites may actually boost industry revenue according to a report from the European Commission's Institute for Prospective Technological Studies. After studying the browsing habits of...
Iceland drafts Internet porn ban, EU considers "self-regulated" approach
- The European Parliament is mulling over a proposal brought forth by the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality which, amongst other things, calls for a self-regulating ban on all forms of pornography in the "media". Parliamentary member Christian Engstrom…
Microsoft fined €561m for not showing browser ballot on Win7 SP1
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The European Commission has fined Microsoft €561 ($730 million) for not complying with a three-year old agreement to give Windows users a selection of alternative browsers. In 2009, Microsoft faced an antitrust case with the EU that suggested the company abused its position...
European Commission funds RITE Project to defeat Internet lag
- The European Commission revealed plans to invest $4.8 million over the course of three years to research and ultimately reduce Internet lag. Three universities - Alcatel-Lucent Bell in Belgium, Institut Mines-Telecom in France and Simula Research Labs in Norway –…
Six television / CRT monitor makers fined $1.9 billion for EU price fixing
- A group of six electronics makers have collectively been hit with a massive antitrust penalty to the tune of 1.47 billion euros ($1.92 billion), the largest penalty in history in the region. The European Commission claims that representatives from LG…
Mozilla says MS browser ballot glitch cost them 9M Firefox downloads
- Microsoft’s failure to follow through with a 2009 agreement with the European Commission to provide Windows users in that region with a browser choice ballot box in Windows 7 has been well documented. Up to this point, the commission has…
The EC files formal complaint regarding Microsoft browser choice error
- The European Commission determined back in July that Microsoft failed to follow through with a 2009 commitment to provide Windows users with a browser choice ballot box in Windows 7. Microsoft admitted fault, citing a technical error in Service Pack…
Apple and four publishers offer EC e-book price fixing settlement
- Apple, Hachette, HarperCollins, Holtzbrinck and Simon & Schuster have offered to overhaul their pricing models in order to settle with the European Commission over anti-trust allegations that the firms colluded to fix e-book prices.
European Commission probes Microsoft over browser choice screen compliance
- The European Commission has launched a formal investigation on Microsoft over its failure to comply with commitments made in 2009 to settle a browser antitrust case. Back then the software giant had agreed to implement a ballot screen in Windows…
Intel appeals $1.33bn antitrust fine to EU's second highest court
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Intel has appealed against its record antitrust fine, labeling the evidence used against it by the European antitrust regulators as "profoundly inadequate" following a record €1.06 billion ($1.33bn) fine for anti-competitive practices...
European court upholds Microsoft fine in 14-year old antitrust case
- Microsoft has lost its appeal against a fine imposed by the European Commission in 2008 for breaking antitrust laws. The case dates back to 1998 but it wasn’t until 2004 that the software giant was fined €497 million and ordered…
European Commission probes Motorola Mobility over patent abuse
- Responding to complaints by Apple and Microsoft, the European Commission, Europe's competition regulator has launched two antitrust investigations into Motorola Mobility to assess whether the firm abused its standard-essential patents with unfair licensing conditions and litigation against rivals.
Microsoft: Motorola and Google are trying to 'kill video on the Web'
- Microsoft has launched a legal assault against Motorola for requesting unfair patent royalties involving video streaming. Filed with the European Commission, the complaint alleges that Motorola has broken a promise to license patents on industry-standard technologies in a "fair, reasonable…
Google's privacy policy cornered by European Commission and Congress
- Continuing the story we posted earlier this week, the European Commission has asked Google to hold off on rolling out their new privacy policy. The EC is assigning French data protection authority, CNIL, to work with Google and explore the…
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