Would you wear a shirt that monitors your heart beat, breathing, and body temperature? The EU-funded HealthWear project is betting that some patients with serious health problems will. The HealthWear team has developed textiles ...READ»
The European Union has just taken a fresh bite at Microsoft's anit-competitive business practices, and accused the company of harming "competition between web browsers" by bundling Internet Explorer with its Windows OSs. It's a ...READ»
Always a caring bunch, E.U. lawmakers have just mandated that MP3 player makers remind their users of the risks of hearing damage from prolonged, loud headphone use. Their ruling is based on some sensible science, and it's aimed at ...READ»
Regulators in Europe have approved a new law that would require users to approve each cookie stored by their Web browser. Cookies are little informative tags that tell a Web site details about your last visit there.
The EU Council ...READ»
New EU PMP ruling… Could an American Version be On Its Way? Thanks to a new European Union ruling, any Personal Music Player (PMP) sold in Europe will need to have a lower default volume level to avoid ear damage. These ...READ»
The European Union began taking applications for Web sites with the new domain name, ".eu," on Thursday. More than 110,000 companies and government agencies applied on the first day, according to EURid, the non-profit group handling ...READ»
Want to save the African blackwood tree? You should have been at the EU's first-ever environmental auction in Brussels earlier today. The auction, put on by EuropeAid, put 86 projects up for sale to governments, foundations, and ...READ»
True believers of competition have always questioned why airlines must still be national businesses regulated by agreements between countries. These 'bilaterals,' as they are known, regulate everything from the number of flights per ...READ»
Career development professionals like to have clients take interest inventories because these instruments are easy to administer and fit well into the dominant philosophy of person-environment fit. This theory holds that people are ...READ»
All too often, electronic waste from rich countries ends up in the landfills of less developed nations. Greenpeace estimates that a staggering 50% to 80% of all e-waste exported for recycling ends up being shipped to the Far East, ...READ»
Apple may just have gained an amazingly powerful tool for the future of its iTunes music business: A new deal could allow pan-european licensing of digitally downloaded music. It's perfect timing for the iTablet too, don't you ...READ»
You may have digital chills when pondering how much data Google collects about you, but the legislators in the E.U. are having serious spine-quakes, and are trying to regulate. An unexpected side-effect may be the death of E.U. ...READ»
The very public war between Adobe and Apple is heating up, with another Flash supporter jumping in the ring.
The European Union has joined forces with the FTC in an investigation of whether Apple's policies hinder competition. ...READ»
Regulators in Europe have approved a new law that would require users to approve each cookie stored by their Web browser. Cookies are little information tags that tell a website information about your last visit there. (Above, the ...READ»
Five countries—Singapore, Sweden, Luxembourg, Denmark, and South Korea—outperform the United States in international competitiveness and innovation, according to The Atlantic Century: Benchmarking EU & U.S. Innovation and ...READ»
The European Union's taking a strict line on anti-competitive behavior by two giants of the computing industry: Intel and Microsoft. This week, Microsoft is wriggling to try and fend off an E.U. ruling against it, while the chip maker ...READ»
The Information Technology and and Innovation Foundation - with the European-American Business Council - has released the report, The Atlantic Century: Benchmarking EU & U.S. Innovation and Competitiveness.
As noted in the ...READ»
Intel's just landed itself a financial penalty of nearly one and a half billion dollars in an E.U. antitrust ruling, but now there are suggestions that the company's problems may be just starting--U.S. lawmakers could follow with ...READ»
In a move to both punish Microsoft for its anti-competitive actions and to benefit the consumer, the E.U. is requiring the software giant to give Windows users the option to use other browsers instead of Internet Explorer. But this ...READ»
What riles me most about creative accounting scandals, besides their moral and ethical no-no's, is the monstrous greed and hubris exhibited by their perpetrators. Enron. Adelphia. Tyco. (Fodder all for CEO See-Ya!) These are just a ...READ»
When traveling throughout Serbia & Montenegro in August 1999 for three weeks vacation. I also found Serbia & Montenegro banks to be 100% in accordance with EU anti-counterfeiting laws & guidelines.READ»
Another reason to move to Italy: Solar power is expected to be cost-competitive there by next year, according to a report from the European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA) and A.T. Kearney. The European solar industry does ...READ»
