Up to now, the British pay-TV operator BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) has continued to endorse James Murdoch as its chairman — despite the abandoned bid… Read more »
The repercussions from the phone-hacking done by News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). journalists and executives are piling up so fast it’s hard to keep t… Read more »
The entertainment industry has been pushing some version of a “three-strikes” system in countries around the world, where internet providers… Read more »
A few years ago, eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) won a big victory in U.S. courts with its case against Tiffany’s, but can’t seem to replicate that win in… Read more »
Android is now the top smartphone OS in eight key countries having edged past Nokia’s Symbian in Spain, according to the latest quarterly sa… Read more »
Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt will testify before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee in September, a co… Read more »
Just as the warm weather and vacation season begin to kick off in Europe, the European Commission has beamed a light on one of the most expe… Read more »
One of the services whose complaint sparked the European Commission’s competition investigation in to Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is leapfrogging th… Read more »
One month after a deadline by which European states must make most kinds of online data collection – including by cookies – opt-in, only fiv… Read more »
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
–Sony: Sony (NYSE: SNE) has yet to give specific details on when and where we will firs… Read more »
Facebook must have been tripping if it thought it could enable automatic photo face-tagging without also automatically tripping the interest… Read more »
At the recent G8 meeting in Paris, Mark Zuckerberg told French president Nicolas Sarkozy, hosting the event, the internet needs light-touch… Read more »
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) CEO Stephen Elop soundly dismissed recent rumors that the Finnish company is in talks to sell its hardware business to new… Read more »
Today’s deadline day. Member states of the European Union are all supposed to have plans in place to change their laws so that most kinds of… Read more »
David Cameron is to resist calls for international regulation of the web by Nicolas Sarkozy at the G8 summit. The French president will tabl… Read more »
“French publishers can rejoice,” reports the country’s L’Express. “They should now be able to impose a single selling price for all digital… Read more »
A key European Union governmental privacy group has published a key document [PDF] with recommendations about locational privacy, and it’s l… Read more »
In the developed world, the nation that’s arguably toughest on online copyright infringers is France. The country passed a controversial “th… Read more »
Our look at some of the stories in mobile today: Nokia (NYSE: NOK) launches an SDK for one of its other operating system projects, Qt; Googl… Read more »
The numbers are coming in on just how many people tuned in to watch the wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton. While some are highly s… Read more »
Mediabank, one of a number of companies that is trying to expand the methods of online media buying to traditional media ad sales, has acqui… Read more »
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Small mobile operators band together against the AT&T (NYSE: T) proposed purchase of T-… Read more »
Our look at some of the stories in mobile today: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) looks to boost its mobile ammo by bidding for another set of moile pate… Read more »
Two big steps for Nokia (NYSE: NOK) today in its ongoing strategic shift: the company announced it would transfer all Symbian software opera… Read more »
You could see this one coming from a mile away: Samsung has struck back against Apple’s patent lawsuit against it with a few of its own. The… Read more »
The European Commission has decided against introducing legislation to protect net neutrality, saying media scrutiny and giving consumers en… Read more »
It’s not a full-out merger, but another example of how operators trying to cope with the huge rise in data usage and the pressure of price c… Read more »
A European Court of Justice official is finding against a verdict which said a Belgian ISP should filter out copyright-infringing content fr… Read more »
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: HTC launches the HTC Sensation handset; more rumors on the iPhone 5; and ZTE takes a le… Read more »
Last week, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) promised some Symbian news, and today we have it: the company is today is launching its E6 and X7 devices, runn… Read more »
While a European Commission inquiry continues, UK culture minister Ed Vaizey has rejected calls for a national investigation in to Google’s… Read more »
Twenty-two online services have broken the law by not consenting to be regulated by the UK’s new VOD co-regulator and by not paying tens of… Read more »
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: some more possible leaks on the iPhone 5, and a possible Sony (NYSE: SNE) Honeycomb tab… Read more »
At last, an end to Vodafone’s French saga, and another chapter in the mobile operator’s continuing sell-off of assets that it does not contr… Read more »
If a web service in one country infringes the copyright of one in another country, where should the case be heard?
That’s the question the… Read more »
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), which was itself fined billions by the European Commission’s antitrust department, senses blood in that department’s… Read more »
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: Google’s Android in-app payments service gets some early users — and maybe some confus… Read more »
Earlier this week, when EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding laid out the privacy rules she expects social-networking sites and other onli… Read more »
The European Union is to enshrine a “right to be forgotten online” to ensure that, among other things, prospective employers cannot find old… Read more »
A new European Union directive will require websites to get consent of users every time information gets stored on their computers, and now… Read more »
