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  IBM and EU establish cloud-computing consortium

  IBM on Wednesday said it was establishing a consortium with the European Union and universities to research new cloud-computing models to reduce the cost of hosting and maintaining Internet-based services.

  By Agam Shah | 08 July, 2010 06:33

  Tags: cloud computing, europe, european union, IBM, internet

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  Euro operators push cheap Android-based smartphones

  Mobile operator Orange is joining a growing list of European mobile operators offering cheap Android-based smartphones, in a bid to get more prepaid subscribers on data plans.

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 02 June, 2010 04:19

  Tags: Android, europe, orange, smartphones

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  Bull bills Tera 100 as Europe's first petaflop computer

  French server and services company Bull has just turned on a new supercomputer for the French Atomic Energy Authority (CEA) that it hopes will reach a peak performance of 1.25 petaflops later this year.

  By Peter Sayer | 31 May, 2010 05:42

  Tags: Bull, europe, hpc, petaflop, supercomputers

• WCIT: Kroes positions Digital Agenda as crucial to recovery

  With Europe's debt crisis top-of-mind for many delegates to the World Congress on Information Technology opening in Amsterdam Tuesday, European Commission Vice President Neelie Kroes painted the EC's Digital Agenda five-year plan as key to an economic recovery and the region's long-term fiscal health.

  By Elizabeth Heichler | 25 May, 2010 22:08

  Tags: europe, government, world congress on Information technology

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  Appeals body ducks question of software patentability

  No change: That's the result of an 18-monthlong appeals process that the president of the European Patent Office hoped would clarify the rules on whether software may be patented.

  By Peter Sayer | 13 May, 2010 03:33

  Tags: europe, legal, patents

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  Amazon's virtual private cloud service comes to Europe

  Amazon Web Services has launched VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) in Europe, the company said on Tuesday. The service lets companies connect their existing data centers to isolated computing resources in Amazon's European cloud using an encrypted VPN (virtual private network) connection.

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 05 May, 2010 06:32

  Tags: amazon, Amazon Web Services, cloud computing, europe, virtual private cloud, vpn

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  Server virtualization bounces back in Europe, says IDC

  Sales of server hardware and software for virtualization in the fourth quarter of 2009 increased for the first time in a year in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, according to an IDC report issued Monday.

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 20 April, 2010 05:38

  Tags: europe, IDC, market research, servers, virtualisation

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  Council of Europe pushes for only one cybercrime treaty

  A European intergovernmental body that oversees the only international cybercrime treaty is advocating that the U.N. supports its efforts to get wider ratification of the treaty.

  By Jeremy Kirk | 24 March, 2010 06:15

  Tags: cybercrime, europe, security

• European ISPs lash out at secret ACTA negotiations

  Secretive international trade negotiations intended to clamp down on counterfeiting risk undermining the openness and innovation-friendly nature of the Internet, said EuroISPA, a trade group representing Europe's Internet service providers (ISPs), on Monday.

  By Paul Meller | 30 November, 2009 22:09

  Tags: ACTA, EuroISPA, europe, ISPs

• Europe extends antiterrorist data-sharing deal with US

  Europe's Council of Ministers extended a controversial program on Monday that hands over information on international financial transactions to the U.S. for antiterrorism purposes.

  By Jeremy Kirk | 01 December, 2009 04:09

  Tags: europe, terrorism, Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP), US

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  Europe moving slow on IPv6 deployment

  Few organizations across Europe have upgraded to IPv6, the new version of the Internet's addressing protocol, according to a survey commissioned by the European Commission.

  By Jeremy Kirk | 30 October, 2009 09:29

  Tags: europe, european commission, IPv6

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  EU says Europe must scan books as does Google

  The European Commission issued a call to arms to European lawmakers and those involved in the process of digitizing books Monday, urging the European Union to create a "pro-competitive European" answer to the legal arrangement Google and others seek to implement in the US

  By Paul Meller | 20 October, 2009 08:57

  Tags: copyright, europe, european union, Google books, Google Book Search

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  Google wins partial victory in legal battle over trademarks

  Google appeared to have won a partial victory in its long-running legal battle with trademark owners Tuesday, when a senior judge at the European Court of Justice said the company hasn't infringed anyone's trademark rights by allowing advertisers to buy search keywords corresponding to those trademarks.

  By Paul Meller | 23 September, 2009 06:41

  Tags: advertising, adwords, europe, Google, lawsuits, legal, trademarks

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  European banks warned: brace for rise in cash machine fraud

  Banks are likely to see cash-machine fraud rise unless steps are taken to improve their cash-machine infrastructure, the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has warned.

  By Jeremy Kirk | 08 September, 2009 06:30

  Tags: ATM, banks, europe, fraud, security

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  Microsoft extends Windows 7 Family Pack to Europe

  Microsoft on Monday stepped up plans to push Windows 7 upgrades to European users. The company said its decision to keep Internet Explorer 8 in the OS in Europe has enabled it to make a family-pack option available to customers there in October.

  By Elizabeth Montalbano | 25 August, 2009 05:04

  Tags: europe, Microsoft, Windows 7