EU Cuts Euro Roaming Charges
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 10 June 2009 | Tagged as: Cellular, Europe, Mobile
Phoning home set to become a little less fiscally painful.
Archive for the 'Europe' Category
Pirate Bay Party Wins Swedish EU Seat and Funding For Germany Wing
Posted by Simon Perry on 8 June 2009 | Tagged as: Europe
Pirate Bays political party get elected to EU in Sweden.
Zattoo Hit By Hollywood Studio Legal Action In Germany
Posted by Simon Perry on 21 May 2009 | Tagged as: Distribution, Germany, Legal, TV related
Disappointing to see that two Hollywood studios, Universal and Warner Bros, have taken legal action against Zattoo, a service that streams live TV to computer screens. Zattoo isn’t a fly-by-night operation and has legal agreements with the TV channels that it shows over its service.
Plasma TV Screens Set To Get The Push In Europe
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 13 January 2009 | Tagged as: Europe, Platforms
EU wants power-guzzling plasmas to be phased out.
Last.fm: Mobile Via Vodafone Deal (video)
Posted by Simon Perry on 17 December 2008 | Tagged as: Europe, India, Mobile, Services, UK, Vodafone, Wireless
Last.fm is expanding their service away from just computers on to mobile phones, with Vodafone. It looks like the relatively recent corporate owners of Last.fm, CBS, are flexing their biz dev muscles, aiming to gain back some of the considerable investment they made in the music service.
The Rise Of The PVR: Painfully Slow. New Technology Adoption Is Slow
Posted by Simon Perry on 3 December 2008 | Tagged as: Europe, PVR/DVR, TiVo, UK
Never be fooled. Things always take a lot longer to change than you think they will – particularly where the mass adoption of a new technology is concerned. The PVR lesson When I started writing about TiVo back in 2001, I saw “PVR’s are a vital piece in the jigsaw.”
100 Mbps Internet Coming To European Cable
Posted by Simon Perry on 27 November 2008 | Tagged as: Europe, Networking
Cable subscribers in France, Spain, Finland, the Netherlands and Belgium are in for a treat. Cable Europe, the self-described body representing leading Cable operators in Europe, have announced that they will be bring 100 Mbps Broadband services to their customers.
Wikitude: Philipp Breuss And The Story Behind The Software
Posted by Simon Perry on 23 October 2008 | Tagged as: Cellular, Europe, GPS, Location-based services, Mobile, Portable
After having seen the highly impressive demonstration of Wikitude, we just had to find out more, so Digital-Lifestyles spoke to Philipp Breuss, who has lead the development of Wikitude. Philipp previously worked for Sony but gave this up to make the development of the Wikitude software which he describes as “the most exciting things that [...]
Blackberry Storm: Vodafone Get Exclusive
Posted by Simon Perry on 8 October 2008 | Tagged as: Europe, Mobile, Portable, UK
Vodafone has announced that the new Blackberry Storm will only be available on their network initially in a number of different countries including the UK and Netherlands.
Gary McKinnon: All Legal Routes Exhausted: Extradition To US Likely
Posted by Simon Perry on 28 August 2008 | Tagged as: Europe, Government, Legal, Security, UK, USA
We heard news from Gary McKinnon’s law firm, Kaim Todner, that the European Court of Human Rights (‘ECtHR’) has ruled against their recent application to have Gary’s extradition to the US halted. The temporary prohibition of McKinnon’s extradition, as granted by the ECtHR on 12 August, is now effectively lifted and the authorities of the [...]
