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1. Intel throws millions of Euro into Exascale center

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   ... including energy, seismology, fluid dynamics and health care. The move is part of the Intel Labs Europe push - there are already 19 labs in existence employing over 900 professionals.  ...

2. Energy-saving lightbulbs get dimmer over time

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   ...  The Institution surveyed evidence including tests undertaken by the German consumer organisation Warentest for the European Commission, and official US Department of Energy tests. Warentest examined ...

3. EU ombudsman slams Intel antitrust ruling

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   'Procedural maladministration' The European Ombudsman has found maladministration in the way the European Commission handled its antitrust investigation into Intel on the grounds that the Commission failed ...

4. Mouse sniffs out counterfeit euros

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   ... captures images from the common face of the two-euro coins - all have a map of Europe engraved on one side, and a country-specific design on the other. The images are then compared with reference images ...

5. Last ice age took hold in just six months

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   Monday, 16 November 2009

   ... that the ice age took a decade to arrive, geological sciences professor William Patterson reckons that a sudden slowdown of the Gulf Stream meant that ice spread across Europe in just a few months. The ...

6. Intel maintains innocence despite $1.25 billion cash payoff

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 12 November 2009

   ... as Globalfoundries. "We are actively working to resolve other matters, including class action cases in the state of Delaware and Europe. We continue to cooperate with the US Federal Trade Commission ...

7. Intel-AMD deal doesn't end the bitter war

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 12 November 2009

   ... European Union. He said that Intel strongly disagreed with the recent decision by the New York Attorney General to investigate its practices. He said: "Rebates are legal and it's unfortunate the Attorney ...

8. EU at odds with US over Oracle antitrust probe

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Tuesday, 10 November 2009

   US rubber stamp inadequate for Euro regulators The European Commission's antitrust investigation into Oracle's intended $7.8 billion takeover of Sun is continuing despite US regulators giving it the green ...

9. Notebook benchmarks fail to convey performance, price

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Thursday, 05 November 2009

   ... out to a band of about a dozen reviewers from the US and Europe, and it was pretty evident there aren’t any clear answers to the conundrum. Schwarzbach said that AMD wanted to put across the idea that ...

10. New York sues Intel for antitrust behavior

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 04 November 2009

    ... a fine levied  by the European Union  and is also under investigation by a number of bodies including the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Meanwhile, a private case brought by AMD against Intel ...

11. EU wants black boxes in autos

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 02 November 2009

    ... safety. A £2.4 million, three-year study carried out for the European Commission by German car parts group Continental concluded that drivers with the black boxes were 10 percent less likely to be involved ...

12. GM is world's least green automobile maker

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Friday, 30 October 2009

    ... and General Motors (GM) fell well inside negative territory, with GM the worst offender. There was a mixed picture among European manufacturers. While BMW topped the ranking of all 17 manufacturers ...

13. Microsoft: Xbox 360 has the "best" FPS games

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 29 October 2009

    ... got the best first-person shooter games out there," Xbox Live Europe general manager Jerry Johnson told VideoGamer in a recent interview. "You will start to see us, though, do things that are broader ...

14. Large area TFT-LCDs continue to grow

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 26 October 2009

    ... and many brands continue to purchase panels to refill inventories. Moreover, LCD TV demand is picking up in Europe and North America, driving panel shipments to a record high of 15.6 million in September."This ...

15. Global warming scepticism rising faster than temperatures

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Thursday, 22 October 2009

    ... cleared to make room for the crops which absorb less Co2 than the trees they replace. The problem stems from a basic error in the Kyoto Protocol - and subsequently copied into European and US environmental ...

16. ESA calls for Mars mission volunteers

    (Space/Space Features)

    Thursday, 22 October 2009

    The European Space Agency (ESA) is looking for willing guinea-pigs for an eighteen-month Mars mission. The catch? It's just a simulation. The European Space Agency (ESA) is looking for willing guinea-pigs ...

17. Sun to axe 3,000 jobs after Oracle delay

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 20 October 2009

    ... jobs over the next 12 months. European regulatory authorities have questioned the acquisition - it was supposed to be completed earlier in the year. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission ...

18. Oracle Sun takeover ‘like putting fox in charge of the hen house’

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 19 October 2009

    ...  Oracle’s intended $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems would give the company control over Sun's open source database MySQL, originally the product of a Swedish startup. The European Commission ...

19. Researchers find 32 more planets - some like Earth

    (Space/Space Features)

    Monday, 19 October 2009

    Researchers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) said today that they'e discovered 32 more planets - or exoplanets as they're called.Researchers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) said ...

20. Kindle is no answer to reading books digitally

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Sunday, 18 October 2009

    ... is that it's got to be cheap - far cheaper than a netbook and preferably given away by an Amazon or another big vendor. That more or less happens in Europe with mobile phones - find the right tariff and ...

21. Acer beats up Dell on shipments

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 14 October 2009

    ... especially well in China. In Europe, the Middle East and Africa, though, its shipments declined. Surprisingly, perhaps, Gartner reckons the launch of Windows 7 will have only a minimal impact on PC ...

22. UBS predicts market resurgence RSN

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Saturday, 10 October 2009

    ... think that's a good thing." What does this mean? It means it's going to be hard for venture capitalists in Europe for some time to come, according to Lester. ...

23. European VCs bin majority of entrepreneurs' business plans

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 08 October 2009

    While widespread gloom and doom afflicts VCs in the USA, their European equivalents report that things are definitely picking up across the pond. But if you're an entrepreneur, make sure you get all of ...

24. DivX CEO: We've still a lot of streaming to do

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Thursday, 08 October 2009

    ... to get into mobile phones and digital TVs."He claimed that his company is "well positioned" to work through the entire value chain including the chip companies, the Taiwanese oEMs, in Japan and in Europe. ...

25. Meet Microsoft, the underdog

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 06 October 2009

    Jean Philippe Courtois, president of Microsoft Europe, described the company as an underdog in Paris today. Jean Philippe Courtois, president of Microsoft Europe, described the company as an underdog ...

26. Hotmail passwords get leaked online

    (Security/Security Features)

    Monday, 05 October 2009

    ... although they've now been removed, Neowin said it has seen part of the list and has confirmed that the accounts - mostly European - are genuine. The list comprises over 10,000 accounts, said Neowin - and ...

27. High tech won't save the economy this time

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Monday, 05 October 2009

    ... economy the West would never have seen much, if any, economic growth throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Yes, the financial sector grew in the U.S. and Europe, but its expansion was built in no small measure ...

28. Rocks fall like rain on exoplanet

    (Space/Space Features)

    Thursday, 01 October 2009

    ... rock. Models suggest the planet's atmosphere consists of the components of rock in gaseous form, with lava or boiling oceans on its surface.  Last month a consortium of European observatories ...

29. How to save journalism

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Thursday, 01 October 2009

    ... to understand old-line journalism is in serious decline. European publishers are suffering the same fate with Axel Springer, Sanoma, Mecom, and others all reporting substantial revenue declines. Internet ...

30. World’s largest windfarm breezes into Texas

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Thursday, 01 October 2009

    ... players in the wind industry, both in the US and Europe," CEO of EC&R Frank Mastiaux added. "The completion of the Roscoe wind complex is another great achievement for our team and a significant step ...

31. EU criticizes "damagingly loud" MP3 players

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 28 September 2009

    The European Union has proposed a default volume setting for MP3 devices sold in member countries. According to EU Consumer Affairs Commissioner Meglena Kuneva, users frequently raised the volume of ...

32. Intel Developer Forum was a bishop’s egg

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 28 September 2009

    ... at Intel seems to have heard about the European move to LTE, a technology that appears to be far closer than widespread WiMAX deployment and doesn’t depend on Intel chips at all.TelevisionYeah, lots of ...

33. Settlement looks likely in AMD-Intel civil case

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Sunday, 27 September 2009

    ... filing upon filing constituting a veritable K2 of documents and no doubt filling lawyers' pockets with endless dollars. A number of other things has happened too - the most recent being a European Commission ...

34. Apocalypse anytime you want

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 25 September 2009

    ... is importing the helicopters into Europe. And you can hire one as well. As far as TG Daily can tell, in the UK you don't need a pilot's licence to operate one, although if you intend to fly one above ...

35. Microsoft confirms no Windows 7 restrictions for netbooks

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 25 September 2009

    ... can join a homegroup, but not set one up themselves. Home Basic also lacks the Aero interface, Taskbar Previews, Internet Connection Sharing and other goodies and will not be sold in the US, Europe and ...

36. EU says Google AdWords are fair game

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 22 September 2009

    ... giving rise to Google’s liability in the context of illegal damage to their trade marks. However, the Advocate General’s Opinion is not binding on the European Court. It is the role of the Advocates ...

37. EU publishes lurid details of Intel antitrust ruling

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 21 September 2009

    The European Commission has finally gotten around to publishing a non-confidential version of its Intel Decision, dating back to 13 May 2009 that found Intel broke EC Treaty antitrust rules by engaging ...

38. Microsoft Windows 7 to cost $30 for students

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 18 September 2009

    ... seem very equitable. Microsoft isn't charging extra in the UK to recoup the cost of the fine it's had to pay the European Commission. It always translates $ into £, like many another vendor does too. ...

39. Porsche to build hybrid car

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 15 September 2009

    ... has already received thousands of orders just three days after its launch in Europe. It is due for launch in the US on October 17. "Although the car has only been at the dealership for three days, we ...

40. ESO unveils zoom-in images of the entire night sky

    (Space/Space Features)

    Tuesday, 15 September 2009

      Never one to be outdone in the pretty picture stakes, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released an interactive, 360-degree panoramic view of the entire night sky. Never one to be outdone ...

41. LG to launch first Android mobile in Q4

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Monday, 14 September 2009

    ... to say full specs will be revealed when the LG-GW620 launches in the fourth quarter of this year in select European markets. Earlier this month, LG announced it plans to introduce a minimum of 13 ...

42. What’s wrong with a Google virtual library?

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Thursday, 10 September 2009

    ... a Google library and puts way too much power into the hands of a single corporation. That’s why government authorities in the US and Europe are concerned, and why we should all be concerned too. We can ...

43. Oracle discloses Sun plans

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 10 September 2009

    ... server revenue in the second quarter which indicates that the sale has not been good for its hardware health. To make matters worse the acquisition the European Commission this month said it would delay ...

44. US Copyright Office attacks Google Books deal

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 10 September 2009

    ... Google, which has already attracted the attention of the Department of Justice and authorities from the European Union. Both Microsoft and Amazon have also expressed their opposition to the settlement, ...

45. Euro phone operators agree to auto crash alert system

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 10 September 2009

    ... country. According to EU figures, the system is expected to save some 2,500 lives a year across Europe and reduce severe injuries by at least 10 percent. The initiative concerns only new autos and the ...

46. Microsoft reckons Win7 beats Linux as the Best Buy

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 08 September 2009

    ... OS is the best and denigrating MS? Perhaps the next move will be for the European Union to demand that Microsoft gives rival products equal billing on its internal marketing material. Pop on over here ...

47. ATM fraud increases

    (Security/Security Features)

    Monday, 07 September 2009

    ATM fraud in Europe is rising fast, with criminals using increasingly sophisticated methods of attack. ATM fraud in Europe is rising fast, with criminals using increasingly sophisticated methods of ...

48. Google appeases EU over books deal

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 07 September 2009

      Google has agreed to let European publishers get a say in its controversial digital books agreement, as it faces an EU hearing today on the deal. Google has agreed to let European publishers get ...

49. EU puts brakes on Oracle's Sun acquisition

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 03 September 2009

    The European Union has announced plans to review Oracle's pending acquisition of Sun Microsystems. An EU official explained that regulators would "carefully" examine the potential effects such a deal ...

50. IFA and 3D Wars: Blu-Ray is Once Again Obsolete

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 03 September 2009

    Column IFA is the big consumer electronics conference in Europe and it is vastly better timed than CES coming before the holiday season so you can get excited about stuff to buy rather than right after ...