Posted on October 21, 2008 by Child of Europe
Press Release – A proposal to introduce body scanners at European airports – which show a person’s naked image and genitalia – raises serious concerns about human rights, privacy and personal dignity, Philip Bradbourn MEP, Conservative justice and home affairs spokesman, will say tonight…
Filed under: Eurotalk, Politique, Tecnhology/Internet World | Tagged: airport security, Antonio Tajani, Brussels, EU security, Europe, human rights, Philip Bradbourn, privacy, safety, strip search, terrorism prevention, virtual strip search | 1 Comment »
Posted on October 18, 2008 by Child of Europe
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Gawain Towler has announced the death of MyParl.eu with the followup of Jon Worth .
The project was simply a waste of money. A project which didn’t take off so it doesn’t crash land! Because the project would simply crash-and-burn.
Sometimes I wonder who comes up with these great ideas…
Instead of finding new projects to fund [...]
Filed under: Eurotalk, Media, Tecnhology/Internet World | Tagged: euractiv, European Commission, European Parliament, gawain towler, Jon Worth, mostra, myparl.eu | 1 Comment »
Posted on October 12, 2008 by Child of Europe
A few years ago Microsoft got hit by a monster fine of about 500 million Euros which was then jacked up to 900 million earlier this year. Microsoft failed to comply with Antitrust legislation which is quite strict on a theoretical level. See Wikipedia page for more info.
My question is, how is Microsoft paying the [...]
Filed under: Eurotalk, Politique, Tecnhology/Internet World | Tagged: anti trust, Brussels, DG Competition, EU, European Commission, European Parliament, European Union, Hypocrisy, microsoft, Microsoft fine, microsoft monopoly, microsoft office, Neelie Kroes, Open Source, open source software, software | Leave a Comment »
Posted on September 25, 2008 by Child of Europe
With the new Google G1 phone, prospects of google staying on the virtual plane have been disintegrated. It just makes me wonder, what next?
Google applications will eventually take over MS Office applications…
Google could end up producing its own Operating System…
Into hardware- google laptops…
Into services- global google mobile telephony (internet based and so cheap its practically [...]
Filed under: Tecnhology/Internet World | Tagged: antitrust, g1 phone, google, google antitrust, google os, google power, googlification, Technology | 2 Comments »
Posted on September 6, 2008 by Child of Europe
With electronic communication and piracy at the focus of the Euro capital, it isn’t a bad idea to consider the matter of piracy from a European’s perspective, and a human perspective.
Most pirates do not belong to the group of organized bootlegging warehouses where music CDs and DVDs get copied; most pirates are the people who [...]
Filed under: Eurotalk, Tecnhology/Internet World | Tagged: advertising, Brussels, downloading, EU, Europe, European Parliament, European Union, movies, music, Piracy, The Pirate Bay, torrents, tv series | 2 Comments »
