European Union

Science

UK government responds to post-Brexit concerns and of course it's all the fault of those pesky EU negotiators

'Incalculable cost' of non-participation in Horizon programme 'continues to rise'

28 Jan 2022 11:45 | 116

Software

Less than PEACH-y: UK's plant export IT system only works with Internet Explorer

You know, the browser used by 0.34% of netizens nowadays

07 Jan 2022 16:47 | 74

Applications

Hauliers report problems with post-Brexit customs system but HMRC insists it is 'online and working as planned'

Originally launched as 'minimum viable product', GVMS has the necessary upgrades, UK taxman says

05 Jan 2022 14:52 | 276

On-Prem

Europe completes first phase of silicon independence project

Three years of R&D and design work to be tested with plans to build native ‘super in 2023

24 Dec 2021 08:00 | 112

Off-Prem

Euro-telcos call on big tech to help pay for their network builds

Aka 'rebalancing global technology giants and the European digital ecosystem'

30 Nov 2021 06:16 | 32

Networks

Leave.EU takes back control – and shifts its domain name to be inside the European Union

A gesture of Churchillian solidarity with all they hold dear

08 Jan 2021 12:41 | 79

Legal

The European Commission digital strategy wants to, er, take back control of citizens' data

We read through reams of releases to give you the skinny on plans for: AI, 100Mbps min. broadband, data-sharing ... and what's this about a Euro-cloud?

19 Feb 2020 15:29 | 29

Networks

Not call, dude: UK govt says guaranteed surcharge-free EU roaming will end after Brexit transition period. Brits left at the mercy of networks

I didn't see that on the side of a bus

30 Jan 2020 13:34 | 242

Legal

So how well did you block fake news, Google? Facebook? Web goliaths turn in self-assessment homework to Europe

Unsurprisingly, commish thought that, in fact, they could do better

30 Oct 2019 11:19 | 12

Legal

I don't hate US tech, snarls Euro monopoly watchdog chief – as Google slapped with €1.49bn megafine

Play fair, chaps

20 Mar 2019 14:20 | 72

Networks

Radio gaga: Techies fear EU directive to stop RF device tinkering will do more harm than good

Industry and free software folk alike condemn proposals

11 Mar 2019 10:05 | 120

Security

Chill, it's not WikiLeaks 2: Pile of EU diplomatic cables nicked by hackers

Spotted by infosec startup Area 1, according to NYT

19 Dec 2018 16:00 | 26

Channel

UKFast mulls putting IPO on ice due to six little letters: BREXIT

'Highly unlikely' amid 'so much uncertainty', says boss

29 Nov 2018 09:20 | 32

Personal Tech

Sure, Europe. Here's our Android suite without Search, Chrome apps. Now pay the Google tax

Ad giant to charge for key applications amid license shakeup and antitrust fine

17 Oct 2018 06:08 | 180

Networks

EU tosses Nokia a small loan of €500m, tells it to go crazy with 5G R&D

Cites being left behind by US and China in tech stakes

28 Aug 2018 09:47 | 5

Comment

EU wants one phone plug to rule them all. But we've got a better idea.

Roll your sleeves up, standards peeps

16 Aug 2018 08:07 | 275

SaaS

United States, you have 2 months to sort Privacy Shield ... or data deal is for the bin – Eurocrats

MEPs call for urgent fix

05 Jul 2018 12:50 | 37

Security

EU under pressure to slap non-compliance notice on Google over pay-to-play 'remedy'

Comparison shopping websites won't use Chocolate Factory fix

20 Apr 2018 10:13 | 30

Legal

Europe wants cloud giants to cough up data from anywhere in 6hrs

Same-day delivery of mails, texts, and docs for investigators probing crime or terror

18 Apr 2018 06:27 | 41

Legal

UK.gov: Snoop laws not 'significant' obstacle to EU data protection talks

Digi minister confident of adequacy decision post-Brexit

31 Oct 2017 14:58 | 27

Legal

WhatsApp? You still don't get EU privacy laws, that's WhatsApp

Data regulator taskforce formed to look into firm's data slurp

26 Oct 2017 06:57 | 71

Legal

EU tells Facebook and Twitter: Obey us or we'll start regulating

Another day, another shot fired at American e-megacorps

28 Sep 2017 16:34 | 25

Opinion

EU wins approval to waste €120m on pitiful public Wi-Fi

€120m for the bin...

05 Jun 2017 08:01 | 24

Networks

Europe to splash €120m on free WiFi for ~8,000 villages and cities

Liberté, égalité, connectivité

31 May 2017 06:36 | 33

Legal

Uber is a taxi company, not internet, European Court of Justice advised

Now regulate the ass off it

11 May 2017 11:49 | 87

Legal

UK General Election 2017: How EU law will hit British politicians' Facebook fight

Narrow swings, big data

10 May 2017 08:36 | 78

Databases

European Investment Bank tosses €25m to MariaDB

Finland, Finland, Finland, the place to build open DBs!

09 May 2017 06:37 | 12

Security

Brit firm lands £58m EU spy drone 'copter contract

Who needs humans to gaze over the seas anyway?

17 Mar 2017 15:30 | 17

Legal

New EU rules on portability of online content services move closer

Consumers to be able to access paid-for services when abroad

20 Feb 2017 09:10 | 12

Legal

EU wants power to fine behavioural data bad boys and the ad men aren't happy

ePrivacy draft is a mixed bag for Silicon Valley

11 Jan 2017 12:28 | 23

Legal

How to confuse a Euro-cop: Survey reveals the crypto they love to hate

Bits of Freedom research discovers unsavoury continental back-door preferences

24 Nov 2016 05:58 | 63

Legal

Ireland to fight against billing Apple for back-taxes

€13 BEELLION at stake in appeal

09 Nov 2016 07:02 | 51

Comment

British jobs for British people: UK tech rejects PM May’s nativist hiring agenda

Education, not immigration, is UK’s dangerous burden

13 Oct 2016 13:38 | 196

Networks

EU U-turns on mobile roaming fees: No 90-day cap after all

Who didn't see that one coming?

22 Sep 2016 12:03 | 31

Analysis

EU law: Brussels burps up aspirational copyright tweaks

Cross-border online access 'widened'

15 Sep 2016 11:07 | 7

Science

Post-Brexit UK.gov must keep EU scientists coming, say boffins

Top profs and R&D bod make plea to Parliament

13 Sep 2016 15:33 | 58

Networks

EU will force telcos to offer 90 days of 'roam like home' contracts

Max continuous use of 30 days, may not apply to UK

06 Sep 2016 10:52 | 32

Legal

Mozilla breathes petition-of-fire at EU copyright laws

A plague on artists using pre-internet IP laws to ruin your holiday snaps, and the Internet

26 Aug 2016 05:29 | 26

Legal

An ethical Google won't break the internet, leaked EU report finds

Fancy that

25 Aug 2016 15:05 | 13

Comment

Top digital Eurocrat issues non-denial about hyperlink non-tax

Perhaps he’s a non-Eurocrat too?

25 Aug 2016 08:02 | 34

Analysis

How Brussels works: if you can’t beat them, join rewrite an EU directive

Telcos get green light to stiff WhatsApp, OTTs

16 Aug 2016 07:59 | 32

Legal

EU privacy czars mull privacy regulation for Skype, WhatsApp

Eurocrats, tech sector face off over future of ePrivacy Directive

15 Aug 2016 23:56 | 5

Bootnotes

Brexit Britain: HP Sauce vs BBC.co.uk – choices that defined voters

Top 10 brand loves - the new social division

10 Aug 2016 14:28 | 124

Channel

UK 'emergency' bulk data slurp permissible in pursuit of 'serious crime'

EU court opinion in lead Brexiter's Gov legal challenge

19 Jul 2016 12:33 | 33

Legal

Euro IP study finds 25 Tor-and-Bitcoin-loving pirate business models

In colossal surprise, criminals revealed as rather fond of anonymity technologies

18 Jul 2016 07:28 | 10

Interview

Kotkin on who made Trump and Brexit: Look in the mirror, it's you

How Hipsters and Silicon Valley's tech plutocrats cast the poor aside

11 Jul 2016 11:00 | 80

Legal

Post Brexit EU will spend 'stability and peace' budget funding Chinese war drones

Instrument Contributing to Stability and Peace? Whatever

05 Jul 2016 15:05 | 27

Channel

Prominent Brit law firm instructed to block Brexit Article 50 trigger

Mishcon de Reya leads charge to put up hurdles to EU exit path

04 Jul 2016 11:22 | 327

On-Prem

London Stock Exchange's German mega-merger: It's a go, despite Brexit

Playing politics with the IT jobs axe

04 Jul 2016 09:34 | 36

On-Prem

EU Investment Bank will honour pre-Brexit deals – but don't gamble on new ones happening

What happens after the 2 year wait? Depends – spokesman

30 Jun 2016 09:02 | 22

BREXIT

Tech firms reel from Leave's Brexit win

'It’s completely unclear where this leaves us in Britain'

24 Jun 2016 13:38 | 180

Comment

Three non-obvious reasons to Vote Leave on the 23rd

How I stopped being an avoidnik and got off the fence

22 Jun 2016 08:34 | 385

Special Report

This is how the EU's supreme court is stripping EU citizens of copyright protections

Pirates, rejoice! The rest of us... er...

14 Jun 2016 11:01 | 85

Channel

No 10's online EU vote signup crash 'inevitable' – GDS overseer

Tech's fail sparks emergency law, inquiry call

10 Jun 2016 10:03 | 42

¡Bong!

Don’t let the Barmy Brexiteers wreck #digital #europe

You call it a gravy train. We call it #disruptive #innovation

10 Jun 2016 08:01 | 60

Science

EU wants open science publication by 2020

Axe hovers over journal publishers

30 May 2016 05:57 | 64

On-Prem

Ireland's international tech sector bumps up against language barrier

A taxing problem for US and European firms relocating

11 May 2016 10:02 | 60

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UK government responds to post-Brexit concerns and of course it's all the fault of those pesky EU negotiators

Less than PEACH-y: UK's plant export IT system only works with Internet Explorer

Hauliers report problems with post-Brexit customs system but HMRC insists it is 'online and working as planned'

Europe completes first phase of silicon independence project

Euro-telcos call on big tech to help pay for their network builds

Leave.EU takes back control – and shifts its domain name to be inside the European Union

The European Commission digital strategy wants to, er, take back control of citizens' data

Not call, dude: UK govt says guaranteed surcharge-free EU roaming will end after Brexit transition period. Brits left at the mercy of networks

So how well did you block fake news, Google? Facebook? Web goliaths turn in self-assessment homework to Europe

I don't hate US tech, snarls Euro monopoly watchdog chief – as Google slapped with €1.49bn megafine

Radio gaga: Techies fear EU directive to stop RF device tinkering will do more harm than good

Chill, it's not WikiLeaks 2: Pile of EU diplomatic cables nicked by hackers

UKFast mulls putting IPO on ice due to six little letters: BREXIT

Sure, Europe. Here's our Android suite without Search, Chrome apps. Now pay the Google tax

EU tosses Nokia a small loan of €500m, tells it to go crazy with 5G R&D

EU wants one phone plug to rule them all. But we've got a better idea.

United States, you have 2 months to sort Privacy Shield ... or data deal is for the bin – Eurocrats

EU summons a CYBER FORCE into existence

EU court: No, expat Frenchman can't trademark France.com

EU-US Privacy Shield not up to snuff, data tap should be turned off – MEPs

EU under pressure to slap non-compliance notice on Google over pay-to-play 'remedy'

Europe wants cloud giants to cough up data from anywhere in 6hrs

UK.gov: Snoop laws not 'significant' obstacle to EU data protection talks

WhatsApp? You still don't get EU privacy laws, that's WhatsApp

EU tells Facebook and Twitter: Obey us or we'll start regulating

EU wins approval to waste €120m on pitiful public Wi-Fi

Europe to splash €120m on free WiFi for ~8,000 villages and cities

Uber is a taxi company, not internet, European Court of Justice advised

UK General Election 2017: How EU law will hit British politicians' Facebook fight

European Investment Bank tosses €25m to MariaDB

Brit firm lands £58m EU spy drone 'copter contract

New EU rules on portability of online content services move closer

EU wants power to fine behavioural data bad boys and the ad men aren't happy

How to confuse a Euro-cop: Survey reveals the crypto they love to hate

Ireland to fight against billing Apple for back-taxes

British jobs for British people: UK tech rejects PM May’s nativist hiring agenda

EU U-turns on mobile roaming fees: No 90-day cap after all

EU law: Brussels burps up aspirational copyright tweaks

Post-Brexit UK.gov must keep EU scientists coming, say boffins

EU will force telcos to offer 90 days of 'roam like home' contracts

Mozilla breathes petition-of-fire at EU copyright laws

An ethical Google won't break the internet, leaked EU report finds

Top digital Eurocrat issues non-denial about hyperlink non-tax

How Brussels works: if you can’t beat them, join rewrite an EU directive

EU privacy czars mull privacy regulation for Skype, WhatsApp

Brexit Britain: HP Sauce vs BBC.co.uk – choices that defined voters

UK 'emergency' bulk data slurp permissible in pursuit of 'serious crime'

Euro IP study finds 25 Tor-and-Bitcoin-loving pirate business models

Kotkin on who made Trump and Brexit: Look in the mirror, it's you

Post Brexit EU will spend 'stability and peace' budget funding Chinese war drones

Prominent Brit law firm instructed to block Brexit Article 50 trigger

London Stock Exchange's German mega-merger: It's a go, despite Brexit

EU Investment Bank will honour pre-Brexit deals – but don't gamble on new ones happening

Tech firms reel from Leave's Brexit win

Three non-obvious reasons to Vote Leave on the 23rd

This is how the EU's supreme court is stripping EU citizens of copyright protections

No 10's online EU vote signup crash 'inevitable' – GDS overseer

Don’t let the Barmy Brexiteers wreck #digital #europe

EU wants open science publication by 2020

Ireland's international tech sector bumps up against language barrier

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