New Delhi, October 1st, 2009 – Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that it has signed the European Union’s Code of Conduct on Energy Consumption of Broadband Equipment. By signing the Code of Conduct, Alcatel-Lucent commits to make all reasonable efforts to abide to the principles described in the Code of Conduct (version [...]

Induction to the Honorary Senate of the Foundation Lindau Nobelprizewinners Meetings at Lake Constance/Lennart Bernadotte Medal for Nobel Laureate Werner Arber
Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
Today, the Foundation Nobelprizewinners Meetings at Lake Constance is honouring two outstanding figures for their commitment on behalf of science and international understanding by inducting them to the Honorary Senate: José Manuel [...]

ICO Global Communications (Holdings) Limited (ICO) (NASDAQ:ICOG) learned today that the European Commission (EC) has not selected ICO’s subsidiary, ICO Satellite Limited, for S-band mobile satellite services (MSS). This process, known as Decision No. 626/2008/EC, was begun in 2008 with the stated purpose of selecting and awarding European-only mobile satellite services authorizations for an 18-year [...]

EU Orders Intel to Change Business Practices
Third Global Antitrust Agency Condemns Intel’s Anticompetitive Conduct
The European Commission today found Intel guilty of abusing its dominant position in the global x86 microprocessor market, saying that “Intel has harmed millions of European consumers by deliberately acting to keep competitors out of the market for computer chips [...]

The European Commission has sent a Statement of Objections (SO) to Microsoft on January 15, 2009. The SO outlines the Commission’s preliminary view that Microsoft’s tying of its web browser Internet Explorer to its dominant client PC operating system Windows infringes the EC Treaty rules on abuse of a dominant position (Article 82).
In the [...]

Following its investigation of Opera Software ASA’s antitrust complaint, the European Commission confirmed today that it sent Microsoft a Statement of Objections yesterday, accusing it of illegally tying Internet Explorer to the Windows PC operating system. Opera’s complaint filed in December of 2007 described how Microsoft has been abusing its dominant position in PC operating [...]

A consortium led by premier telecoms, IT and media adviser Analysys Mason, including the economic consultancy DotEcon and the law firm Hogan & Hartson LLP, has been awarded a contract to produce a study by the European Commission entitled “Exploiting the digital dividend – a European approach”.
Across Europe, each country is either planning or [...]

On the occasion of Safer Internet Forum, that took place last September, Ciaopeople interviews Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Information and Media Society, to talk about children’s and teenagers’ on-line safety.
Safer Internet Forum, organized every year by European Commission since 2004, provides an European platform through which industries of this field, legal authorities and politicians [...]

18 September 2008 – John Auburn, VEGA’s Aerospace Business Development Director and Chairman of UKspace, has called upon the UK Government to “reinstate a robust national Space programme” in order to “guarantee national security in an increasingly complex international environment”.
His comments follow the publication of the Space Secures Prosperity report by UKspace, the trade association [...]

Satellites Unlock New Global Markets and Opportunities
New Report on Satellite to Mobile Broadcasting to Be Published at IBC. Full Details At: www.virtualpressoffice.com/kit/informitv
IBC 2008
A new generation of satellites, and spectrum assigned to mobile satellite services, will play a prominent role in the next major development in television and radio broadcasting.
Satellites will enable relatively rapid [...]