Leuven, Belgium and Grenoble, France – September 2, 2008 – IMEC and CEA-LETI launch ePIXfab, the continuation of their successful multi-project wafer silicon photonics prototyping service started in 2006. Co-funded by the European Union through the Seventh Framework Program and coordinated by IMEC, ePIXfab aims at reducing the large barriers for access to and market [...]

Mobile network security specialist advises operators to control, not ban, customer access abroad
14 August 2008 – AdaptiveMobile, (www.adaptivemobile.com), the leading security provider of mobile subscriber protection for enterprises and individuals, today recommends that mobile operators carefully consider their international mobile broadband strategies.
This follows the European Union’s threat to impose legal measures to make operators cut [...]

LUXEON power LEDs from Philips Lumileds are poised to rapidly increase their presence in front-of-vehicle applications with expected European Union regulations mandating daytime running lamps (DRLs) on new cars beginning in 2011. One of the major factors driving LUXEON use will be the dramatic reduction in DRL power consumption (Watts), (on the order of 80%), [...]

Urges Microsoft to give consumers a genuine choice of standards—compliant Web browsers
Opera Software ASA, the only company that can put the Web on any device, filed a complaint with the European Commission yesterday which is aimed at giving consumers a genuine choice of Web browsers.
The complaint describes how Microsoft is abusing its dominant position by [...]

Nokia Siemens Networks Italy has signed a contract for the transfer of the manufacturing functions of its Cassina de’ Pecchi and Marcianise facilities to Jabil Circuit Italy, upon completion of the legal asset transfer procedure. Having received European Union (EU) antitrust authorities approval, the agreement will be effective presumably on November 1st; at the same [...]