All Posts Tagged With: "Europe"
BBC Suspends £150m BBC Jam Education Site
The BBC suspended operation of its £150m children’s education site, BBC Jam, last week after complaints were made to the European Commission that the site unfairly effects the commercial market for similar content. The site, which provides free educational content for children in the 5-to-16 age group, will no longer be accessible from Tuesday.
18Mar2007 | Everton | 4 comments | ContinuedUniversal Mobile Charger
I have to spend eight hours travelling for work tomorrow and I’m really not looking forward to it. One of the annoying parts of my journey tomorrow is that I can’t travel ‘light’ as there’s a lot going on back at the office so I’ve got to take my laptop, 2 mobiles and their [...]
14Mar2007 | Everton | 1 comment | ContinuedWhen Should Bloggers Register TradeMarks?
There have been quite a few major spats over the last year or so over trademarks including Apple Vs Apple, Apple (again) and Cisco arguing over who owned the rights to iPhone, and Google being blocked from using the Gmail name in Europe to name a few.
These arguments tend to involve big companies squaring up [...]
Playstation 3 To Have Less Backwards Compatibilty in Europe
Sony Europe announced yesterday that in addition to Europe getting limited supplies of Playstation 3s, that in order to reduce costs the European PS3 will have less backwards compatibility because they will be removing some parts to remove costs.
I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw this as not only will the PS3 cost over [...]
Gmail Loses Trademark Battle In Europe
Google has lost the right to use the ‘Gmail’ name in Europe, and will probably have to resort to using ‘Google Mail’ to market its webmail service.
The name has been owned for over six years by a German entrepreneur that has founded a service called GMail, a same day mail delivery service, so I think [...]
MSN Virtual Earth - No European Coverage?
I just had a quick look at MSN Virtual Earth. For those of you that missed this launch, Virtual Earth is:
Virtual Earth is a new map and search system soon to be released by Microsoft. Virtual Earth brings together a number of components that allow the user to find out “What is here?” [...]
26Jul2005 | Everton | 0 comments | ContinuedDigital UK Driven By Net And TV
The UK’s adoption of digital TV and broadband has helped make it the fourth most digitally-savvy nation in Europe, according a report by Jupiter Research.
But the UK still lags in terms of broadband speeds compared to others.
The most digitally sophisticated Europeans, in terms of use of digital goods such as mobiles, TV, net and cameras, [...]




