Paul Meller

The registry for the .eu top level domain (TLD) received 390,000 applications in the first 100 minutes after registration was opened to all residents of the European Union, E.U., Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding said Friday.

Bowing to pressure, the European Commission Tuesday unveiled a compromise version of its plan to create a single European market for a wide range of services, including computer consulting.n

Anticipating fierce opposition from operators, the European Commission Monday opened a six week-long consultation about its plans to slash the cost of using a mobile phone on the move.

The European Commission has laid out specific antitrust concerns it has about Vista, Microsoft Corp.'s long-awaited new operating system, Commission spokesman Jonathan Todd said. "We are concerned about the possibility that Vista will include software elements which are available separately either sold by Microsoft or by other software companies," Todd said.

National governments of the European Union (E.U.) are heading for a collision with the European Parliament over the shape of a proposed law on software patentability when they meet in Brussels next week.

The European Commission approved UnitedGlobalCom Inc. subsidiary UPC Broadband's acquisition of French cable company Noos on Tuesday, without imposing any conditions.

Nearly a month after finding Microsoft Corp. guilty of monopoly abuse, the European Commission made public its 302-page ruling on Thursday, prompting a strenuous rebuttal from the company in a widely leaked internal memo.

In a bid to protect Europeans' rights to privacy, the European Parliament Wednesday voted by 276 to 260 in favor of referring a draft agreement between the European Commission