EU clears launch of Internet broadcaster
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EU regulators on Thursday cleared media companies NBC Universal and News Corp. to launch an Internet broadcaster that aims to rival Google Inc.'s YouTube.
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The BBC World Service, which began its shortwave transmissions 75 years ago, ended its English-language shortwave services in Europe on Monday.
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EU and US competition bodies clear the Thomson's purchase of news and information provider Reuters.
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The European Commission in cooperation with YouTube has launched EUTube, a video portal showcasting the works of the European Union. The EC hopes to disseminate the activities of the Commission through videos and at the same encourage its citizens to comment on the video clips being uploaded in the EUTube channel. The EUTube channel would [...]
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Keeping skewed markets on an even keel The European Commission will investigate public service broadcasting's use of new media to determine whether state aid to broadcasters is unfair to commercial competitors.â¦
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By TOBY STERLING  AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - The Netherlands ended transmission of "free to air" analog television Monday, becoming the first nation to switch completely to digital signals.  Few Dutch consumers noticed, because the overwhelming majority get TV via cable.
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European Union regulators cleared on Tuesday an agreement by Telecom Italia SpA to buy AOL's German access business, saying the combined company still would face formidable competition.
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The European Commission's telecommunications department on Thursday gave the go-ahead to U.K. telecom regulator Ofcom to deregulate the wholesale broadband market in more than half the U.K.
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European Union plans to regulate  moving images will threaten new services such as online games  and mobile phone clips, British media watchdog Ofcom said on  Wednesday.
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A European project aims to change how people receive their digital entertainment in the future.
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The BBC News website explains what the Schengen Agreement consists of and how it came about.
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SBC agrees to use the company's Internet-based television platform.
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Rules governing broadband suppliers could be scrapped following a European Commission ruling.
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The national telecoms regulator in Romania (the MCTI) has announced the winners of the bidding for 3G licences in the country.
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The EU is backing a project that would let viewers personalise shows and films to suit their tastes.
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(InfoWorld) - The European Commission is turning to video-sharing Web site YouTube.com to disseminate information about the workings of the European Union to its citizens, through a new channel on the site called EUtube, it announced Friday. The EUtube channel bears the tagline "Sharing the sights and sounds of Europe." At launch, the showcased video was a 40-second animated cartoon entitled "Everyone Can Save The Planet." Other featured videos include a series entitled "And if Europe didn't exist..." and a documentary on the troubled Galileo project to build a European satellite navigation system. The channel will carry video news releases and other video clips created to explain E.U. policy, said Mikolaj Dowgielewicz, spokesman for the E.U. commissioner for institutional relations and communications strategy. "It's part of our strategy to use the tools that people use," he said. It will help YouTube users learn more about the workings of the E.U.'s institutions, by leading them to information they weren't necessarily looking for. "When a user watches clips on the channel, he or she is prompted to view other clips from the same source," he said. Users will be invited to add their comments on the video clips.Setting up the channel has not cost the E.U. anything, Dowgielewicz said. Although the European Union is keen to adopt Web 2.0 technologies to communicate with its citizens, the Commission has no plans to set up a presence in Second Life or on MySpace.com for the time being, said another spokesman.
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Vodafone Group PLC launched high-speed Internet services for mobile phones across much of Europe on Wednesday, ending a wait of several years since the world&#39;s biggest cell phone company spent billions for new wireless licenses at the height of the