Endeavors to launch digital music download services in the European Union are hampered by the current copyright process.

An overwhelming majority vote by the European Parliament defies the intense lobbying of big business interests.

Apple’s iTunes Music Store in Europe hits a milestone in sales of legal downloadable songs.

A version of Windows minus the company’s Media Player will begin shipping to Europe next week.

The European Commission’s Viviane Reding, Commissioner for Information Society and Media, wants communications recorded for a year.

So the French voted ‘non’ yesterday to the proposed European Union constitution. That shouldn’t be a surprise, really…

The little search engine that could has kept right on doing things that contributed in their longevity to begin with.

The brief global recession of the early years of this decade – which was neither prolonged, nor trenchant and all-pervasive, as widely predicted – had little effect on Central and Eastern Europe’s traditional export markets.

Catching up with some neglected RSS feed reading has resulted in a burst of blogging already today.

In February, I wrote about what some French newspapers are doing with blogs – Le Monde with its reader blogs and Libration with its journalists’ blogs.

Vodafone will acquire 79% of the share capital of MobiFon and 100% of the share capital of Oskar Mobil in the Czech Republic.

Because of chip shortages, Europe will not be getting the Sony PSP until the second quarter of 2005.

ZDNet UK reports today that an online petition has been set up to put pressure on Apple to bring European prices for the new Mac mini in line with their US equivalents.

New York Times: A motor scooter in Manchester, an apartment in Amsterdam, a poster in Paris.

After the U.S. trade deficit reached a peak of $60.3 billion, Treasury Secretary, John Snow made demands for Europe and Japan to boost economic growth.

Yesterday, the U.S. and European Union agreed to talks on eliminating billions of dollars in aircraft subsidies, avoided legal conflict over Boeing and Airbus.

PeopleSoft announced that its Board will review the implications of today’s decision by the European Commission regarding Oracle’s proposed acquisition of PeopleSoft.

AOL Europe and Google entered a new multi-year agreement that will provide users of the AOL European services with targeted advertising from Google’s AdWords advertisers.

Pierre Chappaz and Dominique Vidal have been appointed to lead its consumer internet operations in Europe.

24/7 Real Media Europe, a division of 24/7 Real Media today announced that Anemone has signed an exclusive reseller agreement to market 24/7 Real Media’s Open AdStream ad serving solutions and Insight XE Web analytics solution, in Greece, Turkey, Cyprus and the Balkan countries.

Giganews Inc., a leading Usenet Newsgroup Service Provider, has expanded its service in the European market by establishing technical operations in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.