Tag archive: Luxembourg

The Business Software Alliance, an anti-piracy consortium made up of many of the software industry's biggest players, has released its Sixth Annual Global Software Piracy Study. Conducted by research firm IDC, the study claims that antipiracy efforts in the United States have more-or-less stalled out, and that approximately one fifth of all software in use in the U.S. is pirated. At 20 percent, the United States has the lowest software… Read More

Folks who thought eBay's online payment service PayPal was already pretty ubiquitous might be in for a little shock: the service is expanding its global reach by rolling out fully localized sites in Mexico, Singapore, and Hong Kong, as well as adding nine new languages to its primary Web site, including Danish, NOrwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, and Bahasa Indonesian. The additions bring the… Read More

The countries of the European Union are in disarray. Not politically, but in the way they rate games. According to a new survey showing how Pan European GameInformation (Pegi) is used across the continent, only two countries – Germany and Lithuania – have laws about the way games are sold. 15 others ban harmful games being sold to minors,one has broader laws, and four – Cyprus, Romania, Slovenia and Luxembourg – actually… Read More

If you happen to be an avid Second Life player without a job, it’s time to put on your finest set of wings and find one – through the game. Luxembourg-based Gax Technologies will hold a real career fair in the virtual world on May 29, giving players a chance to meet with prospective employers without even leaving their computer chairs.  Working Worlds is actually the second career fair Gax has organized through Second… Read More

New figures released by Eurostat show that mobile phone subscriptions in the 27 EU states increased a staggering 14 times between 1996 and 2005. At the start of the period, the average was seven subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, but just nine years later it had increased to 96 for each 100. With 158 and 127 respectively, Luxembourg and Lithuania were top of the list, with Romania the lowest, having just 62 mobile subscriptions per 100… Read More

While European censorship laws are generally considered lax by American standards when it comes to nudity and swearing, violence is still a major no-no, and it appears the European Union is fighting many of the same battles being fought in the United States over regulating the sale of violent video games to minors. The European Union justice ministers met in Luxembourg on Wednesday to discuss possible regulation of what they refer to… Read More

We admit: sometimes news is very predictable. Software giant Microsoft has filed an appeal with the Court of First Instance in Luxembourg, protesting the €280.5 million (roughly $356 million USD) fine levied in July by European Commission for failing to live up to terms of a 2004 antitrust decision. The European Commission maintains that Microsoft failed to adequately document protocols and technology which would let third party… Read More

TDK has announced it plans to cease making recordable CD and DVD media this May, closing the doors on is Luxembourg manufacturing facility. According to a company statement, declining market prices for recordable media and increased costs of raw materials led to the decision. The company's European facility was established in 1990, and has the capacity to produce seven million CD-Rs and eight million DVD-Rs per month. By closing the… Read More

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) got a bit of good news today: a German court has ruled in favor of the Canadian company in a patent dispute with Luxembourg-based InPro Licensing, a patent holding company which claimed some BlackBerry products infringed on a German-designated patent it held. The German court ruled all claims by InPro were invalid; InPro may still choose to appeal the decision. The news comes even as RIM faces a… Read More

At Berlin's IFA electronics show this week, Germany's T-Mobile (a branch of the larger Deutsche Telekom) said it planned to begin selling Motorola's iTunes-capable phone in Germany by the end of 2005. Not to be outdone, British-based mobile phone operator O2 Plc. said it hoped to announce a deal to offer iTunes software to its customers as early as next week. Apple and Motorola have each scheduled press events for… Read More

It was the second warning sent to the countries, which have two months to comply or face lawsuits before the European Court of Justice. Since the initial warning was sent last November, Sweden has enacted the legislation, but Belgium, Germany, Greece, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Finland have not. Read the full story at CNN.