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The Twitter Elections It’s election time and candidates to a seat in the European Parliament are disposing of all means to gear up their support base.
Following the successful example of Barack Obama's bid for the White House, Out with the old, in with the MTV generation!  As the European institutions get stronger, and voter turnout in the European elections gradually decreases, the European Commission has turned to the MTV generation, with a motivating youth-oriented campaign.
The campaign, which has already sparked both China sets up CeBIT office to ease bootleg disputes China’s trade ministry set up a special office at the CeBIT computing trade fair in Germany in a bid to head off disputes over alleged illegal copying of products. Past fairs have been marred by After a Siemens buyout, Fujitsu will cut EU products Computer manufacturer Fujitsu said it would prune its European product range after buying out Siemens’ half in their former joint venture Fujitsu Siemens Computers. Joseph Reger, chief technology officer of the venture, which is soon 15 Euro-GSM stores close to cut costs  Euro-GSM, a major player on the Romanian GSM retail market, will close 15 stores this year, over 10 percent of its network, to cut costs, considering the unstable economic context, Business Standard reported on February No slump for mobile phones? Ericsson CEO thinks no  The worlds largest telecoms manufacturer insisted there was no "crisis" in the phone business despite the worldwide economic slump, as the industrys main trade fair opened in Barcelona on February 16. "There is no telecoms Commission takes down webpage after blogger criticism (?) & Commission's Reply  Note: See European Commission reply at the bottom of the page
After well-known blogger Berlaymonster wrote a critical post about the "EU Circus Campaign"- it appears the Commission moved swiftly to take down the webpage. We hope Microsoft to put EU flag on upcoming Windows 7  It seems that the European Commission and Microsoft have reached a compromise regarding the tight (when it comes to Microsoft) competition rules of the EU. In fact, in order to avoid a fine for anti-competitive Telia Sonera gives 1,200 Swedish workers the axe  Nordic telecommunications group Telia Sonera said on January 12 it had given notice to 1,200 Swedish employees, a move the company said was in line with a cost-cutting package announced in February 2008, and would Apple CEO Steve Jobs takes leave; sparks further anxiety  Apple CEO Steve Jobs will be taking a leave of absence for medical reasons until the end of June. Jobs, wrote an email to his colleagues today informing them of the situation, announcing Tim Cook Fnac offering unlocked iPhone 3G in France Following their trait of global success, Apple recently launched their iPhone 3G mobile devices in France through French retailer Fnac. Fnac would be selling the device unlocked and without a contract in this market, reports Orange brings 3G+ to Northern Ireland Orange Ireland brings faster mobile voice and data services to the country. Orange completes its new 3G+ network in Northern Ireland, giving customers, living, working or travelling in the country access to even more reliable Swoosh! Europe’s fastest mobile network Sweden is set to receive the fastest mobile network in Europe following upgrades to be carried out by a group of Swedish companies, the company said. Telecoms equipment manufacturer Ericsson, as well as operators 3 Microsemi jobs boost for Ennis US chip maker Microsemi is to expand its facility in Ennis, Co Clare, in an investment which is leading to 315 new jobs. The investment is being backed by IDA Ireland, the company said. The Reding raps Italian Telecom’s knuckles Commissioner Viviane Reding sent a letter today (December 18) to the Italian Telecoms regulator AGCOM, reminding AGCOM of its duty, under European Community law, to formally and completely notify the measures concerning Telecom Italia to 150 jobs to go at Vodafone Ireland Vodafone Ireland has said 150 jobs are to be lost as the company slims down its operation in the difficult economic climate. Vodafone told staff and unions it hopes to make the redundancies through a Ericsson in spare parts deal with TMIB in Bangladesh Ericsson has launched spare parts management services (SPMS) to support TM International Bangladesh’s (TMIB) mobile network. The deal marks Ericsson’s first SPMS contract in Bangladesh, and will help boost operational efficiencies, revenue and network performance, HCL completes acquisition of UK’s Axon Indian company HCL Technologies has completed the acquisition of UK-based consulting Axon Group for GBP 441.1 million (468.3 million Euro,) making it the largest acquisition in tech space by any Indian company, it was reported. Major telecom-shakeup on the way The ongoing political turmoil in the linguistically divided Belgium has failed to dent the Belgian volume of communication and the market being still confined largely to the local telco Belgacom, is drawing ire of the Next stop for Gemis expansion is Hungary Belfast call centre company Gemis to invest up to GBP one million in expanding its operations into Europe, the company said. The company has opened a new subsidiary in Debrecen, Hungary, to handle customer services |
EU-Russia energy game EU budget: Naming and Shaming of Member States allowing fraud A message for Turkey: tear down Cyprus’ wall now! India says global warming is not to blame for Himalayan glacier melt A misled Merkel takes a swipe at GM over its Opel U-turn Lesbian Bisexual Gay and Transexual (LBGT) organisations across Europe cooperate under the umbrella of the International Lesbian and Gay Association This coming Thursday evening, November 19 during the “Last Supper,” the 27 heads of the EU Member States will decide The end of World War II found the United Kingdom winners, but literally bankrupt. The After months of networking, secret briefings, it seems that the candidates for the Council President In a meeting in Washington with the current Swedish Presidency of the European Union, US President Barack Obama said that As the United States and NATO have urged European countries to take a bigger role Europe must step up its efforts in Afghanistan if it wants to avoid straining relations Six months after they met in London and established a $1.1 trillion-dollar support package for As the first top British diplomat to visit Moscow in recent five years, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband wrapped up Despite French carmaker Renault’s earlier statement that it will not invest any more money in The United States and Russia on 9 November began another round of talks over nuclear Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said the government will continue to adopt measures to better The worldwide economic recession has had European Union businesses keenly eyeing China for continuing markets, and the EU’s Chamber of Showing there is still some major differences between the European Union and China in areas Just as the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China passed |
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