Antitrust: Twenga complaint against Google with the European Commission

Posted on January 26, 2012 by admin

In continuation of the investigation by the European Commission in 2010, the French shopping engine Twenga complaint against Google in the market for the online search for abuse of dominant position.

What was tipped just happen. The French shopping engine Twenga has announced Jan. 24 have filed a complaint against Google with the European Commission for abusing its dominant position.

Twenga states that the complaint “with a request for provisional measures, part of the investigation conducted by the services of the European Commission since November 2010.”

In the center of the dispute: the possible abuse of dominant position on the Google search market online.

End of 2010, the European authorities, following several complaints, including one from the web portal Ciao, acquired by Microsoft in 2008, launched an investigation into Google, especially in terms of vertical search and online advertising.

Brussels seeks to discover if in fact Google is knowingly forward its own services, like Google Shopping in the search results provided by Google Search, Continue reading →

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Tim Cook: Apple underestimated demand of iPhone in China

Posted on January 26, 2012 by admin

In China, the iPhone 4S is already beginning to be out of stock. Apple did not anticipate the sudden passion of the inhabitants of the country for the smartphone.

The iPhone 4S began to be marketed in China in mid-January, but Apple is already out of stock in some of its distribution channels.

At Bloomberg , the Apple CEO Tim Cook said: “We thought we were brave, but in fact we did not bet big enough. “

The site selling well Apple is already out of stock. He did not say whether its partners, the telecom operator China Unicom and Apple resellers, still have iPhone 4S Continue reading →

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Data Privacy: The European Union Is The Household

Posted on January 26, 2012 by admin

The new European directive on data protection invite the entire Net players to seek the consent of citizens to re-use of their personal information.

Published on 25 January at the initiative of the Vice President of the European Commission Viviane Reding, the new directive on data protection systematizes the prior consent of the citizen to re-use of personal information.

Thus, entities that interact with the citizens of the European Union to provide goods or services will be required to respond to any request to remove content that a person would consider compromising for him. A real right to forget digital so …

The implementation of digital right to forget was one of the pillars of this major overhaul announced last November.

Far from consensus among politicians, the concept had met with the reluctance of some ministers of member states. Such disagreements seem to persist to the point they would have earned numerous amendments to the project.

But the image of a revamped legislative base in its entirety, all now applies to all Continue reading →

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