8 posts and columns on Brussels

Almost Famous: David Maher Roberts of The Filter

in News on April 16, 2010 at 8:56 pm PT

This week we caught up with the globe-trotting David Maher Roberts, CEO of The Filter, a media recommendation engine founded by music legend Peter Gabriel. David commutes between the United Kingdom where he lives and the United States, where he works. We found him during a stop in Texas, appropriately via Skype.

Tussle in Brussels: The EC’s Oracle-Sun Hearing, Day 1

in News on December 10, 2009 at 12:48 pm PT

Oracle is defending its planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems before the European Commission this week, and according to the company’s legal team, the first day of arguments went quite well. “I am extremely happy,” Oracle attorney Thomas Vinje said of the first half of the two-day hearing in Brussels.
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EC to Intel: How's This for "Manifestly Disproportionate?"

in News on September 21, 2009 at 11:16 am PT

Intel’s criticism of the European Commission’s legal acumen clearly has not gone over well in Brussels. The EC today responded to Intel’s claims that the Commission’s antitrust ruling against the company was meted out in error by releasing the full text of its decision and a selection of email correspondence and internal memos that make it clear that Intel probably should have kept its big mouth shut.
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EC to Intel: How’s This for “Manifestly Disproportionate?”

in News on September 21, 2009 at 11:16 am PT

Intel’s criticism of the European Commission’s legal acumen clearly has not gone over well in Brussels. The EC today responded to Intel’s claims that the Commission’s antitrust ruling against the company was meted out in error by releasing the full text of its decision and a selection of email correspondence and internal memos that make it clear that Intel probably should have kept its big mouth shut.
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Dell Buys Perot

in News on September 21, 2009 at 10:15 am PT

Brussels Palace of Justice Apparently Has Only Single Courtroom

in News on May 22, 2009 at 12:55 pm PT

What silliness. Microsoft and the European Commission have canceled a face-to-face hearing in an antitrust case pending against the company over a scheduling dispute, of all things.
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Turning Off Your Desktop PC

in Mossberg’s Mailbox on October 22, 2008 at 5:50 pm PT

Here are a few questions I’ve received recently from people like you, and my answers. I have edited and restated the questions a bit, for readability. At work I am told to turn off my desktop PC at the end of the day. My wife’s office tells her to leave her computer on overnight. My [...]