The EC (European Commission, executive body of the European Union) announced here Wednesday the application of a fine of 899 million euros (about $ 2.2 billion) to Microsoft for not fulfilling certain obligations in 2004 to correct violations competition rules.
The fine represents the largest amount already charged by block to a single company for failing to comply with a ruling. The committee says that the company North American charged excessive prices to its competitors to give essential information about its software, so that other companies fabricassem compatible products.
Yves Herman / Reuters
Neelie Kroes, the EU Commissioner, said that Microsoft antitrust decision descumpriu
Neelie Kroes, the EU Commissioner, said that Microsoft did not obey the antitrust decision
In 2004, after concluding that Microsoft had abused its position of dominance in the market for information technology, the EU executive body established that the company should provide information to other companies. On that occasion, the company also stated millionaire pay a fine amounting to 497 million euros (about $ 1.25 billion).
The decision was supported by the Court of Justice in September 2007, but, according to the EC, Microsoft only began to keep it properly on October 22 last year.
"Microsoft is the first company in 50 years of EU competition policy, the Commission needs fine for not comply with an antitrust decision," said EU Commissioner, Neelie Kroes.
Interoperability
On release, Microsoft said that will examine this new decision of the EC and also cited the announcement he made last week concerning their new principles of interoperability, stating that has made specific actions to increase the openness of information on their products.
"We are reviewing the action of the Commission. In October 2007, the EC had announced that Microsoft had complied with its decision of 2004, so these fines relate to things past that were resolved," says the note.
Kroes said that the fine today punishes the breach between March 2004 and October 2007, and is not about the new research newly launched against Microsoft, also for abuse of dominant position.
The computer company is accused of hindering the compatibility of the program include illegally Office and the Explorer browser as part of the Windows operating system.
The Commissioner also said that the take for more than three years due to excessive prices transfer of essential information, the company North American non encouraged innovation in the market for computer programs.
Regarding the high value of the fine, Kroes said that is proportional to the severity and duration of the practices of anticoncorrência.
"We could have gone further," he added Kroes, stating that with this sanction, the Commission makes clear that does not want promises, "but comply."
terça-feira, 4 de março de 2008
segunda-feira, 3 de março de 2008
MUSIC - Show of Iron Maiden fans leads to bliss in Sao Paulo - Brazil
Public sang the full lungs hits of the call Golden Era of the band, the years 80.
In return for a, Bruce Dickinson promised back in a year with greater presentation
The promise of that Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden show this Sunday (2), in Sao Paulo, it would be better than the presentation at Rock in Rio in 1985 came close to being fulfilled (is lost in time and history in public, wins in sound quality and nostalgia). There were the same 300 thousand people presenciaram the first time the heavy metal band of English in Brazil at that time, but the Parque Antarctica received 37 thousand fans of the group, which sang the full lungs a repertoire of 16 hits from what is considered the Era Gold of Iron Maiden - the decade of 1980.
Vestindo collect a camouflaged, wide black pants and a gorrinho in the head, the singer Bruce Dickinson began yelling to the general with the first (of many) "scream for me, so Pauloooo" (gritem by me, São Paulo). In sequence, emendou two other successes of the old band, "2 minutes to midnight" and "Revelations," almost identical to the sequence of the tour of 1984/85, that the Iron plays the risca Now this "Somewhere back in time," began in last February.
20 years nothing wasted
Still a little cautious with the floor of the stage wet after the brief but heavy rain that fell in the 10 minutes that preceded the entry of the band, Dickinson returned to the scene wearing British army uniform and waving a flag of Great Britain for the track "The trooper ". Visilmente happy with the stadium packed, the leader of the group - which has yet Steve Harris at the bottom, Nicko McBrain on drums, and guitarists Dave Murray, Adrian Smith and Janick Gers, all in perfect physical and technical despite cinqüentões - stressed that , twenty years ago, not imagined that I would still be presenting to an audience of these dimensions. "In 1984, when this show started with Egyptian themes, and we came to the Rock in Rio, was the beginning of that relationship of love with Brazil, which increasingly grows." And took to correct the title of "Wasted years" ( in Portuguese, years wasted): "I do not agree."
After the first half hour of show, the stage has earned red lights and the introduction of sinister "The number of the beast" played on speakers. Esquecendo by some moments that are presented to one of the countries most Christians in the world, Dickinson made the crowd sing along: "666, the number of the beast." The pagan ritual continued with Bruce now wearing a black hood to entoar the epic, 14 minutes "The rime of the ancient mariner," based on the romantic poem of the British writer Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In sequence, put a mask of feathers to present "Powerslave", one of the tracks that most puxou the reaction from the public so far.
In "Heaven can wait", as scheduled in the script, the band was on stage a group of about 30 people, with football shirts. It was signal that the game was won for the Iron Maiden, who fired another string of favorite with the fans' Run to the hills "," Fear of the dark "(this the decade of 90) and the track that gives title to metaleiros, "Iron maiden," baptized in reference to an object of medieval torture, also known as the Virgin of Nuremberg.
The first part of the show was closed with the appearance of the mascot Eddie - on the disc version of "Somewhere in time" of 1986 - a múmia about 4 meters high that interacts with the band and the public in all presentations of Iron Maiden.
Oa came around the 21:40 with another three tracks - "Moonchild," "The clairvoyant" and "Hallowed be thy name" - and a new gift for the fans. "Many people could not buy a ticket to be here this evening. But we have good news for you. Promise that we will come back and torturá them a little more, "announced the singer Bruce Dickinson. "We will return very soon. But ... Will be a larger show, with explosions, fireworks and more lights. Let's back at 1 year for Brazil, to Sao Paulo and other cities, "promised. Extasiado, the public cried out one last time for the Iron Maiden. And one more, and one more ...
In return for a, Bruce Dickinson promised back in a year with greater presentation
The promise of that Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden show this Sunday (2), in Sao Paulo, it would be better than the presentation at Rock in Rio in 1985 came close to being fulfilled (is lost in time and history in public, wins in sound quality and nostalgia). There were the same 300 thousand people presenciaram the first time the heavy metal band of English in Brazil at that time, but the Parque Antarctica received 37 thousand fans of the group, which sang the full lungs a repertoire of 16 hits from what is considered the Era Gold of Iron Maiden - the decade of 1980.Vestindo collect a camouflaged, wide black pants and a gorrinho in the head, the singer Bruce Dickinson began yelling to the general with the first (of many) "scream for me, so Pauloooo" (gritem by me, São Paulo). In sequence, emendou two other successes of the old band, "2 minutes to midnight" and "Revelations," almost identical to the sequence of the tour of 1984/85, that the Iron plays the risca Now this "Somewhere back in time," began in last February.
20 years nothing wasted
Still a little cautious with the floor of the stage wet after the brief but heavy rain that fell in the 10 minutes that preceded the entry of the band, Dickinson returned to the scene wearing British army uniform and waving a flag of Great Britain for the track "The trooper ". Visilmente happy with the stadium packed, the leader of the group - which has yet Steve Harris at the bottom, Nicko McBrain on drums, and guitarists Dave Murray, Adrian Smith and Janick Gers, all in perfect physical and technical despite cinqüentões - stressed that , twenty years ago, not imagined that I would still be presenting to an audience of these dimensions. "In 1984, when this show started with Egyptian themes, and we came to the Rock in Rio, was the beginning of that relationship of love with Brazil, which increasingly grows." And took to correct the title of "Wasted years" ( in Portuguese, years wasted): "I do not agree."
After the first half hour of show, the stage has earned red lights and the introduction of sinister "The number of the beast" played on speakers. Esquecendo by some moments that are presented to one of the countries most Christians in the world, Dickinson made the crowd sing along: "666, the number of the beast." The pagan ritual continued with Bruce now wearing a black hood to entoar the epic, 14 minutes "The rime of the ancient mariner," based on the romantic poem of the British writer Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In sequence, put a mask of feathers to present "Powerslave", one of the tracks that most puxou the reaction from the public so far.
In "Heaven can wait", as scheduled in the script, the band was on stage a group of about 30 people, with football shirts. It was signal that the game was won for the Iron Maiden, who fired another string of favorite with the fans' Run to the hills "," Fear of the dark "(this the decade of 90) and the track that gives title to metaleiros, "Iron maiden," baptized in reference to an object of medieval torture, also known as the Virgin of Nuremberg.
The first part of the show was closed with the appearance of the mascot Eddie - on the disc version of "Somewhere in time" of 1986 - a múmia about 4 meters high that interacts with the band and the public in all presentations of Iron Maiden.
Oa came around the 21:40 with another three tracks - "Moonchild," "The clairvoyant" and "Hallowed be thy name" - and a new gift for the fans. "Many people could not buy a ticket to be here this evening. But we have good news for you. Promise that we will come back and torturá them a little more, "announced the singer Bruce Dickinson. "We will return very soon. But ... Will be a larger show, with explosions, fireworks and more lights. Let's back at 1 year for Brazil, to Sao Paulo and other cities, "promised. Extasiado, the public cried out one last time for the Iron Maiden. And one more, and one more ...
domingo, 2 de março de 2008
Social search engine
Share what I know and what I learn every day in this world without order of information in which we live. Share information with anyone that is seeking, or with curious in search of news. Share is the new wave of the century 21 .. Today even presidents and senior executives of large companies have a blog ... Very different from before, when people who knew very hiding for you all you knew, in the hope that, but not for others what we know, their job is guaranteed ... I know of cases where this happened, in large companies that have had to hire back people who have had their years of service at the price of gold, because only they had some knowledge.
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. With that the http://www.stumpedia.com, has a search engine that integrated enabling its members to have a search information more accessible and more complex and fast the way the user wants. It is a network of friends who share information, sites and other things, will be part of that family.
Tech Tutor Video
The technology today is increasingly accessible to all, you want to buy a clothes, a remedy, travel, entertain and have fun if you can find it all in a little more over the Internet using your own computer, which actually is today in our world and in our lives contidiana increasingly an instrument of work. But the computer is something that defies the laws of nature. Nothing of what has always been the rule can apply to this paradoxical machine of our daily lives. However, this innovation to many who do not are likely to use the computer and discover its wonders, as most often the elderly, who are not adapt to this new technology, and saying if desmerecendo unable to be unable to adapt and use this instrument which is the computer, worried that the stigma Tech Tutor Video, offers a CD-ROM, which enables those who are least able say, Introduction to Computers and for the elderly to be familiar with the computer and for their parents too, This is a great gift for parents and grandparents. In this CD-ROM teaches everything that comes with videos lesson samples statements so you can understand everything that is asked and everything that it is teaching. The CD-ROM is adapted both for VISTA for XP as well, it is very usual, lightweight easy to use.
Tags: Computers, Training, Technology, Boomers, Seniors
Tags: Computers, Training, Technology, Boomers, Seniors
sábado, 1 de março de 2008
What Night!!!
Today the night watch a movie with my girlfriend in my house, after the movie leaves with her car, caught a cd with the songs she likes most, qd was put on CD-player that the other CD was not inside gone, we are not listening to music, because inside had a cd of my father, the old songs. So if we would do that well, but there resvoli walk around the dam of the city, and today choveu very same, there was a piece of road that had broken, and in this pure land, where I could sink the car in mud . believed that night that I was sad!
Teeth Care
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San Francisco Hotels
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Investor Profits $ 4 billion buying the Brazilian currency
The American Warren Buffett bet no real in the last six years.
'The real rose and the dollar fell every year,' he says.
He was betting that the dollar would be cheaper against real that the biggest investor in the world was even richer. The American Warren Buffett spent the last six years by buying the Brazilian currency and announced, this Friday (29), a profit of $ 4 billion.
Warren Buffett has earned the nickname of "oracle" because of tacadas sure which for more than 50 years. The market knew that he was buying a foreign currency, but thought it was the Korean wonOn this night when acquired real revealed that in the last six years, Buffett himself said to everyone hold your breath.
Warren Buffett, 77 years old, began to become multi to 21 years when he came to Wall Street. In 1964, became principal shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway, one of the largest investment funds of the planet, which owns shares of dozens of companies, such as insurance companies and soft drink factories. Over the past 25 years, the company gives an annual profit of 25%.
One of the big bets it was Bill Gates. He knew before the Microsoft turn a giant and, of course, won a lot of money with this. Today, it is a friend of Gates.
Buffett always opens the annual report of Berkshire with a good-humored letter which is eagerly awaited by the market. In this year, he wrote:
"Only we had a foreign exchange in 2007. She was - segurem your breath - in real Brazilians. Until very recently, exchange dollars a real was unthinkable. Five versions of the Brazilian currency confete turned in the last century, but from 2002 to now, the real rose and the dollar fell every year. "
And added: "The Brazilians who bought dollars to protect itself lost half of its net income in the last five years."
'The real rose and the dollar fell every year,' he says.
He was betting that the dollar would be cheaper against real that the biggest investor in the world was even richer. The American Warren Buffett spent the last six years by buying the Brazilian currency and announced, this Friday (29), a profit of $ 4 billion.
Warren Buffett has earned the nickname of "oracle" because of tacadas sure which for more than 50 years. The market knew that he was buying a foreign currency, but thought it was the Korean wonOn this night when acquired real revealed that in the last six years, Buffett himself said to everyone hold your breath.
Warren Buffett, 77 years old, began to become multi to 21 years when he came to Wall Street. In 1964, became principal shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway, one of the largest investment funds of the planet, which owns shares of dozens of companies, such as insurance companies and soft drink factories. Over the past 25 years, the company gives an annual profit of 25%.
One of the big bets it was Bill Gates. He knew before the Microsoft turn a giant and, of course, won a lot of money with this. Today, it is a friend of Gates.
Buffett always opens the annual report of Berkshire with a good-humored letter which is eagerly awaited by the market. In this year, he wrote:
"Only we had a foreign exchange in 2007. She was - segurem your breath - in real Brazilians. Until very recently, exchange dollars a real was unthinkable. Five versions of the Brazilian currency confete turned in the last century, but from 2002 to now, the real rose and the dollar fell every year. "
And added: "The Brazilians who bought dollars to protect itself lost half of its net income in the last five years."
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