Comments on: European news round-up

By: mick

mick — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:22:56 +0000

Not to be a troll or anything, but your map is wrong.. it might be pronounced ‘Doublin’ by some people but it’s not how to spell it..

By: alphaxion

alphaxion — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:09:18 +0000

I wonder how many mancunians will be peeved that leeds is shown as the next city of note in the uk. realistically that should be birmingham

still, interesting to note that conversation skips over the immense failure of the UK government to protect its citizens against the illegal actions of its primary telco and an upstart ad firm with a history of malware and rootkit provisioning, instead zoning straight in on the outdated map.

By: Mike Butcher

Mike Butcher — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:11:25 +0000

cocoasm & Sam B – well spotted. I see if I can change the map…

By: Sam B

Sam B — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:33:50 +0000

@19: Never mind that, TechCrunch hasn’t even recognised the separation of Serbia and Montenegro

By: cocoasm

cocoasm — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:49:07 +0000

Happy to see by the Europe map you have posted that you do not recognise Kosovo secession.

By: alphaxion

alphaxion — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:20:05 +0000

the biggest emerging story out of the phorm scandal is how the UK government is washing its hands of the illegal snooping (in contravention of the RIPA law) during the 2006 and 2007 trials that estimates have placed at nearly 100,000 people illegally “tapped” by BT and phorm.

Effectively, the UK government has given the OK for private companies to invade your privacy in order to make money out of you without your consent.

Great, the UK has officially turned into 1984 on steroids.

And still we are yet to see any real reporting going on outside of the fantastic work done on the register and a small amount on the guardian (who have ditched their agreement to use phorms OIX ad network in the process).

Three simple words on the phorm front: DO. NOT. WANT.

Oh, and the US has this nightmare already happening too: http://www.ther...l_ad_targeting/

By: evden eve

evden eve — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:53:38 +0000

thanks

By: SCOGOSTOLOGY.COM On European Union Tech News

SCOGOSTOLOGY.COM On European Union Tech News — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:46:07 +0000

I am very much behind in European Union tech news, so I found this blog very useful and interesting. Keep up the good work and your excellence.

By: Mike Butcher

Mike Butcher — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:43:50 +0000

Hey everyone, apologies for referring to the UK as England. I half had it in mind that this would be easier to digest for our American readers, but I will stop patronising people and revert to UK/Britain. OK? We’re still working on what kind of “European” news (FYI the UK is part of Europe btw) everyone wants, so feel free to give us your feedback/criticisms/punches in the mouth etc etc

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:00:35 +0000

+1 for Mark N’s comment re: Britain. Can’t believe Mike B could have written such a thing!

By: panefsky

panefsky — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:50:48 +0000

I agree with the irony.
EU is moving totally a few steps behind.

But spare some of your witty spirit. You still are the ‘tender foots’ of the neighborhood.

+The news about Techcrunch UK deserves to be in the ‘European Round-up” ??

By: gregory

gregory — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:20:08 +0000

let’s have an asian startup summary next week… cover the world

By: -=Apostle=-

-=Apostle=- — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:12:26 +0000

So you wrote, “I guess they’ve heard music is going free”, and that isn’t really what is happening.

What the European Parliament said, which is the most important part of the recommendations, and is completely in alignment with what our courts and legislators state: “do what is necessary to enforce and protect literary and artistic property rights, especially in the digital environment”. Nice of you to completely overlook, or blatantly ignore that part of the article.

Music isn’t going free regardless of how many out of touch folks at TechCrunch think it is. I guess people at TC are starting to drink MA’s kool-aid.

By: clea

clea — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:40:41 +0000

This is more a “Great Britain news round-up” than a “European news round-up”.

By: Joe Smith

Joe Smith — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:22:35 +0000

The iPhone is certainly available in Ireland, and I’m pretty sure Scotland as well. I reckon Mike was referring to ‘Britain’, not ‘England’.

By: Karl M

Karl M — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:05:13 +0000

@Siddharth: The iPhone a hit in Europe? You are joking/misunderstanding the article! The iPhone sold only 10% in those countries compared to the US and the mentioned countries have a market size of 219 Mio. people… – go figure. Perhaps you now understand why Nokia is always joking about the iPhone…

By: Mark N

Mark N — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:56:32 +0000

For reference – as far as I am aware the iPhone is available in the whole of Britain, rather than just England. I don’t know if this is a factual inaccuracy, but it sort of confounds the stereotype we get here in the UK that americans don’t know that Britain is not just England, but Wales and Scotland too, and the UK includes Northern Ireland as well (Although not sure if the iPhone is available there).

By: Drivingsouth

Drivingsouth — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:00:32 +0000

It looks to me that something more is happening in europe other than uk, iphone and nokia.

But that may be just me, even if living in Europe.

By: Antti Vilpponen

Antti Vilpponen — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:37:25 +0000

If you’re looking for (fresh – pun intended) news on Finnish startups, you should read Arctic Startup – http://www.arcticstartup.com

We’re looking to expand during this year, but at the moment we cover the Finnish online startup scene pretty well. We also organise some networking events every now and then.

By: Siddharth

Siddharth — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:26:38 +0000

It was indeed a good news roundup! So iphone is hit in Europe too!!

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:11:47 +0000

wow, so that’s europe.

By: Sam Mathews

Sam Mathews — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:56:26 +0000

Best round up yet . Reminds me of the Economists opening pages about politics and business somerising the week gone by (I think i buy the magazine just for that as thats all i have time to read!), but this time about European tech.

Good luck, have fun in SF etc.

By: mjm

mjm — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:54:40 +0000

guys – all of this is old news. we look to TechCrunch for insight…are you loosing when you have to start posting news round-ups?