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Telefonica unveils 2 EUR/day EU data access

May 16, 2012   IntoMobile.com

Telefonica has unveiled a pan-European data roaming tariff for smartphone subscribers, offering 25MB of data usage for 2 EUR a day.

The Spanish-owned operator group said the new tariff protects customers from “bill shock” and is also significantly below the new price caps announced by the European Union last week. As a reminder, EU ruled that a mobile data cap will be set at 0.70 EUR per megabyte from this summer and will then fall in stages to 0.45 EUR in 2013, and then 0.20 EUR on July 1st, 2014.

Back to Telefonica’s EU tariff… O2 Germany customers will be the first ones to get it, followed by other O2 and Movistar markets in Spain, UK, Ireland, Czech Republic and Slovakia, where folks will be able to get the same deal at some point this summer.

According to Telefonica, that 25 megs is good for 250 visits to “essential websites” and

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EU to investigate Motorola for unfairly leveraging patents against Apple, Microsoft

April 3, 2012   Venturebeat.com

The European Union’s antitrust Commission has opened up two new investigations that will explore whether Motorola Mobility is unfairly licensing some of its patents, the organization announced today.

The investigations follows complaints from two of the biggest technology companies in the world. Back in February, Apple filed an official complaint against Motorola Mobility for violating agreements to fairly license standards-essential patents. Specifically, Apple focused on the 17,000 patents Google will get its hands on when its purchase of Motorola Mobility is complete. Weeks later, Microsoft  filed an official complaint with the EU against Motorola, focusing on its patents related to web videos.

All the Motorola Mobility patents in question are to be licensed on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms. The FRAND classification means the owner of that particular patent must license it to other companies for a fee because the technology is considered essential to an industry.

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Facial Recognition App Knows Your Real Age

April 3, 2012   Mobiledia.com


Face.com’s updated API can guess subjects’ minimum and maximum ages and even see if they are wearing glasses or smiling. The technology is not yet completely accurate, however, pegging some thirty-year-olds as teenagers and often confusing men with women.

CEO Gil Hirsch admits, “Humans are much better at detecting ages than machines,” but his company’s attempt to teach them suggests computers are rising to meet the task sooner than later.

Face.com is not alone in exploring this kind of information, as other companies are already looking into facial recognition technology to enhance their products.

Facebook’s “Tag Suggestions” feature automatically identifies people in users’ photo albums, while “Find My Face” serves a similar function on Google+.

Google had said it would avoid facial recognition technology in its products for fear of “crossing the creepy line,” but ended up incorporating the technology

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EU approves preliminary deal that will overhaul roaming agreements

March 29, 2012   IntoMobile.com

Cellular customers in Europe will soon be paying less for roaming charges incurred while roaming in other European countries. A preliminary deal has been struck between the European Parliament and representatives of the Council and the European Commission that will set EU roaming rules that carriers must abide by starting July 1st.

The agreement will be up for final approval at the European Parliament and the Council in May and June 2012, respectively. Over the next two years, the agreement would reduce the maximum charges individuals could incur while roaming outside their home country. If approved, all European carriers must abide by the new rate caps starting July 1, 2012 and lasting until July 1, 2014. The new rate schedule is presented below:

After July 1, 2014, customers will be able to shop around and purchase roaming agreements

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Uh oh: Google’s new privacy policy might be illegal in the EU

March 2, 2012   Venturebeat.com

Google’s controversial new privacy policy went into effect today, but resistance to the sweeping changes still appears strong, with a judge in the EU saying it violates EU law.

In late January, Google announced that it would change its privacy policy by combining 60 policies into one. While simplification of hard-to-read policies is nice, Google has attracted criticism because it will now combine user data across all of its services, including search, Gmail, YouTube, Google+, and Google Docs. Critics have included European regulators, U.S. Congress, and many U.S. state attorneys general.

Now we’ve finally hit Google Privacy Policy (GPP) day. Clearly, many organizations are not down with GPP, but now a judge in the EU has taken that criticism a step further by saying it’s a violation of EU law.

EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding told BBC Radio Four that there

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