France may introduce a one per cent sales tax on all smartphones and tablets sold in the country, with the money raised funnelled off into an arts fund to back the supposedly more intellectual pursuits of film, art and music. Read More >>
A group of tech and search firms led by Microsoft has lodged a complaint with the EU regarding Google's "predatory" distribution of Android, claiming the free OS is disrupting the market and making it harder for others to compete. Read More >>
The European Parliament has decided against introducing any continent-wide blanket ban on internet porn, as a last-minute change in wording removed controversial porn outlawing concepts from gender equality legislation. Read More >>
Sony's big PS4 announcement event claimed the machine will see a launch at the end of 2013. But where? America? Japan? Here? Everywhere? Just on the International Space Station? Even Sony doesn't seem to know the answer to that one yet. Read More >>
Featured comment by LiamT:
"sony have said games wont be any more expensive, so they should stay £50 RRP and about 340 in shops.
i think its just placeholders to be honest. ..." More »
Here's some bizarre fallout from an EU ruling on the safety of electrical equipment. Apple's being forced to stop selling the Mac Pro in Europe from March, including the UK, because it's got exposed fans and they're dangerous, apparently. Read More >>
Featured comment by Laraine:
"The EU is clearly run by idiots. I'd have a hard job harming myself on the fans of my Mac Pro. The Mac Pro is actually extremely well designed. If peo..." More »
The EU's CleanIT group has published plans on how it believes terrorist use of the web could be curtailed, with one laughably useless suggestion saying that ISPs should add a clause to their contracts insisting that people don't use their web connections for evil purposes. That's sure to work. Read More >>
A big pot of Europe's money is being channeled in the direction of miraculous super future material graphene, with an enormous €1billion grant about to fund a decade of development work into new uses for the ingenious carbon product. Read More >>
Featured comment by Mr Tennent:
"If the UK wants growth we should be investing a billion into UK Graphene development, a billion isn't a lot when you consider we still owe 800 billion..." More »
Featured comment by stonypaul:
"Mbps is megabits per second
MBps is megabytes per second
Which one are you referring to?
If it's megabits, which your article indicates if you're u..." More »
David Cameron, being the pandering politician that he is, has promised us a referendum on Britain being part of the European Union (as long as the Conservatives win the next election, that is). Although this isn't strictly a classic Gizmodo topic, it's sure as hell important. So before the whole country gets to have its say, what's your opinion? Read More >>
Featured comment by JulianT:
""on the whole it balances out"....really, I'm sure there's just as many Brits working in Poland, receiving their version of Housing Benefit, Working F..." More »
Future changes to EU privacy rules could have a devastating effect on the ad-funded model favoured by the internet giants, with planned restrictions on data harvesting signalling the end of the online advertising bubble. Read More >>
Featured comment by chootastic:
"Reading the source article, they used the word that never fails to annoy me - 'expert'. What expert? What are their qualifications? It even says they'..." More »
Roaming fees, capped rates and awkward daily allowances might soon be a thing of the past for European travelers, thanks to plans by four of the biggest EU telecom companies to launch one massive Europe-wide super-network. Read More >>
Featured comment by britishchris:
"Vodafone Eurotraveller is great...if you have a vodafone UK contract ;)
I average around 3GB a month when I'm in the UK (I don't know how...) so I k..." More »
Did you hear a strange noise passing overhead last weekend? Maybe glimpse a UFO? If so, no need to don a tinfoil hat quite yet -- Saturday evening saw the first flight of a stealth drone in Europe (but sadly it wasn't made in Britain). Read More >>
The EU is asking its member states to free up more of their airwaves for use with future 4G services, with some of bands currently used by 3G networks soon to be recycled and made available for next-gen LTE connections. Read More >>
Featured comment by dja357:
"As long as this doesn't lead to reduced choice and increased prices for a feature that many are not willing to pay extra for." More »
It was less than a year ago that Panasonic announced big plans to return to the Euro mobile scene with a few new Android models, but... that obviously didn't work out. Panasonic's pulling out of Europe again. Read More >>
Featured comment by Taf:
"I owned a Panasonic GD80, it was one of the first cam on the market at the time, this was long before the limes of iOS handsets and android handsets o..." More »
As we've said before, today marks the day that Amazon is pushing out the brand-spanking new Kindle models across Europe and the UK, including the gorgeous Kindle Paperwhite and the Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD. Who needs an iPad Mini anyway? Read More >>
Featured comment by abrown1982:
"I live in the UK an got my wifi paperwhite delivered yesterday. Its only new orders that are shipping later because of the demand. So not stuck in l..." More »
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