Neelie Kroes

Type: Person

Name: Neelie Kroes

Title: European Commissioner . Digital Agenda. Vice-President of the Commission (27 NOV 09)

Organization: European Commission

Date of Birth: 1941-07-19

Place of Birth: Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Nationality: Netherlands

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First Reported May 11 2012 - Updated May 12 2012 - 1 Documents

European Union

EU to cut mobile roaming charges

The European Parliament has passed a bill to cut mobile phone roaming charges, including data charges incurred when using mobile internet services abroad. The latest round of cuts will see the cost of making a mobile phone call from another EU country ... [ Published May 11 2012 by IMRG ]

Entities: European Union, Cellphone, Digital Agenda AS, Neelie Kroes

First Reported May 10 2012 - Updated May 10 2012 - 1 Documents

Those who want freedom from copyright will really deliver feudalism

What control do you have over your life if you have no control over your own work? Do you ever feel there's not enough music, film or books to read in your life – that the web is just a black, silent hole, devoid of any culture? Maybe that was the ... [ Published May 10 2012 by Music blog | guardian.co.uk ]

Entities: Neelie Kroes, United Kingdom, Invention

First Reported May 09 2012 - Updated May 09 2012 - 1 Documents

Tech Weekly podcast: Acta on the out

This week on Tech Weekly with Aleks Krotoski and Guardian technology editor Charles Arthur we meet the man behind the search engine DuckDuckGo, Gabriel Wienberg . Gabriel discusses his approach to a very difficult part of the tech and internet business ... [ Published May 09 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]

Entities: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, Aleks Krotoski, Charles Arthur

First Reported Apr 24 2012 - Updated Apr 24 2012 - 1 Documents

European Commission

'Defence policy cannot be treated like a military theatre', says European Commission VP

EUROPEAN COMMISSION VP and Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes has criticised using military tactics to counter future cyber threats.Speaking at the 2012 Information Security conference in London today, Kroes said, "The solution [to cyber threats] ... [ Published Apr 24 2012 by TheInquirer.net ]

Entities: Neelie Kroes, Defense Policy, European Commission, Military/Armed Forces

First Reported Apr 23 2012 - Updated Apr 23 2012 - 1 Documents

Neelie Kroes

EC VP stresses value of ‘open web’, wants rid of ‘digital handcuffs’

The vice president of the European Commission, Neelie Kroes has encouraged the notion of protecting an ‘open web’ to encourage innovation and discovery, and said that ‘digital handcuffs’ need to be opened in order to do so.During her World Wide Web conference ... [ Published Apr 23 2012 by Music Week ]

Entities: Neelie Kroes, Invention, European Commission

Quotes

Europe's "Digital Agenda" Commissioner Neelie Kroes said: "by putting price caps on data we have created a roaming market for the smart phone generation. more than that, we have ended the rip-offs familiar to anyone who has used a mobile phone while travelling abroad."

EU to cut mobile roaming charges [IMRG - May 11 2012]

...But what was puzzling was the statement that came with this declaration. Kroes said "industries once based on limitation and control could now be based on customer focus, sharing and interactivity" – that closed business plans would strangle innovation and freedom

Those who want freedom from copyright will really deliver feudalism [Music blog | guardian.co.uk - May 10 2012]

Speaking at the 2012 Information Security conference in London today, Kroes said, "the solution [to cyber threats] is not simple, defence policy cannot be treated like a military theatre. we need a new approach."

'Defence policy cannot be treated like a military theatre', says European Commission VP [TheInquirer.net - Apr 24 2012]

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Those who want freedom from copyright will real... [ Published May 10 2012 by Music blog \| guardian.co.uk ] What control do you have over your life if you have no control over your own work? Do you ever feel there's not enough music, film or books to read in your life – that the web is just a black, silent hole, devoid of any culture? Maybe that was the ...