EU Working Towards RFID Standards [PC World]
So as to avoid having to regulate RFID and get bound up in red tape, the EU has formed the RFID Regulatory Action Group to report to the Subcommittee on Innovation and Development, itself commissioned by the Committee on Enterprise and Technology, a division of the Directorate of Economic Affairs Contingent On Science and Technology, which ultimately reports to the President of the Presidium of the European Union's New Technology Supplication and Investigation Committee, overseen thrice-annually by Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding, if, and only if, she's had her cornflakes.
Angela Merkel calls CeBIT a "fair for good ideas" [Heise Online]
'"There is a little too much red up here. But the CeBIT makes it bearable," said Germany’s Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel, alluding to the set at the opening cerenomy – notwithstanding the fact that she herself was dressed in that color.'
Giant CeBIT fair offers peephole to high-tech future [Associated Foreign Press]
More on German Chancellor Merkel lurking around the halls, uttering vague benevolent trivialities about how super technology is.
Russia promises to battle piracy [PC Advisor]
Leonid Reiman, the Russian minister for IT and communications, said that his government will crack down on unliscenced distribution of copyrighted materials, no doubt to the coffee-sputtering incredulity of all others present. As is now de riguer in reports on Russian pirates, the story contains a link to allofmp3.
