"In a ruling welcomed as a victory for freedom of the press, [the ECHR] has awarded damages to an investigative journalist whose home was raided and computers confiscated after he published reports alleging fraud within the European Union."

"A new verb has entered the European journalists’ lexicon: to wob. It comes from the slang used by Dutch reporters to make a freedom of information request and emerges as laws allowing access to official documents are sprouting across Europe."

Only 1.07 percent of applicants for access to documents in the European Commission in 2005 stated that they were journalists.

[The major mobile phone manufactoryers have] "decided to standardize on micro-USB as the charging interface for mobile phones, putting an end to the needless waste created by needing separate chargers for each device."

The Open Source Consortium says says the BBC is locking users into a Microsoft platform with its iPlayer and will raise an anti-trust complaint with Ofcom next week, and could go as far as the European Competition Commission.

"The European Commission Thursday cleared U.S. media giants NBC Universal and News Corp. to form a joint venture which will broadcast television and film entertainment over the Internet."