China completes probe into Google licence case
Beijing: China has finished probing into the licence case on Google's new Chinese language site and said the result will be publicised soon. The Ministry of Information Industry has paid great attention to the licence case of Google.cn after the media reported it.

Google was reported yesterday for not having obtained the Internet Content Provider (ICP) licence needed to operate Internet content services in China.

Google is using the same internet content provider (ICP) licence as Ganji.com, a Chinese information Web site set up on March 21 last year in Beijing, a Beijing News daily reported yesterday. This results in a breach of Chinese government Internet rules, as overseas companies were not allowed to operate without an ICP licence in providing local services, the newspaper said.
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Rivals claim Microsoft not complying with EU ruling
Rivals of Microsoft have demanded another European Union investigation into alleged anti-competitive practices by the software giant. A group of companies represented by IBM and Sun Microsystems said Microsoft is still not complying with an EU ruling that it should share useful programme information and decouple its operating system and other software programmes.

The European Committee for Interoperability Systems (ECIS) said it was still impossible to develop software that operates smoothly in conjunction with the company's Windows and Office packages.

The new onslaught comes as Microsoft gears up to launch major improvements to its Windows operating system and its Office word processing software. And it came when Microsoft's Windows was revealed to have toppled Sun Microsystems' Unix as the number one operating system for corporate servers.

Microsoft said it would comply with any EU request for information based on the new ECIS complaint.
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