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BRUSSELS, May 30 (UPI) -- European Union regulators are negotiating with Microsoft Corp. to force it to include Internet browser choices in its Windows operating system, sources say.
The long-running battle between EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes and the U.S. software giant has reached a new stage as efforts to make Microsoft "unbundle" its Internet Explorer Web browser from Windows have been superceded by a push to instead make it include an array of browser choices to be picked by the user on a "ballot screen," Saturday's Wall Street Journal reported unnamed sources saying.
The inclusion of additional browsers is seen as a way of diluting Microsoft's advantage in the field. The newspaper said the EU has yet to make a final ruling on the issue, part of a series of conflicts between Kroes and Microsoft that have ended in more than $2 billion in antitrust fines.
A spokesman for Microsoft told the Journal it is committed to "full compliance" with EU law.
"To be effective, a remedy must present users with a real choice in browsers, and make it easy for them to execute that choice," Julia Holtz, senior competition counsel in Europe for Google Inc., told the newspaper.
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TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb. 8 (UPI) --
Israel is reported to be seeking to deploy fighter aircraft in Cyprus, its partner in developing a natural gas bonanza under the eastern Mediterranean, to protect these vital energy resources.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (UPI) --
Thousands of tiny unmanned aircraft or drones flying into civilian airspace over the United States can pose a security threat as they may be difficult to monitor in the long run and some craft may fall into enemy hands, security analysts say.
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Despite predictions that home prices are close to bottom, the leading provider of home equity protection sees its customer base exploding in 2012 because of changing consumer attitudes towards homeownership....
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With union workers protesting in the street, leaders in Greece met to hash out details of spending cuts that long ago crossed into draconian territory.
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