AP – Norway’s Opera says downloads of its browser have more than doubled after Microsoft Corp. was forced to give European users a choice of Web software to settle European Union antitrust charges.

A bill proposed this week by the US government, which would allow intelligence agencies to share details of cyber-attacks with the businesses that operate telecommunications networks and power grids, demonstrates the need for cooperation between private and public organisations in tackling Internet-based attacks on national infrastructure. But a report from the House of Lords’ Europe Union Committee has today questioned the European Union’s engagement with businesses in its cyber-attack prevention measures.

AP – The European Union says some 100 million people using Microsoft Corp. software will be asked to choose between rival Web browsers by mid-May under a deal it struck with the company to settle antitrust action.

AP – Mobile phone operators must now limit how much they charge customers for using the Internet within the European Union, after new rules went into effect Monday.

AP – European Union data privacy regulators are telling Google Inc. to warn people before it sends cameras out into cities to take pictures for its Street View maps, adding to the company’s legal worries in Europe.