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.

PC World – The European Union should update its laws to better suit cloud computing, Microsoft’s top lawyer urged in Brussels Tuesday.Laws covering data protection and data retention go back to the mid-1990s and need to be revised to take into account the massive and constant flow of data between users’ computers and multiple cloud servers that can be located anywhere in the world, Microsoft head legal counsel Brad Smith said in a speech.The existing E.U. laws “are starting to show their age,” he told students, E.U. officials and industry executives.The data retention law passed in 2006, when cloud computing was mostly limited to online e-mail accounts, calls on the 27 E.U.

PC World – The European Union gave the green light to Oracle’s plan to buy Sun Microsystems.