Neowin News Feed for: Belgium

Apple starts selling refurbished M4 MacBook Pro and Mac mini models

Sagar Naresh Bhavsar — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 07:48:03 +0000

Refurbished M4 MacBook Pro and Mac mini models are available on Apple's official online store in the US, the UK, Canada, and some European markets. Read more...

Spotify launches Audiobooks in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg

Steve Bennett — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 11:38:01 +0000

Spotify's Audiobooks for Premium subscribers are now rolling out to more European countries starting today. Read more...

Belgium is now looking into Apple's iPhone 12 radiation-related health risks

Paul Hill — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 11:38:01 +0000

Belgium has decided to follow France and has launched an investigation into the iPhone 12 over radiation fears. Apple has contested the matter saying its phone meets international standards. Read more...

Microsoft to create new datacenter region in Belgium to deliver cloud solutions

Paul Hill — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 19:20:01 +0000

Microsoft has unveiled its Digital AmBEtion plan which will bring a datacenter region to Belgium giving companies of all sizes greater access to the Microsoft Azure range of products and services. Read more...

How to watch the FOSDEM 2021 conference this weekend

Paul Hill — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 20:38:01 +0000

FOSDEM 2021 is due to take place this weekend. Due to the coronavirus, the event will take place entirely online for the first time in its history. FOSDEM covers a range of topics in the FOSS world. Read more...

European Union approves €3.2 billion for battery tech R&D

Paul Hill — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 20:02:02 +0000

The European Commission has approved funding from several member states which will be used to develop every stage of the battery manufacturing process, thus improving the technology. Read more...

Google set to spend €3 billion on European data centres

Paul Hill — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 17:16:01 +0000

Google has announced that it is planning to spend €3 billion in Europe over the next two years to bolster the data centres that it operates. The investments will help create more jobs. Read more...

ProtonVPN opens four new VPN servers in Brussels, Belgium

Paul Hill — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 11:26:01 +0000

ProtonVPN, the secure VPN firm, has announced four new servers based in Belgium. The servers are only accessible to users on paid accounts, ensuring that they're always operating at fast speeds. Read more...

Google is being sued by the Belgian government for not blurring out military sites

João Carrasqueira — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 16:16:01 +0000

The Belgian Government's Ministry of Defense is going after the Mountain View giant for potentially compromising national security by failing to blur out imagery of military sites in the country. Read more...

Facebook told to stop tracking non-users in Belgium

Paul Hill — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 19:24:02 +0000

Facebook has been told by a Belgian court that it must stop tracking non-users around the web and immediately destroy their data. Facebook faces daily fines if it refuses to comply. Read more...

Lightning strike near Google data center permanently wipes 0.000001% of user data

Andy Weir — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 14:06:01 +0000

Google says it accepts full responsibility for the tiny, but permanent, data loss that occurred last week, after the power grid near to one of its European data centers was struck by lightning. Read more...

Belgian court to decide whether Skype is a telecoms operator

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 26 May 2015 11:46:01 +0000

Microsoft is being sued by the Belgian state for failing to provide authorities with Skype data in a criminal case, but the company is arguing such rules don't apply because Skype is not a carrier. Read more...

Bug in ancient e-voting machines impact Belgium election

Christopher White — Tue, 27 May 2014 05:00:00 +0000

A bug with e-voting machines in Belgium has raised havoc with the country's election process, causing a temporary halt until the developers can find and fix the flag in the DOS-based machines. Read more...