by Gianluca Duretto, Adjunct Professor, Blockchain Digital Payments and Cryptocurrencies – International University of Rome UNINT. Blockchain technology has been widely talked about since 2016, from the first conferences and the first announcements of major fundraising, on revolutionary projects based on distributed ledger technology that promised true IT miracles, data security, independence from external authorities…
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The blockchain evolution, how mature is this technology now? From Bitcoin to Ethereum 2.0 a brief overview of the evolution of blockchain technology
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5G in factory, JMA contributes to Exor International private network in Verona
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Atlantica Digital and IOSight have signed a relevant partnership to approach the water utilities and authorities Market in Italy and other countries
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Open Fiber. Cantor: “CDP-Macquarie, the European Commission has the authority to impose structural remedies”
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Tim-JMA Wireless, in Faenza the first Open RAN solution in Italy
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5G in factory, JMA contributes to Exor International private network in Verona
Webinar “The digital services act in countering the piracy of sporting events”
Open Fiber. Cantor: “CDP-Macquarie, the European Commission has the authority to impose structural remedies”
Tim-JMA Wireless, in Faenza the first Open RAN solution in Italy
ChinaEU, on the 11th and 12th of December will take place the first Cross-Border and E-Commerce Forum
Cross-border e-commerce environment is changing rapidly, both in Europe and Asia, but especially in China. In less than one month, the 1st edition of the EU Cross-Border E-commerce Forum (EU CBEC FORUM) will take place in Liege and give the audience a clear overview of what cross-border e-commerce will be in the years to come…
Italy government to discuss security of key networks, Huawei in 5G: sources
The Italian government will meet on Thursday to discuss the best ways to strengthen the security of strategic networks, two sources said, as the United States mounts pressure on Rome to exclude China’s Huawei from its 5G infrastructures. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has called senior coalition figures including the economy and industry ministers for a…
A new European industrial strategy: 20 measures for more investments, more growth and therefore less taxes
French presidential candidate declares privacy war on tech giants
Boosting growth and competiveness through digitalisation: the model and the role of the wholesale only fiber company
ChinaEU at the Digital Regulation Forum 2017
IGAW 2017, speeches of Fabrizio Rauso (Sogei) and Gian Gherardo Calini (GSA)
IGAW 2017 (International GNSS Advances Workshop) is dedicated to the evolution of satellite navigation technology and the new opportunities provided by the availability of multiple constellations (GPS, Galileo, GLONASS, Beidou). IGAW 2017 is organised and hosted by Sogei, a company always at the forefront of research and development activities in the delivery and use…
EU institutions agree on the WiFi4EU initiative
The European Parliament, the Council and the Commission reached last night a political agreement on the WiFi4EU initiative and its funding which supports installing free public Wi-Fi hotspots in local communities across the EU: in public squares, piazzas, parks, hospitals and other public spaces. As stated by Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, the WiFi4EU initiative will…
Telefonica Deutschland promotes COO Haas to CEO
Markus Haas, the current COO of Telefonica Deutschland, will take over as CEO of the group from 01 January 2017. Haas has been appointed as the successor of Thorsten Dirks, who recently announced plans to join Lufthansa as the head of Eurowings. Haas has held a number of leadership roles since joining Telefonica in…
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Atlantica Digital and IOSight have signed a relevant partnership to approach the water utilities and authorities Market in Italy and other countries
Through the integration of IOSIGHT solutions into its products portfolio Atlantica Digital will offer best-in-class water-specific smart metering, data management and analytics solutions to the Water Utilities Market and authorities in Italy and other countries. The partnership will create a unique combination of product leadership (IOSight & Atlantica Digital) and local outreach, implementation, and customer success…
Atlantica Digital and MongoDB have signed a strategic partnership
Inwit delivers DAS with JMA Wireless antennas to Philip Morris plant in Italy
Smart City Index 2020: Budapest among the most underdeveloped cities in the region
A look at the world’s submarine cable systems that power the internet, including connectivity in Philippines
The first 5G Moto G phone is on the way
The Moto G series of phones arguably made budget phones cool when the first model was launched back in 2013. Ever since then, the range has regularly rolled out affordable yet dependable wares. Now, serial leaker Evan Blass has revealed that Motorola is working on a Moto G 5G smartphone, poised to become the first…
Smart City Index 2020: Budapest among the most underdeveloped cities in the region
Although numerous research have been conducted on the topic of the ’smart city’, the Smart City Index is the only report offering a ranking based on specific data, Vg argued. The Institute for Management Development and the Singapore University for Technology and Design have examined 109 cities worldwide to provide a comprehensive image capturing the…
Amazon sells off parts of its cloud business in China for $300m
Amazon has sold off hardware from its public cloud business in China to Beijing Sinnett Technology. Amazon signed an agreement in August 2016 to let the Chinese tech firm operate cloud technology and related services provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) around the Beijing area in China, based on Sinnet’s own internet infrastructure around the…
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The debate over Sanremo 2021 voting: Thoughts on influencers and their appeals to followers to vote
Written by Fabiana Bisceglia, Donata Cordone – associates at Portolano Cavallo The 2021 Sanremo Music Festival, broadcast recently in Italy, was viewed as the most social media–oriented edition of the famous festival due to the intense interaction it generated among users. Relatedly, the criticism that arrived most swiftly was directed not at the winners chosen,…
EU telecoms regulators examine whether app stores restrict internet access
The regulators are starting to examine whether “the gatekeeper role of app stores” like Google and Apple’s might conflict with the EU’s law guaranteeing net neutrality, Johannes Gungl, the head of the BEREC group, said at a meeting in Brussels. Europe’s net neutrality legislation came into effect in 2016 and prevents internet service providers from…
Artificial Intelligence vs Machine Learning vs Data Science
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Science are amongst a few terms that have become extremely popular amongst professionals in almost all the fields. It will be a matter of surprise if any professional has not ever heard of even one of these terms. With the beginning of FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION — a technological revolution…
Audiovisual piracy, interview with Stan McCoy, (MPA EMEA)
Interview with Stan McCoy, (President and Managing Director of the region encompassing Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) for the Motion Picture Association), during the presentation of the ‘Ipsos‘ data for ‘Fapav‘ on audiovisual piracy in Italy.
EU watchdog calls for tax data sharing powers to combat fraud
Securities and tax regulators should have new powers to share information for cracking down on fraudulent tax reclaim schemes, the European Union’s markets watchdog said on Thursday. The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) made the recommendation in its final report to the European Parliament into frauds whereby investors engineer share trades to make bogus…
Netflix, Amazon Would Be Forced to Maintain 30% European Content Quotas Under Proposed EU Law
European Commission: ‘We want to make it possible for EU/EEA citizens to register a .EU website also outside of the EU’
EU eyes tax on tech giants closer to 2 percent than 6 percent of revenue: Le Maire
Moscovici asks tech industry to be ‘part of the solution’ before digital tax proposal
Coronavirus emergency and privacy: valid the juridical approach to the GDPR
Article by Nicola Fabiano, President of the San Marino Data Protection Authority 1. Introduction As it is well-known, the coronavirus pandemic (COVID–19) has profoundly changed our life, habits, communication and interaction between people, ways of working, etc. In essence, we are experiencing a situation that appears surreal because of the consequent behavioural rules that we are…
Meet Matthew Brennan, Managing Director at China Channel
One week prior to the event “Understanding the Success of TikTok: the Most powerful Tool to Engage European Digital Natives”, ChinaEU spoke with Matthew Brennan, long-time digital China watcher and Managing Director at China Channel, to understand his journey into China’s mobile Internet landscape and unveil some of the most curious insights from his latest…
Security
ITASEC21, Call for Papers for the Italian Conference on CyberSecurity
Authors are solicited to contribute to the conference by submitting articles that illustrate...
Papers
Market Functioning and Market Integration in EU Network Industries – Telecommunications, Energy and Transport
European Economy Discussion Papers are written by the staff of the European Commission’s...