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    April 10, 2019

    Roberto Viola (DG Connect): ‘Women in Digital: more than numbers’

    *Roberto Viola, Director general of DG Connect at the European Commission This year’s Digital Day celebrated the contribution that women are already making in the digital sphere – and the potential for making further progress. At the event, 26 European countries signed a declaration on promoting the greater participation of women in digital. What is…

    June 19, 2018

    Research on 6G mobile about to start in Finnish university

    A university in Finland has started research on 6G mobile networks – before 5G networks have even started commercial operation – and it is seeking PhD students The University of Oulu, close to the Arctic Circle, has started the programme, called 6Genesis, under a programme being led by the Academy of Finland. The whole programme…

    April 12, 2017

    French presidential candidate declares privacy war on tech giants

    French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron has unleashed his latest campaign promise; to force internet companies to release encrypted messages to intelligence services. Privacy advocates around the world will be on the edge of their seats for the next couple of weeks as Macron’s scare-tactics bring data privacy into the equation. According to the BBC, should…

    June 23, 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…

    May 30, 2017

    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…

    December 12, 2016

    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…

    Technology

    April 16, 2019

    Exprivia | Italtel at Cisco Devnet Create

    On 2019 April, 24 and 25 we are at Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California for Cisco Devnet Create. Now in its third edition, Cisco Devnet Create is the only conference that combines infrastructure and application development. From the creation of NOC and DevOps for NetDevOps, to the intelligence of the concepts of artificial…

    September 9, 2016

    ViaSat, Eutelsat in-flight Internet partnership wins European service contract with SAS

    ViaSat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) and Eutelsat Communications (NYSE Euronext Paris: ETL) continue to execute on their strategy to deliver high-quality satellite-based Internet connectivity to the commercial airline market in Europe with a new service contract for SAS, Scandinavia’s leading airline. SAS is equipping its short and medium-haul fleet to offer on-board WiFi speeds of at…

    July 4, 2017

    Internet of Humans – How we would like the internet of the future to be

    Bruno Kessler Lecture by Roberto Viola, Director-General for Communications Networks, Content & Technology at the European Commission.   “I am very honoured to be the 2017 Bruno Kessler lecturer and I am also humbled to be following previous talks held in former years by world famous international scholars like Jared Diamond, Marcus du Sautoy, and…

    November 16, 2017

    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…

    Content

    January 4, 2019

    Roberto Viola: “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?”

    Roberto Viola, Director general of DG Connect at the European Commission: “The revised directive on audiovisual media services (AVMSD) that was approved recently paves the way for a fair regulatory environment for the audiovisual sector across the European Union. I focus on some of the aspects of AVMSD in the context of online content in…

    March 16, 2018

    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…

    October 12, 2017

    Making Europe digitally fit

    This article is part of our special report ‘Working’ toward healthy eating. Time is at a premium and many people simply don’t have enough of it to shop, cook and eat healthily. How can new technologies induce change in the eating habits of workers? It can be hard to make the right food choices in…

    February 20, 2019

    Who Article 13 Really Hurts And Helps

    Fresh from the finalization of the language of the European Union’s Copyright Directive by the EU Parliament and Council, the EU Commission posted an article on Medium defending the legislation, particularly the controversial Article 13, which holds media platform companies responsible copyright infringement, potentially forcing these companies to employ faulty blanket content filters within Europe.…

    October 22, 2018

    CNIL publishes initial assessment on Blockchain and GDPR

    Recently, the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) published its initial assessment of the compatibility of blockchain technology with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and proposed concrete solutions for organizations wishing to use blockchain technology when implementing data processing activities. What is a Blockchain? A blockchain is a database in which data is stored…

    January 26, 2018

    Facebook cuts back on news to give you more time with advertisers

    Dear friends, it’s not us, it’s you. You are the problem. You’ve stopped sharing every intimate detail of your lives and we can’t monetise you as well as we’d like. So we’re changing our relationship to convince you to share more, so we can show you more ads. Not an exact quote from Mark Zuckerberg,…

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