White paper by Dr. David Soldani – Huawei Technologies As of today, COVID-19 is counteracted by tracking, testing, diagnosis and therapeutic treatment of the infection, as countries dealing with COVID-19 have found out early identification of positive subjects is crucial for the purposes of their treatment and containment of the infection [1]. To this end,…
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Fighting COVID-19 with 5G enabled Technologies (White paper)
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Contact tracing and privacy: European digital sovereignty but without ethics
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The emergency of digital solutionism
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Coronavirus emergency and privacy: valid the juridical approach to the GDPR
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‘5G, as users go up, an increasingly dense network is required’. Interview with Luca D’Antonio (JMA Teko)
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Contact tracing and privacy: European digital sovereignty but without ethics
‘5G, as users go up, an increasingly dense network is required’. Interview with Luca D’Antonio (JMA Teko)
JMA’s TEKO DAS Expands Capability on the Industry’s Only Software-Defined Platform
‘Informatics has to become a school subject’: the call to Italian politicians
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…
A new European industrial strategy: 20 measures for more investments, more growth and therefore less taxes
Document elaborated by: Riccardo Cappellin – University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Leonardo Becchetti – University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Enrico Ciciotti – Catholic University, Piacenza, Gioacchino Garofoli – University of Insubria, Varese, Enrico Marelli – University of Brescia, Luciano Pilotti – University of Milan The work done in recent years in economic research and the…
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
Digital Regulation Forum: 28-29 March at Hyatt Regency London – The Churchill
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…
Technology
The emergency of digital solutionism
The term “digital solutionism” was introduced in 2013 by Evgenj Morozov to indicate an approach advocating the use and diffusion of digital systems and applications as a tool for solving problems that are essentially social and actually need first and foremost a political answer. Obviously, these solutions are proposed – usually accompanied by a wise…
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…
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…
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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Tourism, Trip.com Group meets with Italian Minister for Culture and Tourism
The pair’s discussion ranged from co-operation in streamlining visa issuance to improving destination visibility through marketing, and strengthening partnerships with the local industry. For the leading international OTA headquartered in China, with 300 million users on its platforms in the country, the talks additionally opened up possibilities for collaboration with Italy in the 2020 Sino-Italian Year of Culture…
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…
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…
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.
Netflix, Amazon Would Be Forced to Maintain 30% European Content Quotas Under Proposed EU Law
Streaming-video providers like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video would be required to dedicate at least 30% of their on-demand catalogs to European content, under a proposed European Union law announced Thursday. Under the revised rules, internet-streaming services also will be required to fund TV series and films produced in Europe, either through direct commissions or…
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
European Parliament bans geo-blocking for e-commerce
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…
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,…
Security
China, Blockchain Group From Three Telecoms Giants Begins Exploring Use Cases
China’s three major telecoms operators launched a blockchain research group, which has held its...
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Broadband Internet: Are you getting what you pay for? You may be surprised!
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Papers
Movie Piracy and Displaced Sales in Europe
A new study published by the European Commission shows that online movie piracy hurts...