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Legal Eye: Where are Europe's next-gen nets?
Comment Ofcom and the EC are set to make decisions that could affect the scope and speed of NGN deployment in Europe and could determine the types of competitive retail services that users can economically provide over the... [29 Oct 2008]
How global computing grid could save the world
News Foster says countries could follow the joined-up approach of the LHC Grid - which draws on a range of grids including the EC-funded Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (Egee) and the Open Science Grid in the US - to build... [20 Oct 2008]
Artificial intelligence to join phishing fight in 2009
News US security company Symantec, German research organisation Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, ISP Tiscali and their partners have pooled their expertise on machine learning, image recognition, text extraction and security to build the... [13 Oct 2008]
Viviane Reding
AS Profile As an EC commissioner, Reding is involved in proposing legislation and overseeing its implementation. Viviane Reding, the formidable European commissioner for information society and media, makes her second appearance on... [07 Oct 2008]
EC calls for more cuts on the cost to roam
News The European Commission is pushing for further cuts to roaming charges in Europe. The Commission on Tuesday proposed that charges for roaming text messages be slashed by 60 per cent by next summer. It proposed a retail cap of €0.11... [24 Sep 2008]
Planning-Based Scheduling for SLA-Awareness and Grid Integration
White Paper The EC-funded project HPC4U (Highly Predictable Clusters for Internet Grids) aimed at introducing SLA-awareness in local resource management systems, while the EC-funded project AssessGrid introduced the... [11 Sep 2008]
Red tape hampering tech research
News EC commissioner and scourge of mobile network operators, Viviane Reding, has blamed red tape for hampering Europe's efforts to capitalise on its high tech research. The EC is set to invest €9bn in... [05 Sep 2008]
Fibre era fraught with roadblocks: EC
News The EC believes telecoms operators should be obliged to inform their customers without delay whenever their personal data has been compromised - in order to boost consumer trust in the security of comms services. [04 Sep 2008]
Mobile roaming in Europe gets cheaper
News The cap was introduced by the EC back in 2007 as part of the EU Roaming Regulation, which came into force on 30 June that year and was aimed at driving down the costs for consumers of using their mobiles when abroad in... [29 Aug 2008]
Gov't spends £18m on comms surveillance
News Grants for ISPs and telcos to store this information were made available both under section 106 of the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001, and under Data Retention (EC Directive) Regulations 2007. [07 Aug 2008]
Yahoo!'s board gets shareholder backing
News Viviane Reding EC Yahoo! s board of directors won strong backing from shareholders at its annual meeting on Friday, with Jerry Yang, the company's embattled CEO, receiving 85 per cent of the vote in his favour. [04 Aug 2008]
Infosys launches radical retail tech services
News Viviane Reding EC Infosys CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan is an unassuming man, who doesn't use his position to be imposing. It's less important for him to be the company's controller than to look like he is. [01 Aug 2008]
EC gives HP-EDS merger the nod
News A proposed acquisition by HP of computer services company EDS has won approval from the European Commission. In May, HP announced it would buy EDS for $25 per share, or $13.9bn. Under the deal, EDS will operate as a new business unit... [29 Jul 2008]
EC shies away from data-roaming regulation
News Mobile users should be made more aware of how much data they are using while abroad in Europe, the director general for the information society and media at the European Commission has said. Speaking at a Westminster e-Forum on data... [22 Jul 2008]
SMS roaming cuts 'could stifle competition'
News Mobile operator industry body, the GSMA, has poured cold water on plans by European Commission (EC) telecoms commissioner, Viviane Reding, to create a single market for mobile text services in Europe and cap the cost of... [16 Jul 2008]
