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How tech is helping gamblers get that casino feeling
News Kiessling's team has just completed a three-year project to build a new poker platform (P5) at a cost of between €20m and €25m which took 250 man years to create. To put this into context, the... [23 Oct 2009]
CIOs waste energy and budget as one in six servers go unused
News In the wake of energy prices that hit 12.5 euro cents per kWh, the cost to power datacentres in Western Europe increased 13 per cent year on year in 2008, to reach €4.9bn. Wondering how to make that tech budget stretch a... [19 Oct 2009]
Integrated Business Software Delivers Better Data Management and Insight
White Paper million Euro. COMPAREX Deutschland GmbH specializes in the design, development, and support of IT infrastructure projects. The group of companies, with 300 employees, achieved 2007 revenues of more than ? [01 Oct 2009]
SAP on the hunt for more Business ByDesign guinea pigs
News In May 2008, SAP announced it was reducing investment in Business ByDesign by around €100m during 2008 with no further "accelerated" investment planned for 2009. SAP is holding back on a full-scale launch of its... [10 Sep 2009]
New Optimization Methods in Data Mining
White Paper The methods suggested for solution of such important problems as clustering and classification, were recently obtained by the authors in collaboration with members of EURO working group EUROPT. Data mining is a modern... [29 Aug 2009]
1Gbps mobiles get closer with €18m funding boost
News The European Union is to put €18m into the development of LTE Advanced. The EU has announced millions of euros of funding for a next-generation mobile standard. LTE Advanced is a proposed evolution of LTE, the... [21 Aug 2009]
Mobile payments: Standalone systems blocking the way
News The only players seemingly capable of doing so are the card payment brands or the Sepa (Single Euro Payments Area) initiative, but little has been accomplished so far," the report adds. Take-up of mobile payments is... [22 Jul 2009]
Windows 7 selling out as Europeans go pre-order crazy
News In Germany and France, Microsoft is selling pre-orders of Home Premium E edition at €49.9, with Windows 7 E Professional selling for €109.99. A discounted offer for Windows 7 appears to be... [16 Jul 2009]
Seeking memorable mobile apps
Comment While Apple has undoubtedly successfully translated the 'buy a tune or video clip' model of iTunes into the mobile application domain, unfortunately for application developers the returns are also at a similar price point to music tracks... [02 Jul 2009]
An Introduction to ISDN
White Paper ISDN has yet to become a single global standard although within Europe EURO-ISDN is used almost exclusively. ISDN is a digital communications network providing transmission rates in multiples of 64kbits per second. [23 Jun 2009]
VocaLink Ensures Secure High-Volume Transaction Processing With Unified, Flexible Infrastructure
White Paper In addition, and of equal importance, was the industry transition to the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), a European Union initiative geared towards driving down cross-border payment transaction costs. [30 May 2009]
RFID tagging tech gets privacy code
News The worldwide market value for RFID tags is estimated to be €4bn in 2008 and to grow to around €20bn by 2018, it added. The European Commission has today issued a set of principles for the use... [12 May 2009]
FIDUCIA IT AG Meets Single Euro Payments Area Initiative Requirements With Database Solution
White Paper FIDUCIA IT AG wanted to comply with statutory requirements of the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) - an initiative that created a zone in which the euro is considered domestic currency for electronic... [30 Apr 2009]
Reinsurer signs network deal with BT
News The world's largest reinsurer has struck a multimillion-euro networking deal with BT. The 42-month deal will see the telco supply Munich Re with an MPLS network across 60 sites in 33 countries. With critical apps running... [08 Apr 2009]
Photos: FC Porto on the ball with stadium tech
Photo The 52,000-seat stadium, completed in 2003, was built for the Euro 2004 football championships and is now home to 2004 European Cup winners FC Porto. This is the Estádio do Dragăo in Porto which uses video surveillance... [01 Apr 2009]
