Eurescom Summit 2002: More bandwidth for the end user
Press Invitation Under the title "Powerful Networks for Profitable Services", the Eurescom Summit 2002 in Heidelberg focuses on innovative network technologies and their commercial potential. From 21st to 24th October, international experts from leading telecom and IT companies will present the latest advances in optical networking, access... view more... (2002-09-16)
VTT and telecom companies developed new tools for electronic systems design
Better competitive ability for new products view more (2003-11-21)
Building a better telecom system
Hurricane Katrina helped University of Texas professor, Alexis Kwasinski, formulate a new plan for the U.S. telecom system: a de-centralized power architecture that would have kept the lights and phones on in New Orleans. view more (2008-07-24)
Advancing innovative procurement in utilities - EU project INNO-UTILITIES
In mid-October, the EU project INNO-UTILIITIES was launched at a kick-off meeting in Heidelberg, Germany. The main goal of the project is to develop innovative procurement processes in utilities focusing on telecommunications as a key enabler and exemplary utility. Utilities like telecommunications, electricity, water, and gas are taken for... view more... (2003-11-04)
CERN at Telecom World 2003 - Innovating for Tomorrow
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is teaming up with the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the University of Geneva in demonstrating technology of the future on the Lake Geneva Region stand at Telecom World 2003. FROM THE WEB TO THE GRID. The World Wide Web was invented at CERN to help... view more... (2003-10-10)
Ericsson head named honorary doctor at Lule'å
For his "ability, in his leadership, to turn technology into business in the stiffest possible international competition," Carl-Henric Svanberg has been awarded an honorary doctorate at Lule'å University of Technology in northern Sweden. Since April 2003, Carl-Henric Svanberg has been CEO of Swedish Ericsson. Every year the... view more... (2004-09-08)
Bull, France Telecom R&D and INRIA launch ObjectWeb, an Open Source alternative for enterprise middleware
Paris, France. Leveraging the market success of their OpenSource software, Bull, France Telecom R&D and INRIA have founded the ObjectWeb consortium. Dedicated to providing software tools for building distributed applications, ObjectWeb aims to federate European and international OpenSource initiatives in enterprise middleware. ObjectWeb software... view more... (2002-02-07)
New quantum key system combines speed, distance
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built a prototype high-speed quantum key distribution (QKD) system, based on a new detector system that achieves dramatically lower noise levels than similar systems. view more (2007-06-11)
New satellite and microwave-based systems for highway toll payment
Robotiker Telecom is collaborating with Telvent traffic, road transport and toll payment systems R+D group in the design of satellite and microwave (wireless) tele-payment at highway/motorway toll booths. view more (2004-11-23)
ROYAL ECONOMIC SOCIETY ANNUAL CONFERENCE
THE ROYAL ECONOMIC SOCIETY ANNUAL CONFERENCE 1999 Nottingham University - Monday 29 March to Thursday 1 April view more (1999-03-29)
Programme for European leadership in telecoms started
A new European R&D programme has been started under the name CELTIC. The goal of this initiative is to sustain Europe's leadership in telecommunications. CELTIC was officially approved as a EUREKA cluster project on 23 October 2003. It is the first European R&D programme fully dedicated to end-to-end telecommunications systems.... view more... (2003-11-24)
How telecoms devices will become more user-friendly
In our cover theme on "Usability of end-user devices" we feature articles by leading European experts on what is done to improve the usability of mobile phones, how advances in speech recognition will make devices more usable, and on new ways to interact with end-user devices - via brain-computer interface. In addition, we have an exclusive... view more... (2004-12-21)
The socio-economic dimension of telecoms - Eurescom mess@ge 2/2004
Socio-economic questions have become ever more important for the telecoms industry. What difference do information and communication technologies make to our everyday life? What are the usage and adoption patterns of communications technologies? How is the telecommunications sector impacting the global economy? The answers to these questions are... view more... (2004-07-05)
Malaysian Government Asks Warwick Manufacturing Group to Create Centre Giving Malaysia Leadership Role in South East Asian Manufacturing
On September 2nd the University of Warwick`s Manufacturing Group (WMG), and the Government of Malaysia, will sign a significant agreement to create a brand new Advanced Manufacturing Institute in Kuala Lumpur which will shape the future of manufacturing industry across all of South East Asia. The new multi million dollar Institute will have the... view more... (2002-08-22)
XML Web Services - The next service revolution in telecoms
Heidelberg. The Internet of today is a worldwide library, built on static HTML pages. The Internet of tomorrow will be more: a global service machine, enabling to access any application on any server in the world. The integrating technology, which has the potential to make this service revolution come true, is called XML Web Services. One of the... view more... (2003-05-26)
Eurescom Summit 2002: Towards integration of fixed and mobile networks
Heidelberg. The underlying theme at the first conference day of Eurescom Summit 2002 (22 October) was `integration`. In his opening speech, Dr. Claudio Carrelli, director of Eurescom, declared network integration to be the crucial factor for the success of future networks: "Fixed-mobile integration will be more and more necessary." This would be... view more... (2002-10-22)
Microfluidics and optical trapping integrated for the first time in new lab-on-a-chip research
Researchers at Cornell University for the first time have integrated optical functions with microfluidic ones, enabling the sorting of particles by light. view more (2007-10-26)
MobileTV - A hit with all ages
A newly complete released study by the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and the University of Tampere shows that the availability of mobile television services is hugely popular with media consumers. The main idea of mobile television is to enable people to use television wherever (TV-Anywhere) and whenever (TV-Anytime) it best suits them.... view more... (2003-06-02)
New communications services - Parlay/OSA mature for the telecoms market
Heidelberg. At the two-day Eurescom workshop `OSA and Parlay @ Work` in Heidelberg, which started today, it evolved as a common belief that the Parlay/OSA standard for application interfaces to telecoms networks is now ready for deployment. Ard-Jan Moerdijk, chairman of 3GPP OSA, said in his keynote speech: "Parlay/OSA is mature and ready for a... view more... (2002-11-13)
Hebrew University Scientist Co-directing European Research Project For Internet Of Future
As the volume of "traffic" on the Internet grows at an enormous rate - estimates are that it is doubling every year - scientists in several countries have begun working to measure this incremental growth and to devise methods for more efficient means for future networking. One major project is EVERGROW, a European Union-funded program... view more... (2004-03-15)
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