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Cybercrime centre Chief: ‘We will focus on criminal groups or networks who steal your money’
New mobile flying quads are amongst innovations that will be at the disposal of the new European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), according to chief Troels Ørting.
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Smartphone exec: Tapping design to tackle the competition
Chinese smartphone maker and broadband provider Huawei moved into third place globally as a phone distributor at the end of last year. Joining giants Apple and Samsung in the product markets brings new challenges for design and branding, says Shao Yang, the company’s chief marketing officer for device.
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The world innovation landscape: Asia rising?
Europe needs to boost its innovation capacity if it wants to keep its seat at the global innovation table. Although this is a call to all European countries, it holds especially for large yet low-innovating countries such as Italy, writes Reinhilde Veugelers.
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Connected cities to cause data explosion, but standards still lacking
SPECIAL REPORT / By 2018, mobile operators will take more revenue globally from pure data than from their traditional voice services as the world moves towards hyper-connected cities, industry analysts predict. But technological standards remain scarce, EURACTIV reports from the the GSMA conference in Barcelona.
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Kroes pushes telecoms single market to handle ‘spaghetti spectrum’
SPECIAL REPORT / Europe's Commissioner for the digital agenda, Neelie Kroes, called yesterday (26 February) for a true single market in telecommunications to overcome sluggish spectrum sales by EU member states and to prevent governments pocketing the cash proceeds. EURACTIV reports from the GSMA conference in Barcelona.
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Mobile giants step up preparations for e-payments boom
SPECIAL REPORT / The world’s largest technology companies have announced new partnerships in mobile payments and image changes, as they seek to maintain dominance in the fast-shifting technology market. EURACTIV reports from the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
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UN chief warns ‘new cold war’ looms over the internet
SPECIAL REPORT / A new cold war is brewing between Europe and other northern countries and the rest of the world over internet access, threatening to block talks on cyber security and data protection, the chief of the United Nations' telecommunications authority said. EURACTIV reports from the GSMA conference in Barcelona.
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Policymakers mull privacy wake-up call for app companies
SPECIAL REPORT / Up to 15,000 representatives of the world’s leading app makers who begin meeting in Barcelona today (25 February) face a “wake up call” when European policymakers come up with proposals to strengthen privacy rules in the sector later this week.
