Information Society
14 May 2013
EURid, the registry of the .eu TLD
EURid is a private, independent, not-for-profit organisation that has operated the .eu TLD under contract to the European Commission since 2003, following an open call for expression of interest.[more]
14 May 2013
Future Internet Public-Private Partnership (FI-PPP)
Roadshow all over Europe
Roadshow all over Europe[more]
14 May 2013
Encouraging achievement: Record-breaking Multipath TCP connection
European researchers have set a record for data transfer using an advanced version of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). Partners in the CHANGE and Trilogy 2 projects are reporting throughput rates of 52 Gbps for a single...[more]
14 May 2013
EU-Japan … A story of cooperation
Research cooperation between the European Union and other world regions raises some eyebrows, in particular when the region in question is considered a direct competitor. Opinions range from no-talk policies ('friend or foe') to...[more]
14 May 2013
What is a top-level domain?
Every e-mail account or website on the Internet is hosted on a server. Each server is identified by a unique set of numbers called an IP address, for example, 195.234.53.204.[more]
14 May 2013
'5G' technology – EU challenges ahead!
Will Europe lead the charge towards the next global communication standards and the next generation of mobile and telecoms technology? Will future ubiquitous, ultra-high bandwidth communication infrastructure – also known...[more]
14 May 2013
Post-consultation workshop on advanced cloud infrastructures
The Commission’s DG CONNECT (unit E2) launched a web-based public consultation with a view to defining the future research priorities in cloud computing, software and services, ahead of the Horizon 2020 (H2020) ICT Work...[more]
14 May 2013
ETSI cloud standards coordination meeting
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) cloud standards mapping process is well underway. The standardisation experts met for the second time on 17 April in Brussels. A meeting organised jointly by ETSI and the...[more]
14 May 2013
EU-Brazil second call evaluation
Two years after the evaluation of the first EU-Brazil Coordinated Call on Research and Development Cooperation in the area of ICT, which resulted in five EU-Brazil joint projects in five areas, the Commission launched a second...[more]
14 May 2013
European Commission to propose an Electronics Strategy for Europe
The European Commission is going to propose by end of May 2013 a new strategy for electronics in Europe. The strategy proposes concrete set of measures to strengthen the growth of the micro- and nanoelectronics components and...[more]