Last thursday ICIN 2007 conference has closed his doors. ICIN, a world leading international conference on the intelligent service layer, applications layer, the signalling and control plane, mobility, the associated network transport and access layers of communications networks and deals with all aspects of services, networks, customer and terminal control was great again. ICIN [...]
comScore released the results of a global study into online gaming, showing the number of unique visitors to these sites to have reached almost 217 million worldwide – a year-on-year growth of 17 percent. The comScore World Metrix study took into account all sites that provide online or downloadable games, excluding gambling sites. [...]
Sehr fein. Nachdem die Bundesregierung in den letzten Jahren (und ganz besonders unter Schily) biometrische Pässe mit Funkchip (RFID) gefördert/gefordert hatte, bei denen neben körperliche Merkmalen und dem Foto auch Fingerabdrücke gespeichert werden sollten, scheint sie jetzt zurückzurudern. Gerade einmal sechs Fälschungen bundesdeutscher Pässe wurden im Zeitraum zwischen 2001-2006 festgestellt. Nicht einmal ein einziger Fall ist [...]
According to german newspage TecChannel Gartner has just published his new Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies names Web 2.0, Real World Web and new Software Architectures as most important topics. Interesting - beside of Web 2.0 technologies Gartner mentions Social Network Analysis (SNA) as very important as well. Social network [...]
Convergence has become one of the most central and significant issues faced in the Technology, Media & Telecommunications sector today – shaping everything from product and service launches to catalyzing multi-million dollar mergers and acquisitions. Convergence Conversations, a book published by Deloitte comprises interviews with 36 senior executives from the converging world. In this [...]
Some people think of Web 2.0 only in terms of an advanced collection of web interface technologies and consider web applications with a pop-up calendar, a rich text editor, or drag-and-drop functionality as being all there is to Web 2.0. But when these capabilities are joined with the idea of the read/write web, then the [...]
According to a new report from Infonetics Research, worldwide IPTV equipment revenue hit $423.9 million in the first quarter of 2007 – after an incredible year 2006 where the worldwide IPTV equipment manufacturer revenue jumped 153%. As Infonetics states service providers around the world increased pure IPTV service revenue 178%. And 2007 seems to [...]
David Scharf ist Student an der Fachhochschule Augsburg. Der 24-Jährige hat dort den Film “Bigbrotherstate” entwickelt, mit dem er sich gegen die zunehmende Überwachung der Bevölkerung durch ihren jeweiligen Staat (egal ob Deutschland, England oder USA) wendet. Mit dem Film – den man sich übrigens auf der Seite Big Brother State anschauen kann – hat [...]
Bundesinnenminister Wolfgang Schäuble will es wissen: Wem schreibst Du E-Mails? Auf welchen Seiten bist Du im Netz unterwegs? Welche Daten hast Du auf Deinem Computer gespeichert? Nach Plänen der Bundesregierung soll ab 2008 nachvollziehbar werden, wer mit wem in den letzten sechs Monaten per Telefon, Handy oder E-Mail in Verbindung gestanden oder das Internet genutzt [...]
Have you ever heard about an Web OS? No? I too but now there’s YouOS. A complete operating system “booted” in your browser! You can edit a document at home in a text editor and then go to school or work and instantly access the same text editor and document. In fact, you don’t really [...]
