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| Press releases |
| PRESS RELEASE — 21 March 2014 |
| Trusted Cloud Europe: have your say! |
| What can be done to establish Europe as a trusted region for cloud computing? Does «Trusted Cloud Europe» propose the right approach to accelerate the adoption of cloud computing throughout Europe? Are there any important actions missing? These are some of the questions the European Cloud Partnership (ECP) is asking in a survey. |
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| PRESS RELEASE — 20 March 2014 |
| The Human Brain Project just got bigger |
| One of the biggest EU-funded initiatives, the Human Brain Project (HBP), just announced the beneficiaries of its EUR 8.3 million competitive call for new partners. 32 organisations from 13 countries – Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and the UK – will join the partnership. This represents a 40% increase in the number of partners in the HBP consortium. |
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| PRESS RELEASE — 18 March 2014 |
| Tomorrow’s Internet starts now: get ready! |
| With some 2.5 billion users world-wide, today’s Internet is an established part of our lives. But new challenges are arising all the time and Europe needs to think ahead so that Internet can continue to offer new services, applications and business opportunities. |
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| PRESS RELEASE — 18 March 2014 |
| EP committee vote takes us one step closer to ending roaming charges in the EU |
| On 18 March, the European Parliament’s Industry, Research and Energy Committee (ITRE) voted on the Telecoms Single Market Regulation. On hearing the result of the vote, Vice President of the Commission Neelie Kroes said: «This vote is great news and I would like to thank the rapporteur Pilar del Castillo and all the MEPs involved for all their hard work and cooperative spirit. Digital tools and telecoms networks enable productivity and performance in every area of our lives. And now we are one step closer. This is about ensuring a dynamic, healthy, competitive telecoms sector, fit to face the future. It’s about arming every European business with the tools and networks they need to innovate and grow. And giving every European citizen the seamless connectivity they have come to demand – without unfair practices like blocked services or roaming charges.» |
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| PRESS RELEASE — 17 March 2014 |
| Towards further Globalisation of the Internet |
| Vice President Neelie Kroes warmly welcomed the announcement of the United States Government to «transition out of the IANA function», which will allow a more global multi-stakeholder basis for an important element of governance of the Internet. |
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| Audiovisual |
| AUDIOVISUAL — 17 March 2014 |
| Behind the mask of biometric security |
| How reliable is biometric security? Computers recognize us by our faces, voices and fingerprints, but can we trick them by pretending to be someone else? This edition of Futuris looks at just how easily this can be done. |
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| Publications |
| SPEECH — 19 March 2014 |
| The data gold rush |
| European Data Forum, Athens, 19 March 2014 |
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| SPEECH — 18 March 2014 |
| Want to build tomorrow’s Internet? |
| Future Internet Assembly, Athens, 18 March 2014 |
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