Google Vice-President Vint Cerf, an architect of the internet, came to Brussels yesterday for an Open Forum Europe conference.
In this interview with Euraktiv from yesterday the great net strategist speaks about Cloud computing and other trends.
Archive for April, 2009
Vint Cerf and the cloud buzz
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cloud, google, internet, OFE, tcp/ip, vint cerf on April 25 2009 | Leave a Comment »
ISA interoperability programme adopted
Posted in European Union, standards, tagged EIF, eu, IDABC, interoperability, isa, reuse, standards on April 23 2009 | 4 Comments »
Today the European Parliament adopted the report on the EU Commission’s ISA programme, the follow-up programme of IDABC. The trilog process further improved the Committee report which included a few amendments that for instance forced the Commission ISA programme to spent 50% of its budget on the local level. They are gone in the version [...]
cheaper roaming
Posted in European Union, tagged roaming, sms on April 22 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Europe comes up with regulatory intervention:
MEPs and the Council Presidency agreed with the Commission that a roamed text message (SMS) should cost a maximum of €0.11 (excluding VAT) from 1 July 2009.
Other data roaming services (such as sending emails and pictures or web-browsing from mobile phones or laptops) will be regulated at wholesale level – [...]
Robin Gross on the Pirate Bay case
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged copyright, piracy, pirate, rgross, sweden, torrent on April 19 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Robin Gross on Canadian Radio about the Pirate Bay copyright piracy vercict. CBC Radio’s “As it Happens”. Very interesting how the legal case is perceived outside Sweden and Europe.
Open XML adopted as an ANSI standard
Posted in standards, tagged ansi, ISO, ooxml, standards on April 16 2009 | Leave a Comment »
ISO/IEC 29500 Open XML was transformed in an ANSI standard. Apparently the support of IBM gave a surprise to other industry representatives. Rob Weir explains in Gray Knowlton’s blog that this was no vote but a formality.
Although we (and many others) continue to have serious concerns about the suitability of OOXML as a standard, and [...]
ECHR and the public access to information
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged echr, transparency on April 14 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A press release of access-info I reproduce here for your interest:
European Court of Human Rights takes a huge step
towards recognising Right of Access to Information
Madrid, 14 April 2009: Access Info Europe welcomes today’s ruling by the
European Court of Human Rights in which it recognises that when public
bodies already hold information that is needed for public [...]
Business Plan and our precious time
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged business plan on April 12 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Stephane Fermigier posted this link on facebook and expressed his disagreement with it: Business plans a waste of time finds a study. Sure: Whenever external documentation becomes useless and formal exercise it is also a waste of your time. But: Writing a document helps you to realise the problem and demonstrate more discipline in your [...]
Automated displacement
Posted in Uncategorized on April 9 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Many people in business spent the whole day long in telephone conferences. I guess I am by no means special to admit that I don’t like phone conferences very much. The only advantage is that you can exchange and coordinate messages with others with instant messenger and mail which could be fun. Things can even [...]
More ACTA insights
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ACTA, counterfeiting on April 8 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From a Council document 13 February 2009 which was declassified:
VI. THE DRAFT ANTI-COUNTERFEITING TRADE AGREEMEMT
23. Since 2007, four negotiation rounds have taken place on an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The last one was held in Paris in December 2008 and should be followed by a round scheduled in March 2009 in Morocco.
24. This agreement should cover [...]
