The European Union is to surpass its target of 20 percent consumption of energy from renewable sources by 2020, according to national forecasts submitted to the European Commission.
The EU executive found that overall, the bloc will achieve a 20.3 percent share of renewables in its energy mix. EU countries are increasing their share of energy [...]
As you might be following our postings on CeBIT 2010 which concluded last week in Germany. The fair, this year, took place against a tricky backdrop for Germany’s high-tech sector which is just about recuperating from a crisis-hit 2009 and warily eyes better days ahead.
“Connected Worlds” was the theme of the fair and German companies, [...]
We love YouTube and we know how it serves our social instincts and craving for the online video sharing. But what if one day you wake up finding that your favorite site has been wiped off from the web forever? This fear may turn to reality if the new rules passed in the Digital Economy [...]
The Internet connects people all over the world. Friendships are founded, relationships built. Is that really true? Do we have more friends today than we did 20 years ago? And do we communicate more often with them? We asked the sociologist Dr. Christian Stegbauer.
Dr. Stegbauer, you wrote a book entitled “The boundaries of the virtual [...]
Today’s world is ever more complex and the lines between audio and video, data and telecoms, lighting and security are increasingly blurred as more and more manufacturers develop products to make our lives easier.
With more puzzle pieces of different shapes to choose from, the task of putting them together in a way that both satisfies [...]
Fascinating facts have been written in recent history for reasons of digitalization of everyday life. New, maybe even more fascinating facts are about to be written down.
One of those artfully created videos that add some perspective to our digital life…
“Narrow banks” represent the future for a safer financial industry, Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England has claimed. The UK’s banking head made the comments while being questioned by the Future of Banking Commission, BobsGuide news reports.
He adds that the banking sector needs a long-term strategy to ensure it does not face another global crisis [...]
While Google is already in a head on clash with the Chinese government, the search giant has now been questioned by the European regulators for its anticompetitive behavior. This comes under the Lisbon Treaty’s “abuse of dominant position” powers as three rival companies file complaints against the American Company’s business practices.
The European Union’s antitrust authorities [...]
Germany’s English News website thelocal reported, Germany’s federal data protection commissioner Peter Schaar on Tuesday called for a review of internet search giant Google’s market dominance.
Germany’s federal data protection commissioner Peter Schaar said, “The US company isn’t far from being a monopoly.
A company increasingly controls the virtual world. We’ve never seen such a thing in [...]
Spanish telecoms operator Telefonica is planning to charge Internet Companies operating in Span like Google and Yahoo for network usage.
Speaking at a press conference in the northern city of Bilbao, President Cesar Alierta said companies like Google use a lot of network bandwidth for free, something which was lucky for them but not for Telefonica.As a network provider has to [...]
