European Commission

EU & Japan researchers join forces to deliver the 1 Gigabit Olympics
The European Commission and Japan are announcing four research projects developing new technologies for high-speed networks in highly-dense user areas. Joint investments amount to €12 million and more than 40 partners are involved. Researchers will notably deliver more than 1 Gigabit bandwidth for each member of the crowd at the Tokyo Olympic Stadium, right in time for the 2020 Olympics
more
EU-funded tool to help our brain deal with big data
Every single minute, the world generates 1.7 million billion bytes of data, equal to 360,000 DVDs. How can our brain deal with increasingly big and complex datasets? EU researchers are developing an interactive system which not only presents data the way you like it, but also changes the presentation constantly in order to prevent brain overload
more
New report on state of EU telecommunications markets
Industry revenues again declined in 2013 but investment is beginning to grow
more
Commission urges governments to embrace potential of Big Data

New business opportunities with electronics
