Sweden plan would monitor communications
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Sweden's government presented a contentious plan Thursday to allow a defense intelligence agency to monitor &#151; without a court order &#151; e-mail traffic and phone calls crossing the nation's borders.
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Dutch Foreign Minister and chairman of the council Bernard Bot, right, talks with Sweden&#39;s Foreign Minister Laila Freivalds during an EU foreign ministers council in Luxembourg, Monday, Oct. 11, 2004.
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(InfoWorld) - The European Union will provide a sizeable amount of money to research groups this year as part of a multiyear program to spur research in new information and communications technologies. More than 2,000 ICT researchers met Thursday in Cologne, Germany, to learn how they can participate in the E.U.'s 7th Framework Program for research and development, with a budget of â¬50 billion ($65 billion) through 2013. ICT research accounts for the lion's share of the framework budget at â¬9.1 billion, with â¬1.2 billion to be allocated this year. The E.U. is keen to fund research in areas where the region has a technological edge, including communications, software systems, networked media, and embedded systems. The European government also hopes to speed innovation in areas where companies in the region could gain a competitive edge, such as next-generation Internet technology. Early E.U. investment in digital mobile communications, the Brussels government is quick to point out, led to the development and worldwide adoption of the GSM standard, the most widely used mobile phone system in the world. Research organizations across Europe are encouraged to establish a research priority, form a consortium, and apply for funding. The E.U., which launched a call for proposals on Dec. 22, will accept proposals through May 8. While researchers team up in Cologne, other partnerships are already taking shape in the ICT area. Under aÂ new strategy for funding technology research announced in November, the E.U. has agreed to pool its vast resources with those from private industry and individual member states in a public-private partnership. The plan calls for technology companies and research institutes to marry their own R&DÂ investments with additional funds from the member states and the E.U. through new Joint Technology Initiatives (JTI). The first JTI, called Artemis, is focused on embedded systems, an area signaled by European ministers as being of strategic importance for Europe's economy. European industry's own research investment in this area is estimated at around â¬15 billion to â¬20 billion per year. Â
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Sweden has submitted its National Report on Economic Reform of the Product and Capital Markets, which is part of the Cardiff Process, to the Economic Policy Committee in the EU, a Swedish official website ...
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The cellular services have promised to open their networks, but progress must be monitored, an FCC commissioner says.
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Sensing technology calculates the direction in which Samsung's mobile phone is moving--and translates the data into commands.
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Unless you want to leave it to industry The European Commission has opened a public consultation on the use of surveillance technology in civil society.â¦
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Swedish-Finnish telecommunications operator TeliaSonera said on Monday it would form a new fully-owned telecom infrastructure subsidiary in Sweden.
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Want to know how much your boss earns? Or whether your daughter's fiance is in debt? For Swedes, it takes just a few clicks on the Internet to find out.
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Users will be able to receive news alerts and information via IM.
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Ericsson has inked a supply contract with Poland&#39;s Polkomtel to deliver GSM, EDGE and wideband-CDMA equipment. The Polish operator has called on Ericsson to implement 2G and 3G network elements
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European Union governments are pushing through contentious new plans to retain data from telephone calls and e-mails for a minimum period of 12 months as part of new anti-terrorist and cybercrime proposals.
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"China welcomes investment by Swedish enterprises in China, in particular, their participation in China's drive to develop its vast western areas and revitalize the old industrial base in northeast China"  PRESIDENT Hu Jintao met yesterday morning with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, suggesting that the two countries enhance cooperation in telecommunications, environmental protection, energy ... via Shanghai Daily
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The European Union's plans to regulate new media will threaten emerging services such as mobile phone clips and web-broadcasting, UK media watchdog Ofcom has warned.  The proposed Audiovisual Media Services (AVMS) directive is an extension of the regulations applied to TV.
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(InfoWorld) - Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson will restructure and hire 500 more engineers to better meet demand for multimedia products and services, Ericsson's chief executive officer said Friday. Starting in 2007, Ericsson will reorganize into three units: networks, global services, and multimedia. The new engineers will primarily work in the multimedia group, and the bulk of them will be based in Sweden. The new group will help Ericsson better understand what types of multimedia services might become popular and how demands might vary, said Carl-Henric Svanberg, president and chief executive officer. "We and operators are still on a learning curve. When it comes to voice it's very easy," he said. "But with multimedia, what does a 13-year-old in Germany want and does an American 13-year-old feel the same? And that's much different than an adult in China." The new group will also aim to better leverage the company's relationship with Sony and with theirÂ mobile phone joint ventureÂ Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications. "When it comes to multimedia, we have exciting assets in Sony Ericsson and at Sony. We just haven't put it together and it's been embedded further down in the organization," he said. Svanberg offered an example of how Sony and Ericsson products might grow increasingly complementary. Currently, users of Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot camera-phones can send photographs to an online blog. Soon, standalone Cyber-shot cameras are also likely to include connectivity so that users can send photos to a blog, he said. Because Ericsson supplies wireless network infrastructure and develops some chips for mobile devices, that type of product and application could be created through an alliance between Sony and Ericsson. The new networks group, which combines several existing network equipment groups, will have a renewed focus on converged networks that will help support some of the emerging multimedia services in the home. "In the perfect world we will have a converged network where you won't know if you're speaking on a mobile or a fixed network," Svanberg said. Similarly, a user could be watching TV at home, pick up a mobile phone to watch the same program while moving around the house and then continue watching while moving to an outside location. Such a service would operate over connected wireless and wireline networks. The third new business unit, global services, combines Ericsson's existing professional services and network rollout groups and will focus on services for operator customers. Ericsson acquiredÂ most of U.K. telecommunications equipment vendor Marconi late last year and is in the process of laying off 1,600 people as it digests the new company. That acquisition is part of a recent wave of consolidation in the competitive network equipment market, including theÂ merger of Lucent Technologies and AlcatelÂ and theÂ combination of Nokia's and Siemens' networks groups.
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The government may take steps to ensure the UK has the infrastructure necessary for super-fast broadband.
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Prolific offenders and paedophiles are to be monitored using satellites under three pilot schemes.