[PDF] Top 20 Information Society Trends Issue 5, 1994

... Mr. Gore believes the development of the GII will boost worldwide economic growth by hundreds of billions of dollars. He stressed that privatisation and an open competitive environment will help create the GII. In ... See full document

... Trends: European news have been extremely rich in the last forthnight. The major events have been a transatlantic venture between IBM and Philips, and the choice of France Télécom, Deutsche Telekom and US West to ... See full document

... Trends: The bulk of the news in the two last weeks has been legislative with substantial liberalisation of the EU's satellite sector, a Commission's investigation in a planned venture between Siemens and STET, and ... See full document

... Trends: There have been several setbacks in Europe in the last fortnight:for the MSG venture, which was blocked by the Commission; on the employment front, with lay offs by KPN and C&W; for Greece's plans to ... See full document

... Trends: North American news were dominated by a joint attempt by IBM, Apple, AT&T and Siemens to impose a worldwide standard for data transmission. Other major corporate events included the unveiling by Novell ... See full document

... ISPO aims at fostering the setting up of new partnerships by acting as a broker of ideas and expertise, and contributing to the dissemination and sharing of information on experiences and best practices related to ... See full document

... Trends: Criticisms and doubts about European governments' willingness and capacity to bring information superhighways to Europe were expressed by leading industrialists last week. Those contrasted sharply ... See full document

... Press Review - Information Society Issue number: 3 1.3.94 - 13.3.94 EDITORIAL A multimedia giant is born in Germany Deutsche Telekom DT, the German national telecoms company, Bertelsmann[r] ... See full document

... Japan's than Prime minister Morihiro HOSOKAWA announced in March the launch of an Information Technology & Telecommunications committee to tackle the sensitive issue of bringing information ... See full document

... Trends: Europe's infrastructure de-monopolisation has further progressed on the margins of the current regulatory framework with the launch of the EVUA private telecoms network, which by-passes existing national ... See full document

... Trends: The week has been quite busy in Europe with a large scope of activities ranging from infrastructure developments in Britain and Portugal, telecoms privatisation in Portugal and Belgium, de-monopolisation ... See full document

... The experiment, which will involve local business PC networks, will display CNN programming that users will be able to store and retrieve. The service will eventually allow users to merge video newscasts with data from ... See full document

... Trends: The first fortnight of the year 1995 has been marked by a intensification of telecoms competition in Europe, in particular in Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK. A second important trend has been ... See full document

... EDS, the world’s second largest information technologies (IT) services provider after IBM, said it has agreed to spend $1.65 billion on purchasing MCI Systemhouse, the computer services unit of the second-largest ... See full document

... America Online (AOL), the world’s leading on-line service provider, and the US regional operator SBC Communications said they have agreed to form a partnership to offer broadband connectivity to AOL subscribers in SBC’s ... See full document

... Trends: The emphasis is on the European Community with a series of important steps regarding a global Internet Charter (see editorial), Internet telephony, GNSS and the Fifth Framework Programme. At market level, ... See full document

... the issue of Internet access for schools, the Commission will request national telecoms regulatory authorities to encourage operators, including dominant ones, to offer special tariffs to schools ... See full document

... global information infrastructure (GII) to advance development, less-advanced nations replied that their immediate concern was to provide basic voice telephony to their ... See full document

... Trends: Multimedia convergence in the US has suffered a new blow with the collapse of the EDS-Sprint merger talks. But optimism could come back in the cable industry with the purchase by Cox of Times Mirror's ... See full document

... Press Review - Information Society 15.2.94 Issue number: 1 29.1.94 - EDITORIAL IBM survey indicates interest but poor awareness from SMEs of Information Infrastructure According to a sur[r] ... See full document