Interview

SCS (Secured Communicating Solutions) competitiveness cluster:
"Thematic working groups stimulate synergies all along the value chain”
At the Mobile World Congress 2008, the Webzine met with Jean-Claude Nataf, Director of the French competitiveness cluster SCS (Secured Communicating Solutions).The “Pôle SCS” belongs to the few world-class clusters in France and is focused on four ICT areas: software, telecommunications, microelectronics and multimedia. Through the theme of mobility, as is MWC 2008, here is how innovation can be fostered in successful cooperative projects... [more]

News

Gemalto puts innovative SIM projects under the spotlights
NFC, biometrics and RFID are the three winning technologies of SIMagine 2008, the worldwide mobile communication and Java Card developers contest. The Awards ceremony was held at the Mobile World Congress (...) [more]

An open benchmark for Java Card technology
The MESURE project announced the availability online of its open-source tool developed to measure the performances of Java Card platforms (...) [more]

The European Institute of Innovation on the rails
After official approval from the European Industry Committee, the Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) is set to introduce a new channel of innovation fostering (...) [more]

Soft At Home towards a home networking standard?
Orange, Thomson and Sagem Communications have formed a joint venture to develop standards for the interconnection of equipment in the digital home (...) [more]

ETSI: “a new era for SIM and NFC based mobile services”
The ETSI’s Smart Card Platform Technical Committee have approved the specification for the Host Controller Interface (...) [more]

Australia’s CSIRO makes trust portable
Researchers of the Australia’s CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) has developed a small operating system allowing secure mobile transactions (...) [more]

Telisma and PerSay partner to enhance voice biometric solutions
Telisma’s speech recognition platform and PerSay’s voice biometric solutions offerings are integrated in the same offering (...) [more]

Juniper Networks joins the next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance
The American networking and security products specialist will contribute to envision intelligent, secure, IP infrastructure for future broadband mobile services (...) [more]

Innovators' Profile

EU Project SERENITY’s Security Framework for Ambient Intelligence
The challenge: providing AmI environments security and dependability (S&D) In the ambient Intelligence (AmI) context dependability and security are crucial issues. In the AmI environment the personal sphere of individuals will be an open and evolving environment. Privacy is an increasing (...) [more]


Trends Patent Filings in 2007 break a new record The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) announced that 156,100 patent applications were filed in 2007, representing a 4.7% rate of growth over 2006. Telecoms and information technology are the most innovative fields. [more] Peer Review: benefits, perceptions and alternatives The publishing Research Consortium has released on 25 January 2008 an international study on Peer review, the process of subjecting an author’s scholarly manuscript to the scrutiny of others who are experts in the same field, prior to publication (...) [more]

Agenda • Internet of Things 2008 - Zurich, March 26-28, 2008 • Security Document World and Identity Loop 2008 - Covent Garden, London, 22-23 April 2008 • Wireless World Research Forum Meeting - Ottawa, Canada, 22-24 April 2008 • All the events of the agenda: >>> www.strategiestm.com/-Agenda-Events-.html