Policy makers called upon to liberalize frequencies for new telecommunications services 13. September 2007 by Thomas Jannot The German market for information technology, telecommunications and digital consumer electronics (ITK market) has not been growing homogeniously in 2007. While the information technology and digital consumer electronics segments have been growing by between 3 to 6 percent so far, the telecommunications sector suffers from turnover drops due to sharply falling prices, said the German …
EU Commission curbs ecomomic growth optimism 12. September 2007 by Thomas Jannot In its latest autumn interim report the EU Commission forecasts less growth of the European economy. Thus, for the second half of 2007 it forecast just 2.8% of growth in the EU and 2.4% for Germany. Both these figures differ by 0.1% from the values expected in the Commission´s previous report published in spring this …
Working abroad fascinates the young generation 12. September 2007 by Thomas Jannot More than half (56%) of young Europeans prefer applying for a job abroad, if there is the possibility to do so. This is the finding of a study which looked into the issues job seekers aged between 16 and 25 years attach importance to.
Textile & fashion industry comes to an agreement with China in order to fight counterfeiters 12. September 2007 by Thomas Jannot According to the Federal Ministry of Justice, the German Association of textiles and fashion came to an agreement with China on the protection of intellectual property. Additional agreements were concluded with India and Russia. The objectives of these are stricter controls on trade fairs in order to fight counterfeiting as well as raising awareness in …
Small enterprises hardly receive public research grants 12. September 2007 by Thomas Jannot Small and medium-sized entities (SMEs) miss out when it comes to receiving public research funding. This fact was revealed by a study conducted by the »Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln Consult« (IW Consult) in Cologne. According to this study, just 8% of small companies (those generating up to 1 million Euros of annual turnover) received …
Improving IT security by playing attacker 11. September 2007 by Thomas Jannot The world wide web leaves the door wide open to internet spies. Last year the number of online felonies increased by 27% in Germany. Even seemingly secure IT systems such as those of the Federal Chancellery were spied on using relatively simple methods. The reason for this is that companies and organizations still much too …
5.6 percent more turnover in goods producing industry 11. September 2007 by Thomas Jannot According to provisional data provided by the Federal Statistical Office turnover in adjusted real figures increased by 5.6% in July this year as compared to July 2006. This growth is slightly smaller than that in June (+5.9%). As compared to June 2007 turnover increased by 0.1% in July (June: -0.4%).
More than 300 applications for German Internet Prize 10. September 2007 by Thomas Jannot According to the German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media (BITKOM) more than 300 innovative small and medium-sized entities (SMEs) have submitted their applications for the German Internet Prize 2007. This renowned IT award honours innovative high-tech solutions which have proved to improve the competitiveness of SMEs. The award ceremony will be the …
CRM strategies for SMEs 8. September 2007 by Thomas Jannot »The future of small and medium-sized entities« is the principal topic of this year´s day of entrepreneurs at the university of the Saarland. One of the main topics will be CRM strategies for small and medium-sized entities (SMEs). This event will take place on September 17th in the lecture hall of the university of the …
ECB leaves key interest rates unchanged at 4 percent 8. September 2007 by Thomas Jannot At its most recent meeting the Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) decided to leave the key interest rate unchanged at 4.00%. Two other key interest rates were left unchanged at 5.00 and 3.00% respectively as well. By taking this step the ECB gave the stability of financial markets priority over measures counteracting inflationary …