According to eco – Association of the Internet Industry, the exploratory talks for a Jamaica coalition that were declared unsuccessful on Monday night could intensify the phase of uncertainty for the Internet industry, and thus have a negative effect on Germany as a digital location. Despite unsuccessful exploratory talks,...

Employees these days want to avail of videos for workplace communication just as much as they use them for entertainment in their private lives. IT departments are thus confronted with the challenge of integrating the video medium into their existing IT infrastructure. The optimal approach here is to use an Enterprise Video...

What changes are happening in the provision and consumption of TV programming, in satellite communication, and in space technology? Markus Payer, Vice President Corporate Communications & PR at the satellite operator SES, talks to dotmagazine about recent trends and forthcoming innovations.  © Andrey Suslov |...

The eco Association strongly criticizes the fact that website blocking has once again been instituted at EU level. On Tuesday, the EU Parliament endorsed a regulation allowing European consumer protection agencies to impose website blocking. In the purported interests of consumer protection, this will allow them to remove...

From Working Group to Expert Network – An Outlook on the Industry’s Future The eco Datacenter Expert Group can now look back on ten extremely successful years. Established as the Datacenter Working Group on 8 November 2007 by Patrick Pulvermüller, SVP Head of GoDaddy EMEA, the committee set itself the goal of promoting...

Daily Fantasy Sports have taken the U.S. by storm, improving the sports experience for consumers, and opening up opportunities for media companies and professional leagues and teams to further optimize the experience for fans around the globe. Now their counterpart, Daily Manager Games, are taking over the world! ©...

72 percent of Germans would turn to smart home solutions in order to be able to live independently in their own homes for a longer period of time For the majority of these, data protection is an important prerequisite The project partnership Smart Service Power is meeting the challenges of an aging society...

Massive sports events attract mass audiences. They demand an undisrupted service, not only from Internet service providers, but also from suppliers of water services. © liuzishan | istockphoto.com

joining the dots in the Internet industry... This month, dotmagazine looks at the innovations of digital entertainment & AI, exploring how our free time is changing, the significance for global networks, and how business processes are being radically altered.

Interview with Michael Sahnau, Microsoft Germany, on IoT and AI. Michael is responsible for the area Digital Business Transformation (IoT) at Microsoft Germany. He can look back on more than 20 years of experience in the introduction of new innovative incubation approaches for information technology for companies like...

The technology behind the cryptocurrency blockchain is the subject of numerous myths, which will be addressed at the Blockchain PreMasters event on 12 December 2017 in Cologne. Lars Steffen, Business Development and Member Services, is the contact person for this topic at eco- Association of the Internet industry. In the...

IoT specialist and Director of IoT at the eco Association, Dr. Bettina Horster, from VIVAI Software, explains the questions companies need to ask when choosing an IoT platform, and offers tips and criteria for decision-makers. © chombosan | istockphoto.com

Growing amounts of data confront many German companies with an impossible task, forcing them to squander their business potential The targeted customer approach is an underestimated competitive factor, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises Data should be used exclusively in the interests of the...

While the image of smart cities is often portrayed as a utopian future, one of the main drivers behind the development is, according to Roman Mendle from ICLEI, the rather scary, dystopian forecast for urbanization over the next 20 years. dotmagazine spoke to Roman about the advantages of the smart city methodology, and...

Markus Schaffrin from the eco Association on the results of the eco Association studies into the German smart city and smart home markets, and opportunities for companies in the areas of smart city and smart home. © chombosan | istockphoto.com

How can companies position themselves to participate in the phenomenal growth expected in the smart city and smart home markets in the coming years? Lars Riegel from Arthur D Little, author of the eco association studies on smart city and smart home in Germany, explains. © chombosan | istockphoto.com

eco's monthly English-language in-depth magazine on Internet-related topics opens its call for contributions from eco member companies and specialists on the topics of the New Work & Digital Education. For the February 2018 issue focus topics will include Business Solutions & Tools for Digital Offices, Recruitment Platforms & Tools for Assisting HR.

In the chorus of buzz words, it is sometimes difficult to tell if different trend topics are actually singing the same tune. So how do Smart and the Cloud fit together? Andreas Weiss, Director of EuroCloud Deutschland, looks at the interdependencies. Cloud Image © lukutin77 | istockphoto.com

To inform this week's inaugural meeting of the German Bundestag, eco – Association of the Internet Industry has formulated a five-point paper outlining the most urgent Internet policy tasks from the Internet industry’s perspective for the new legislative term. Oliver Süme, eco Director of Policy & Law, calls on...

Considering the steadily rising number and growing scope of cyber attacks, companies' IT security needs a significant upgrade. A talk with Daniel Heck, Head of Marketing at Rohde & Schwarz Cybersecurity, about long-term defensive strategies, and data protection in the cloud. © kran77 | Fotolia.com

Is your cloud compliant? Cloud experts Dr. Tobias Höllwarth, Dr. Jens Eckhardt, Christian Laux, and Dr. Clemens Thiele explore the key elements of the EuroCloud Cloud Privacy Check (CPC), a method to quickly ascertain the legality of a cloud computing solution and to easily determine the appropriate legal action items...

The AFNIC (Association Française pour le Nommage Internet en Coopération) is from this point on expanding the family of country-specific top level domains (ccTLDs) in the eco - Association for the Internet industry. By adding the registrar with the ending “.fr”, an even larger spectrum of diverse top level domains...

The benefits of digital transformation of our homes, our cities and our companies would not be possible without the quiet enabler: cloud computing. In the October 2017 issue “How Smart is the Cloud?” dotmagazine explores the impact of the cloud and the smart revolution on the way we live and work. Contents Editorial...

Blockchain can automate essential processes of public administrations in a manner which is tamper-proof eco Association calls for an innovation-friendly climate for testing blockchain solutions amongst authorities and administrations It enables publicly transparent, tamper-proof, and failsafe transactions: Blockchain...

Blockchain technology is becoming a hot topic for a growing number of industries. Following in the footsteps of the financial sector, industry and public administration are also discovering the opportunities it offers. Stephan Zimprich, Leader of the eco Competence Group Blockchain, describes in an interview where the first...

At this month's Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs, the Bündnis für Bildung (Alliance for Education), which campaigns for the promotion of connected learning, launched a paper to stimulate discussion on the advancement of digital education during the new legislative term in Germany. This paper formulates...

Over the course of the recent Internet Security Days, on 28 September, eco honored Microsoft and the Deutscher Fachverlag for their many years of cooperation.   Prof. Dr. Norbert Pohlmann, eco Board Member for IT Security, presented the certificate for the 20-year anniversary of the company's membership to...

Data centers provide the basis for success of metropolitan regions Digital infrastructures boost local growth and employment Frankfurt benefits as Germany’s largest data center location Digital infrastructure such as data centers contribute significantly to the prosperity of a region – both initially...

The enduring attractiveness of Germany as a location will depend, among other factors, on its digital infrastructure. The question of digital sovereignty also plays an important role, maintains Dr. Béla Waldhauser, Leader of the eco Competence Group Datacenter Infrastructure. In a short interview, he also expounds on the...

Commenting on today's digital summit of EU heads of state and government in Tallinn, eco Board Member for Policy and Law Oliver Süme states: "A high-performance and secure digital infrastructure is the basic prerequisite for a strong European digital single market. The main objective in this context must be the rapid...