Interview with Donald Badoux, Managing Director of Equinix Germany GmbH  Digital transformation is having a profound effect on industry worldwide, and this in turn is driving the further evolution of the data center market. As enterprises bring their data centers “out of the cellars into a professional environment”,...

 Interview with Donald Badoux, Managing Director of Equinix Germany GmbH  Digital transformation is having a profound effect on industry worldwide, and this in turn is driving the further evolution of the data center market. As enterprises bring their data centers “out of the cellars into a professional...

.alignleft > img { max-height:145px; } Blue is the color of trust and shoes have a lot to do with building trust. At least according to Ivo Ivanov, the Director of the Certified Senders Alliance, who took attendees of the CSA Summit 2016, 20 – 22 April 2016 in Cologne, Germany, on a journey exploring trust along...

eco and SpaceNet push for a landmark decision Blanket data retention violates European civil rights Costs running into the millions for the Internet industry The Internet provider SpaceNet is seeking, with the support of eco, to get a court decision that it is not obligated to comply with the new German...

 Interview with Staffan Reveman, Revemann Energy Academy and Eeva Liljanto, Cinia Cloud Oy  Frankfurt, 9 May 2016 – The Cinia Group and Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN) have successfully completed tests on the C-Lion1 submarine cable system between Helsinki and Rostock, demonstrating a record-breaking...

Best-effort principle – the basis of equality online Shaping the legal framework: room for innovation and new services Clear rules provide security for Internet stakeholders, business models and consumers On 27 October 2015, the European Parliament passed the Telecom Single Market (TSM) packet of directives....

A limited number of 40 tickets available for eco and EuroCloud members at a reduction of around 70% Datacloud Europe 2016 (8-9 June 2016) is Europe’s foremost networking and business deal making forum for data center and cloud players, their customers, investors and suppliers. Attended by 1800+ executives from...

While the process of introducing New Top Level Domains is going smoothly for many domains, a legal dispute over the control of ‘.africa’ is still unsettled – and raises questions about the validity of ICANN’s registration process. Because of its importance, ‘.africa’ was not sold, but rather administered to...

 When sports meets the Internet  Large international events broadcast live and directly to your mobile device. Interactive real-time voting for competitions, streaming high-quality footage, social media commentary – the infrastructure...

In March, the German Federal Cabinet approved the draft for a new film subsidy law, put forward by the Minister of State for Culture, Prof. Monika Grütters. In contrast to previous versions, the current draft did not include a special levy for the providers of HD TV programming. Rather, the funds are to be concentrated...

14 April 2016 - Today the European Parliament approved the new general data protection regulation, which will directly apply in all 28 Member States. Oliver Süme, eco Head of Policy & Law, comments: “A common European data protection law is an absolute locational advantage in the competition among the digital...

Interview with Marc van Wesemael, CEO of EURid April 2016 marks the 10th anniversary of the European registry EURid, the domains registry which manages the .eu top-level domain. And although managing a single TLD may sound simple, that’s not necessarily the case. The challenges of multilingual Europe – and now the...

 Interview with Ari-Jussi Knaapila, CEO of Cinia Group  In January 2016, the Cinia Group made news by connecting Germany to Finland via a new-generation high-capacity, low latency submarine cable. From Finland, data traffic comes in close proximity to Russia, and beyond that to Asia. Cinia’s submarine...

eco Sessions at the WHD.global provided international visitors with insight into surviving in a tough market Rust, 16 March 2016 – What should you NOT do when you try to do business with Germans? With a little bit of self-deprecating humor, Dr. Rolf Claessen from FREISCHEM Patentanwälte kicked off the eco Sessions...

eco Domain Name Talks beim WHD.global 2016 Die dritte und letzte Panel-Diskussion im Rahmen der Domain Name Talks drehte sich um die geoTLDs, mit den Diskussionsteilnehmern Anja Elsing von der .RUHR Registry regiodot GmbH & Co. KG , Dirk Krischenowski von dotBERLIN GmbH Co. KG , Crystal Peterson von Neustar, Inc. ...

eco Domain Name Talks beim WHD.global 2016 Universal Acceptance war das Thema des ersten Panels am 17. März beim WHD.global. Nach einer Video-Einleitung von Ram Mohan von Afilias , begann eine lebhafte Podiumsdiskussion, co-moderiert von Lars Steffen (eco) und Christian Dawson ( i2Coalition ). Zu den Diskussionsteilnehmern...

eco Domain Name Talks at WHD.global 2016 The third and final session of the Domain Name Talks focused on the geoTLDs, and the speakers Anja Elsing from .RUHR Registry – regiodot GmbH & Co. KG, Dirk Krischenowski from dotBERLIN GmbH & Co. KG, Crystal Peterson from Neustar, Inc. (representing .nyc, .melbourne and...

eco Domain Name Talks at WHD.global 2016 The second panel session dealt with the in general public still relatively unknown phenomenon of the dot Brands. These have been quite slow in taking off, despite the fact that a number of them have long been approved by ICANN. The panel, moderated by Lars Steffen and consisting...

eco Domain Name Talks at WHD.global 2016 Universal Acceptance was the topic of eco’s first panel session on 17 March at WHD.global. After a video explanation by Ram Mohan from Afilias, a lively panel discussion began, co-moderated by eco’s Lars Steffen and Christian Dawson from i2Coalition, and including Bert Hubert...

eco survey shows: Users are clearly challenged by current law 24% do not or hardly know copyright law, 40% of Germans are uncertain of legalities New services becoming more and more popular: 84% of young users stream music, films or TV series Borders should not play a role in the digital age Over two-thirds...