Ten Slovak SMEs have been included to last Central Europe Technology Fast 50. During last 6 years it is prepared by the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu . All mention Slovak companies are technology companies with high qualified human resources and which can fully profited on existing business potential in their region. During last 3-5 years, some of them increased own annual profit several times year-by-year. The most significant challenge for the future is for them to ensure further high technology development and creation of adequate company?s infrastructure aiming support its further economic growth.
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I was recently contacted by Jedlet, an eLearning group in Canada, for comments on an article, discussing eLearning developments in Hungary.
The conclusions? The best you could say is the need is growing, but according to local experts it’s still too early to talk about any kind of ‘breakthrough’.
The most interesting insight came from Dr. Arpad Balogh from the College of Nyiregyhaza:
“We have the largest IT centre in Hungary’s northeastern region, and recently student enrollment has increased from 3,000 to 15,000 students. In order to cope with this increase, we are developing our e-learning initiative rapidly in the hope that the demand on our physical resources will decrease while providing flexibility to both professors and students.”
The page also offers links to an article called eLearning at home: what’s stewing in our saucepans?.
Two years ago an old friend visiting from New York asked me for a list of local wireless hotspots and I just laughed at him. We searched downtown Budapest together and discovered just two.
My how times have changed.
Here’s a cool little interactive map of Hungary’s wifi hotspots. You can search by location, and it break downs the results into ‘free’ and ‘commercial’.
Who would have guessed that Hajd?szoboszl? has seven hotspots?
An international consortium headed by the German company Empirica is carrying out a survey on e-business use in ten European economy sectors. The a eBusiness Watch survey, which has been in progress since 2002 and will continue at least till the end of this year, focuses on small and medium enterprises.
In February 2005, 5200 phone calls were made with managers of companies from the following ten sectors (food processing industry, textile industry, printing, pharmaceutical industry, machine- building, automobile industry, aeronautics, tourism, information technologies and civil engineering). The results regard the following seven EU countries: Czech Republic, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Poland and UK and were published in May 2005. Next to the survey, 110 case studies were elaborated in last two years.
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An international consortium headed by the German company Empirica is carrying out a survey on e-business use in ten European economy sectors. The a eBusiness Watch survey, which has been in progress since 2002 and will continue at least till the end of this year, focuses on small and medium enterprises.
In February 2005, 5200 phone calls were made with managers of companies from the following ten sectors (food processing industry, textile industry, printing, pharmaceutical industry, machine- building, automobile industry, aeronautics, tourism, information technologies and civil engineering) in seven countries including the Czech Republic. Survey results were published in May 2005. Next to the survey, 110 case studies were elaborated in last two years.
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Europe developed an early lead in mobile telephony, in large part because the major players agreed on the GSM communications standard. Using one common standard made it easy for operators to share network infrastructure, and ensured that clients could easily roam from network to network, as well as from country to country.
In a similar manner, the FP6-funded SEMOPS project – led by a mostly Hungarian consortium of companies - has created an infrastructure for making payments with a mobile telephone, which they see as the first step toward an era of ubiquitous m-commerce.
A major barrier to the wider adoption of mobile payments is the lack of a cheap, secure and universally applicable payment infrastructure. Mobile payment systems that exist today are limited and proprietary solutions. Such systems are relatively expensive to build, and their application is limited to a single purpose. For example, in many cities, motorists may now pay their parking meters with a mobile telephone, however these solutions cannot be used at the flower shop round the corner. Continue reading ‘Semops: Launching an era of mobile payments’
The European Commission organised on Friday 12 November 2004 a high level workshop to present the results of the study on good public national and regional policies in support of the competitiveness of the ICT sector, in which LL&A participated as a consortium member along with Fraunhofer Institute Systems and Innovation Research (FhG-ISI - Germany) and the Strategy, Technology and Policy Institute of the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO-STB). Continue reading ‘Improving the competitiveness of the European ICT sector: high level European workshop on good public national and regional policies’
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