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Europe to Invest 9 Billion Euro on ICT Research

Nov 21, 2006, News Report

Semantic descriptors to help hunt for music

You like a certain song and want to hear other tracks like it, but don't know how to find them? Ending the needle-in-a-haystack problem of searching for music on the Internet or even in your own hard drive is a new audio-based music information retrieval system.

How to apply for a European patent

A step-by-step guide to the grant procedure

This guide provides basic information about the steps involved in the European patent granting procedure. Before applying for a patent, you should make sure that this is the best option for your invention. If you are unsure, please refer to the "About patents " page and the FAQ , which are linked to from step 1.

The European Patent Office (EPO)

The European Patent Office (EPO) provides a uniform application procedure for individual inventors and companies seeking patent protection in up to 38 European countries. It is the executive arm of the European Patent Organisation and is supervised by the Administrative Council.

For more information click on http://www.epo.org/about-us.html

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) is an independent, non-profit, standardization organization of the telecommunications industry (equipment makers and network operators) in Europe, with worldwide projection.

Why do we need standards?

Standards can be found throughout our daily lives but why do we need them?

Rather than asking why we need standards, we might usefully ask ourselves what the world would be like without standards.

Products might not work as expected. They may be of inferior quality and incompatible with other equipment, in fact they may not even connect with them, and in extreme cases; non-standardized products may even be dangerous.

Standardized products and services are valuable User 'confidence builders', being perceived as:

What are Standards?

There are many definitions of a 'standard'. Very generally, a standard might simply be defined as 'a set of rules for ensuring quality'.

ISO/IEC Guide 2:1996, definition 3.2 defines a standard as:

'A document established by consensus and approved by a recognized body that provides for common and repeated use, rules, guidelines or characteristics for activities or their results, aimed at the achievement of the optimum degree of order in a given context'.

Why Startups Condense in America

By Paul Graham, May 2006

(This essay is derived from a keynote at Xtech.)

Startups happen in clusters. There are a lot of them in Silicon Valley and Boston, and few in Chicago or Miami. A country that wants startups will probably also have to reproduce whatever makes these clusters form.

New Directions for China

Added by Joshua Tong Yu Ee , last edited by Chin Su Yuen on 14 Nov 2008

China

The advent of agricultural engineering profession has freed up millions of workers from farms to manufacturing & service industries in developed countries, and facilitate the industrial revolution process. It has accelerated agricultural modernization in less developed countries and will continue to better the living environment and flourishing of the harmonious rural community; The first two decades of this century are of great importance in China's Socio-economic development. China aims to increase the promotion of "Agricultural Engineering Technology Innovation" in realizing its national new development strategy with the goal of speeding up industrialization. They believe that the Agricultural Engineering profession will continue to play an important role for its agricultural modernization and new countryside constructions.

Fertilizer Tracking With ICT

Added by Joshua Tong Yu Ee , last edited by Chin Su Yuen on 14 Nov 2008 (view change)

Fertilizer

Current applications of ICT in the agricultural sector are very closely related to updated news on latest technologies and consumer supply/demand, plant health analysis, soil analysis and also community-building tools. There is a huge lack of application of ICT in the area of logistics management especially for important, vital, plant-growing materials like fertilizer. One of the problems often faced by farmers are the lack of these materials both in stock and in retail outlets during urgent times. If this information was available to retailers and fertilizer production companies, not only can the profits of retailers and production companies be improved but the efficiency and production-rate of the agricultural sector as a whole.

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