Interviu cu Gabriel Sandu - Ministrul Comunicatiilor şi Societăţii Informaţionale
BucureÅŸti, 4 mai 2009

• AdministraÅ£ia electronică va economisi 100 milioane euro anual
• Strategia eRomânia
• Strategia NaÅ£ională de TelecomunicaÅ£ii
• Ritmul de absorbÅ£ie a fondurilor europene redus la 108 zile
• Netcity vs. Legea infrastructurii publice
• MCSI despre cybercrime
• MCSI despre ancheta de după cutremur la operatori

IFA 2009 International Press Conference
Malta, April 18, 2009

Smartphones & Netbooks Make the News

• The Netbook Effect on laptop prices - Tim Bajarin
• Smartphones will replace computers - Technologizer.com
• Engadget: Full HD on smartphones needs home automation
• Smartphones: It's a Wild West - FierceWireless
• The Software War for Smartphones - BusinessWeek

CE Market Talk Show with Dave Graveline in Malta

• Netbook Craze
• Batery technology for netbooks: 6-9 hours
• Mobile broadband billing & usage models: US v. Japan
• Gaming & Cloud computing
• Privacy Is Dead
• Home automation trends @ IFA 2009
• TV trends @ IFA 2009
• Retailers move to home networking services
• Phone replacement : US vs. Japan
• Next in tech: Human beings as networked devices

• Cătălin Marinescu despre control parlamentar, broadband mobil & comparatorul de tarife
• TV digital până în 2012, TV mobil după
• Cătălin Marinescu despre NetCity
• ANCOM: 133% penetrare mobilă, 23,4% fixă & 11,65% Internet în decembrie 2008

• SAS' David Williams on marketing pressures in telecom
• SAS for mobile interaction or Marketing for Generation Y
• Financial crisis impact on brand building
• Shifts in Consumer Behavior
• Basics of marketing analytics:
  Historical vs. forward-looking analytics
  Customer lifecycle
  Segmentation
  Association Analysis
  Predictive Analytics
  The Business Value of Analytics @ Santan der Totta Bank in Portugal
• SAS Customer Intelligence in action
• Optimizing marketing decisions:
  Customer Acquisition
  Revenue Maximization
• Internet Marketing: Twittering & Generation Y statistics
• Real time decisioning technologies @ SAS Customer Intelligence
  Demo SAS real time decisioning: Next Best Offer
• Customer experience: value drivers & web analytics
• Dynamic Internet marketing: real time decisions & customer experience @ SAS Customer Intelligence
• Customer Experience Maturity Monitor - SAS & Peppers & Rogers

• OTE CEO: Deutsche Telekom entry into OTE is progressing smoothly
• OTE results included in DT's from Q1 2009
• Deutsche Telekom v. economic crisis
• Deutsche Telekom - OTE Network Interconnect, eyes Middle East
• T-Mobile on broadband, LTE, Digital Dividend
• Q&A: Branding OTE - Deutsche Telekom
• Q&A: Deutsche Telekom in Romania
• Q&A: Deutsche Telekom in Albania
• Q&A: OTE management & staff reductions in Greece
• Q&A: DT & OTE on functional separation, FTTH & satellite projects in Greece
• Q&A: DT-OTE stake increase, synergies, transfer prices, management changes

• Gary Cokins: Leadership is the way out of current economic downturn
• Giovanni Paganini: Cost control gets more important than marketing during downturn
• SAS - World's Best Kept Secret
• Performance Management Books by Gary Cokins
• Gary Cokins: What Is Performance Management?
• 8 Challenges for Performance Management
• 1st challenge in PM: Strategy Execution - Who Does What?
• The Scorecard: Newtonian v. Darwinian Management
• KPIs or PI?
• 2nd challenge in PM: Escalation of Accoutability
• 3rd challenge in PM: Fast decision-making
• 4th challenge in PM: Cost Allocation

• WiMAX vs. LTE
• Alvarion despre licitatia WiMAX din Romania
• WiMAX are succes in segmentul IMM in Romania

• HTC brand positioning: user-centric innovation
• HTC CMO John WANG introducing Diamond2, TouchPro2, Magic in Barcelona
• HTC "Zero-Wait" Push Internet in Diamond2, TouchPro2
• Demo HTC Diamond2 "People Centric Communication"
• Demo HTC TouchPro2 "StraightTalk" for business
• HTC Touch Pro2 StraightTalk Conference Bridge & Station
• HTC TouchCruise "GPS Footprints - The Chronicles of Your Life"
• HTC Magic Android for Vodafone

• The BlackBerry opportunity in economic crisis: efficiency for users, ARPU for operators
• 45% of BlackBerry users are consumers
• 5 million Facebook downloads for BlackBerry
• Q&A: Billing BlackBerry in CEE & roaming
• Q&A: BlackBerry consumer devices: Storm
• Mobile voice premium over fixed dropped to 1% in mid-2008 from 30% in 2006 in CEE - Analysys Mason

• Demo LG Arena
• Demo Samsung UltraTouch
• Philips double battery phone

• Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced "Windows phones" strategy at Mobile World Congress 2009
• Microsoft Windows Phones Strategy
• Demo Windows Mobile 6.5
• Demo Microsoft MyPhone backup service
• HTC CEO Peter Chou: Free upgrade to Windows Mobile 6.5 for HTC users
• Microsoft and LG Partnership for Windows Mobile 6.5
• Orange and Microsoft bet on convergence and multimedia
• Q&A Windows Mobile 6.5