The advertisements and products of the major global suppliers take center stage at the world’s biggest mobile phone trade show, the Mobile World Congress, held this week in Barcelona. However, one cannot ignore the presence of a new generation of technological entrepreneurs from Catalonia trying to stake their claim on the wireless market

17 FEBRUARY 2011

The recent explosion of a Rolls-Royce engine on a Qantas aircraft should not be a serious blow to the Airbus consortium taking into account that the company does not manufacture aircraft engines and that the decision of which type of engines is mounted on an aircraft corresponds exclusively to the airline. But the lack of public awareness of these issues could complicate Airbus’s business.

NOVEMBER 19TH, 2010

With the purchase of Palm, HP broke into the mobile device market and widened its strategy of being present in most segments of the ICT market, a difficult target that other large technology companies have failed to achieve.

25 may 2010

Alfred Comín, Information Society

Beyond the stereotypes of China’s four great inventions for humanity (gunpowder, the compass, paper and printing), the Chinese tradition has always given importance to technical knowledge applied to all areas of life human, from irrigation and canalization techniques to the construction of bridges or metal casting.

19 may 2010

Manel Ollé, Science Policy