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Tension between the Flemish television broadcasting companies and the network operators seems to be mounting. In recent months a letter from VRT, VMMA and SBS to Telenet and Belgacom TV was leaked.In this letter they stated that the facility offered by digital TV for recording programmes was undermining their relationship with viewers and decimating their revenues. Read more...

This article is about de morgen, ibbt-smit-vub, olivier braet, pieter ballon in the category opinion.

INCA (Innovative and Creative Applications) is back!! A new edition. All over Europe. A bigger challenge… 
Get your team ready and keep watching www.inca-award.eu.The INCA (Innovative and Creative Applications) Award is a European competition for developers, encouraging them to build applications that are cool and useful to society.  Read more...

This article is about applications, creative, INCA award, inca10, innovative in the category News.

A Belgian start-up with the ambition to conquer the world market had better chosen an international strategy right from the start. But without any local anchor or support it’s nearly impossible to make headway. With the support of Flanders Investment & Trade, IBBT has therefore reached an agreement with the local incubator Plug & Play Tech Center, where promising start-ups can not only find a roof over their heads, but also introductions, knowledge of the local market and the resources and support to get a head start. Read more...

This article is about fit, iStart, plug & play tech center, startups in the category News.

Matthias Priem was nominated for the prestigious prize ‘the Heroes of IT’. Our ICT manager deserved this nomination because he advises and assists an all-female team, including in the development of this website. Applause! Read more...

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On September 9th and 23rd, and on November 4th, Westartup organizes workshop days for starting companies. Fundraising, marketing and innovation are the key themes. Read more...

This article is about fundraising, innovation, marketing, startups, workshop in the category News.

Clearly, it all begins with the way in which the proposition of Minister Smet is being announced in the media: deredactie.be headlines “Smet: Gaming should be allowed in class” on DSO we read: “Minister Smet pleads for games in the class”. Beside the article, there is a hungry-for-spectacle picture with gaming children in a some situation and one must think that the quote regards bloody, addictive playstation games. Not! Read more...

This article is about gaming, pascal smet, serious gaming in the category opinion.

Between 5 July and 26 July 2010 more than 1500 people visited the 'Waalse Krook' exhibition in the Achilles Musschezaal of Ghent’s Public Library. Even more visitors to the library viewed the 3D film about the Library of the Future and the Centre for New Media in the entrance hall of the library. Read more...

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Just over a year ago, Wim De Waele, our CEO, came up with a new idea: “How would it be if we combined our iMinds conference with another existing European conference so that we can generate some cross-fertilisation between the local and the European level?” The report of the past year by Karen Boers. Read more...

This article is about Call for Papers, Future Internet Conference Week in the category opinion.

Scriptie vzw is a not-for-profit organisation whose aim is to offer greater support to the work of young scientists via, among others, the annual Flemish Dissertation Award. Students taking bachelor and master degrees at Flemish universities and colleges have the opportunity of winning 2,500 euros and also gaining lots of media attention. Read more...

This article is about Future Internet Conference Week in the category News.

Copyright should protect original works and foster creativity, defend the interests of creators and society. However, digital technology and the Internet present significant challenges to copyright, as illegal production, distribution and consumption of copyrighted works is greatly facilitated. Illegal sharing and downloading of books, games, music and films, is cheap and easy, and arguably even becoming a societally acceptable practice. Read more...

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