Telefónica y el fabricante chino de telecomunicaciones ZTE han alcanzado un acuerdo por el que el grupo asiático desarrollará para la española teléfonos móviles de tecnología UMTS/3G de bajo precio con destino al mercado español.

The mobile telecoms industry turned its focus on India at the world's biggest wireless fair, after years of talking about little else but China's huge market.

España e Irlanda son los países de la Eurozona que podrían sufrir un «crash» inmobiliario derivado de una corrección en el mercado de la vivienda.

Eduardo Cofiño, especialista en la conservación del departamento de Petén, plantea un plan turístico para la recuperación y desarrollo de la zona, cuna de la cultura Maya.

The forces of globalization present challenges, risks, and opportunities to virtually every industry in every country. One of the most important implications of globalization is its effect on the economic competitiveness of countries and particular industries. The author explores how key elements of globalization have transformed national defense industries around the world, and how these changes will affect the U.S. defense industrial base in the coming years. He focuses on elements of globalization that are relevant especially to the defense industry: the globalization of capital (finance), production, trade, technology and labor, and the changes in global governance that structure the forces of globalization. He concludes by offering ten recommendations for policymakers who have the difficult task of maximizing U.S. economic competitiveness without compromising national security.

The event launched the debate on the European Defense Technological and Industrial Base (EDTIB). Speakers discussed why the EDTIB is reeded for ESDP to be efecctive, what industrial capacities will be needed in the future, the particular characteristics of the defense sector, and the importance of security of supply and industrial sustainability.

The top 1250 R&D–active companies in the world invested £249bn in R&D in 2005/06, up 7% on the previous year (compared to a 5% increase in 2005) and accounting for well over 50% of estimated global business RR&D. This £249bn of R&D is highly concentrated in firms from 5 countries (82% in the USA, Japan, Germany, France and the UK), in 5 sectors (70% in technology hardware, pharmaceuticals, automotive, electronics and software) and in the top 100 companies (61% of the total). There are 72 UK companies in the Global 1250 contributing over £13bn of R&D, an 8% increase over the previous year. Figure ES1 shows the country and sector concentrations.

In September 2006, EADS Defence & Security Systems Spain received a EUR 24.5 million contract for the system design and development of the "COMbatiente FUTuro" (COMFUT) program. EADS-DS Spain will lead a group of Spanish sub-contractors including Elint, Fedur, GMV, Iturri and Tecnobit in the first round. Their team will design and develop COMFUT, then provide the Spanish Army with prototypes to equip 3 suqads (36 soldiers) over a 3-year period ending in 2009. If the tests and evaluations go well, the Spanish Ministry of Defence could acquire up to 7,000 COMFUT sets in the future... but all of the standard caveats and issues re: the global "Future Soldier" trend still apply, and the EDA is raising new concerns about lack of interoperability between the various country projects.

Production delays. Political infighting. Cost and time overruns. Sounds like a typical day at any large aircraft corporation, and last week's news of another big setback for delivering Airbus's A380 550-seat mega-jetliner fits this pattern. Yet the market isn't taking all these problems at the European plane maker in stride, wiping away much of Airbus parent company European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co.'s gains since it was created six years ago. Investors were far more understanding a few years back when Boeing went through similar crises. A double standard? If only it were so.

With the Concorde now mothballed or in museums, Airbus is fast becoming the current airborne testament to the hubris of state-led industrial policy in Europe. Driven as much by political ego as business sense, the aircraft maker flew for the sun only, like Icarus, to see its wings start to melt away.