Author Archives: Nicolae Sfetcu

The term “independent publishing” (“small press”) means all the publishing houses, often small, but not always, not belonging to different groups which together form what some have called specialists have called “network of oligopoly’s publishing and media.” Definitions Pragmatic definition … Read More

More than 200 organisations and 400 cyber-security professionals from 29 European countries are testing their readiness to counter cyber-attacks in a day-long simulation, organised by the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA). In Cyber Europe 2014 experts from the … Read More

Full name: Republic of Cyprus. The long form may be used when contrasted with northern Cyprus, the ‘Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus’. However, since the EU and its Member States do not recognise the latter and the Republic of Cyprus … Read More

Vanity press is for an author to publish his own works by a publisher that provides only the technical part of the publishing and distribution, outside the editorial proper choice. So the author pays the costs of printing and publicity … Read More

Most gambling games appeal to chance: pure gambling (lottery, roulette …) reasoned gambling practiced with cards like poker, or dice as backgammon. In pure gambling, strategies that attempt to increase the chances are called martingales. People who engage in these … Read More

The regulatory situation for on-line gambling is characterized by the fact that in 2006 the Commission, following a unanimous demand of the Council and the European Parliament in first reading, excluded gambling services from the scope of its modified proposal … Read More

A casino is a place offering games of chance and gambling or casino games. Access is regulated, although the identity control provisions vary from one country to another. In the United States, access to game rooms is not monitored, but … Read More

(Photo of first computer bug.) A computer bug is a fault in a computer program which prevents it from working correctly. Bugs arise from mistakes in either a program’s source code or its design. It is said that there are … Read More

Print on demand is a digital printing mode to offer in the shortest possible time and in small quantities (sometimes only one copy) works whose small circulation induce excessive costs in traditional printing. Benefits The advantage of printing on demand … Read More

Filename extension: .mp3Internet media type: audio/mpeg, audio/MPA, audio/mpa-robustInitial release: 1995Type of format: Audio compression format, audio file formatStandards: ISO/IEC 11172-3, ISO/IEC 13818-3 MPEG -1/ 2 Audio Layer 3, more commonly known by its abbreviation MP3, is the specification of the … Read More

The image given by the empirical evidence is rather opaque, firstly because of the lack of data, and partly because of the sharp contrasts between countries. However, the industrial organization tools help to identify the salient features of the organization … Read More

The judgment of the Court of Justice of European Union (CJEU) of 13 May 2014 Google Spain SL and Google Inc. v Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD) and Mario Costeja González (C-131/12) sets a milestone for EU data … Read More