Computing

Google boss Eric Schmidt predicted on Jan. 22 that the Internet will soon be so pervasive in every facet of our lives that it will effectively "disappear" into the background.
 

A group of pro-Syrian regime hackers briefly took over the Twitter account of France's Le Monde newspaper early Jan. 21, tweeting several messages including one reading "Je ne suis pas Charlie".
      

A hashtag war between Turkish Twitter users has broken out, hours after police raided the printing press of Turkish daily Cumhuriyet on Jan. 14, as it prepared to distribute a four-page selection of Charlie Hebdo?s new issue in solidarity with the French satirical magazine.

Hackers claiming to be affiliated to Islamic State (IS) jihadist group on Monday hacked the Twitter and YouTube accounts of US Central Command.

The hackers also leaked online what they claimed were internal documents, according to international media reports.

By Alexandra Kastana

?Success was not an end in itself. But if you love the subject of your studies, and if you appreciate the trust and support of your teachers and colleagues, then you will surely give your all. Any reward will come later.?

Legendary Bulgarian PC brand Pravetz is to make the first sales of its Pravetz 64M laptop after having been out of business for more than two decades.

There is a substantial interest in the new devices which could be purchased starting January 15, Boyko Vuchev, who runs Pravetz Computers OOD and also owns the Pravetz brand, is quoted by BGNES news service as saying.

Sony's PlayStation reported that its network was back online and claimed that it had been attacked, three days after it and Microsoft's Xbox went down in an outage.
      
An allegedly coordinated Christmas day hack brought down the gaming consoles, both hot gifts for the holiday season, although Xbox has been working at near full capacity since Friday.
      

Media content co-financing bids to be called soon

BELGRADE -- Serbia's Ministry of Culture and Information should issue invitations to tender for co-financing media projects after the New Year and Christmas holidays.

Pipe companies still deliver pipes for the halted South Stream pipeline project to Bulgaria, reports the Russian business daily Vedomosti.

According to a source in one of the Russian pipe companies, it didn't get any official notification on the termination of the pipeline project and it continues with the fulfilment of the contract.

Twitter has not been blocked in Turkey, the country's telecommunications watchdog said Dec. 15.

The watchdog made the clarification after Twitter users complained they were unable to access the micro-blogging site for nearly two hours on the day.