Personal computers

Bulgaria holds the lowest position among European Union countries when it comes to recycling old computers, laptops, tablets, and mobile phones, as per Eurostat's 2022 survey. The data focuses on the final actions taken with these devices when no longer in use.

Back-to-school shopping spree is giving a strong boost to personal computer sales that recently slowed after seeing a spike during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Some 2.2 million computers are expected to be sold on the local market this year, according to people from the sector. Last year, sales also stood at 2.2 million units.

Windows 7 is still running on tens of millions of machines around the world

Volunteers from the Hope Foundation for Children with Cancer (KAÇUV) have been working to cheer up children battling cancer at an Istanbul hospital.

KAÇUV volunteers have prepared a room of the hospital as a "playroom" for the children. In the room, they play games and spend time with fun activities.

The American computer scientist Larry Tesler died on February 17 at the age of 74, The Portal reported. He is known as the inventor of functions copy and paste in computer interfaces.

Born in New York in 1945, he studied computer science at Stanford University in the 1960s. In 1980 he started working for the company, where he remained until 1997.

Silicon Valley on Feb. 19 was mourning a pioneering computer scientist whose accomplishments included inventing the widely relied on "cut, copy and paste" command.    

Bronx-born Lawrence "Larry" Tesler died this week at age 74, according to Xerox, where he spent part of his career.    

The global PC market continues to slump. According to market research firm Gartner, worldwide PC shipments totaled 61.1 million in the second quarter of 2017, the lowest quarterly total since 2007. Gartner blames higher prices caused by component shortages for the lackluster demand in the past three months.

Apart from relying on the delivery of Russian jets, Serbia has a few of its own aircraft that need to be modernized.

The light attack and training aircraft Galeb and the twin-engine, subsonic ground-attack and reconnaissance aircraft Soko J-22 Orao, known for being the first in the history of Yugoslav aviation to overcome the sound barrier, are set for some upgrades soon.

Microsoft unveiled a desktop personal computer that turns into a digital drafting table. “Surface Studio”, as the new device is called, is the company’s first desktop PC, and a reminder of Microsoft’s growing presence in the hardware side of the industry that it once left entirely to its partners.

The Bulgarian PC company Pravetz is expanding the range of its products and will release its first smartphone Pravetz 4+ next week.

The mobile phone is made in Taiwan, weighs a hundred grammes and will cost BGN 169.

It has 4.7 inch HD IPS screen, four core Qualcomm 1.2 GHz processor and 1 GB of RAM.