Technology

Before talking about the new regulations about Turkey’s Telecommunication Authority (TİB), which are on the government’s agenda, let me mention different cases of abuses that we have witnessed as a society since the TİB was established in 2005.

Often, it is claimed Turkish political-Islam has been consolidating itself in power through a step-by-step disguised secret agenda. Wrong. These guys have been doing it openly all the way down, but some people insist on not seeing and reading what is exposed so clearly.

A man who declared on a social networking site that he would kill himself is now receiving psychological support following the intervention of the police’s Cyber Crime unit, it was revealed on Thursday.

The unit’s experts traced the man’s location and advised the nearest precinct of his intentions.

Turkey was the country with the greatest number of removal requests from Twitter in the first half of 2014, according to the social media site’s biannual transparency report released July 31.

Increasing amount of illegal online material reported

BELGRADE -- The Net Patrol mechanism for reporting illegal and harmful online content has received more than 900 reports in 11 months.

140 of these have been forwarded to the INHOPE network.

BELGRADE - An exhibition will open at the New Moment Gallery on Saturday, August 2, presenting the winners of “Wiki Loves Earth”, an international photo contest which was held in Serbia for the first time this year.

The organizer of the contest, Wikimedia Serbia, announced that the competition was open for a month and collected nearly 900 photographs by 40 participants.

Bulgaria's Constitutional Court (KS) is expected to revoke the 20% fee on the revenues of photovoltaic plants and wind farms.

The fee was introduced by Parliament in the beginning of 2014.

The cars with petrol engines are most popular in Bulgaria, shows a survey of the Interior Ministry on the number and type of registered cars as of July 1, quoted by BTA. 

Their number is 1 752 690. Next are diesel engine cars – 1 001 141. Petrol engines, adapted to run on propane gas, are 153 998. 

Turkey’s presidential hopefuls have continued campaigning by sending text messages to mobile phone users.

The Athens Water and Sewage Company (EYDAP) has decided to stop taking legal action to collect debts from customers that owe less than 3,000 euros.

The firm’s executive board deemed that the “adverse economic conditions” meant it would be better to end forced collection and invite debtors to arrange payment plans for their unpaid bills.