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BELGRADE - Director of Serbia's Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communication and Postal Services (RATEL) Milan Jankovic said Wednesday that this regulatory body expects the digitalization process in Serbia to be completed by year-end, before the official deadline set to mid 2015.

BUJANOVAC - Platinum Wolf 2014 - a military exercise involving 270 servicemen from Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Azerbaijan, Macedonia, Croatia and the United States - is underway at Base South in Bujanovac, southern Serbia.

A powerful blast shook a Thrakomakedones neighborhood in northern Attica after unknown assailants attempted to blow up an ATM machine in the early hours of Wednesday.

No injuries were reported in the blast which, according to initial reports, was caused by an oxygen cylinder explosion.

Reports also suggested that the perpetrators were unable to reach the ATM's cash.

Bulgaria's Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) fined Microsoft Bulgaria with BGN 187 000, after a complaint by BMG OOD said the commission on its website. 

In 2013 Bulgaria's special services, police, prosecution and courts made 98 258 requests for information on consumers' internet and phone traffic, reports Sega daily. 

This, according to a report of the Parliamentary committee for control on security agencies and electronic information access, is three times more than in 2010. 

Around 20 000 of the requests have been granted.

Bulgaria's energy watchdog DKEVR decided to increase the electricity and central heating and hot water prices and to cut the natural gas price as of July 1. 

On Monday evening it transpired that DKEVR will increase the central heating prices by an average of 2.6% throughout the country – much less than the initially expected average of 10%. 

As of today the top prices of mobile data roaming are by 50% cheaper within the EU. 

Instead of 45 euro cent per MB, the top price must not exceed 20 euro cents per MB. Phone calls and text messages are also cheaper. 

Data shows that since the European Commission started cutting the mobile data prices, the traffic has increased exponentially. 

BELGRADE - Microsoft Srbija presented the Met Mobile Challenge award to the Catch Code team from Prokuplje, developers of a mobile phone application for coding and decoding text messages, which is already available to Windows Phone users around the world via the Microsoft's website.

Facebook secretly manipulated the feelings of 700,000 users to understand "emotional contagion" in a study that prompted anger and forced the social network giant on the defensive.
     
For one week in 2012, Facebook tampered with the algorithm used to place posts into users' news feeds to study how this affected their mood, all without their explicit consent or knowledge.

PNL (National Liberal Party) leader, Klaus Iohannis, believes that the name of Prime Minister Ponta appearing in the case of the chief of the Mehedinti County Council, Adrian Duicu, who was accused of influence peddling, represents 'a very serious situation' and pointed out that the relevant institutions should immediately try to clarify this aspect.