Technology

A project announced by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras last November to improve wireless Internet access across Greece is now getting under way.

An invitation for expressions of interest in the tender was published on Tuesday so that it can be incorporated in the regional programs of the European Union-subsidized National Strategic Reference Framework.

The Family and Social Policies Ministry has called on parents to join Facebook and Twitter if their children have accounts, in a recently released book titled as “Family and Internet.”

The Bulgarian branch of French petrol company Total announced a public tender for exploration drilling in the Khan Asparuh gas field off the Bulgarian Black Sea coast. 

The expected price of the drilling is around BGN 100 M, reports Capital daily. 

The estimated gas deposits in the Khan Asparuh field are between 42 and 84 B cubic meters of gas. 

BELGRADE - A total of RSD 3.1 billion have so far been raised for flood victims, the ministry of finance has announced.

More precisely, a total of RSD 1.62 billion have been donated to the dinar account, and around EUR 3.27 million, USD 11.04 million, CHF 134,556, GBP 876.07 and RUB 7.9 million to the forex account.

People in the two Balkan countries will be able to use PayPal services as of this week, the company announced.

The entry of PayPal to Macedonia and Montenegro forms part of an expansion of services to ten new countries across the world.

The government is set to include energy saving investments within the scope of incentives, as it hopes to save around 15 billion lira-worth of energy per year, Energy Minister Taner Yıldız has announced.

Speaking at a meeting on the issue, Yıldız said increasing energy efficiency across the whole sector would earn the Turkish economy around 65 billion liras by 2023.

Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, the former head of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), who has been nominated as the joint presidential candidate of Turkey’s two major opposition parties, quickly topped Twitter’s Worldwide Trending Topics list on June 16.

BELGRADE - An exhibition titled Art in Dark Times, featuring 34 cartoonists and illustrators from the former Yugoslavia, will open on June 17 at Belgrade's Mikser House, the organisers have announced.

The exhibition consists of 101 newspaper cartoons portraying the Yugoslav conflict from all perspectives, created by renowned cartoonists and illustrators from the former Yugoslavia.

Bulgaria's energy watchdog DKEVR proposes a significant cut in the prices at which the energy from renewable sources is bought off.

The DKEVR report, publicly discussed on Monday, proposes a 20% decrease of the price of electricity from wind and between 50 and 60% cut of the solar energy prices. 

Evidence given by a key witness in the Ericsson cash-for-deals scandal appears to back allegations that the Swedish mobile telecoms giant bribed Greek officials to secure a 561-million-euro contract in 1999.