Electronic engineering

Police in Larissa were on Sunday seeking the unknown operator of a remote-controlled toy helicopter which landed on the grounds of the prison in the central Greek city on Friday bearing five cell phones.

Thousands of TV viewers in Attica, the Saronic islands, central and northern Evia and some parts of the Cyclades will receive a digital signal for the first time on Friday, when analogue broadcasts to these parts of Greece stop.

The switch is also set to affect thousands of others who already receive digital broadcasts.

AGERPRES special correspondent Catalina Matei reports: Romania has continued to make progress in achieving the objectives of the European Digital Agenda (DAE) in 2012/2013, a report released on Tuesday by the European Commission referring to the telecommunications market in the EU and the current regulations shows.

Authorities in Brazil say a group of bandits raided a Samsung electronics factory and made off with about USD 36 M worth of cellphones and computers, reports AP. 

The dramatic heist, carried out by armed robbers who carjacked a shuttle used by factory employees, took place overnight on Monday during nearly four hours in Campinas in the southeastern state of Sao Paulo.

Mobile wallet service Isis is changing its name to distance itself from an acronym used to refer to militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
      

The National Education Ministry and Samsung Electronics Romania signed on Thursday the extension of the partnership for supporting digital education in the next school year.

A civil engineer believed to be behind a major property scam was arrested in Holargos, northeastern Athens, on Tuesday.

The 57-year-old, allegedly working with an appeals court judge, a first instance prosecutor, lawyers, tax officials, police officers and others, set up a series of bogus companies that would buy properties at rigged auctions.

BELGRADE - The year of 2014 has been declared the year of Mihajlo Pupin (1854-1935), a world-renowned scientist, innovator and a great Serbian patriot.

Pupin was born on October 9, 1854, in Idvor, to a Banat rural family, which had ten children.

By Vangelis Mandravelis

The telecommunications market in Greece is abuzz with developments as judgment day looms for some of the industry’s main players. This mainly concerns companies currently operating on a razor’s edge such as Hellas Online (HOL) and Cyta Hellas.

Bulgaria's three mobile operators will change the mobile phone calls tariffs as of mid-April.

The new tariffs, which come into effect after a decision of Bulgaria's  Communications Regulation Commission (CRC), might lower the prices of some  phone calls.