The domestic copier and printer market will still be challenging on the consumer segment this year because of consumers' low purchasing power, while estimates are still upbeat with regard to corporate sector acquisitions, maintains Ciprian Barangă, a sales and marketing manager with Epson for Romania and Bulgaria. read more...

Three quarters of Romanian children aged between six and 17 use the Internet, 60% of them are contacted by pedophiles and 24% receive sexual messages, according to two studies presented by "Save the Children" and Focus, on Safer Internet Day. read more...

The general manager and another two members of the top management team of NextGen, a cable TV operator owned by Romtelecom, have been replaced with one of the best-known figures in the Romanian cable TV industry, who worked in the past for RCS&RDS, Astral and New Com. read more...

Around 4% of the Romanian children who used the Internet in the last 12 months accessed inappropriate websites or got in contact with potentially dangerous people, according to a Eurostat study which places Romania below the European Union average of 5%. read more...

Alexandru Drăgoiu, the businessman who owns E-Boda electronics brand together with Honorius Prigoană, is considering launching a PC tablet this year. read more...

The telecom market will remain difficult in 2011 as well, with clients continuing to ration their spending, and tight competition among operators. However, interest for PC tablets is high, as that for smartphones. read more...

With only 120,000 people, Ramnicu Valcea is known to security experts across the world as Hackerville because the town is full of online hackers that haunt the city’s streets in expensive European cars, an article in the prestigious American IT magazine Wired reads about Ramnicu Valcea. read more...

Around 20,000 Romanians have an e-reader and a tablet PC, but the market will boom over the next few years along with the development of the content offer (books, applications) and of mobile Internet networks. read more...

Almost 90 percent of Romanian internauts browse online daily, mostly on the computer desktops, and do it at home or at work, according to a study of trafic.ro, which collected data from November 15 to December 15. read more...

The operator controlled by Zoltan Teszari and Romtelecom continue the battle over the acquisition of the several hundred small cable operators with merely thousands of clients. read more...

Porn sites in Romania must ensure any adult content is accessed solely by adult users and are obliged to check user’s age before allowing access, according to a bill the Government approved Wednesday, people close to the matter told Mediafax Thursday. read more...

iPad, the PC tablet launched in April 2010 by American company Apple, last year sold around 8,000-10,000 units in Romania, according to unofficial market estimates. Sales have seen a strong rise despite the American company not having a local office or paying for local advertising campaigns. read more...

TotalSoft, one of the leading players on the Romanian software and IT services market, will develop new products and tap into new business segments - such as applications dedicated to end users, in order to be able to speed up its revenue growth rate, Daniel Ionescu, the company's strategy manager told ZF in an interview. read more...

The economic crisis has taken its toll on the Romanian IT sector, but not every region has suffered its effects to the same extent, as businesses in some areas have managed to cut their losses or even grow, according to a study by IT solutions provider Institutul pentru Tehnica de Calcul (ITC). read more...

Moody's rating agency has changed the Ba3 rating of telecommunications company RCS & RDS to "negative" from "stable", amid slower revenue increases, more aggressive plans than expected, lower liquidity and economic uncertainties in Romania and Hungary. read more...

Romanian officials and Chinese governmental officials agreed on Wednesday, at Beijing, the organization of a bilateral economic forum in 2011 at Bucharest in the IT&C sector, Communications minister announced on Thursday. read more...

Siveco Romania won Diskobolos special award in the category Best ICT Accomplishments 2010, for the Romanian IT-based Education System (SEI). read more...

Although it is highly potential, Romania has not yet capitalized on this advantage, said IBM Romania general manager Mihai Tudor. read more...

Apple iPhone 4, one of the world's best-selling smartphones, is being used by Cosmote and Vodafone mobile telephony operators as a means of keeping and attracting high-income clients, reveal the commercial offers published by the operators. read more...

Romsys, one of the biggest IT services provider domestically, with 24m-euro turnover in 2009, counts on 10% higher revenues next year, says Radu Voicu, who is to be promoted next month as the company's sales manager. read more...