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Slovak mobile network FunFon operator offers online game for 5th anniversary

Orange Slovakia, to mark the fifth anniversary of its youth brand FunFon, is offering the Christmas Kingdom Mystery online game. On the dedicated web site www.ohrozenevianoce.sk, FunFon fans will discover seven mysterious situations, the solution of which they can find using clues on the Facebook profile, web site of FunFon and new Instagram profile introduced [...]

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Chinese multinational telecommunications company ZTE to build research centre in Slovakia

ZTE will build a scientific research and service centre in Slovakia in cooperation with Slovak universities, reports Zive.sk. The agreement was signed at the summit China +16 (China and CEE countries). The centre will be build in Bratislava. By 2020, investment will reach EUR 20 million and 100 jobs will be created. The parties will [...]

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Slovakian IT professionals criticise state digitalisation plan

Dozens of IT experts have prepared a proposal aimed at changing the approach of state authorities regarding informatisation of the Slovak society. They launched a website Slovensko.digital, on which they call upon the state to be transparent and effective. “Slovakia has spent €900 million on informatisation since 2007,” the call’s initiators said, as quoted by [...]

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Virtual cash registers will be available in Slovakia

From January 1, 2016, more than 150,000 businesspeople with an electronic cash register will be able to use a new system of the virtual cash register (VRP). Such registers can be used as of April 1 and by the end of September, more than 20,000 businesspeople – who are obliged to maintain a registry of [...]

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Eset discovers aggressive Android malware changing PIN code

Downloading an application from unverified sources sometimes might not only save users of mobile devices some money, but also pass on to them an unwanted gift in the form of malware. Researchers of the Slovak IT security firm Eset have discovered the first Android PIN-setting ransomware. LockerPIN sets or changes the device’s PIN lock, unbeknownst [...]

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Slovak arm of Samsung Electronics marks its 10th anniversary of operation

The Slovak arm of Samsung Electronics Czech and Slovak has been marking its 10th anniversary of operation. What have been the milestones of Samsung Electronics in Slovakia?  Peter Tvrdoň (PT): This anniversary is also my personal one as I was at its very opening in 2005 and was building the Slovak branch. We started as [...]

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Slovak Telekom offers smartphone diagnostics application

Slovak Telekom offers the application MobileScan to help diagnose problems on smartphones running the Android OS. The application tests hardware, functions, applications and advanced set-up of the phone, records test results and recommends solutions. MobileScan can check for example Security and Privacy issues such as setup and offer tips for increasing security and data privacy; [...]

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36-hectare High-Tech Park is planed to establish in slovakian village

A small village in eastern Slovakia near the Hungarian borders, Kechnec, continues to build. After it having managed to build an industrial park and lure attractive investors, it now eyes advanced technologies. Village mayor Jozef Konkoly has unveiled plans to establish in Kechnec a 36-hectare High-Tech Park in the next few years. “Having already jobs [...]

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New mobile network could be tested in Slovakia

SLOVAKIA, a country of the 5.4-million population prone to test the latest technical innovations, may become a testing ground for another novelty – a new mobile network developed by a Chinese company. “Slovakia is an optimal country for testing most state-of-the-art technologies,” said Speaker of Parliament Peter Pellegrini on May 25 when visiting a technological [...]

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Digital agenda – the hot topic for Slovakia

The strategy for building a digital single market is a strong candidate as a priority of the Slovak Presidency of the Council of the EU. This was said yesterday (May 11) by State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic Peter Javorčík at the National Convent on EU workshop, [...]

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