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Some 86 percent of Hungarians use online video sharing portals at least once a month, according to a survey conducted by local research firm eNet in February. Also, three out of 10 people download movies from torrent sites without paying at least once a month. Nevertheless, 90 percent of adult internet users have a TV [...]

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The economy ministry is planning to introduce “innovative” taxes on global tech giants such as Facebook or Google to enhance the relative competitiveness of Hungarian IT companies, business daily Világgazdaság said on Thursday. The paper said the ministry wants to take action because multinational tech companies pay minimal tax in Hungary despite their large earnings. [...]

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Hungaryʼs ezTrade has completed a HUF 904 million server park in Százhalombatta, near Budapest, the cloud computing company told Hungarian news agency MTI. ezTrade won a HUF 271 mln European Union and state grant for the investment. The server park, built next to the companyʼs existing park in the GIMA industrial park, is expected to [...]

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  Hungarian websites suspected of copyright infringement display a total of about 5,000 advertisements, the National Association Against Counterfeiting (HENT) told MTI citing a fresh study by the EU’s Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM). The study focused on how digital advertising supports suspected intellectual property infringing websites and reported that OHIM discovered [...]

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Online video streaming service Netflix launched services in Hungary yesterday, and in more than 130 countries simultaneously, including all Eastern European countries, according to reports. Co-founder and Chief Executive Reed Hastings made the announcement yesterday in Las Vegas in his keynote speech via live stream. With the move Netflix has expanded its global reach from [...]

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Currently in operation in Hungary is a cyber security system capable of identifying criminal organisations and minimising their activities, the daily Magyar Idok said on Friday. The system also helps the Hungarian authorities fight terrorism, Zoltan Lomnici Jr, a constitutional lawyer, told the paper in connection with the plan by the US Congress to oblige [...]

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  Hungarian telco Invitel has signed an agreement with Alteo Group for Invitel to provide IT-outsourcing services for Alteo Group for the next three years, following the successful handling of the IT fusion of Alteo after it acquired Sinergy Energiaszolgáltató Kft. this summer, according to an announcement issued today. The price of the outsourcing deal [...]

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The Hungarian subsidiary of Siemens is supporting four Hungarian universities – Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Óbuda University, Széchenyi István University in Győr and University of Szeged – by providing them with modern automatizing products and development software, according to an announcement issued. The equipment to be delivered by Siemens will compliment the technological [...]

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The Hungarian government awarded Chinese telco Huawei a no-bid contract, which could be worth as much as HUF 3 billion, to establish Hungaryʼs fourth mobile telecommunications network, according to reports. According to a spokesperson for Huawei, “public procurement did not happen because MVM Net, according to Hungarian laws, is not obliged” to conduct such a [...]

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Work has been completed on creating a background IT system suitable for introducing a national electronic identification card (NEK) which integrates ID systems for various state and local government services, officials of the central office that manages the project said on Tuesday. The government submitted a bill earlier this year on introducing a new chip [...]

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