Macedonia agrees for 5G technology
Macedonia will adopt 5G technology and for that purpose it will sign a memorandum of understanding with NATO, the country's president Stevo Pendarovski said. The foreign ministry will start the preparation of the MoU which will resemble those already signed by the NATO member states in the region and Europe, Pendarovski said during a news conference streamed on the YouTube channel of the president's office after a session of the country's security council on Wednesday. The MoU will state Macedonia's obligations regarding the ow…
AIMP Media-Player offers Macedonian language support
The AIMP Player is a fancy, free and fully featured audio media player and also offers Macedonian language support. The AIMP audio player can do more than just play music: with the AIMP Player you can, for example, also stream Internet radio, download CD covers, set tags or manage your entire song library and grab CD tracks and copy them to your computer. An alarm and shutdown function are also part of the player. In addition, the program of course dominates all standard functions of a media player such as create playlists and pro…
Macedonia: Central Bank says yes to PayPal
The Macedonian Central Bank NBRM says finally yes for online payment services like PayPal. First announcements were made already in 2017 as we reported - see Link here . While the rest of the world launches rockets into space and brings them back in one piece, talks about wide usage of electric cars or implanting computers into your brain, there is Macedonia, that still has issues with online payments. It seems that at least for now Macedonia in a recent decision by the Central Bank Authority, will allow citizens and companies to …
Skopje hosts 1st Macedonian E-commerce Conference
The first annual Macedonian E-commerce Conference will be held Friday organised by the Macedonian e-Commerce Association. President of Macedonian e-Commerce Association Nina Angelovska will give welcome speech, while Damjan Mancevski, Minister for Information Society and Administration and Jovan Despotovski, Director of Fund for Innovation and Technology Development, will deliver opening keynotes at the event. Under the theme “eCommerce: The eFuture for eMacedonia!” the conference will tackle four main subjects: Development, Payme…
Mobile phone mostly used to access Internet in Macedonia
In Macedonia 79.3% of the households had access to the Internet at home in the first quarter of 2018. According to the data of the State Statistical Office, the participation of households with Fixed broadband connection in the total number of households is 70.4% in 2018. In the first quarter of 2018, 79.2%% of the total population aged 15-74 used the Internet, and 68.7% used the Internet every day or almost every day. Mobile phone or a smart phone was the most used device for access to the Internet, by 81% of Internet users in th…
USA and Macedonia Participate in Cyber Defense Cooperation
Press release from U.S. Cyber Command: U.S. service members, working alongside cyber defenders from the Republic of Macedonia, have been cooperating over the last few weeks to share best practices in cyber security and to build cyber defense capabilities. U.S. Cyber Command, in cooperation with U.S. European Command, has worked closely with partners from Macedonia in conducting Cyber Defense Security Cooperation to increase interoperability and deter malign influence on the democratic processes of the U.S., our allies and our partne…
Macedonian sound engineer unlocks iPhoneX speakers to full potential
With the exception of “Reflection” on the iPhone X, Apple hasn’t updated their catalog of ringtones and alarms since iOS 7 dropped back in 2013. Since then, the company has come a long way with the quality of the iPhone’s speakers, but their tones haven’t adapted to meet those changes. That’s left an opening for others to create their own ringtones mastered for the iPhone. You might not think about how iOS’ ringtones and alarms take advantage of your iPhone’s specialized speakers, but sound engineer Ilija Cvetkovski does. Cvetkovski,…
Cheaper roaming for Macedonia as of August: Bulgarian minister
Roaming prices for Macedonia and Serbia will drop as of August and the decision will be taken during the Bulgarian EU Presidency, says Bulgarian Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski. Moskovski says mobile operators from Bulgaria, Macedonia and Serbia are actively working on signing an agreement. " Activities are coordinated with European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society Mariya Gabriel, who initiated the lowering of roaming prices in the region, " he added. Lower roaming prices for the countries of the West…
Less than 20 Percent shop online in Macedonia
A mere 19.5% of internet users in Macedonia have shopped online in the past 12 months, show data of the State Statistical Office and Eurostat. 59% of the users have never ordered something online, whereas 18% said they have never done it because they don't have the right skills. The data were unveiled Thursday by the newly established Macedonian E-Commerce Association, which is preparing a comprehensive analysis on e-commerce in Macedonia. Nina Angelovska, Grouper.mk CEO and chairwoman of the Association, said that the lack of…
Analysis: Macedonian Mayors don’t use social media tools to listen to citizens
80 out of 81 mayors use the social media tool Facebook for their work, shows the analysis made by a team of specialists for social media, in the period between 04th and the 15th of December 2017. Second on the list of favorite social media tools that is used by mayors is Instagram. The analysis shows that 21 mayors use Instagram, and only 5 out of 81 mayors use Twitter. Still, the specialist for new media and public relations, Bojan Kordalov, said that the majority of mayors are using the social media in one direction i.e. only as…
Roaming among Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro and BiH to be scrapped in 2018
Prices of roaming services among Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina are set to equal with national tariffs in 2018. The countries’ electronic communications agencies have filed a draftagreement to the ministries for harmonization of the roaming prices with the ones of EU, reads Montenegro daily “Pobjeda”. Regulators have informed the competent ministries that Bulgaria has already signed an agreement with Macedonia over equaling of roaming and national traffic prices. Bulgaria has said it would seek to do the same wit…
Macedonia, Bulgaria approve memorandum to cut roaming charges
The governments of Macedonia and Bulgaria have given green light to a memorandum of understanding between the Ministry of Transport, Information Technology and Communications of Bulgaria and the Macedonian Ministry of Information Society and Administration on cutting international roaming tariffs, the press services of the countries' governments said in a statement Wednesday. The memorandum is slated to be signed on Thursday in Strumica as part of a joint session of the governments of Macedonia and Bulgaria. Under the memorand…
Skopje hosts 2017 AllWeb Digital Marketing Conference
Results of the survey on overall market potential in Macedonia and the analysis of the online sale of consumer goods will be presented at 2017 AllWeb Digital Marketing Conference, which will be held Friday in Skopje. The event offers a unique opportunity for companies, brands, organizations, entrepreneurs and individuals to improve their knowledge, master their online presence, understand the market and keep a step with the ever-changing digital environment. The conference programme is divided into three sections, including e-comm…
Lycamobile offers more data for reduced price in Macedonia
Macedonian MVNO Lycamobile has rolled out a new promotion, offering more data at a reduced price. In the Maxi package, clients will get 8 GB of data (instead of 2 GB) and will pay MKD 519 for 30 days (instead for MKD 749). Users of the Mini package will get 3 GB (500 MB) for MKD 279 (MKD 399). The Mega package is available for MKD 899 (MKD 1299) and the data limit increases from 6 GB to 10 GB. Finally, the Midi package offers 6 GB instead of 2 GB and costs MKD 489 (MKD 599). All packages come with unlimited national minutes and SMS.
Telekom Austria becomes sole owner of one.Vip
Slovenia's Telekom Slovenija said it has sold its 45% share in Macedonian peer one.Vip for €120 million to Telekom Austria. With this transaction, Telekom Slovenija has withdrawn in full from the ownership structure of the Skopje-based telecommunications company, while Telekom Austria has become the sole owner. In 2014, Telekom Austria and Telekom Slovenija agreed on a merger of their Macedonian subsidiaries Vip Operator and One. After the merger, Telekom Austria held 55 percent of the merged entity, Telekom Slovenija the rema…
Over 1.5m Macedonians uses internet - 1m with Facebook accounts
There are 1,503,000 Internet users in Macedonia, i.e. 72.2 percent of the population, while one million have Facebook accounts, show Internet World Stats data. In regional terms, Slovenians have most Internet users (75.5% of the population), followed by Croatia (74.4%). Macedonia is ahead of Montenegro (69.9%), Bosnia-Herzegovina (69.3%), Greece (69.1%), Serbia (67.1%), Albania (66.4%) and Bulgaria (59.8%). In Europe, 659,6 million people use the Internet, while Facebook has 343,2 million users. Almost 100 percent of the populatio…
CNN: Veles, with fake news is preparing for the US election in 2020
“This sleepy riverside town in Macedonia is home to dozens of website operators who churn out bogus stories designed to attract the attention of Americans. Each click adds cash to their bank accounts”, says “CNN” in a long story about the young people from Veles who earned lots of money, writing fake news that favoured President Donald Trump, when he was a candidate for President. One of those who have this website is the 24-year-old from Veles who presented himself to “CNN” as Michael, who publishes political stories that are often b…
There's a Macedonian app that wants to change the way we travel in Europe
If you’ve ever travelled abroad, chances are you’ve booked a tour through some sort of travel agency. But this new travel app by developers in Macedonia aims to do something different. When in X gets its name from the popular saying “When in Rome, do as the Romans do” and its goal is to connect tourists to the Balkans with local hosts who are eager to share their experiences. “We feel it’s a missing part of the tourism industry”, its co-founder Antonio Kuzmanovski told Lonely Planet. “With When in X we solve the problem of the travell…
Macedonian competitor wins bronze in the International Olympiad in Informatics
Filip Mihov (17) won the bronze medal at the 29th International Olympiad in Informatics in Tehran, Iran. Four high school kids from Macedonia, including the PC whiz Marko Calasan, competed in coding against 300 children from 82 countries. "All of our competitors had notable results, and Dimitar Bajraktarov was only 3 points away from also winning the bronze", said Kire Trivodaliev from the FINKI information technology faculty in Skopje. Macedonian IT specialists have won a silver and 15 bronze medals in the 28 such olymp…
Huawei sending five Macedonian IT students to China for workshop
Five best students of information technology and communications will enjoy a two-week visit to China under the Huawei Seeds for the Future Program. The program stimulates countries from various countries to take part in the development of digital society, Zhou Jiadong Country Manager at Huawei Technologies, said Monday at a voucher presentation ceremony. ‘This program has enabled Huawei to cooperate with Macedonia’s government in sharing its experience with information and innovative technologies. Huawei has also facilitated the t…
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