Raul, a Romanian teen, has sent the American space shuttle into space once more. How? Using a Lego replica.
Following up an earlier wave of attacks on Romanian websites, the hacking group Anonymous defaced and temporarily disabled the sites of several government agencies and the International Monetary Fund’s Romanian mission over the past week, Balkan Insight reports. Read More »
It looks like Bulgaria is the next country for Google’s team to photograph for its Street View project. Read More »
The web-based startup Summify, created by two Romanians, has been bought up by Twitter, according to Romania Insider. Summify announced the news on their blog last week and said they were relocating to Twitter’s offices in San Francisco from their current base in Vancouver. Read More »
Digitization, hyped as the savior of Eastern European TV, instead is bringing us more of the same old thing. (From Transitions Online) Read More »
Last month we brought you news of the the RestartRomania project, a project by TechSoup to help several projects by Romanian citizens to find new ways to implement socia media to tackle some of the country’s biggest issues. Read More »
Activists and civil society participants in Romania are coming up with innovative ways of combatting problems they see in their communities. A recent blog post on Tech Soup Global talks about what seems to have been a really productive competition called Restart Romania. The competition, organized by Tech Soup Romania, was designed to find, develop and support a few of the best ideas. Read More »