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Elon Musk’s Starlink Satellites Confused with UFO’s in Greece
Elon Musk's Starlink satellites caused alarm in northern Greece as many eye-witnesses recorded what they described as bright UFO's.
Diaspora
AKTINA FM Enters New Era as an Exclusively Online Broadcasting Station
AKTINA FM, the multi-award winning Greek-American radio station which has been on the air on WNYE 91.5FM and online for 28 years, is entering a new broadcasting era by going exclusively online.
The non-profit, commercial-free radio station has recently departed...
Greece
New 5G to Make Greece a “Great Destination to Work and Retire in”
Greece has awarded 5G spectrum internet service to three operators, OTE Group, Vodafone and Wind Hellas in an auction on Wednesday that raised 372.26 million euros ($453.78 million).
Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday that the 5G service will...
Greece
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Set to Bring Starlink Internet to Greece
SpaceX, the space company of high-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, plans to make its Starlink broadband satellite internet service available in Greece in the first quarter of 2021, Greek daily Kathimerini reports.
According to the report, the company has reached out...
Education
Greeks Urged to Keep Off Internet as School E-Learning System Crashes
Greek authorities advised the general public to reduce their use of the internet as it emerged on Monday that the state school e-learning system crashed after just one hour.
As junior and senior high school students started online lessons due...
Greece
Study Reveals Most Greek Children Use Social Media Without Any Parental Control
A study that was recently conducted by the ''Safer Internet Center'' which belongs to the Foundation for Research & Technology of Crete presented some interesting and somehow shocking results about the use of the internet by Greece's minors.
According to...
Greece
EU Approves €233 Million Fund to Boost Greece's Ultrafast Broadband
The European Commission on Friday announced that it has approved the funding of an ultrafast broadband project in Greece worth 223 million euros.
The monies will come from EU funds, that will provide fast internet access to almost 11 million...
Greece
Turkish Hackers Conduct Multiple Cyber-Attacks on Greek State Websites
Several Greek government websites fell prey to cyber-attacks on Friday evening, forcing some of them to shut down entirely for security reasons, after access to them became problematic.
Among those attacked by hackers were the websites of the Greek Parliament,...
Diaspora
Greek Villagers Win Top European Union Broadband Award for Creating Network
A community group from a rural area of Thessaly was given a European Broadband Award earlier in December for its ambitious work in building up a broadband network which connects 15 villages and for hosting interactive seminars to promote...
Greece
Internet Access in Greece Rises by 69.2% in the Last Nine Years, Study Finds
A recent study conducted by ELSTAT, Greece's Statistics Authority, found that internet access in Greek households has increased by nearly 70 percent in the last nine years since 2010.
This year also saw 2.6 percent more households using a variety...