Greece

The European Commission published some interesting data on Friday showing an unprecedented surge in the use of mobile phones across the EU after 2017's ban on roaming charges inside the European Union. The Commission published its first full review of...

A survey regarding consumer trends in Greek society was published on Monday by the country's statistical authority ELSTAT, revealing some interesting information about Greek citizens. According to ELSTAT's findings, more Greek households now have just mobile phones than have landline...

Greece's Education Minister Kostas Gavroglou is to ban the use of cellphones in schools for reasons of "orderly operation" and protection of privacy. According to the ministry's announcement, pupils will not be allowed to cellphones in school, which means the...

The photographs found on the mobile phones of the two Greek soldiers arrested for entering Turkey territory eliminates previous suspicions of entering a Turkish military zone and espionage. Lieutenant Aggelos Mitretodis and Sergeant Dimitrios Kouklatzis lost their orientation in bad...

  Fifty-three percent of Greeks take their cellphone to bed while one in 10 fall asleep with their smartphone in their hands, new research claims. Recent research requested by Chinese telecommunications company Huawei, trying to identify user habits revealed 74 percent...

On Monday, Margaritis Schinas, a European Commission spokesman said that Brussels is investigating if a specific third-party levy the government continues to impose on computers and tablets with a RAM memory that exceeds 4 GB complies with the outline...

The Ministry of Education circulated a memorandum to schools around the country banning the use of cell phones and other electronic devices with the capability of recording sound or images. The memo merely asserts regulations already in force. The document...

Valentinos Tzekas, an 18-year-old Greek Student, is the founder of new social networking smartphone application, the Athens-Macedonian News Agency reports. The “Near” application, which has yet to be launched, will allow its users to connect with people who are within a 1.5...

Despite the financial crisis that has been plaguing Greece for more than five years, the number of mobile phone subscribers in 2014 reached 16.4 million. According to recently released data, these subscribers also increased the time they spend talking...

British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday spoke on the phone and congratulated his new Greek counterpart, Alexis Tsipras. Cameron welcomed Tsipras’ intention to fight corruption and stressed the need for joint cooperation to combat terrorism. According to an announcement by the British...

Cosmote will be the first communications company in Europe to sell smartphones based on the Mozilla Firefox platform, according to The Register. Cosmote has started selling the 3.5-inch Alcatel One Touch C, and the 4.5-inch Alcatel One Touch Fire E...

In the last seven years, Greeks have spent over 700 million euros to repair or replace their damaged smartphones, according to a report by SquareTrade, a warranty service provider in San Francisco. Notably, 40% of Greek smartphone-owners had experienced a...

Chancellor Angela Merkel called for a stable Greek government to be formed quickly after new elections in a telephone call with President Carolos Papoulias on Friday, a German government spokesman said. "The chancellor had a telephone conversation on Friday morning...

The ancient mystery of the great sound quality at the ancient Greek theater of Epidaurus has finally been solved, researchers posit.

Matchmaking, the practice of putting two people together in marriage, has existed across many cultures of the world, Greece included.