Web & Internet

Bucharest is falling down

by Craig Turp August 23, 2010 Bucharest

 Follow enough Romanians on Twitter and it becomes all too apparent all too quickly that unreliable internet connections are one of the great gripes of the country’s twittering classes. There is little point in Romania having the fourth fastest average internet connection in the world (true: read more here) if you can’t use it for [...]

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Romtelecom Clicknet: Customer service fail

by Craig Turp March 28, 2010 Bucharest

 Incredible. Just days after we were singing their praises, Romtelecom’s excellent internet service Clicknet has let us down. Very badly. Not, we hasten to add, in terms of the internet connection itself. There can be no doubt that Clicknet supplies the most reliable internet service in Romania. This is not the issue. The issue is [...]

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That’s us out of business then…

by Craig Turp March 19, 2009 Media

 Romanian media slam plans to curb freedoms The Associated Press Wednesday, March 18, 2009 BUCHAREST, Romania: Media freedom groups criticized Romanian government plans that would allow people to sue for libel on behalf of the dead. The groups said draft legislation would limit press freedoms amid a continuing struggle between journalists and authorities since Romania [...]

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Good, original Romanian start-ups

by Craig Turp March 10, 2009 Romania

 Talking last week to friends who are far more clued up in the world of technology than we are, Romania was spoken of very highly as a source of both programmers and ideas. The former we knew, the latter… hmmm. Not so sure. There are successful Romanian start-ups all over the place (Trilulilu, Best Jobs [...]

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A New Low for Romanian Journalism

by Craig Turp February 25, 2009 Media

 Sorry to go on, and on, and on, but a headline we saw today defied belief… ‘Five Dead at Amsterdam Airport; Adi Mutu Can’t Fly to Amsterdam’. It appears on the website of www.sport.ro, a sports broadcaster, Sport.ro (known as ‘No Sport.ro’ for the fact that it shows very little actual sport), owned by Pro [...]

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Bucharest 1964: A Thousand Thanks to Alex Galmeanu

by Craig Turp February 21, 2009 Bucharest

 Don’t know who Alex Galmeanu is, but he has a blog, and a site, which deserve your urgent attention. If I ever meet him I will shake his hand and buy him a drink: these photos of Bucharest in 1964 are (probably quite literally) priceless. I know not where he got them from (and unless [...]

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Studio Martin & SMS Sp*m

by Craig Turp February 20, 2009 Media

 We got an SMS just now, from Club Martin, telling us that Studio Martin has some German DJs playing tonight and tomorrow. The content of the message is irrelevant: this is spam. We have never signed up to any Studio Martin mailing list. Coming from a club owned and run by some fairly western-looking people [...]

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