How new national cybersecurity center aims to make Poland a tougher nut to crack
Juliusz Brzostek, director of Poland's NC Cyber, explains what the country's cybersecurity center has been up to in its first nine months of operation.
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The obscure city luring Amazon and Oracle with the promise of dirt-cheap developers
Out on the EU's eastern border, tech giants and outsourcing companies are thriving in a city where software development comes at bargain prices.
Now the Internet of Things goes Lego, with C++, JavaScript, Python coding
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth-enabled SBricks Plus building blocks from Hungarian startup Vengit open up Lego to a far wider range of apps, coded in much more complex languages.
Get them young: How Romania is creating next wave of white-hat hackers in schools
Companies, organizations, and the Romanian government are trying to attract children into the cybersecurity field by giving them something for free.
Location, funding, skills: Is this country Europe's best-kept secret for startups?
Although it has many of the right qualities for startups to thrive, Austria's profile as a place that fosters tech entrepreneurship remains low.
Google, NASA? Why tech giants are turning to remote-working eastern European devs
More Romanian and Ukrainian developers are finding they're able to work from home for Western European and American firms which are short of in-house software skills.
If Allegro is up for sale, who's in the bidding for Poland's largest auction site?
Allegro, the online retailer that once held off auction giant eBay, now seems up for grabs, offering a buyer the potential for central and eastern European expansion.
How this small wearable could help doctors spot Parkinson's earlier
The low-cost ENTy wearable, which has been tested on over 500 patients so far, seems to have a future helping diagnose people with balance issues.
Romanian spies want to spot faces in a crowd - illegally, say human rights groups
Romania's intelligence agency and local human-rights groups aren't seeing eye to eye over a new facial recognition system that's officially for fighting terrorism and tax evasion.
Could Bulgaria's open source law transform government software worldwide?
Ripples from Bulgaria's recent decision requiring all software written for the government to be open source could build into something bigger.
Despite a war, this Ukrainian city's tech sector has tripled in six years
Tech businesses in the city of Lviv are thriving thanks to outsourcing, and 90 percent of the clients are US, Canadian, and European companies.
Romania's software boom: Why double-digit growth looks locked in
Romania is apparently enjoying the highest annual growth in the EU, and it can thank its tech sector for a good chunk of that activity.
Software dev: Why do so many finance firms bank on Romania? It's not just pay
Although Romania is exerting a strong pull on top-level banks as a software outsourcing destination, other factors on top of affordable skills are coming into play.
Intel Outside: Chip giant shutting Romanian R&D and education dev hubs
As part of its drive to cut 12,000 positions worldwide, Intel is closing some of it operations in Romania, with job loses for some Android and IoT developers.
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