Tag archive: Lithuania

Note to self: Do not park illegally in Lithuania. It's an easy rule to remember, thanks to a new promotional video featuring the mayor of Lithuania's capital city happily rolling over an illegally parked Mercedes Benz with a massive military transport vehicle. The staged (but still pretty entertaining) promo has found an audience well outside the borders of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania where bicycle-friendly mayor Arturas Zuokas… Read More

Sweden's TeliaSonera has announced it has reached an agreement with Apple to offer the iPhone in several Nordic and Baltic nations later this year, including Sweden (of course), Norway, Denmark, and Finland, as well as the Baltic nations of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. As with other recent announcement of deals with international mobile operators, the announcement was brief and offered no information on pricing, dates of… Read More

Last year Estonia suffered weeks of debilitating cyber attacks after it took down an old statue of a Russian Red Army soldier in its capital, Tallinn. The denial of service attacks that followed crashed computers in many government departments. Estonia blamed Russia, but Moscow has always denied any involvement. 12 months on from that event, a cyber defense hub has now opened in Estonia. It will be funded and staffed by seven Nato… Read More

The countries of the European Union are in disarray. Not politically, but in the way they rate games. According to a new survey showing how Pan European GameInformation (Pegi) is used across the continent, only two countries – Germany and Lithuania – have laws about the way games are sold. 15 others ban harmful games being sold to minors,one has broader laws, and four – Cyprus, Romania, Slovenia and Luxembourg – actually… Read More

New figures released by Eurostat show that mobile phone subscriptions in the 27 EU states increased a staggering 14 times between 1996 and 2005. At the start of the period, the average was seven subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, but just nine years later it had increased to 96 for each 100. With 158 and 127 respectively, Luxembourg and Lithuania were top of the list, with Romania the lowest, having just 62 mobile subscriptions per 100… Read More