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In the future, smartphone batteries will have to contain information about battery life and this part of the device will have to be easily replaced. This was laid out in the Batteries Directive passed by the European Parliament, following consumer complaints across Europe regarding the life cycle of batteries in their smartphones.

Croatia’s best football player, Ballon d’Or winner and fan favorite in the world of football, Luka Modrić, has introduced his own collection of NFTs (non-fungible digital tokens).

For several days, more than a hundred thousand users of A1 Croatia wondered whether their personal data, such as personal ID number and address, would be misused. The telco reacted promptly to the unpleasant attack and immediately started solving security problems and contacting affected users.

The last decade on the capital market has been marked by enormous earnings of high-tech stocks, which have recorded outstanding results despite minor oscillations. As many as seven of the ten companies with the highest market value on the U.S. stock market come from the world of high tech, but judging by their performance in recent weeks, the bubble seems to be slowly inflating.

Online shopping is on the rise in Croatia, according to the current Shopper’s Mind 2021 survey. Croatians mostly buy clothing and footwear, electronics and cosmetics online, and the average value of a purchase is as high as HRK 630.

The telecommunications company A1 Croatia has confirmed today that it was exposed to a cyber attack, as a result of which the personal data of 10% of its users were breached, more specifically, their names and surnames, addresses, personal identification numbers, and phone numbers.

The Croatian Regulatory Authority for Network Industries (HAKOM) has confirmed that A1 Croatia reported the incident in the form of unauthorized access to the user base and the threat of publishing unauthorized data. The telco must now contact all users whose personal data has potentially been breached.

One of the largest Croatian IT companies Infinum has, via its investment branch Infinum Ventures, invested in the Zadar travel-tech company Rentlio. Rentlio automates the operational and sales processes of hotels, hostels, apartments and other tourist facilities.

The Zagreb Faculty of Computing and Electrical Engineering (abbr. FER) stepped into 2022 with 260 active scientific research projects, making it the most active academic institution in Croatia in terms of the number of projects this year as well.

The next-generation network has been welcomed with open arms by more than half of the population of the developed world, which is familiar with the advantages of 5G. Europe has thus implemented the new technology and launched 5G networks without a hitch, and it is also widely used in the East, especially in China, where 5G is widely accepted.