"Discount hypermarket chain Lidl will start selling mobile-phone subscriptions in the first quarter, news website hwsw.hu reports. Industry sources speaking on condition of anonymity said Lidl will not become a virtual mobile service operator but will act as a sales agent for Magyar Telekom. more »

"Media and communications authority NMHH has excluded RCS & RDS, the company behind the brand name Digi, and Vietnamese telecom company Viettel from the 900MHz frequency tender. Only Magyar Telekom, Vodafone, Telenor and a consortium of state companies Magyar Posta, MVM and MFB Invest filed valid applications for future bidding, the NMHH said. more »

"Hardwares, softwares, signal frequencies, consoles and plugs… All indispensable tools and phrases of computer usage and communication via Internet; keywords from the basic vocabulary of the digital age. But do we really know their meanings and exact definitions? Could we illustrate them? Do we understand the precisely aligned operation of the physical and logical joints and adjustments necessary for data transmission? What exactly goes on between controller and adapter and input and output units? Under the supervision of Júlia Bársony, the students and alumni of the Mohogy-Nagy University's Media Institute now attempt to create a living reconstruction of these communication processes and operations, based on philosopher and essayist József Tillmann's writings on informational hierarchy theory. more »