Turkish citizens are going to start to get their brand new electronic ID cards before the end of this year. The distribution of these electronic IDs started at Bolu, in 2010 as a pilot practice. Minister of Internal Affairs İdris Naim Şahin spoke about the topic and stated that 220,000 people got their new ID [...]

Avea, one of the three mobile carriers in Turkey, founded AveaLabs with the purpose of turning academic researches in information and communication technologies into innovative products and services in order to make daily life easier two years ago. Mobile carrier opened its customer experience center inside this facility which is located in Umraniye, Istanbul. AveaLabs [...]

Sony’s next generationg gaming console, aka PlayStation Vita showed its face to Turkish gamers last month in GameX 2011. It will be on sale on February 22nd in Turkey as well as Europe, Africa, Middle East, North America and Australia. Sony has just started to take preorders for PS Vita, which has 5-inch OLED touchscreen, [...]

Samsung’s flat panels see a huge demand in Turkey. This is due to the quality of panels as well as Samsung’s smart TV services. Samsung’s Smart Hub portal has been coming up in selected TV models since 2010. And the number of local applications have been increasing consistently. However smart TV applications are not enough [...]

Turkcell has been offering BlackBerry Bold 9900 for a few months. RIM’s flagship device is also known as having an NFC chip. This provides basic information exchange processes as well as mobile payment applications. Turkcell introduced its mobile payment service, dubbed as Cep-T Cuzdan, last year. This service offers Turkcell customers to make payments through [...]

Avea has been very active for a year to add high profile mobile devices to its product portfolio. Recently, it announced the availability of  two popular Android devices in its device offerings. Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7, introduced in IFA 2011, and Samsung Galaxy Nexus, which was developed with the cooperation of Google, and has the [...]

Turkish government targets to revolutionize classrooms via its FATIH project, and for that purpose, it plans to distribute millions of tablets to students. The first batch of those tablets, which is around 4000, will be provided by General Mobile. Tablets are only one part of the project. In addition, traditional white boards will be replaced [...]

As we mentioned earlier, iPhone 4S went on sale in Turkey last Friday. Apple’s fifth generation smartphone has been in market for a week, and according to mobile operators, the demand for this device is high. All of three mobile operators in Turkey offer iPhone 4S to their customers. Besides that, it is possible to [...]

The volume of digital entertainment and gaming industry has reached to 70 billion $ worldwide, and like other countries, Turkey is aiming to take a significant share from this appealing industry. GameX 2011, which was held between December 1st and 4th in Istanbul, was a good example to show the potential and opportunities in Turkish [...]

Nokia Turkey has announced that there had been more than 100 million downloads from Nokia Store Turkey. This brings Turkey the most active country across Europe. Besides that, Turkey is number three regarding downloads all over the world. It was asserted that Nokia Store has grown three times for a year, and daily downloads has [...]