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Romtelecom will be able to focus on providing new and innovative services to its subscribers as a result of a five-year managed services agreement with Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC). The Romanian operator is handing over responsibility for part of its field operations activities starting from January 4, 2010.

Approachable New Smartphone Offers Email, Messaging, Social Networking, Music and Entertainment for People on the Go.

After an intense competition among finalists chosen from a pool of more than 300,000 students from more than 100 countries and regions, Microsoft Corp. announced the winners of Imagine Cup 2009. Celebrating first place, Romania's Team SYTECH won the worldwide Software Design invitational, South Korea's Team Wafree won the Embedded Development invitational and Brazil's Team LEVV It won the Game Development challenge.

"Peace" is Depeche Mode's second single from their most recent studio album, Sounds of the Universe, and their 47th UK single overall. It was released on June 15, 2009.

Orange Romania and Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today launched the BlackBerry Curve 8900. In addition to exceptional phone, email, messaging, organizer, web browser and multimedia applications, the BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphone features global connectivity support, built-in Wi-Fi and GPS, a next generation 512Mhz processor and a stunning hi-resolution display.

In a joint press conference, Orange Romania & Medic4all launched Medic4you, the world's first customer oriented cellular e-health service.

Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) today announced an extension of its global capabilities in the IT domain. Ericsson already has a strong presence in Managed Services and Systems Integration, and now further capabilities are established - enabling increased focus on managed services and hosting in the IT domain.

ROMATSA Implements Cisco IP Network with Integrated Security and Unified Communications for Air Traffic Control Services.

Generic pharmaceuticals company Actavis has introduced its popular range of Decubal skin products to Romania.

After the introduction of Logan, Logan MCV, Logan Van and Logan Pickup, Dacia continues to broaden its range with the release of a generously-dimensioned, five-door hatchback: Sandero.

Renault Sandero marks a new step in the international development of the Renault group.

The government of Romania has asked IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, to help it conduct a study of the country's competitiveness.

Over the past three years Greenpeace has investigated the failure of the Romanian Government to ensure the control and traceability of genetically modified (GMO) Soya plants produced by Monsanto.

In a move to service its growing customer base, Delphi Corporation , one of the world's largest automotive suppliers, has officially announced it is planning to open a new diesel engine management system components plant.

IFC, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, will provide a seven-year loan to Romania's Credit Europe Bank to support the bank's expansion into small and medium enterprises and strengthen its balance sheet by providing local currency funding with a longer tenor than currently available in the local market.

PepsiAmericas, Inc. and PepsiCo today announced that they have reached an agreement to jointly acquire 80 percent of Sandora, LLC, the leading juice company in Ukraine. The acquisition, for a total purchase price of $542 million plus assumed debt, provides PepsiAmericas and PepsiCo a strong platform for growth in the emerging Ukrainian market.

Amdocs announced today that Romtelecom, the largest telecommunications company in Romania offering wireline, Internet and satellite TV services, will deploy the Amdocs Partner Manager 7 product. With this deployment, Romtelecom will be upgrading an earlier version of the product deployed at Romtelecom in 2005 to support inter-carrier settlements.

Nokia today announced that it will set up a manufacturing facility for mobile devices in the county of Cluj in Romania.

Romanian fixed and greenfield mobile operator, RCS & RDS, has selected Nokia as its WCDMA 3G core and radio network supplier.

The medieval Saxon city of Sibiu in Transylvania on Monday became one of Europe's official capitals of culture among Grand Duchy of Luxembourg for a year.