PrimeTel took part in the “Home Entertainment and Leisure 2006” exhibition, which took place last week at the State Fair Grounds. This exhibition, which focuses on the presentation of the latest technological products for home entertainment and leisure, was an ideal place for the visiting public to be informed about the company’s broadband service packages.

According to the Ministry of Finance (MoF) Cyprus’ economic growth is expected to remain unchanged in 2006 compared to the previous year despite the hike in oil prices. GDP growth rate in constant prices is expected to continue its upward trend due to increased domestic consumption demand and particularly private consumption and investment activity. Specifically,

A. Zorbas & Sons Ltd. (ZRP) proceeded with the immediate suspension of its food prcessing operations, in effect terminating its take-away food division activities after at least eight customers were poisoned for consuming food purchased from two of its retail outlets in Nicosia. According to the first laboratorial analyses held by the government owned chemical

ActiveMania, a provider of digital entertainment solutions and IPTV in the Middle East, in collaboration with Microsoft has launched its ‘ActiSuite’ Connected Home Entertainment solution to enable the digital transformation through digital and telecom services. This is the first solution to run on Windows Vista in the Middle East and caters to the residential, retail

Panasonic has won the PC Magazine ‘Manufacturer of the Year’ award at the recently concluded GITEX Dubai, for its Lumix range of digital cameras. Yasuo Kimoto, Product Manager, Panasonic Marketing Middle East, received the award at GITEX 2006, where Panasonic had launched six new digital cameras including the first digital SLR camera DMC-L1 with interchangeable

Motor vehicle registrations soared in November, rising by 68% compared with the previous month, as the cuts in excise duties amounting to 40% led to a spending spree. Car show-rooms took the unusual step of opening their doors all weekend after the announcement, and the figures indicate that they did so for good reason. Saloon

Sarris “looks beyond tomorrow”   The budget results for the first nine months of 2006, combined with a sharp fall in the inflation rate means that the adoption of the euro on January 1st 2008 “is now a near certainty”, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s latest full length December Country Report on Cyprus. The

Fall in hotel and restaurant unemployment   The number of unemployed persons registered at the District Labour Offices in Cyprus on the last day of November 2006 reached 12,857, a decrease of 565 compared with November 2005. In the first 11 months of the year, unemployment fell by 325 people to 12,770. Despite the fall