We don’t need no protection
We as Turks have always been proud of our tight family relations. It is one of the fundamental qualities we use to define ourselves. The family is such an important concept for us that…
Twitter is the next target
Last week I wrote about how the government wants to take control over social media and how unnecessary it is. A reader named Blue Dotterel left this remark on the website: “Freedom in…
Turkey’s soaring market
Turkey’s digital market is soaring. Actually the whole of the Eurasian digital market is on the rise. Russia and Kazakhstan are enjoying double digit growths and Azerbaijan is also following the trend. Yet Turkey is…
Network neutrality 101
Lately we have begun to hear lots of remarks on network neutrality by government officials. Tayfun Acarer of the Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK) speaks about it most frequently. He and his institution made…
Getting the most out of mobile
Mobile technologies and mobile connectivity are catching up with more traditional internet connections and applications very fast. In many countries mobile networks are much stronger than the fixed-line enabled internet networks. Around three-quarters of…
25 hour response time
E-shopping is one of the hottest topics of the Internet era. It has not put an end to the bricks and mortar business model, but it has created its own brands and shops. We see…
Turkey needs to say EUREKA in high tech
Under a mandate that runs from July 2012 to June 2013, Turkey will hold the next chairmanship of EUREKA, a platform for international cooperation that supports research and development (R&D) projects…
Can the geotagging business work in Turkey?
According to the Wikipedia article “Geotagging” (also written “GeoTagging”) is the process of adding geographical identification metadata to various media, such as a geotagged photograph or video, website, SMS message,…
Turkish social media pioneers play it big
Followers of this column know that I have been searching for some Turkish start-ups that could go global. I think I have found three in the last couple of weeks. The…
