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| Fly E310 Attitude, New Touchscreen Handset for Russia |  | Fly Mobile is not quite among the world's famous mobile phone manufacturers, but this doesn't stop the company from continuously announcing new handsets. The latest product to come from the European producer is named Fly E310 Attitude and it's a fashionable mid-end phone.
The best features of Fly E310 Attitude include: a 2.4 inch TFT touchscreen (with 16 million colors and 240 x 320 pixels) that can be controll ... [read more >>] | | 22 July 2008, 09:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Gets Involved in Mother Russia's Business |  | Google announced the upcoming acquisition of one of the most conspicuous contextual advertising companies in Russia. Begun, a property of Rambler Media, will become part of Google's advertising business most probably starting with September. By that time, the American company will have to pay a total of $140 million in cash, the equivalent of the entire Begun.
The Russian company is extremely popular in this country, hav ... [read more >>] | | 18 July 2008, 07:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Remains of the Son of Nicholas II of Russia Identified |  | The Russian authorities have confirmed this week that the remains of Prince Alexei Nikolayevich and those of his sister, Grand Duchess Maria Nikolayevna, have been identified after 90 years since the Bolsheviks executed Russia's last royal family. Many people still view Nicholas II as the greatest Russian of all time, which is also reflected by the hundreds of people who gathered at the church where the remains of the royal family are ... [read more >>] | | 17 July 2008, 04:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Fancy Philips Xenium 9@9q Now Available |  | A new Philips handset is now available in Eastern Europe, in Russia more exactly, coming in a really good-looking clamshell case. The handset is named Philips Xenium 9@9q and doesn't bring too many advanced features, which is why it falls into the "fashionable entry-level" category.
[admark=1]The 9@9q has two color versions, a black one and a red one, which make the handset look quite attractive, both when closed and ... [read more >>] | | 16 July 2008, 04:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| RoverPC X7, a Russian Diamond |  | RoverPC X7 is the name of a new Pocket PC manufactured in Russia by RoverPC, a company that we've already heard of on several occasions.
X7 is the latest device created by RoverPC and it's presented as its most powerful communicator handset. T ... [read more >>] | | 10 July 2008, 05:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Russian Hackers Turn to Recruitment Sites |  | It would seem that in order to make a few bucks the Russian hackers are not satisfied with the traditional means anymore and are turning to recruitment sites. A nice profit can be made by harvesting all that information and then selling it to interested parties on the black market.
The group of hackers responsible for this data harvesting is known as Phreak. Their Trojan is designed to scour the Internet, recruitment sites in ... [read more >>] | | 09 July 2008, 08:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Luxury Edition of Samsung D780 – Russia's Official Olympic Phone |  | The Russian division of Samsung announced today the release of a Samsung Duos D780 in a Gold edition, which will be the official phone of Russia's Olympic team for the Beijing Olympic Games held in August. The handset will be commercialized as a limited edition, starting the 8th of August – the date when the 2008 Olympic Games debut.
Besides being plated with gold, the luxurious D780 also has the official logo of the O ... [read more >>] | | 20 June 2008, 07:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| RoverPC P7, Windows Mobile 6.1 with Russian Flavor |  | The RoverPC name is not quite known on the global Pocket PC market, mainly because the devices coming out under this brand are produced and commercialized only in Russia. The newest handset from the Rover PC family is P7, a device coming with Windows Mobile 6.1 Pr ... [read more >>] | | 30 May 2008, 03:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Armenia Rules the World when It Comes to PC Software Piracy |  | A research conducted by the Business Software Alliance revealed that Armenia has the highest piracy rate of all the countries in the world with no less than 93 points in 2007 and 95 in 2006. Armenia is followed by Bangladesh and Azerbaijan, with 92 points each. According to findings published by BSA, the global piracy rate is now at only 38 percent, but the total PC software losses almost reached $48 billion.
"We are maki ... [read more >>] | | 29 May 2008, 04:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Russia Going 3G Thanks to MTS |  | MTS, the number one Russian mobile operator in terms of subscriber numbers (55 million), has just announced that its first 3G network is now functional, covering the area of Saint Petersburg, the second largest city in Russia (more than 4.6 million people).
MTS also readied 3G networks for Yekaterinburg, Kazan and Sochi (all three cities should benefit from the new networks starting the next few weeks) and it will deploy si ... [read more >>] | | 28 May 2008, 10:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Hackers Shut Down Russian Nuclear Power Websites |  | Hackers managed once again to terrify an entire nation after they shut down websites belonging to Russian nuclear power plants and spread information of a nuclear accident on the Internet. The worst thing is that people actually use the hacked websites to check radiations and radioactive emissions in a certain region, RIA Novosti& ... [read more >>] | | 28 May 2008, 05:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Australia Simply the Best, Russian Hackers Say |  | When talking about hackers, it doesn't matter in which country their targets are based because all they want are vulnerable targets that could let them break into their computers. However, when it comes to their favorite location to take over computer systems, it seems like Australia has something special because Russian hackers are mostly interested in this region of the world. Talking for ... [read more >>] | | 27 May 2008, 05:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Russian Post Migrates to Linux |  | Linux might be adopted on a large scale by the Russian Post, as the institution has started testing Linux, in the view of using it in normal post offices. The main reason for moving to Linux is to reduce the costs. Although the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Russian Post has not disclosed this directly, the Post [ADM ... [read more >>] | | 26 May 2008, 05:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| GFI and Russobit-M Merger Looking for New Market Segments |  | Game Factory Interactive, one of the best known Russian game developers and publishers, has started a merger process with Russobit-M, resulting in an annual revenue prediction of $45 million and 350 people. The newly formed company aims to further expand its market in ... [read more >>] | | 21 May 2008, 02:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Rarest and Largest Leopard Caught on Camera Trap |  | This is the world's rarest big cat. Keeping this in mind, you can imagine how this was quite a hit: eight Amur leopards (Panthera pardus amurensis) were photographed by a camera trap in far southeastern Russia, in the Primorskiy region, at the border with China and North Korea.
The recent census showed that less than 40 Amur leopards (also known as Far Eastern leopards; the name Amur refers to the Amur River, the largest ... [read more >>] | | 15 May 2008, 05:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Piracy Loses Ground, Genuine Software More Attractive |  | Although software piracy loses ground and is declining in most countries of the world, due to the fast growing computer industry in the countries with high piracy rate, the worldwide piracy rate reached the 38 percent milestone, the Business Software Alliance revealed in a new report. According to the findings, the leading countries when it comes to piracy are Armenia (93 percent), Bangladesh (92 percent) and Azerbaijan (92 perce ... [read more >>] | | 15 May 2008, 03:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Watch Out for the First Stock Exchange of Web Traffic |  | If you think that your website isn't making enough money mainly because it has few visitors to start with, then take a look at what Robotraff.com has to offer. First of all, take into account that this website calls itself "the first stock exchange of web traffic". However, what appears to be a money-making solution is just another Russian-based website trying to make an Internet click fraud boost its accounts.
... [read more >>] | | 12 May 2008, 06:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Russian Big Brother Keeps an Eye on Foreigners' Internet Connection |  | If you're one of the people who often travel to Russia on business, you had rather left your Wi-Fi enabled mobile gadgets at home. As previously reported, the Russian authorities have formed a super-agency, called Rossvyazokhrankultura (short for the Russian Mass Media, Communications and Cultural Protection Service), that regulates ... [read more >>] | | 19 April 2008, 06:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Not A Tsar Anymore |  | Although we all expect to see Google's search engine on the first place in every country of the world, the Mountain View-based company has encountered tough competition in some regions. It's already known the fact that the Chinese market refused Google's evolution so Baidu is still the local king of search. But what's more interesting is that in Russia, Google's sites are the second most popular because t ... [read more >>] | | 15 April 2008, 04:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The First BlackBerry in Russia: 8700g |  | BlackBerry 8700g has become the first smartphone produced by RIM (Research in Motion) to be commercialized in Russia, after VimpelCom sold an undisclosed number of 8700g smartphones to the Russian division of British American Tobacco.
The ... [read more >>] | | 08 April 2008, 06:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Soyuz Rocket Ready to Take the First Korean Astronaut into Space |  | Yesterday, the Russian engineers from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan rolled out the Soyuz rocket, which is supposed to carry two Russian cosmonauts and the first South Korean astronaut to the International Space Station. The 50-meter Soyuz spacecraft will take off from the same launch pad used to send a man into space for the first time ever, the Soviet cosmonaut Yury Gagarin.
Flying with the 29-year-old South Korean a ... [read more >>] | | 07 April 2008, 05:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Sol Steel and Luna Steel Luxury Handsets |  | Gresso, a Russian-based company that creates luxury mobile phones, unveiled two of its latest products, Gresso Sol Steel and Gresso Luna Steel, both coming to complete the manufacturer's expensive line-up of handsets.
The new phones are more affordable versions of the previously launched Avantgarde gold-plated devices. Well, "more affordable" is just a way of saying it, because any of the new Gresso pho ... [read more >>] | | 27 March 2008, 20:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| eBay Points Fingers at Romania’s Lack of Interest in Cybercrime |  | After seeing out how several warnings sent to a number of countries that have been the most productive in phishing attacks hit a brick wall, eBay burst and warned that there must be something more that can be done to stop fraudsters from targeting auction sites. Alongside Romania, which was nominated as having the biggest problem, were China and Russia, all three the source of the majority of the scams aimed at eBay users for per ... [read more >>] | | 11 March 2008, 13:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Russian Prisoner Abuse Video Restored on YouTube |  | YouTube and Google have left a long trail of censorship behind them as they grew ever larger, and more often than not, the companies’ images had to suffer because of it, after the media caught wind of the facts. In December, lawyer Robert Amsterdam, representing the jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, has posted a clip on the video sharing site, allegedly depicting violence and abuse in the Yekaterinburg prisoner camp.
After ... [read more >>] | | 29 February 2008, 18:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Create Your Own Gmail Art Ad |  | More often than not, an ad pops out from the rest and just gets you watching it over and over again, until you finally get all of the details and manage to wrap your head around it. Naturally, being one of the biggest companies in the world and having more fans than you can count might bring you good advertising, with even better concepts coming in from all around.
I doubt the Russian ad for Gmail will be topped pretty soon. I ... [read more >>] | | 28 February 2008, 13:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Russia, Malware Producing Demon |  | Just like Google and Yahoo compete for search dominance, and Iran and Iraq for higher oil reserves, the malware producing field is also much disputed. China, former developer and producer extraordinaire has bent its head in front of Russia, new reigning champ, according to metrics from security software producer PC Tools.
The report, set to be released tomorrow in full, has the former Soviet country accounting for 27.9 percent ... [read more >>] | | 21 February 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Sagem Lulu Castagnette Phone, for Girls Who Like Teddy Bears |  | Sagem Telecommunications, the French electronics and handsets manufacturer, partnered with Lulu Castagnette to bring a special mobile phone, namely the My411C Lulu Castagnette. While Sagem is quite known among mobile users, Lulu Castagnette is not and many will ask themselves who or what is "that". Well, it's a French fashion brand that has a teddy bear as main icon and produces clothing and other goods for girls. ... [read more >>] | | 19 February 2008, 13:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| MySpace Russia Launched, Turkey Version En Route |  | When you’re most bored and have nothing to do, you start surfing the Internet and in particular the social networks in order to see how your friends have been doing. I don’t know if that’s the way it works for you, it does for me. And while merrily browsing through my account on MySpace, I just chanced upon the International Map and noticed that it was in Russian. That was new, so I decided to ask around about when that had happe ... [read more >>] | | 21 January 2008, 06:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Russia Plans to Join Extraterrestrial Life Search Program |  | We've looked and searched our extraterrestrial cousins throughout the whole solar system, and found no evidence that life may exist in our solar system, beyond the borders of our atmosphere. Only one body seems to present a final hope. One of Jupiter's many moons, Europa. The European Space Agency and NASA both have scheduled missions which involve sending probes to the surface of the icy moon, in order to look for evid ... [read more >>] | | 08 January 2008, 06:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| YouTube Russia Officially Launched |  | I can’t believe that they haven’t done this earlier, it should have been like the second or the third local YouTube launched, not just one in the ranks of many being launched all over the world. I’m not saying that because I have something against all the others that launched before it, but it is indeed one of the biggest countries in the world, the biggest, in fact, and it has the population to go with that. Not the most populo ... [read more >>] | | 12 December 2007, 03:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Cyber Love: Flirting Online with Robots |  | Nowadays, the web is full of social networking services and dating websites, all of them with a single goal: they attempt to connect people from all over the world. Now, let's suppose you're seeking for a relationship or even for love (oh, well, I heard people doing that). In case you find somebody pretty and you believe that he/she might be your next sweetheart, you're ready to provide all sorts of details about y ... [read more >>] | | 10 December 2007, 06:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Plans New Server Farm in Siberia |  | Microsoft unveiled plans to build the largest data center in Russia, an investment estimated at around $500 million. Located in the Irkutsk Region in Siberia, the Data Processing Center will be the first of its scale in the country, with some 10,000 servers. Birger Steen, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer in Russia and CIS, announced the company's plans for the server farm in Siberia, and underlined the fact that this could be just th ... [read more >>] | | 27 November 2007, 04:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Romanians Receive Google Search Suggestions |  | Following yesterday's news that Google updated the search engine suggestions, a new update is revealed today as the Mountain View company's officials confirmed that this feature is now available in several new countries. A few days ago it was reported that Google has been working on the 'Did you mean' function in order to provide suggestions for URL links and domain names in order to offer related searches dep ... [read more >>] | | 18 October 2007, 03:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Last Nomads of the Tundra |  | While in North America, many Indian and Inuit (Eskimos) groups had their subsistence linked to reindeer and hunt them, in Eurasia, many Arctic tribes had an even closer connection with the sole larger survival of the Ice Age, as the species have been herded for about 4-5,000 years, from the Sami (Lapps) to Nenets, Khants, Evenks (Tungus), Yukaghirs, Chukchi, Koryaks and Dolgans.
Even so, reindeer are not totally domesticated, as they g ... [read more >>] | | 24 September 2007, 14:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Russia Backs Its Claim of the North Pole with Rock Analysis |  | Russian hunger for land and oil has not ended and now they back their claim on the North Pole with rock samples taken last month from the floor of the Arctic Ocean at the site of the North Pole, as announced by the Russian government.
Stone analysis has revealed that the Lomonosov Ridge, a submarine structure spreading across the Arctic Ocean beneath the pole, is linked geologically to the Siberian platform. Based on the international ... [read more >>] | | 24 September 2007, 05:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Soviet Union to Be Removed from the Web |  | The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number (ICANN) proposed the removal of the .SU domain which represents the Soviet Union. The decision is quite a logical one if we think that the Soviet Union was divided in multiple countries in 1991. In case you didn't know, the domain names are based on the ISO 3166-1 standard which lists all the nations which can obtain a domain. While the Soviet Union is not listed anymore ... [read more >>] | | 21 September 2007, 05:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Largest Building in Europe: Russia Tower |  | This will match the size of Mother Russia and the Russian thirst for big territories. Yesterday started the work on the Russia Tower, which – once finished – will become Europe's tallest building and it will be located in the heart of Moscow's business district, in the precincts of the Moscow International Business Center.
"This tower will become a symbol of Russia which is turned to the future and to new heigh ... [read more >>] | | 19 September 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Russian Linux Will Be Installed in Every School |  | A Linux operating system will be installed on every school computer in Russia until 2009. Moreover, every pupil will have the opportunity to use software produced in Russia. This could significantly reduce Russia's dependence on foreign commercial software.
Leonid Reiman, acting Minister of Communication, considers the development of the Russian operating system and software development of vital importance. In a press con ... [read more >>] | | 19 September 2007, 05:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| US Consulate Attacked in Russia |  | The United States has a Consulate General in Russia, in Saint Petersburg, of course – but you already knew that. What you didn’t know is the fact that it has been the target of cyber-aggression. At the beginning of the week, its site has been attacked by hackers that inserted malicious code that was meant to download even more similar code.
"This latest attack highlights the fact that no organization is immune from infec ... [read more >>] | | 13 September 2007, 06:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Piracy-Allowed Land Gets Russian Money |  | If you have never heard of it, Sealand is a World War 2 sea fort which now represents the territory of Prince Michael of Sealand. But what's more important is not the territory itself but the purpose of the country which serves as the host for numerous servers flagged as illegal in several parts of the world. Today, an article published on the official page of Sealand News informs us that the country is currently in talks with a [ADMA ... [read more >>] | | 10 September 2007, 09:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Russian Child-Porn Hosters Guilty For Bank of India Hack! |  | The Russian Business Network: many of you have heard about it and about all the bad stuff related to it. But for those of you who don't know, let me tell you that RBN is a sort of ghost Internet service provider (ISP). They are not registered anywhere and there are no official records of this network. There are 2 things that are known about it – first, that it hosts a lot of nasty stuff and the second is that its leaders hav ... [read more >>] | | 04 September 2007, 05:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| More People, More Malware |  | The month of August was full of threats and you would be terrified if you read all the reports, but to be honest with you, this is just the normal level on the Web. We're facing trojans, worms, spam and others daily. A lot of people get infected everyday and that's just a fact. Security experts from Sophos have made a lot of nice charts, in order to ... [read more >>] | | 03 September 2007, 09:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Prepares the Russian Attack |  | The Mountain View company plans to improve its offering in Russia by producing several educational tools for the local market. It seems like Google will try to focus on the solutions able to help the students, the schools or the teachers such as mail technologies, security products or other types of solutions. As RussiaToday reports, the Mountain View-based company will launch a special program in Russia that will bring all these ... [read more >>] | | 31 August 2007, 09:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| US to Defend Against Russia |  | If you're a fan of security news, then you might have heard that Estonia suffered a severe cyber-attack that somewhat downed their economy which was relying a lot on the Internet. Rumors have it the Russians did it, and that this is a new form of conflict – cyber-war! Americans and Russians have never been the best of friends, and the US does not want to take any chances of a cyber-attack wreaking havoc in their economy. And ... [read more >>] | | 27 August 2007, 06:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Foxconn and HP Partnership |  | Foxconn Electronics and HP announced that they signed up for a partnership and will jointly build a production plant in the Russian Federation. Foxconn is a computer hardware company that specializes in motherboards and cases as well as building computer parts under contract for other brands, while its partner in this joint venture, HP is now the biggest supplier of personal computers in the world. Their new production plant is going to ma ... [read more >>] | | 22 August 2007, 05:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Music Download Allowed, Russia Considers |  | The man who is named by the international organizations fighting for the protection of the copyright a music pirate, Denis Kvasov, the owner of the famous AllOfMp3 website, can't be prosecuted for copyright infringement, a Russian judge said. What's most interesting is that numerous international copyright holders criticized the website for distributing their content and moreover, it recorded important amounts of money ... [read more >>] | | 16 August 2007, 06:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| EA Sets New Office in Russia |  | If you thought Electronic Arts was big, well... it just got bigger. According to this report I'm currently looking at, Electronic Arts Inc – the world’s leading developer and publisher of interactive entertainment – has announced today ... [read more >>] | | 27 July 2007, 05:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| PC - New 'Culpa Innata' Screenshots Straight from Strategy First |  | Culpa Innata is one of the most challenging and beautiful games ever created, published by Strategy First (a subsidiary of Silverstar Holdings) and developed by Momentum AS. Culpa Innata falls under the category of 3D adventure games, backed up by a storyline sure to catch the ... [read more >>] | | 25 July 2007, 11:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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