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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, conside... |
19 September 2007
05:35 GMT |
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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 dow... |
13 September 2007
06:08 GMT |
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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. To... |
10 September 2007
09:07 GMT |
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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 ... |
4 September 2007
05:06 GMT |
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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 ... |
3 September 2007
09:34 GMT |
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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 Rus... |
31 August 2007
09:37 GMT |
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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 b... |
27 August 2007
06:47 GMT |
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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 thi... |
22 August 2007
05:57 GMT |
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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 ... |
16 August 2007
06:06 GMT |
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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 the creation of a new EA entity in Russia. The office is set to directl... |
27 July 2007
05:31 GMT |
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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 attention of even the fiercest non-gamer... |
25 July 2007
11:07 GMT |
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AquaPhone has proved to be an unexpected success, as figures show after less than a year since its release. Dynamic Pixels has managed to find many partners for the game in Russia and CIS countries too, which has greatly contributed to reaching so many people.Tamagotchi games have proved to be a considerable success ... |
19 July 2007
07:44 GMT |
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Golden Telecom, Nokia and Betalink have announced yesterday a new joint project named "Call via Golden Wi-Fi" and based on VoIP technology. If you're buying the Nokia E65 multi-functional business smartphone between July 15 and October 15 from Betalink stores in Moscow, you will get as a gift a free access card... |
17 July 2007
08:40 GMT |
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Sochi, a Russian city situated in Krasnodar Krai, was elected as the town to held the 2014 Winter Olympics. The decision announced on July 4, 2007 congratulated the Russian city in the detriment of Pyeongchang County, a South Korean region that also competed for being the host of the Winter Olympics. Because the Mou... |
9 July 2007
04:06 GMT |
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Russia is often described as the country that hosts the largest amount of illegal activity, starting with spammers and ending with software pirates. However, numerous companies tried to invest in Russia and increase their presence in the country. Google makes a similar move today and launches the Russian version of M... |
6 July 2007
06:25 GMT |
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Google Answers, the service that was shut down in November 2006, is brought back to life in Russia after the Mountain View company decided to roll out the product only for this country. As you might have heard, the search giant announced the closure of Google Answers in November and permanently closed it in December ... |
29 June 2007
15:06 GMT |
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Ramble.ru is one of the largest Russian Internet portals and an excellent provider for Internet services and Email. From now on, it will also bring Nokia Intellisync Wireless Email to all its subscribers.At this time, there are more than 20 million people using Rambler's services and especially the email ones. R... |
28 June 2007
04:38 GMT |
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Do you want to activate Windows while waiting for your ATM transaction to complete? Press Yes or No, please. Russia is one of the top worldwide markets for piracy, according to a report put together by the United States at the end of April 2007. Russia is joined in a ranking of countries with rampant piracy problems ... |
13 June 2007
09:09 GMT |
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We've heard of titles saying "Play Counter Strike for hard Cash," or "Play games and win cash prizes," while there are even more attractive titles allowing you to win cash, such as Project Entropia, where you can directly convert virtual money earned within the game, into real money. Today, we'll talk abou... |
10 May 2007
19:16 GMT |
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In a country where pirated copies of Windows Vista and the Office 2007 System are sold for just $4 in the center of Moscow, just 1 mile from the Kremlin - the Russian equivalent of the White House - a Russian headmaster was made a scapegoat, and fined over the use of unlicensed Microsoft software. Alexander Ponosov a... |
8 May 2007
05:01 GMT |
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Anatoly Perminov, the head of Russia's space agency, declared that Russia proposed a joint effort to explore the moon together with the US friends, but the US surprisingly refused the sincere offer."We are ready to cooperate, but for some reasons the United States has announced that it will carry out the progr... |
1 May 2007
15:06 GMT |
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Pirated copies of Windows Vista with a price tag of just $4 are freely sold ad-hoc in the center of the Russian capital, Moscow, nearly on the steps of the Kremlin. Well, "nearly" is a tad exaggeration, but the fact of the matter is that the location is no more than 1.3 miles from the Kremlin. And the Kremlin, for t... |
20 April 2007
10:45 GMT |
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The Google Russia team is now singing "Happy birthday to you!" as their local version of the company marks the first anniversary since the release. The company is celebrating the event with a new office in Moscow meant to attract the Russian experienced engineers. At this time, Google owns one more Russian office in ... |
30 March 2007
09:47 GMT |
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