Gamer buys virtual real estate game on $ 2.5 million

08.04.12
One of the players online project Entropia Universe has spent $ 2.5 million real dollars for virtual real estate. Gamer gained territory on the planet Calypso in the game world.

Wikipedia has moved away from Google Maps

08.04.12
Wikipedia application developers for platforms at iOS and Android have abandoned the service Google Map, instead, will use OpenStreetMap maps, reported in the Wikimedia Foundation blog. Previously, Google has introduced a fee for the use of cartographic services for projects that have more than 25 thousand. downloads per day.

Twitter company suing the spammers and bots

08.04.12
Guide Service mikroblogov Twitter filed in court, the five most active spammers and developer of software tools for spam activity, according to the official Twitter blog. Despite the fact that Twitter has staff specialists in cybersecurity, which constantly updating service protection, including spam, the company decided to postpone fighting spam in court, said representatives of the Twitter Edition of VentureBeat.

Moscow officials buy tablets

08.04.12
Department of informational technologies of Moscow announced the purchase of 110 tablets iPad 2. total price tablets for officials at nearly three million rubles. Tablets are purchased for use in electronic documentation system of the Government in the capital.

Strategy Analytics: a quarter of households around the world launched a Wi-Fi network

08.04.12
According to a recent analysis Strategy Analytics, a quarter of all households in the world currently has deployed Wi-Fi network. In terms of the number of homes with Wi-Fi routers from 17 countries are cited in a report by South Korea (80.3%), England (73.3%) and Germany (71.7%).

At the auction Ebay set VW Golf Angela Merkel

08.04.12
The world famous Internet-auction Ebay up for sale Volkswagen Golf, which in 1990, became German Chancellor Angela Merkel. In the auction title car attached scanned photograph, which is really the name of the German Chancellor.

HTC announces record profits for 10 years, falling

08.04.12
Taiwanese HTC Corporation, the second largest Asian manufacturer of smartphones, has recorded a drop in profits for the last 10 years, in the face of a rapidly falling sales, reports Bloomberg. The fourth quarter showed a 70% drop in profits compared to the year 2011.

According to experts, the value of the company Zynga seriously overstated

08.04.12
Experts believe that the company's value at least overstated Zynga twice – its reasonable estimate cannot exceed $ 4.8 billion. Online gaming developer Zynga investors approximately doubled. overestimated

Affair of the United States and Britain will Shuvalov

08.04.12
Russia's Prosecutor General on Friday officially informed that found no evidence of corruption in a widely publicized scandal on the family business, first Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, Russian billionaires. The initiators of the verification are counting on international investigation: documents on transaction are passed to the American FBI and British anti-fraud.

Ukrainian Wikipedia reached the 8th place in the world

08.04.12
In terms of the number of articles on the information service of Wikipedia, a thousand native speakers, Ukraine has received well-deserved eighth place in world ranking Nations with more than 10 million speakers of national language.

Tomorrow there will be massive in Perm street action against drug abuse

08.04.12
On Sunday, 8 April, in Perm planned street protest against drug abuse, reports the echo of perm. Activists of different public associations will gather the Perm Memorial Severed brotherhood in the street procession to be held and Siberian Memorial chassis Ural T2K tank volunteerism.

The owners of e-readers are reading more books

08.04.12
Americans are increasingly moving to eBooks. The owners of these devices tend to read more books than those who have not purchased the readers and ablets.

Runet today celebrates birthday

08.04.12
7 April marks 18 years since the birth of Runet. Prior to that network resources reside on the domain of the Soviet Union.SU or international network resources in the day 18 years ago appeared the blast zone.RU.

Apple recognized the problem with Wi-Fi module of the new iPad

08.04.12
Apple recognized the problem posed by the new iPad tablet with wireless Wi-Fi. You know that the company instructed support staff and retail shops to replace problematic tablets according to the requirements of customers and guide device for studying in special centres.

Developers in Moscow can apply for GPZU on the Internet

08.04.12
Application for approval of the architectural and urban-planning decision or the issuance of the urban plan of land (GPZU) in Moscow you can now apply online-public portal at Moscow, says the press-release of the Department of information technology capital.

A Russian computer programmer accused of Yandex of plagiarism

08.04.12
The company Yandex has been at the center of a scandal that has been deployed in the Russian blogosphere. Some Dmitry Kornilov, an independent software developer, through his personal blog in Yandex accused of plagiarism.

В Карачаево-Черкесии стартует акция "Безопасный Интернет"

08.04.12
In Karachai-cherkessia launches large-scale campaign safer Internet. Information security in the World Wide Web, a cyber-crime prevention of the proliferation of child pornography and questionable information over the Internet, these issues were the subject of a round table, which was held in ?erkesske, on the initiative of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs concerned-CHERKESSIA.

Official Facebook application do not protect personal data

08.04.12
British expert found in official socseti Facebook applications for Android and iOS dangerous vulnerabilities that attackers can easily gain access to the personal data of users.

April 7, 2012, Russian Internet age of majority notes

08.04.12
On Saturday, 7 April, Russian Internet marks birthday – exactly 18 years ago, April 7, 1994, Russian national domain was registered.RU. According to Russian Internet enjoys Minkomsvyazi nearly half of Russians – up to 70 million from 142 million 857 thousands of citizens living in the country.

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07.04.12
Russia's Prosecutor General on Friday officially informed that found no evidence of corruption in a widely publicized scandal on the family business, first Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, Russian billionaires. The initiators of the verification are counting on international investigation: documents on transaction are passed to the American FBI and British anti-fraud.