Archive for March, 2010

As many of you already know, earlier today a terrible tragedy happened in Moscow – two explosions in the subway executed by two female suicide bombers and took lives of 38 people (with many still in intensive care of various hospitals so the number will probably increase still in the coming days). The worst part [...]

We in Russia love reforms, I think – or at least we have learned to love them over the last 20 years when we have been constantly reorganizing all the remnants of the Soviet Union. But the problem is that everything that we have comes from the Soviet past and also happens to be so [...]

Sometimes when I start typing a new query in the Firefox search field that will initiate search on Google for something useful for me, I watch the autosuggestions in fascination wondering exactly how and why people would search for all sorts of crazy things that Google claims we search for. I guess that full access [...]

Of course no one will argue these days that Twitter has become a huge online phenomenon and it influences lots of things for both end users, online and offline businesses. But how huge is it outside of the US where the trendy service is heavily promoted in traditional media? Russian internet giant Yandex has recently [...]

Today here in Russia we have finally learned the date when we should expect iPhone 3GS to become officially available in the country as one of the leading local mobile carries and one of the largest electronics retailer have announced that they are initializing the sales this week, on the 5th of March. It is [...]