Archive for May, 2010

Twitter Day Today: Are You Celebrating? #twitterday

Svetlana Gladkova

As the vast majority of people hardly realize, today is the 140th day of the year which is supposed to be a good reason to celebrate the day of Twitter – the immensely popular web service that is trying to teach the world the arts of brevity, clarity, and precision by making us express everything [...]

Apple, Do You Have a Bigger Fan than the Russian President and will iPad be a New Labrador Retriever?

Svetlana Gladkova

Today Russian news agencies are all reporting on a very curious event – president Medvedev admitting that he has been using Apple iPad for a while now and enjoying it immensely. His primary use of the gadget happens to be reading – the president has downloaded some books (not mentioned, unfortunately) to his iPad and [...]

42goals – Cute Little Tool to Finally Quit Smoking, Drinking Coffee and Take Vitamins Daily

Svetlana Gladkova

As the name of the new startup suggests, 42goals is all about goals: no matter how many personal goals you have, the startup offers a nice web interface that will sure help you get things done – provided that you are truly serious about your goals and about visiting the web application as well. It [...]

Russian Mobile Carrier Starts Selling SIM Cards for iPad with No iPad in Sight

Svetlana Gladkova

Today one of the Russian mobile carriers starts selling a very interesting product: microsim cards for usage in iPad along with contracts. What’s so interesting about this product? Of course its launch date: selling microsims that enable use of a device that is not officially available in Russia is quite interesting. And the date of [...]