Archive for June, 2010

Posterous Offers LiveJournal Migration to All Those Users Still Sticking to the Dinosaur

Svetlana Gladkova

As some of you may have heard already, Posterous is currently having a switching campaign offering one new tool to migrate from other platforms and services a day for 15 days starting on the 21st of June. Posterous, which positions itself as ‘the simplest publishing platform on the planet’, is aggressively adding a ton of [...]

Android vs iPhone in One Family: Is It a Road to Divorce?

Svetlana Gladkova

I can hardly describe myself as an Apple fan: every time I buy a computer, I consider switching to a MacBook but invariably end with something Windows-based finding quite a number of excuses for why I would not do that right now. I have frequently criticized Google here for many things in their politics toward [...]

Moscow Schools Follow Google and Promote Usage of Apple

Svetlana Gladkova

A short while ago the blogosphere and even traditional media were abuzz the decision of Google that from now on the employees of the internet giant may use operating systems from any developer but one – the exception being Microsoft. The reason is quite obvious: security concerns everyone seems to share about Microsoft. Of course [...]

Every Russian Citizen to Get an Official Email Account and Learn To Use @ in a New Way

Svetlana Gladkova

As some of you may be aware, the huge trend for various countries that don’t use Latin alphabet in their official languages is introducing their own alphabets into online communications – and not only in the form of support for specific fonts where needed to send an email or create a blog post (which has [...]

Migrating to Google Chrome – My Rare Praise to Google

Svetlana Gladkova

If you’ve been reading Profy for a while, you probably know that Google is hardly my favorite company because of its dubious practices in user privacy as well as its ambitions of ruling the world one day (which I am fairly certain is exactly the intention for the internet giant). I guess this introduction shows [...]