Archive for January, 2011

Exactly one year ago, on January 27 last year Steve Jobs announced iPad at a press conference held for the device. The planned tablet was rumoured for years before that as people realized it should have been a logical step after success Apple had with iPhone. A year later and numerous gadget of the year [...]

This will be a very unusual post. I have never used Profy as a platform for anything but technology news or internet-related commentary. But after I learned the story of 8 year old Lisa from a village near Samara in Russia I realized that if this blog can’t be used freely to help this girl [...]

What you can’t help but admire about Apple – even if you are a loyal Microsoft or Google supporter – is how they turn their fans into loyal consumers who keep buying new gadgets even before those that they currently own get morally outdated or (very unlikely) broken. Only last year you were enjoying having [...]

The year when I graduated from school and joined the university was 1998 – the year of the heaviest financial crisis in post-Soviet Russian history when over a single day the exchange rate of US dollar dropped three-fold and many people around lost virtually all their savings. All in all, the 90s in the history [...]