Posts Tagged with ‘iPhone’

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 impossible [...]

Most of the time Russian news agencies are not particularly eager to cover the latest gadgets (especially those introduced on another side of the ocean). The reason is simple: these novelties are rarely something that many people in Russia are actually interested in so why bother covering them if only a handful of people will [...]

The New Year vacation is normally the time when I reevaluate the results of the previous year and consider plans for the upcoming year. This year these thoughts are more or less focused on various tech-related aspects for two reasons. The first reason includes me getting an iPod Touch as a gift and spending probably [...]

The situation with Apple iPhone in Russia is a very peculiar one but Russian mobile carriers still seem to believe in the geeky gadget - believe in it enough to arrange for the new model, iPhone 3GS sales in Russia even despite of the disaster with the previous model, iPhone 3G.
The very first iPhone model [...]

Only last week registration of the domains in the first fully Cyrillic top-level domain zone began here in Russia - the zone is .рф and the attention it receives from international companies definitely deserves a post.
To prevent cybersquatting, initially only the trademark holders and various government institutions are allowed to apply for their new domains. [...]

Only last week I reported here on the situation with terrible iPhone sales in Russia: all the three Russian mobile carriers are obliged to sell a total of 3.5 million units over two years but have only managed to sell 250 thousand phones by now - and the sales will hardly accelerate.
The main reason for [...]

I am sometimes asked by my friends about how the situation with the famous Apple iPhone is in Russia - how popular it is, how many phones have been sold, etc. Unfortunately I have never had any really good things to share with them as while some people here want to have an iPhone (and [...]

Today I have received an email from the creator of iFart, the iPhone application we profiled a few days before Christmas as the application that has generated impressive revenue for its creators - even despite of its dubious nature. The entire technology blogosphere has been very impressed watching the application that does nothing but imitates [...]

I somehow dislike counting money other people make but in some cases it is just impossible to resist with today’s calculation being the money generated by the most popular application in the Apple App Store: almost $10,000 a day. Of course it must be a very appealing market if a developer knows it is possible [...]