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iPad Used To Drive A Car In Russia
03/12/2013, As cool as it would seem to physically get into your vehicle to drive it around, it’s a way cooler to hack your car to be driven through an iPad app. Some Russians decided driving their Opel Vectra around town was [...]
10-Ton Meteorite Crashes In Russia Injuring Nearly 1,000 People
02/15/2013, For the past week, news stations around the world have been mentioning an asteroid called DA14 is expected to pass extremely close to Earth some time on February 15. What we didn’t expect was for another completely unrelated 10-ton meteorite [...]
Russia Bulldozes Fake iPhones
01/17/2013, Apple’s stock is not the darling of Wall Street at the moment, and it remains to be seen whether the stock price will recover to hit its previous high. Well, the Russian authorities are not too fond of Apple products [...]
Memorial To Steve Jobs Shaped Like An iPhone Unveiled In Russia
01/09/2013, It’s been over a year since Steve Jobs’ passing which sparked many Apple Stores around the world to be instant memorials as people made trips to their local stores in order to show their condolences. Memorials for Jobs still seem [...]
Apple Reportedly Launching iTunes Store In Russia Tomorrow
12/03/2012, Fresh from the launching of iTunes 11 last week, it seems that Apple is planning to hold an iTunes event in Russia tomorrow, December 4, at a local shopping center in Moscow. This was allegedly revealed by an Apple PR [...]
Russia Introduces A Google-Less Android
09/03/2012, One of the key reasons for Android’s wild popularity and fame is that it is good, free and well-supported by Google. However, this is not to say that Google does not earn anything in return for it. Rather, the search [...]
Plastic Logic 100 e-reader announced
09/13/2011, While classrooms in other parts of the world are getting their hands on iPads, select schools in Russia will be getting something a little more kid friendly with the Plastic Logic 100, which is more of an e-reader rather than [...]
Samsung sued in Russia, not by Apple this time
08/26/2011, It appears that there’s yet another lawsuit filed against Samsung, and this time it’s in Russia. Before you think that Apple is chasing Samsung with lawsuits to all corners of the globe, this is not the case here, but rather [...]
Space hotel to launch by 2016?
08/19/2011, Moscow is a beautiful city – and an expensive one to live in, even if you’re just a tourist. Well, Russia is not looking around for their next source of tourism income, but rather, upwards – after all, the country [...]
Stay in space hotel will cost you $1 million
08/17/2011, Want a chance to stay in a hotel that is out of this world? And when we say out of this world, we meant that literally.
Russia Federal Security Service to ban Skype, Hotmail and Gmail?
04/08/2011, In the latest case of paranoia in the government, it appears that Russia has now caught the bug. The Russian Security service has been reported to have called for a ban on Skype, Hotmail and Gmail citing those services as [...]
Hacker jailed for 1.5 years after hacking video billboard with porn
03/24/2011, A hacker who had a mischevious streak in him paid for his misdemeanour, being sent over to the slammer for 1.5 years after placing pornography on a video billboard that is located right above Moscow’s inner ring road. Igor Blinnikov [...]
MMS Malware sent out on Valentine’s Day
02/14/2011, The festive season is usually the time of year where malware is easily spread and it’s no different this time of the year – Valentine’s Day. In a recent malware outbreak in Russia, unsuspecting folk that downloaded some MMS apps [...]
