Neowin News Feed for: Russia

Surface RT to go on sale in Russia April 4

John Callaham — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 17:31:07 +0100

Microsoft will begin selling the Surface RT tablet in Russia on Thursday, April 4, via the M.Video store in Moscow, with plans for a launch day concert as well. Read more...

Yandex becomes default WP8 search engine in Russia, Turkey

Paul Ferson — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 01:20:51 +0000

Russia and Turkey are receiving a different default engine to most WP8 handsets, with Yandex coming as standard on both. The partnership could help gain some control for Yandex within Turkey. Read more...

Editorial: Let's bring the UN's internet regulation talks into the open

Tyler Holman — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:21:49 +0000

In less than a month, behind closed doors, the UN is going to hold discussions that could have huge ramifications for internet users everywhere. Let's get them to come clean and bring it into the open Read more...

Ever wanted to destroy a car online?

Paul Ferson — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 12:35:59 +0100

If you've ever wanted to see how far you could take the concept of car modification, 3DTuning might be the best thing since sliced bread. The site allows you to butcher cars to your heart's content. Read more...

Russian Orthodox Christians declare Apple logo ‘anti-Christian', replace it with cross

Andy Weir — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 17:25:59 +0100

Ultra-conservative Russian Orthodox Christians have taken offence over Apple's logo, believing it to be anti-Christian, and replacing the bitten fruit symbol on the company's products with a crucifix. Read more...

VoiceGrid Nation: Another nail in privacy's coffin?

Tyler Holman — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 09:15:09 +0100

A new Russian-developed software system called VoiceGrid Nation can identify a person in a matter of seconds, using only their voice matched against a massive database of recordings, or voice-prints. Read more...

Russia's SVR reportedly investing in spam-bots

Paul Ferson — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 01:31:47 +0100

Information from Russian newspaper Kommersant indicates that Russia's foreign intelligence agency, the SVR, has invested considerable sums of money into developing propaganda spambots for the state. Read more...

Russia develops Google free Android tablet

Rob Schorman — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:49:14 +0100

Russia wants to equip military and government personnel with tablets, but the country isn't comfortable with Google collecting information from Android users, which could fall into U.S. hands Read more...

Reuters website hacked, spreading lies about Syrian situation

Paul Ferson — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 20:42:32 +0100

Reuters was hacked on Friday, with an account being hacked and used to spread misinformation about the situation in Syria, and specifically about the Free Syrian Army's movements. Read more...

Wikipedia goes down in Russia in protest at new law

Paul Ferson — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:13:11 +0100

Due to a controversial law being considered by Russia's State Parliament which could allow the blacklisting of websites, Wikipedia has closed itself for a one-day protest again. Read more...

Russia looking to censor Internet porn websites

John Callaham — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 00:10:24 +0100

The four political parties in Russia are developing a bill that, if passed, would give the country's government the power to create a blacklist of websites based on topics like porn and drug ads. Read more...

Hacking group UGNazi takes credit for Twitter outages

Paul Ferson — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:10:48 +0100

After Twitter suffered a 'cascaded bug' yesterday the site was down for a considerable period of time. Hacking group UGNazi have stepped up and taken credit for the actions leading to the outage. Read more...

Russian Lumia 800 videos show birds, girls and singing cops

John Callaham — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:13:38 +0100

Three new videos from Nokia Russia to promote the Lumia 800 show people in a mall elevator being subjected to "angry" birds, dancing and stripping girls and singing police officers. Read more...

Windows Phone devices selling well in Russia

John Callaham — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:58:20 +0100

A new report claims that the introduction of Windows Phone devices in Russia has resulted in better than expected sales and that they could surpass sales of the iPhone. Read more...

Microsoft blames Russians for Rustock botnet

James Woodfin — Thu, 26 May 2011 18:31:26 +0100

Yesterday we reported on the seizing of hard drives and other equipment belonging to the Rustock botnet. This was a major victory for Microsoft. Email addresses were found on the hard drives. In addition, there... Read more...

Russian operators come together for widespread LTE rollout

Mike Brown — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 12:11:05 +0000

LTE received a major boost today, as it was announced by mobile provider Yota that the five major networks will join hands to share Yota's next generation network. According to Reuters, MTS, Vimpelcom, MegaFon, and... Read more...

Russia planning a Windows Rival

Byron Hinson — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:24:06 +0100

The Russian government have now confirmed that they are planning on developing a national software system that will be based solely on the Linux operating system. The reasoning behind this move seems to be to... Read more...

Microsoft protects nonprofit orgs from anti-piracy take down

Alan Cone — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 19:44:33 +0100

Microsoft has begun an effort to prevent governments from using laws regarding software piracy to take down nonprofit organizations in 12 countries, including Russia and China. In these tightly controlled countries, many use software piracy inquiries... Read more...

Microsoft says 12th alleged Russian spy was employee in Redmond

Andrew Lyle — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:33:24 +0100

Microsoft said that an alleged Russian spy was an employee at their headquarters in Redmond. According to businessweek, the Russian spy was a software tester for Microsoft, who was part of a spy ring sending... Read more...

Nokia calls in Russian police to recover missing phone

Brandon Boyce — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:09:32 +0100

In an move reminiscent of Apple's recent fiasco with the iPhone 4, Nokia sent the police after a blogger to recover an unreleased smartphone. Eldar Murtazin published a harsh review of the Nokia N8 back... Read more...