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. More...

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. More...

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. More...

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. More...

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. More...

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. More...

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 More...

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. More...

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. More...

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. More...

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. More...

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. More...

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. More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

We reported a few weeks ago that a hacker going by the handle 'Kirllos' had managed to acquire the credentials of 1.5 million Facebook accounts and was selling them at unbelievably low prices in certain... More...

Hewlett-Packard's Moscow offices were raided by Russian investigators on Wednesday after a request from German authorities. German prosecutors suspect that HP executives paid €8 million ($10.9 million) to the office of the prosecutor general of... More...

Secret talks have been taking place between the United States, Russia and the United Nations in an attempt to reach agreement on strengthening Internet security and limiting use of cyber-warfare. Reported by the New York... More...

The bitter conflict currently ongoing between Georgia, the former Soviet republic, and Russia over the Georgian province of South Ossetia appears to have migrated online. The Georgian presidential website and other government sites have apparently... More...

Russia has successfully launched a rocket, carrying the last three satellites to complete a navigation system to rival America's GPS, from Baikonur cosmodrome on the steppes of neighbouring Kazakhstan, where Russia rents the facility. The... More...

On September 10, the Web site for the U.S. Consulate General in St. Petersburg, Russia, was broken into and was serving up malicious iFrames, according to Sophos security researchers. After trying to load a malicious... More...

The music download website whose activities threatened to scupper Russia's entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has been shut down. The site, Allofmp3.com, was quietly closed as the Kremlin sought to end criticism from... More...

Hewlett-Packard is recruiting researchers to tackle fundamental problems in information management at a new laboratory (its third research facility in five years) in St. Petersburg, Russia. HP is recruiting a total of 25 senior research... More...

In other space tech news, Russian ships, currently the only way to get cargo and people to the space station, have been delayed from their initial plan of launch due to a malfunction yet to... More...

Good old Microsoft. Hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers here are flocking to a local community center where they can develop IT skills and obtain information to help improve their lives. In... More...

Bootleg copies utilising the leaked code on sale now! In Novosibirsk, that is Versions of the massively-anticipated Half-Life 2 are on sale now in both Russia and the Ukraine - but they're bootleg... More...

Russia has become the first country to get its hands on one of the world's most closely guarded corporate secrets -- Microsoft Corp.'s blueprint for its computer programs, the software giant said on Monday. ... More...