Tag archive: Moscow

Some of the best games at E3 were behind closed doors. Metro: Last Light was one of them. The guys at developer 4A Games took us through several sections of the game, which had mine cart shootouts, Hitler-esque rallies, and some great environmental manipulation & destruction. As it did with Metro 2033, THQ has signed on to publish the sequel and seems to be letting 4A do its thing, which is refreshing. 4A hopes to successfully blend… Read More

Google may have broken through American and European governmental opposition to its high-profile mergers in the past, but a new attempt to partner with a Russian company has left the company stymied by Moscow. According to the New York Times, Russia’s antitrust authorities nixed Google’s attempt to acquire online advertising firm Begun on Friday. The proposed merger would have given Google access to a network with 40,000… Read More

In what might be very chilling news, journalist Magomed Yevloyev, who ran a site loudly opposing the Kremlin-back regime in Russia’s troubled Ingushetia region, has been killed by police, the Guardian reports. Yevloyev ran the site Ingushetiya.ru, where he accused Russia of crushing free speech in the area. According to reports, he flown into Ingushetian capital of Nazran from Moscow, and was met by police at the airport.… Read More

“You can do a whole lot of things with $50bn." That’s something we all know, and, according to Reuters, it’s what Microsoft’s chief executive Steve Ballmer told an audience in Moscow. According to his speech, Microsoft has moved away from its thoughts of Yahoo and will look elsewhere. In fact, he said, “we will spend money on some acquisitions," he was quoted as saying. "Yahoo was never the… Read More

Last year Estonia suffered weeks of debilitating cyber attacks after it took down an old statue of a Russian Red Army soldier in its capital, Tallinn. The denial of service attacks that followed crashed computers in many government departments. Estonia blamed Russia, but Moscow has always denied any involvement. 12 months on from that event, a cyber defense hub has now opened in Estonia. It will be funded and staffed by seven Nato… Read More

According to the online newspaper Fontanka.ru (Russian) Russia's mass media agency Rossvyazokhrankultura believes it has the authority to require Wi-Fi users to register their Wi-Fi devices and obtain a non-transferable permit to use them—and, furthermore, that it can confiscate devices from anyone who doesn't follow its rules. According to its deputy director Vladimir Karpov, registering a phone or PDA with Wi-Fi… Read More

The Russian music download site allofmp3.com, which was closed last month, is set to resume “in the foreseeable future,” according to a statement posted on the site. The site, which claims to be the largest seller of music downloads after iTunes, has been the subject of numerous lawsuits from Western record labels. However, a Moscow court has ruled the site is legal under Russian law. Most recently Denis Kvasov, the head of… Read More

Denis Kvasov, a former owner of the Russian music download site Allofmp3.com, has been acquitted of copyright charges.   A Moscow court ruled that Kvasov and the site operated within Russianlaw.   Allofmp3.com sold cheap-price downloads of Western music until it was closed in June, under pressure from Western music firms, and it’s been a persistent problem in US-Russia talksat the World Trade Organization.   Allofmp3.com is… Read More

A Russian music download site, which claims to be the world’s biggest music download retailer after iTunes, has been shut down – but appears to have re-opened under another name.   Allofmp3.com has long been the subject of controversy. In the West, many groups claim it’s a pirate site, selling music cheaply and not paying royalties, although the company insisted that it was legal, paying royalties to a Russian licensing… Read More

Video game publisher Activision today said they had begun shipping Call of Duty 2, the sequel to the run away WII game Call of Duty. Developed by Infinity Ward, Call of Duty 2 is priced at $49.99 and rated T for Teen. It is available for the PC now, with an Xbox 360 version expected Nov. 15. Call of Duty 2, Activision said, is powered by a new Infinity Ward gaming engine. It is set across three Allied campaigns: Russian, British and… Read More

“On March 4th prosecutor's office of Moscow's Southwestern region refused to charge AllofMP3.com in a criminal lawsuit. What's interesting is that AllofMP3.com did not win the case due to the compulsory licensing legislated in Russia. The prosecutor's office affirmed that the Russian music site was distributing copyrighted music from its site, and in many cases did not have a proper license to distribute them.… Read More

Local Moscow police have recommended that prosecutors charge Allofmp3.com with criminal copyright infringement. The site is known for providing high-quality song downloads in multiple formats, where users pay for 2 cents per megabyte of download instead of a per song charge. Prosecutor's have until March 7th to decide to act on the recommendation from Moscow's Police department. Read more at CNET.

Quote from the review: “And so it has happened. The new mobile platform from Intel, the successor to the just cause of the first Centrino generation has been officially announced. Thanks to the Moscow representative office of Acer, we had an opportunity to lay our hands on the new platform, so we run some express tests on Sonoma-based TravelMate 8100 notebook. In this article I'll show you what the notebook based on Intel… Read More

Excerpt: “As part of regular Russian Intel Developer Forum held in Moscow on October 19-20, along with the general presentation of new Intel semiconductor technologies Josh Walden presented a separate technical report entitled “Intel's 65 nm Logic Technology: Continuing Moore's Law in a Power Limited World”. The lecturer, head of the Fab24 laboratory located in Leixlip, Ireland, acquainted its audience with… Read More

First Capital International,Inc. the Designer and Manufacturer of its prepackaged VIP Systems (www.VipHomeSystems.com), a state-of-the-art Home Automation/Media Distribution and Video observation system, announced today that VIP Systems will introduce to the market a new, all-in-one set-top entertainment box in June of this year. The company has produced several prototypes and has successfully tested it through the Company's worldwide… Read More