It was a big year for technology: Twitter and Facebook’s popularity exploded, while new smartphones, e-readers and a host of other gadgets cropped up to compete for our plugged-in affection. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2009, account, attack, Blog, company, computer, Conficker, e-mail, Facebook, fails, Gmail, Google, Google Wave, hacker, information, internet, iPhone, iPod, LiveJournal, Mashable, Media, member, Microsoft, online, service, site, smartphone, social media, TechCrunch, technology, Twitter, users, Web, worldwide, Zune

Some ancient gadgets quietly died a natural death. All of these pagers, handheld computers, floppy drives – they are no longer with us. Read the rest of this entry »

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Begun offer the new ad format – “showcases” that allows you to add colorful illustration in text ads. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ad, advertisers, advertising, Begun, campaign, contextual, image, Media, network, product, service, showcases, social networking, text ads

The scale of a phishing attack originally thought to be directed at Hotmail may be larger than previously thought. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: account, addresses, attack, Blog, customers, e-mail, Gmail, Hotmail, install, links, login, Microsoft, offline, passwords, phishing, post, project, service, site, software, traffic, update, users, Website, Yahoo

England’s World Cup qualifier in Ukraine on Saturday will be shown exclusively live to subscribers on the internet who will pay at least £4.99. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: BBC, broadcast, commercially, England, Football, international, internet, Mac, market, Marketing, online, PayPal, PC, project, service, stream, subscribers, TV, UK, Ukraine, viewers, Website, World Cup, YouTube

Begun investigated the preferences of advertisers and mobile users to contextual advertising. The study was based on the data service up to August 2009. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ads, advertising, auto, Beeline, Begun, contextual advertising, interests, internet, market, MegaFon, mobile, mobile devices, Motorola, MTS, operator, RuNet, russia, service, subscribers, telecommunication services, Ukraine, users

Yesterday, September 2, experienced a failure of all sites belonging to the company Rambler. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: company, e-mail, Gmail, Google, Lenta.ru, Moscow, portal, Rambler, search engine, servers, service, users, Web

Tags: ICQ, pager, service, Yandex