Tag: russia

Reviewing The Russian Reversible Smartphone

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With an LCD screen on one side, and an e-Ink screen on the opposite side, Yota’s prototype smartphone was one of the big winners of CES 2013. Now, a year later, the handset is now on sale in a number of European territories. I’ve taken a closer look at the handset over on Forbes: The easiest way to think about the e-Ink screen implementation is that it is related but subservient to the main interactions on your smartphone. To set up one of Yota’s applications on the e-Ink screen you need to ‘send it to the back’ from the LCD screen… In my time

The Russians making money from Android malware

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Fascinating write up from Lookout on the professionalism of the Android malware industry in Russia: Organized groups of Android malware authors are operating like startups: tapping multiple individuals or organizations for specialization in different business areas, leveraging online tools for promotion and developing affiliate programs. At least one Russian malware “startup” has been discovered earning tens of thousands of dollars per month and operating thousands of websites through their affiliates. This is one advantage to well curated app stores – if you restrict your downloading to these sources then you’re far less likely to be caught out by these apps.

The meteor that could have started world war three…

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Charlie Brooker: Come to think of it, if the meteor had hurtled over the Urals at the height of the cold war, chances are Moscow would have mistaken it for an incoming nuclear attack and launched an immediate counterstrike on western targets, and I wouldn’t be sitting here typing this now. I’d be stabbing a man to death in a fight over the citadel’s last remaining potato.

Elminiation from Eurovision, Russian Style?

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One of the features of the Eurovision Song Contest is they play music in the background. Just Eurovision music. And specifically just the music from this year’s contest. Now the first semi final is over, the eight songs that have failed to qualify have left the building. And I’m wondering if their music will be airbrushed out of the Moscow Olympic Stadium’s jukebox, never to be heard again….