According to the IDC analytical company, in the IV quarter of 2014, the supply of tablets to the world market amounted to 76.1 million pieces, which turned out to be 3.2% less compared to the same period in 2013. According to the CNews portal, this reduction was the first in the history of the market since 2010, which has become the year of his official birth. It is noted that during the first three quarters of 2014, the market showed positive dynamics, and also grew up in annual terms.

The Japanese Corporation Sony sold the Sony Online Entertainment studio to the Columbus Nova investment company, writes Rossiyskaya Gazeta . As follows from the message published on the Sony forum , now the video game unit will be called Daybreak Game Company. According to the Kanobu portal, the buyer was the investment company Columbus Nova, and the amount of the transaction was not announced.

The US police detained one of the patients of the hospital in the city of Shainn Voyming, who made a phone call to the emergency service and said that he would kill the country's president Barack Obama. Under the investigation was David Dwayne Perry, who was previously placed for treatment in the department of mental disorders writes The Casper Star-Traibune .

The movement to combat racial discrimination of SOS Rasisme announced an appeal to the prosecutor with a statement regarding the announcement of the vacancy of a graphic designer, which was published with a note "besides Jews." An announcement on behalf of the Paris Bureau NSL Studio was published on a specialized website graphic-jobs.com on Monday, February 2. It listed the characteristics that the candidate should have, including organization, demands and motivation.

The British insurance company AGE UK Insuraance told its 75-year-old client, Rev. Vienna Parry that her insurance can be canceled, since the woman without warning placed the Opel Zafira stickers with religious texts, writes The Telegraph . The priest warned that messages with phrases such as "Christ must be the Savior" can be regarded as provocative.

The male team of Russia consisting of Alexei Volkov, Anton Babikov, Alexander Pechenkin and Alexei Slepova won 4x7.5 km in the European Championship in Biathlon in Estonian Patvi. Having spent 10 additional cartridges on fire borders, they overcame the distance in 1 hour 10 minutes 50.9 seconds, ahead of Ukrainians by 14 seconds, and the third Norwegians became 1 minute 11 seconds. In a similar discipline, women were won by Ukrainians, despite one penalty circle.

Two citizens of the Russian Federation, stolen by unknown on January 29 in the city of Zalingay, the capital of the state of Central Darfur, in the west of Sudan, are employees of the Russian airline UTAIR. Representatives of the joint peacekeeping mission of the African Suyuz and the UN (Yunumid) notified their abduction, a source familiar with the situation told RIA Novosti .

In the north of Moscow, the police are investigating the murder and robbery, which is involved an employee of the supermarket security. The attacker dealt with the store manager and stole the safe in which the money was stored. The crime was committed on Tuesday at about 9:00 in the store of the Monetka retail chain, located on the street of the 800th anniversary of Moscow in the metropolitan district of Degunino.

The inhabitants of Iceland will soon be able to worship the Torah, Odin and Friggu in a worthy way: the first temple dedicated to these gods, who were revered by the ancient Vikings, will be erected on the island in the near future. Although the Scandinavian paganism gave way to Christianity about 1000 years ago, the modern version of ancient polytheism becomes more and more popular in Iceland.

In 2014, the Interregional Transport Prosecutor's Office discovered and suppressed the massive cases of attempts to illegally sell airfields in the Moscow region at a low price - for a total of almost 900 million rubles.

The state of the housing stock, according to most Russians have improved in a quarter century, while the requirements increased citizens reported by VTsIOM with reference to the data of his surveys. Now 59% of respondents are satisfied with the state of their housing Against 14% in 1989, showed a survey conducted on January 17-18 among 1600 people in 132 settlements of Russia. The fact that they are unhappy with the state of their house is 38% Russians (77% in 1989).

Moscow took 26th place in the world for the cost of selling premium offices: as Knight Frank calculated, in the capital there are no business centers more than six thousand dollars per 1 square. m, a year ago the price was almost a quarter higher, writes RBC . At the end of September, Moscow occupied the 16th line of the rating, that is, in four months it sank by ten positions at once.

The prince of the Wales Charles was so not sure of the need to combine the bonds with Diana Spencer that on the eve of the ceremony was ready to leave his bride at the altar, the prince’s unofficial biographer, Catherine Mayer correspondent in the new book Charles: Heart of the King, published on Tuesday, claims.

Documents on the referendum on three issues - the merger of schools with kindergartens, the closure of hospitals and the return of the monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky to Lubyanskaya Square - were transferred to the Mosgorizbirkom. The State Duma deputy, the head of the capital’s department of the Communist Party of the Communist Party, Valery Rashkin reported this in his microblog on Twitter .

Russian striker and captain of Washington Alexander Ovechkin was recognized as the first star of January in the National Hockey League (NHL), according to the official website of the NHL. In January, Washington won seven out of 13 matches. Ovechkin in these meetings scored 12 goals and made three assists. The Russian leads in the list of the best NHL snipers with 31 naked, clarifies R-Sport .