“Naive gives strength,” writes Guy Kavasaki and Michelle Moreno in his book “Revolutionary Product. How to create and bring to the market. " As evidence, the authors give a story that happened once in General Electric, in a group engaged in incandescent lamps. The head of the unit loved to arrange a newfoot engineers something like a course of a young fighter.

At the end of February, parliamentary elections took place in Italy. The Victory was won by the “Five Stars” movement, led by Giuseppe (Beppe) Grillo. Having received 25.6%of the votes, in the individual standings it overtook both parties considered favorites, the democratic party Pierre Luigi Bersani (25.4%) and the “people of freedom” Silvio Berlusconi (21.6%), and left the “civilian choice” of the current Prime Minister Mario Monty (8.3%).

Cyprus will cease to be asylum for Russians, banks will have to disclose information about the movement of funds on lawyers and notaries, they will put for non -payment of insurance premiums, and all citizens will be obliged to report the availability of property - all these proposals are contained in terms of the Ministry of Finance on “mobilization of budget revenues”. He was instructed to prepare at the end of February at a meeting with the First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov.

In Belarus, in connection with the death of the “close friend” Lukashenko, Hugo Chavez announced a national mourning for three whole days and canceled the celebration on March 8. After last year’s attack in the Minsk metro, when 12 were killed and about two hundred people were injured, mourning lasted only a day.

A way to seize world power by Russia was found: BRICS will help to establish itself in the international arena of our country, the author of the report “Russia in BRICSs. Strategic goals and means of achieving them. ” This document, as Kommersant found out , will form the basis of the “integrated program for using Russia in BRICS, which is being prepared by the Government of the Russian Federation in order to accelerate economic development and strengthen its international political positions”.

Microsoft , together with the University of Skolkovo, presents the open lecture of Don Field, senior director of products of the Microsoft Learning unit. Don Fild will tell about the history of the creation, goals and plans to develop Microsoft Learning , Microsoft certification, the history and capabilities of certification for career development, as well as development trends and the most popular professions of the IT industry in the near future.

Social applications finally began to pay off, according to the new study of the analytical company App Annie. According to the report, compared with January last year, global income of social epes for iOS in January of the current increased by impressive 87%. If a year ago, the Social Networking category occupied only the eleventh place in monthly revenue, now the third. The first two places in terms of profitability are occupied by messengers - WhatsApp and Line.

In the educational center "Memorial" was a round table " How to reform a higher school and protect the interests of teachers and students: history and modernity ." To discuss the problem, the doctor of historical sciences, professor of the RANEPA and RSUS Konstantin Morozov, a member of the organizing committee for the convocation of the constituent conference of a free trade union of university teachers Pavel Kudyukin, a doctor of historical sciences, representative of the Universal History of

At the request of Slon, every Monday experts evaluate the most noticeable marketing campaigns. In the next issue - Ilya Andreev (Proximity Russia) about rodents on the road, shocking therapy and other advertising tricks of the week Every Monday Slon chooses the most interesting marketing campaigns of the past week and asks for advertising experts to comment on them. Today, Ilya Andreev, the head of the creative group Proximity Russia, shares its considerations.

The mass market for wearable computers will appear only this year: Google will begin to sell its impressive “smart glasses”, and Apple, apparently, will present the iWatch watch . Gadgets in the shape of hours and glasses if two projects are successful sooner or later will inevitably appear among other manufacturers. Although it is possible that competitors will try to offer other form factors and develop alternative concepts for using Wearable Computers.

Google Glass smart glasses should appear on the free sale only at the end of this year, but they are already actively looking for non -trivial methods of their use. So, engineers of the University of Duke are going to teach Google Glass to recognize people in the crowd by their clothes. It is reported by The New Scientist. Persons recognition systems have existed for a long time, but they work only when a person looks directly into the camera.

Until the end of March, Russian President Vladimir Putin must decide on the candidate for the post of head of the Central Bank. In June 2013, the third term of powers of Sergei Ignatiev ends, and therefore the name of the successor will be announced until the end of the current month. Putin, as Izvestia is reminiscent , the other day in Vologda said that the candidacy of the new head of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation will be a surprise for everyone.

According to the Guardian newspaper, the writer Mikhail Shishkin refused to represent Russia as part of the official delegation at the American book fair Bookexpo and stated that the power in Russia was seized by a “corrupt, criminal regime”. The story of Shishkin’s statement has overgrown with literature; And still several problems remain. The first, and the main thing: the space of the discussion has collapsed, only the voting space remained: for, against, it was abstained.

March 11, Monday Dmitry Medvedev will hold a meeting on the development of high -tech exports. The Tver court will consider on the merits the criminal case of the auditor of Hermitage Capital, who died in the Moscow pre -trial detention center, Sergei Magnitsky, accused of tax evasion. March 11 - day of an employee of drug control bodies. March 12, Tuesday A meeting of the conclave in the Sistine Chapel of the Vatican will begin, on which 115 cardinals will be chosen by the pope.

Scientists of the European project ROBOEARTH launched the cloud online base of the Internet for robots , which will be presented at the 2013 European Robotics Forum forum from March 19 to March 21 in Lyon. The base is called Rapyuta and will be intended so that robots can better understand the world of a person, without overloading himself with excessive calculations.