The Russian online store Apple Store has opened its representative office on the Yandex.Market product search service. The fact of cooperation with Apple was confirmed for TJournal by Yandex PR Director Ochir Mandzhikov. Apple began independently selling its equipment through Yandex.Market. The new iPhone 5s , iPad Air and iPad mini Retina are available , and even the old disc version of Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Sometimes MacBooks are available.

An Xbox One user playing basketball simulator NBA 2K14 received a penalty for excessive swearing during the match. The curses “Goddamnit” and “It’s fucking ridiculous” were picked up in his speech by the Kinect device, which records video and speech during the game. Moments after the player uttered the profanity, Kinect identified it and his basketball team was awarded a free throw for a technical foul. The user was indignant: “I can’t swear in my own house!

The Friday TV channel responded to TNT for ridicule in advertising At the end of November, the TNT channel published a video about the distribution of the Russian TV audience. In the video, the channel openly mocked its competitors, and a few days later one of them, the Friday channel, decided to respond. In a video from TNT, the general television audience in Russia is compared to a sofa shared by different channels.

The social network Facebook has updated its news feed, shifting the focus to articles and other “quality” materials. This was reported on the company's blog . The social network Facebook has updated its algorithm for displaying posts in the news feed, focusing on “quality articles” and materials that users are most likely to click on. The blog reports that click-throughs to news portals from Facebook have increased by 170% over the past year.

The same people win cars in MTS and Nestea competitions MTS and Nestea companies were caught that the same people win their competitions. The mobile operator denies the accusations, citing the company organizing the advertising campaign. The editors of TJournal received a letter from Katerina Nechaeva. In the MTS group on VKontakte, where subscribers complain about spam sent by the operator, she noticed a complaint from her namesake Pavel Nechaev: “Rezvukhin is apparently damn lucky, and G.

The main selfshots of 2013 On November 19, “selfie” was named word of the year by the Oxford Dictionary. On December 3, the official account of the long-awaited revival of the Star Wars cinematic universe began its work with a self-portrait of the legendary Darth Vader - it seems that it could not have been any other way. The tandem of social networks and smartphones has given rise to a cult of narcissism that has no end in sight.

On the eve of the premiere of the second part of the Hobbit trilogy, the dragon Smaug was painted on board an Air New Zealand plane On the eve of the premiere of the second part of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy, the dragon Smaug was painted on board an Air New Zealand plane. writes about this CoCreate .

У беспилотника Amazon появился пародийный твиттер-аккаунт , собравший за сутки более 9 тысяч читателей. Аккаунт @AmazonDrone в Твиттере был открыт анонимным автором, как и большинство подобных страниц. На момент публикации в профиле 68 записей, а число читателей превысило 9,6 тысяч. Большинство постов в аккаунте — шутки о сложностях доставки и ответы на реплаи читателей. No, I won't bring you tacos, stop asking.

The Russian Ministry of Culture has proposed extending the anti-piracy law to all types of content except music. Vedomosti reported this. Deputy Minister of Culture Grigory Ivliev The Ministry of Culture has submitted amendments to the anti-piracy law to the Russian government. They should expand its scope and also change the process of blocking sites with illegal content.

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke out against “too big” restrictions on the Internet. His statement was made at a meeting with law students, ITAR-TASS reports . Putin said restrictions are “the simplest and most harmful way.” According to the president, when regulating the Internet, it is impossible and incorrect to be guided by the principle of “grab and leave,” ITAR-TASS reports.

Author: Mikhail Kafanov Despite the fact that filming of the seventh part of Star Wars will begin only in the spring of 2014, the Disney studio has already created an official Instagram page for the epic. The first photo in the photo blog was a selfie from Darth Vader, which collected more than 15 thousand likes and one and a half thousand comments. In just the first 10 hours, account .

Six-year-old Bubu won the title of top chinchilla on Instagram The absolute leadership of cats on the pedestal of the main animals of the Internet can be challenged by a chinchilla named Bubu, whose Instagram account is rapidly gaining popularity online. Bubu is a six-year-old female chinchilla from Singapore and the title of Top Chinchilla on Instagram according to BuzzFeed . The total number of Bubu's subscribers on Instagram and Facebook exceeded 12 thousand people.

A section will open on the website of the Afisha publication, allowing visitors to watch Russian and foreign TV series. This was reported by Afisha.Vozdukh . On the page show.afisha.ru , which talks about TV series, in mid-December it will be possible to watch the TV shows themselves. “Afisha.Serials” will take videos from leading Russian online cinemas ivi.ru, now.ru, tvigle.ru, zoomby.ru, megogo.ru and “Amediateka”, and will thus become the largest aggregator of TV series on the Runet.

The VimpelCom company (Beeline brand) began collaborating with the popular mobile messenger WhatsApp. This was reported in an English-language press release published on the VimpelCom website. The press release states that as part of the cooperation, VimpelCom will provide subscribers with tariff plans with access to “advanced Internet services”, and will also increase the use of mobile Internet and revenues from it. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.