For each step completed, Alfa-Bank will transfer money from the main account to the savings account with an increased interest rate per annum. This was reported on the website of the St. Petersburg branch of the bank. Bracelet Jawbone Up Smartphones with the RunKeeper application installed or specialized bracelets that can count the number of steps (FitBit Force and Flex, Jawbone Up and Up24) can be connected to Alfa-Bank online banking.

British woman Michelle Chapman has become the first person to be jailed for trolling herself on Facebook. This is reported by the Independent . Michelle Chapman, from Cornwall, was sentenced to 20 months in prison for sending herself offensive messages on Facebook using fake accounts over the course of a year.

Apple has removed the most popular program for working with Bitcoin wallets, Blockchain, from the App Store. This was reported by The Verge . The Blockchain application from the developer of the same name existed in the App Store for about two years. In their official blog, its authors condemned Apple.

Useful and entertaining applications and special projects for the Olympics Author: Gennady Zavolokin TJournal has collected several applications and special projects, useful and simply entertaining, dedicated to the Olympic Games in Sochi. Two official mobile applications of the Sochi Games. The “Guide” is intended for viewers who are directly in Sochi: with its help you can navigate the objects and build a route.

SMM of the Oryol police On February 5, the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Oryol region announced the creation of its representative offices on Instagram and Odnoklassniki . Previously, the local police had already created accounts on Twitter and Facebook, in which they actively share news. TJournal studied what remarkable things can be found in the social networks of Oryol law enforcement defenders.

A number of Russian media outlets wrote that Bill Gates spent the whole day trying to install the Windows 8.1 operating system. The source of their news was a comic article in The New Yorker magazine. On February 5, humorist Andy Borowitz published a traditional satirical article in The New Yorker, the events of which are fictional.

TJournal collected positive comments from Russian and Western journalists from Sochi Russian and Western journalists write from Sochi not only about broken elevators and steam toilets . TJournal collected positive comments from eyewitnesses of what was happening on the eve of the opening of the XXII Olympic Games. Georgy Cherdantsev, NTV-Plus Impression of the 1st day: space. It’s incredible that: a) it exists, b) that it’s so cool, c) that it’s in Russia.

How Facebook has changed over the past 10 years Ten years ago, on February 4, 2004, Mark Zuckerberg launched Thefacebook project, which allowed students of American universities to communicate. Since then, the locomotive of the social network has been unstoppable: from a community craft, it has grown into a giant corporation with offices all over the world.

Giant pandas are considered an endangered species, with less than 2 thousand individuals left in the world, and the reserve in the Chinese province of Sichuan is one of the few reservations where these animals live in conditions close to natural. The reserve is home to several species of birds and red pandas, but tourists from all over the world come primarily to see giant pandas in their habitat.

Samsung gave each participant in the Sochi Olympics a smartphone with the condition that the athletes hide all logos of other brands during the opening ceremony. This was reported by the Swiss portal Bluewin . Members of the Swiss Olympic team were the first to draw media attention to Samsung's demand. In addition to the new Galaxy Note 3 smartphones, they found a sheet in their gift sets with conditions that must be met in order to receive it.

The Twitter accounts of some journalists from the Dozhd TV channel received verified status on February 6. Previously, only very popular people received ticks in the microblogging service. Dozhd correspondent Nikita Belogolovtsev and the head of the channel’s online editorial office, Elena Kiryushina, reported on receiving the “tick” on Thursday evening. Oh, Twitter gave me a tick!

Sony Corporation has announced that it is going to exit the computer manufacturing business, The Verge reports . In addition, the company will restructure its TV division and lay off five thousand employees. Sony will transfer the Vaio PC division, which develops and produces computers and laptops, to the Japanese investment fund Japan Industrial Patners (JIP). The deal is expected to close by the end of July 2014. JIP plans to sell VAIO computers only in Japan.

Russian law enforcement agencies and intelligence services will help the Central Bank in the fight against offenses related to the use of bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies. This is stated in a press release from the Prosecutor General's Office. Representatives of the Prosecutor General's Office, the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Central Bank met on February 6 to discuss countering the use of anonymous payment systems and cryptocurrencies in Russia.

Amazon has acquired game studio Double Helix Games. This was reported by TechChrunch . Screenshot from Killer Instinct, Double Helix's latest project The Internet giant acquired not only 75 employees, but also the company's intellectual property, leaving it with the same name and headquarters in California. Amazon planned to announce the purchase at a special event on February 13, but information about it was leaked online ahead of time.

A few days before the start of the Olympics, a special section with official applications and songs of Sochi 2014 appeared in the App Store. Roman Krapivner, the author of the lyrics to one of the songs posted on iTunes, said that he did not give permission for its publication in the Apple store, and also questioned who receives income from the album. TJournal talked with Krapivner and found out the details of the mysterious history of the appearance of the official Sochi-2014 album.