On March 27–28, Sokolniki will host the second exhibition and conference dedicated to social media and marketing SNCE 2014 . No less than the organizers gathered more than 40 IT companies, digital agencies, social media monitoring and analytics services, as well as mobile application development companies. Social media has become the center of new communications, and this is a fait accompli.

Unknown hackers demanded that domain registrar R01 provide data from the Kavkazpress resource , in response threatening to launch attacks on the company’s services. A source at the registrar reported this to TJournal. Some hackers wrote a letter to R01 on February 20, in which they demanded to provide information about the owners of the kavkazpress.ru domain, where the Kavkazpress blog is located.

The Russian Foreign Ministry “instructed” Twitter users to approve an article in a German newspaper The official microblog of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs published a tweet asking to “give a reserved assessment” of the article. The recording was promptly deleted, but managed to arouse conspiracy theorists.

GIFs and photoshops in honor of DiCaprio not winning an Oscar again Leonardo DiCaprio's next Oscar nomination ended with the Titanic star again left without a statuette. On this occasion, the Internet was covered with a wave of sympathetic, ironic and mocking photoshops, tweets and gifs. TJournal chose the best. Leonardo DiCaprio has been nominated for an Oscar a total of four times: for What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, The Aviator, Blood Diamond and The Wolf of Wall Street.

Roskomnadzor, by decision of the Prosecutor General's Office, blocked a number of communities of Ukrainian nationalists on the VKontakte social network. This was reported on the Roskomnadzor website . Over the weekend of March 1-2, the Prosecutor General's Office identified 13 communities with information prohibited in Russia. Roskomnadzor added the pages to the register of prohibited sites, and the VKontakte administration blocked them.

Microsoft is going to make the Xbox Live social network cross-platform, launching it for iOS and Android devices. This was reported by The Verge . According to the publication's sources, Microsoft is going to develop a platform for introducing Xbox Live functionality on the iOS and Android mobile operating systems owned by its competitors Apple and Google, respectively.

In 2013, Apple lost its leadership in the tablet market to Android devices for the first time in its history. This was reported by TechCrunch . Since the release of the first version of the iPad in the spring of 2010, Apple has consistently dominated the tablet market, but in 2013 the technology giant's leadership in this area came to an end. According to a report by the analytical company Gartner, 195 million tablet computers were sold worldwide in 2013, which is 68% more than in 2012.

The microblogging service Twitter presented an interactive map of the world, which depicts surges of interest in events in Ukraine. On the evening of March 2, in the official microblog TwitterData, dedicated to data analysis on Twitter, a link to a map appeared on which the discussion of Ukraine for February was visualized. It shows that Ukrainian events were of greatest interest to residents of the country itself, as well as Russia, Europe and North America.

​Zombie, manicure, device for stabilizing smartphone shooting and other interesting campaigns on Kickstarter Zombie, manicure, device for stabilizing smartphone shooting and other interesting campaigns on Kickstarter. Art: A Wonderland Linocut Print Project A Colorado artist is raising money for a series of prints and cards based on Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Most of the images are dedicated to the inhabitants of Wonderland: the Cheshire cat, the Dodo, the Blue Caterpillar and others.

A resident of Vologda was sentenced to 3 years of suspended imprisonment for publishing a hentai video on the social network VKontakte. Lenta.ru reports this with reference to the press service of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. The man (in the court decision only his last name and initials are given - Terekhichev I.V.) posted a hentai video on his VKontakte page.

Visitors and employees of the Metropolis shopping center at the station. Voikovskaya in Moscow was evacuated from the building. This was reported by the Moscow FM radio station. The evacuation occurred on March 3 around 13:00. People and employees of the Metropolis shopping center are being evacuated. The reason has not yet been reported — Moscow FM (@92fmru) March 3, 2014 Social media users complain about the evacuation, some write about the bomb.

During the live broadcast of the Oscars, TV presenter Ellen DeGeneres posted a tweet that within minutes became the most popular in the history of the service. This was reported by The Verge .

Cosmetic redesign, Siri voices, new keyboard and CarPlay Author: Vilena Ter-Matevosyan The release date of the new version of iOS 7.1 is still unknown, but sources claim that this will happen no later than mid-March . At the moment, five beta versions have already been released, and based on them we can conclude what awaits us in the next major iOS update. 1. Rounding in design If earlier the reset or call buttons were large and rectangular, now they are smaller and round.