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'Hunger Games' dethrone Potter at Amazon.com
Amazon.com on Friday announced that "The Hunger Games" trilogy has replaced the "Harry Potter" saga as the online retail giant's best-selling series of books.
18 August 2012
Google extends online search to email boxes
Google on Wednesday began allowing users to extend online searches to include messages stored in accounts at Web-based email service Gmail.
09 August 2012
Over 75 thousand names registered in .kz domain
The number of domain names in Kazakhstan in January-June 2012 grew 9.4 percent and reached 73,984.
08 August 2012
Domain stolen from Transparency Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan division of Transparency International had to change its domain after its mail system was hacked.
06 August 2012
Fans want to make Kazakhstan world Twitter trend
Fans of Kazakhstan Olympic team and active Internet users are trying to make #KAZAKHSTANNUMBERONE a world Twitter trend.
02 August 2012
S. Korea girl band stirs controversy over sacking
Top South Korean girl group T-ara has stirred controversy with the surprise decision to shed one of its members, a move which sparked an Internet protest campaign backed by some 330,000 people.
01 August 2012
Google, Facebook, eBay launch US Internet lobby
Big technology firms including Google, Facebook, eBay and Amazon have joined to create a new lobby group aimed at promoting "an open, innovative and free Internet."
26 July 2012
Nursultan Nazarbayev got personal Web page
An updated version of Kazakhstan President’s official website is launched on July 25, 2012.
25 July 2012
Kissenger: virtual lips for long-distance lovers
A robotics professor in Singapore has invented a gadget equipped with motion-sensitive electronic "lips" that allow amorous but absent couples to exchange long-distance smooches via the Internet.
23 July 2012
Google grabs startup devoted to Apple gadget email
A French startup behind email applications for Apple gadgets has been bought by Google as the Internet titan increasingly tailors hit software to run on its rival's hardware.
21 July 2012
Majority of Kazakhstan citizens trust TV more than printed media
Demoscope Bureau of Express-Monitoring of Public Opinion has polled Kazakhstan citizens on the most trusted information sources.
17 July 2012
Kazakhstan e-commerce market will grow 9-fold by 2015: i-MIX-2012
E-commerce market constitutes only about 0.45% of the overall market of Kazakhstan. It is expected to grow nine times by 2015.
12 July 2012
Thousands risk Internet shutdown as US fix expires
Tens of thousands of people around the world whose computers were infected with malware may lose their Internet access Monday after the expiry of a US government fix.
09 July 2012
iGoogle gets axed in shakeup
Google said Tuesday it was discontinuing its iGoogle page designed as Web "portal," saying it had become less relevant in the age of the mobile Internet.
05 July 2012
Mobile telephony and fixed Internet grew by 1/3 in 2011
The Internet services industry grew by 53,2% as compared to 2010, with Internet services to households growing by 75.7%.
25 June 2012
40 percent of polled Kazakhstan citizens against data personalization
Kazakhstan Interior Ministry initiated a draft law On Personal Data providing for storage of detailed information on every Kazakhstan citizen.
17 June 2012
Internet-advertisement market will grow 40 percent in Kazakhstan in 2012
According to our sales-house, the growth of the Internet-advertisement market in 2012 will make around 30-40 percent versus 2011: expert.
14 June 2012
Kazakhstan President suggested creating common Web-site for all religions
I suggest to create a Web-site aimed at forming and enhancing the global tolerance and trust: Nursultan Nazarbayev.
31 May 2012
Two thirds of computers attacked by Internet viruses are located in Almaty
This is related to the fact that Almaty city has a big number of active Internet-users.
28 May 2012
Kostanay court arrested young women for topless promenade
Two trials were held against young women who caused an outrage among Kostanai citizens by their topless promenade in the city center.
25 May 2012