Internet

The number of Kazakhstan Internet users reached 34.4 percent of the total country population in Q1 2011.

19 June 2011

Kazakhstan citizens Yandex search UAE and China

Yandex search engine defined the most popular travel destinations of its Kazakhstan users. The UAE and China are the most popular destinations.

18 June 2011

Kazakhstan to expand Kazakh Wikipedia

The number of entries in the Kazakh Wikipedia has grown to 25 000. A team of 150 volunteers is working to develop the resource.

17 June 2011

iPhone and iPad apps available at PM Massimov’s web site

According to the web site, the app is available in Kazakh, Russian and English languages.

15 June 2011

Google is back in Kazakhstan

Google resumed the work of its search engine in Kazakhstan's domain zone.

15 June 2011

Kazakhstan government’s sittings to go on-line at PM’s web site

Materials will be posted on a weekly basis.

14 June 2011

KazakhTelecom to double Internet speed by the end of 2011

Chairman of KazakhTelecom told about the company's plans to increase quality of Internet services in Kazakhstan.

10 June 2011

Hi-speed Internet to cover Kazakhstan by 2015

Hi-speed Internet will cover the whole territory of Kazakhstan by 2015 with 100 Mbit/sec speed in the cities and 20 Mbit/sec in the villages.

10 June 2011

KazNIK's misinterpretation of rules caused closure of google.kz

Kazakhstan Association of IT-companies has explained the situation around the demand to physically relocate all .kz domain servers to the territory of Kazakhstan.

10 June 2011

Largest Kazakhstan’s Internet portals seek to launch an association to develop Kazakhstan’s Internet resources

Kaznet is only popular with 15% of Internet users in Kazakhstan, with the other 85% giving preference to the Russian segment of the Internet, says Azamat Omarov, Commercial Director of the Yvision blogging service.

09 June 2011

Owners of some Kazakhstan’s Internet portals requesting a moratorium

Owners of some Kazakhstan’s Internet portals have written an open letter to Kazakhstan’s PM Massimov requesting him to introduce 2-year-long moratorium on any changes into intellectual rights-related legislation applicable to the Internet.

03 June 2011

Massimov writing in his Twitter himself

He told that when participating in the i-MIX 2011 conference focused on the Internet development.

26 May 2011

Massimov launched Internet-voting

Kazakhstan Prime-Minister Karim Massimov launched an Internet voting that would determine the Internet platform where his online-conference is going to be held.

26 April 2011

Illegal Internet use to be discussed by SCO in Astana

Illegal use of Internet will be discussed by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) on April 28, 2011 in Astana.

26 April 2011

Kazakhstani schools to get 600 laptops and ipads

Kazakhstan schools will get 300 laptops and 300 tablet computers as part of a pilot project. If the project proves its worth 926 schools will get the devices in 2013.

20 April 2011