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Wikipedia founder to visit Kazakhstan in 2013 Wikipedia’s Kazakh segment has risen to the 25th position. The audience has also grown from 500 000 pages viewed a month to over 8 000 000 pages viewed.

19 December 2012

50 light rail trams to be launched in Astana before EXPO-2017 The plan is to construct 3 lines, 42 stops and launch around 50 trams: Alstom.

19 December 2012

Kazakh Wikipedia ranked 25th in the world The number of entries in Kazakh Wikipedia has exceeded 200 thousand bringing the Kazakh language online encyclopedia to the 25th place among other Wikipedia languages.

19 December 2012

Apple losses bid for US ban on Samsung smartphones A judge late Monday denied Apple's request to ban a set of Samsung smartphones from the US market after a jury found the South Korean electronics titan guilty of patent infringement.

18 December 2012

Pros dominate YouTube greatest hits in 2012 "Gangnam Style" topped YouTube's list of the most attention-grabbing videos this year, as other professionally produced works outshined the amateur clips that had originally made the website famous.

18 December 2012

Confusion on Internet future after UN treaty split The freewheeling, unregulated Internet seemed to survive a push for new rules at a UN treaty meeting, but the collapse of talks leaves unanswered questions about the Web's future.

16 December 2012

Apple shares extend downward slide Concerns that the latest iPhone may not be a hit in China caused Apple shares on Friday to extend their slide from a record high price hit in September.

16 December 2012

Famed futurist to direct engineering at Google Futurist and inventor Raymond Kurzweil said on Friday that he is going to work as director of engineering at Google to help "turn the next decade's 'unrealistic' visions into reality."

16 December 2012

NASA probes set to smash into Moon NASA will smash two tiny probes into the Moon on Monday after they spent months gathering data from orbit miles above the lunar surface.

14 December 2012

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Hubble plumbs the universe, yields images of early galaxies The Hubble Space Telescope is giving scientists a look at the oldest galaxies ever seen, dating back some 13.3 billion years -- providing a glimpse into how the cosmos must have looked right after the Big Bang.

14 December 2012

Brazil to produce more sugar, less ethanol Brazil's sugarcane production will rise 6.5 percent this year but ethanol output will slump 5.22 percent as a greater focus is put on exporting sugar.

14 December 2012

The region doesn't want to depend on oil: Mangistau oblast Akim Akim of Mangistau oblast stated that the region should not depend on the oil sector.

13 December 2012

Pope ministers to Twitter flock Pope Benedict XVI is due to send out his first, much-anticipated Twitter message on Wednesday, with hundreds of thousands of followers already signed up to receive the tweet.

12 December 2012

North Korea successfully launches long-range rocket North Korea successfully launched a long-range rocket on Wednesday, sharply escalating the security threat posed by the nuclear-armed state and provoking concern from China and global condemnation.

12 December 2012

Japan utilities dive on atomic plant shutdown fears Shares in Japanese power companies plunged Tuesday after a panel of experts said one of the nation's nuclear plants may sit over an active seismic fault, raising fears it would have to be scrapped.

12 December 2012

Brief Facebook outage after infrastructure change Facebook was unreachable briefly on Monday after the social network made a change to part of its infrastructure dealing with routing traffic to its online address.

11 December 2012

Experts comment development of Kazakhstan tourism UNESCO poll shows that 70% of tourists don’t need any facilities and would prefer a camping ground to a hotel.

11 December 2012

EXPO-2017 facilities will be used along Olympic village principles It is important to consider future use of EXPO-2017 facilities in Kazakhstan in advance: President Nazarbayev.

11 December 2012

Kazkosmos to sell satellite images to French Kazakhstan National Space Agency Kazkosmos plans to sell images made by its Earth remote sensing system to French companies.

10 December 2012