Russian law enforcement officers searched the offices of several computer companies Wednesday, including the Moscow headquarters of IBM Corp., apparently in connection with a graft investigation at the Russian Pension Fund, the Associated Press news agency reports.
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December 7, 2006
Deep Fritz, the world’s leading chess computer, on Wednesday roundly beat its human counterpart, the Russian world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik, in a six-game encounter, Press Trust of India reports.
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December 6, 2006A Russian hosting company with ties to the UK and the US has become the victim of a huge hack attack, vnunet.com website reports.
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December 4, 2006In the wake of recent publications regarding the obligations that Russia took up to enter WTO and in particular the obligation to shut down illegal websites, AllofMP3 has issued a statement.
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December 1, 2006
One of the many differences between human beings and computers is that computers do not have blind spots, as world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik did in game two of his match against the Deep Fritz software on Monday.
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November 28, 2006Russian companies have the worst corporate Web sites in Europe and make the least amount of information available to investors, analysts and other people seeking data to make investment decisions, according to a survey of 16 countries released Thursday.
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November 23, 2006Losses to copyright holders from piracy in Russia in the first ten months of 2006 exceeded 2.48 billion rubles ($93.1 million), Interfax agency reports.The ministry’s department for economic security said 6,432 criminal cases were launched during the period, against only 2,924 cases in 2005.
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November 17, 2006Criminal groups are widely using the Internet to advertise and spread drugs, Lieut. Gen. Alexander Mikhailov, director of the Russian Federal Drug Control Service’s department for contacts with agencies and information, told Interfax Agency in Moscow on Thursday.
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November 16, 2006Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova has personally caught a 10-year old boy who tried to steal her mobile phone in a Starbucks cafe in Madrid.
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Microsoft chief Bill Gates has cautioned Russia against competing with India in the software business stating that it might lose out due to high production costs. Gates was in Moscow on Tuesday and Wednesday, meeting with the country’s software developers and government officials.
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November 9, 2006
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