Search engine "Yandex" has announced a new version of its mapping application "Yandex. Maps" for the mobile operating system iOS.

The Finnish company Nokia at the International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg announced the imminent closure of all its branded shops in Russia.

Fast Lane Ventures reported in 2011 were held 215 financing transactions Russian Internet companies and start-ups, which is 3.6 times more than in 2010 (59 transactions). The total volume of investment in young Internet companies and startups grew from $ 225 million to $ 540 million, representing 26.7% of the market versus 17.3% in 2010, but it is the official data. No official is ten times more.

New virus which acts primarily on the work of office printers, making them infinitely printed sheets of paper with meaningless characters set on them.

During Thursday's Twitter was not available. This was not due to hacking as a spread on the internet and because of the global software failure. Twitter brought the "most sincere apologies" to users around the world, which has afflicted the unavailability of the service.

An innovative way to find researchers from the University of Waterloo in Ontario. According to Amir Handani, head of the engineering and the research team, the current technology in the field of wireless networks are similar to those of the old radios that do not allow us to speak and listen at the same time.

The project introduced the next Top500 list of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. The new leader was the American supercomputer IBM Sequoia. The test showed he Linpack performance of 16.32 petaflops, or 16.32 quadrillion floating point operations per second.

Social network Facebook will buy a service Face.com, for recognizing faces in photos. The deal is reported in the official blog Face.com.

Engineers from Zurich have created a printer that prints a microscopic structures using polymer stream. The work is published in the journal Nature Communications this information is available on the School's website.

In the social network Facebook will soon be able to pay for purchases in applications not only virtual, but real money. Exchange real money for virtual, you can use gift cards, credit cards, payment system, PayPal, and other ways.