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Tag archive for ‘Technology/Internet’

• Google.kz Equals Google.com

  Following a new law in Kazakhstan that all sites with a .kz domain must have its servers physically located inside Kazakhstan’s borders, Google announced that it will redirect google.kz to google.com. In blog post accusing the government of Kazakhstan of trying to restrict the Internet, Bill Coughran, SVP, Research & Systems Infrastructure, wrote: Some governments, […]

  6/13/11 • (1)

• The Naked Truth

  This is one way to promote a new website: Guljan Yergaliyeva, who resigned as editor of the Svoboda Slova newspaper in January in protest against government repression of the media, particularly during the push to pass a referendum to extend the President’s term until 2020, has launched a new media site Guljan. As a symbol […]

  6/12/11 • (1)

• Handmade Computers

  As other people smarter in technology than I have noted, computer shops in Astana leave much to be desired. IT and tech service people tend to be better than other services here, mainly I suspect because you do have to actually know something to be an IT person. And good IT people (or any other […]

  4/05/11 • (1)

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  KazPad for Real

  Arta Software, which produced Astana Racer the first racing game in Kazakhstan, presented the its own Kazakhstani tablet computer. Apparently this was in September of last year and I totally missed it. However in December of 2010 there was a lot of noise about the Prime Minister’s insistencethat all Ministers have an iPad, and Arta […]

  1/17/11 • (Comments Off on KazPad for Real)

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  Google Transparency

  Probably to avoid bad press, Google has launched a new domain, Google Transparency Report, which shows how much traffic goes to different Google sites by country in order to see where services are blocked. The government request feature lets you see by country how many requests Google got to remove or censor content. Interestingly, Kazakhstan’s […]

  9/22/10 • (2)

• Price for Internet Halves

  Or speeds double, depending on how you look at it. A few months ago, KazakhTeleCom started offering faster Internet in Kazakhstan, doubling its speeds. I am told by my friends who are better at computers than I am that there is no reason why we couldn’t have had faster Internet a long time ago, but […]

  4/27/10 • (Comments Off on Price for Internet Halves)

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  Kazakhstan Loves Opera

  According to Reuters, Opera 10 is the most popular browser in Kazakhstan with 32% of the market share. An even more significant way of looking at it is that in January Kazakhstan, with an estimated 2,300,000 Internet users (less than one-tenth of users in China or the US) was one of the top ten countries […]

  4/14/10 • (3)