Knowledge Handler

Information Sources & Information Sifting Techniques

: Name: David Dial; Location: Cleveland, Ohio, United States

I am a retired librarian, most recently serving at Indiana Wesleyan University's Cleveland Education Center.

Monday, October 28, 2013

YANDEX.COM - The Russian Google

The Russian equivilent of Google is Yandex.com . It offers search of the Web, images, and video, as well as translation and Web mail services.

-DD

Labels: Russia, search engines, Yandex.com

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Dashboard Cameras Common in Russia

Jay Alabaster writes that Russians frequently have dashboard cameras in their vehicles, allowing dozens of image captures of a freak meteorite swarm.

-DD

Labels: dashboard camera, meteor, Russia

Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Malware Flea Market

Ellen Messmer reports in the October 6, 2009 issue of Network World on a Malware flea market [that] pays hackers to hijack PCs. Operating out of Russia, the flea market entrepreneurs pay to get control of US computers (and for the opportunity to steal from US citizens). In order to avoid local prosecution, hijacking PCs in Eastern bloc nations is not permitted.

_-D.D.

Labels: Russia, security