Наркобизнес в Интернете имеет мало общего с офлайновыми сетями драг-дилеров. Здесь происходит торговля не самими наркотиками, а материалами для их выращивания. Зато как раз в Сети, при анонимном и неподцензурном общении, только и можно исследовать такие явления как наркомания.

Today the Soundkey project and the new Rambler digital music sale facility, a beta version of the Soundkey showcase (which Rambler can set up itself) got off to an official start. The founders of Soundkey.ru, the company Softkey and the Zvuki.ru portal, stress that the project will become the new technology for establishing transparent relations on the music market. "Talk of pirate sales is now an international subject; the closure of pirate websites came to be a condition for Russia’s entry to the WTO. At the same time, musicians and copyright holders have made their position clear: they want to decide for themselves where and for how much they will sell their music on the Russian Internet", states the press release.

The Russian design studio Sema.ru has registered the tradename Gmail.ru at Rospatent, to protect itself from seizure of the domain on the part of Google. The .ru zone has seen the like before: in 2004 the Google.ru domain, which belonged to a private individual was released to the search engine after a court case. However, the Gmail.ru site was registered 2Ѕ years before Gmail.com. Director of the Sema.ru studio Semen Budyenny bought the domain in early 2004 and set up his own mail service. It should be said that even a trademark cannot always give 100% confidence of success in a court proceedings relative to a domain name.

Tourists travelling by train to the Sverdlovsk and Tyumen regions, many of whom carry laptop computers and other Internet-compatible devices, will be offered an Internet service. Sverdlovsk Railways first offered the ability to access the Internet 3 years ago, albeit then from specialized Internet compartments.

The list of countries where citizens can use the PayPal payments system has now expanded to 48 and includes Ukraine and Russia. True, citizens of these countries can presently only send money through PayPal, but they cannot top up their account or withdraw funds. Residents of Russia are also unable to receive payments from other users of the system. Of the 17 currencies with which PayPal operates, there is still no currency from countries of the former USSR. The only thing that the system has given Russians is access to Western stores and auctions, including eBay, which owns PayPal.

A new section has opened on the WAP portal of the MegaFon mobile operator called "Wikipedia". The operator resolved not to create its own encyclopaedia, preferring instead to use the content of the Russian version of Wikipedia, only making a WAP gateway to access it. Subscribers can read and edit the worldwide encyclopaedia using their telephone. What is interesting is that access to the WAP site, through which access to Wikipedia is achieved, is a chargeable service, and the subscriber also has to pay for the WAP traffic from his telephone.

The St. Petersburg division of Google Research and Development comprises 10 former members of staff from Borland, while the new Google structure is headed by former head of the Russian division of Borland Pavel Feldman. In the summer Borland laid off over 20% of its staff worldwide. About 200 people lost their jobs in St. Petersburg who, in addition to Google, are now employed in local development centres of Yandex, Sun Microsystems, Motorola, Alcatel and Intel. Russia will become the second country after the USA to house two Google development centres; the first was opened in Moscow.