Yandex announced today that it has launched a Turkish version of its search engine along with a range of other services created specifically for web users in Turkey – including webmail, news aggregation and automated translation services. Until now, the Turkish market has been dominated by search giant Google, with a market share exceeding 93% …
A list of Russian governmental bodies ranked by their IT expenditures was published last month by CNews.ru, a resource covering the IT and telecom markets. In 2011, total spending by 71 government bodies tracked by the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media is expected to amount to 83.18 billion rubles, or $2.81 billion. Of this …
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Russia’s national telecom operator Rostelecom has been accused by the Prosecutor’s Office of involvement in the misappropriation of 300 million rubles, approximately $1 million, from the government funded Electronic Russia program.
The loss of the Express-AM4 communication satellite earlier this month has exposed the substantial difficulties facing the deployment of the DVB-T broadcasting network in Russia. Made by EADS Astrium, Express-AM4 satellite was equipped with transponders operating in C-, Ku-, Ka- and L-bands. These transponders were designed to provide DVB-T broadcasting and broadband Internet coverage across the …
NASDAQ-listed Russian search engine giant Yandex announced last Friday it fully acquired The Tweeted Times, a website offering social news services, for an undisclosed amount. Yandex aims to use the technologies developed by The Tweeted Times to enhance its search and content services with information from social networks.
The Russian Ministry for Economic Development adopted earlier this month its final schedule for the launch of its project for universal electronic cards for all Russians in 2012. In accordance with a Federal law adopted in July, 2010, these universal electronic cards are to be provided to all Russian citizens. The cards will be configured …
Drchrono, a Silicon Valley based startup offering an electronic health record (EHR) platform for the iPad, announced last week it has received an additional $650,000 in seed funding from prominent startup investor Yuri Milner, founder of DST Global, along with venture capital firm General Catalyst.
Mobile phone retailer Svyaznoy is preparing to launch an IPTV offer by the end of the year, ComNews.ru, a Russian business news site covering telecom and IT issues, reported earlier this month. Svyaznoy intends to buy console decoders from a leading vendor and operate its over-the-top broadcasting project independently from any existing IPTV operators. Other …
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Moscow based startup incubator Fast Lane Ventures has just launched VitaPortal.ru, a website offering health news for the general public, inspired by the success of Western sites such as WebMD.com.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed executive orders yesterday establishing procedures for online publication of activity reports from Federal ministries and agencies.
National telecom operator Rostelecom and Irkutsk city authorities signed an agreement last week for the deployment of Rostelecom’s e-government solutions in the city, TASS-Telecom reported citing company sources. Similar agreements have been signed earlier with municipal authorities in Siberian cities of Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk and Omsk.
Moscow’s city government formally adopted last week a $11 billion informatization program, following one month of public discussions. Moscow mayor Sergey Sobyanin underlined the “systemic” approach of the program. He pledged to provide Muscovites with electronic access to “practically all public services, from medical appointments to applications for pensions and subsidies.” In addition, “the regular publication …
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