Mail.ru Group, a leading Russian Internet group, announced this past Friday the winners of its annual Best Gadget of the Year Award. The award event was hosted by Hi-Tech Mail.Ru, the group’s media project which collected users’ opinions on new tech solutions across digital sectors. With more than 2.3 million votes taken into account – …
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“We’ve set for ourselves the goal of holding negotiations with all chipset manufacturers to openly support GLONASS as soon as this year,” Russia’s Minister of Telecom and Mass Communications Nikolai Nikiforov told journalists at Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress yesterday. These chipset manufacturers have already set up the corresponding production lines, the news agency RIA Novosti …
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Authorities in the Republic of Bashkortostan, in Russia’s mid-Volga area, have pooled their efforts with those of several companies and organizations in the region to set up a local radio electronics technology cluster, the news portal I-mash.ru reports. The new technology cluster is being established to promote collaboration among regional telecommunications equipment makers, radio electronics equipment manufacturers, and …
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Ekaterinburg’s Ural Federal University (UrFU) has announced it is developing a new RFID-based technology to safeguard and take stock of library books. Eighteen months from now, the system is expected to be in operation at the library of Lyceum #130 in Yekaterinburg, a long-standing UrFU partner. The non-contact radiofrequency scanning system will reportedly enable librarians …
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Last month the Russian police confiscated 103 packaged bales full of fake Apple and Samsung phones; they estimate 10 million rubles ($310,000+) and 179 million rubles ($5.6 million), respectively, in damages for the trademark holders. As many as 8,400 handsets “with unmistakable signs of falsification,” stacked on a train that ran from Vladivostok, in Russia’s …
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The Union of Regional Innovation IT and Electronics Clusters has been established in Russia, reports the NanoNewsNet portal. The decision was formally announced on October 31, 2012 on the opening day of the Open Innovation international forum in Moscow. Under the terms of the Union’s Declaration, the new association welcomes regional innovation clusters that manufacture …
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Moscow – IBM Corporation and the Scientific and Production Association (SPA) “Angstrem” and “Angstrem-T” have signed two agreements to spur technology innovation. Through the first agreement, IBM has licensed Angstrem integrated circuit technology of the topological size of 90nm. With the license, Angstrem plans to manufacture microelectronic devices such as chips and sensors for use inthe …
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The Novosibirsk region of Siberia will create its own electronic cluster, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported earlier this month. The planned facility will include significant production capacity for the manufacture of next gen electrical current sources based on a combination of supercapacitors and classical lithium-ion or other storage battery technologies. The facility will also reportedly manufacture products …
Russian Railways, the national rail operator, plans to introduce RFID tagging across all its assets, from rail cars to tracks and stations, over the next year, the Russian newspaper Izvestiya reported last week, citing a source in the Russian Ministry of Industry and Commerce. Reader devices will be mounted on locomotives. The data read from …
Sitronics Microelectronics, the largest maker and exporter of microelectronics in Russia and the CIS, has announced the first sales of its new microchips applying the 90-nanometer design rule. The chip is reportedly designed for use in computer system components, with its immediate market seen as Russian companies developing equipment for aerospace engineering.
Russia’s first large-scale production facility of microelectronics components made to the 45-nanometer and smaller design rule will be coming on-line outside Kaliningrad by the end of this fall, news agency RIA Novosti reported earlier this week. Located in the town of Gusev, GS Nanotech Center will require a reported $130 million in investment and is …
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Lilliputian Systems, a developer of portable power products for consumer electronics, announced last week it has closed on $40 million of a planned $60 million equity financing round led by Rusnano. The Russian nanotechnology giant joins Lilliputian’s current blue chip investors including Intel Corporation, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Altira Group, Stata Venture Partners, Atlas …
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