Hardware, Electronics, Robotics

Russia to launch shock-resistant and water-resistant tablet computer

September 4, 2012

Last week, the Moscow Engineering and Physics Institute (MIFI) presented the prototype of the first Russian-made tablet computer to Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. The 10-inch wide device uses a specially designed operating system, named RoMOS (which stands for Russian Mobile Operating System), derived from Google’s Android platform. “The OS has all the functionality of …

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Apple goes wholesale in Russia

August 22, 2012

Apple has registered a local company, Apple Rus, to supply its products directly to retail chains in Moscow and St. Petersburg as soon as 2013. According to data from SPARK-Interfax, Apple Rus is 99.5 percent owned by Apple Holding B.V. with the remaining 0.5 percent belonging to Irish company Apple Distribution. The company’s charter capital …

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Cisco Networking Academy to help decrease unemployment in south of Russia

August 7, 2012

Moscow – Cisco has announced the launch of a Southern IT District project, part of a three-year program aimed at developing and modernizing IT education in Russia. The project is focused on promoting IT education in the Southern and North Caucasus Federal Districts (the last has the highest level of unemployment in Russia). Today 35 Cisco …

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Hyundai to sell tablets in Russia; cars seen as facilitator

July 16, 2012

Next month, Hyundai IT, a Chinese-based IT-focused subsidiary of Korea’s Hyundai Motors, is launching Russian sales of new Hyundai-branded tablets and has plans to localize the assembly of the tablets in Russia in the late fall, the Russian business daily Vedomosti reported last week, citing a tête-à-tête with an IT Hyundai source. Hyundai is reportedly …

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IBM collaborates with Russian innovation giants to boost microelectronics industry

July 13, 2012

Saint Petersburg – IBM (NYSE: IBM) and five leading Russian innovation companies: the Skolkovo Foundation, Rusnano, Rostelecom, RVC and ITFY, have signed a collaboration agreement to help spur a new wave of innovation in Russian technology. The five Russian companies have joined forces to foster a culture of applied research and commercialization and attract key …

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The Russian microelectronics industry and national security

May 25, 2012

It is often forgotten, in today’s mobile, networked, and information-driven business climate, that many of the world’s most prominent “Silicon Valleys” – Hsin-chu, Taiwan; Ang Mo Kio, Singapore; “Silicon Saxony,” Germany; and even the original American Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area of California – were built largely or entirely on the semiconductor, or microelectronics, …

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Russian company offers “breakthrough” in 3D face recognition technologies

May 7, 2012

Last week, the Russian high tech company Vocord introduced a new 3D face recognition and identification system that can be used in any public place. The system, which Vocord has presented as a technological breakthrough, takes pictures from different angles to build a 3D model of the face. This ‘non-cooperative’ approach does not require the …

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Rusnano and Bright Capital invest in US next gen Wi-Fi chipset provider

April 17, 2012

Quantenna Communications, a leading player in ultra-reliable Wi-Fi video networking for whole-home entertainment, announced today that it has closed a $79 million funding round led by new lead investor Rusnano, the Russian nanotechnology giant, with participation by a second new investor, Bright Capital, a major Russian fund. All existing major investors, Sequoia Capital, DAG Ventures, …

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World’s first glasses free 3D videoconference between London and Russia

March 23, 2012

A live glasses free 3D conference between London and Tomsk, Siberia, was conducted yesterday, combining several British and Russian innovative technologies. The guests of the 3D Storytelling conference, a broadcast and gaming industry event held in London, could see and talk to selected participants in Russia, thousands of miles away in 3D without glasses, “as if …

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