The Elecard Group, a Tomsk, Siberia based provider of software products for audio and video data compression, encoding and transmission, has launched the production of an innovative home multimedia device, RIA Novosti reported last Friday. The new device, named Elecard iTelec, will combine a digital TV receiver with a payment terminal as well as access to e-government …
Russia’s national telecommunication operator Rostelecom and Bank Saint Petersburg announced last Thursday the issue of their first co-branded bank cards with microchips containing the electronic signature of the cardholder. Certified by the FSB, Russia’s Federal Security Service, the cards are being produced in partnership with Mastercard and Sitronics, the largest producer of microelectronic devices in the …
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Displair, a startup from Astrakhan, Southern Russia, developing non-screen visual display technology, walked away with the Best Technovation and Best Marketing awards at the Technovations Cup. This national innovation competition was held on November 11 at the prestigious Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. The DisplAir application is an interactive non-screen display which ‘floats’ in mid-air. The ‘air …
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Leading Russian microelectronic device maker Sitronics signed a commercial agreement earlier this week with Tech Mahindra, a major provider of solutions and services to the telecom industry. Tech Mahindra will promote the OSS/BSS-solutions of Sitronics India on the local market and may participate in the Russian company’s R&D programs, Sitronics announced. Sitronics has also set up a …
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Cisco Russia General Manager Pavel Betsis announced last week that his company will start producing IPTV set-top boxes (STBs) as early as next month in an assembly plant belonging to Jabil Circuit, a US-based global provider of electronics manufacturing services. The assembly How To Get Over A Breakup Make Him Want Ou Back plant is …
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Geostar Navigation, a Moscow-based producer of navigation receivers for telematic services, will start mass production of a new GLONASS+GPS chipset as early as next spring. The announcement, reported by news agency RIA Novosti, was made at a press conference on Monday by NIS GLONASS General Manager Alexander Gurko. The low power chipset, named GeoC-3, will …
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Crocus Technology, a leading developer of magnetic memory technology based in Grenoble, France, announced yesterday a joint technology development agreement and a patent license agreement with IBM to integrate magnetic technology into semiconductor products.
Last week, IT firm Asteros, headquartered in Moscow, became the first Russian company to receive the status of Authorized Systems Integrator from Apple. Asteros will integrate and service Apple-branded hardware into its clients’ IT infrastructure and tailor the US company’s software to fit the needs of Asteros’ Russian clients.
Russian state bank Vnesheconombank (VEB) is set to acquire a 25% stake in T-Platforms, a high performance computing company, following approval from the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service on Sept. 19. The acquisition will give VEB a blocking stake in the company. With bases in Moscow and Hanover, T-Platform has several of its end user supercomputing installations listed among …
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Nokia Siemens Networks and Micran, a Tomsk based Russian producer of microwave telecommunication and measurement equipment, finalized their joint venture agreements on Monday to locally produce LTE base stations. The share split in the JV will be 75%-25% in favor of Nokia Siemens Network.
Rostelecom and Intel signed a memorandum of understanding last week for the joint design and production of end user broadband Internet connection devices. Based on Intel technology, the devices will be commercialized in Russia under the Rostelecom’s brand.
Last week, Anatoly Chubais, Chairman of the Board of Rusnano, presented Russian PM Vladimir Putin with an e-reader prototype from Plastic Logic, a world leader in plastics electronics, reported news agency RIA Novosti. If current tests being held in some Russian schools are successful, the tablet could be used on a massive scale in the …
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