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 …
The Russian Venture Company (RVC) announced today an investment by S-Group Ventures, a fund it owns jointly with Sever Venture Management, in Bisant, a Moscow-based antenna manufacturer. Bisant describes its micro antenna devices as “a powerful means for the reception and transfer of radio waves in various wireless communication systems,” including mobile phones, tablets, netbooks …
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Russian authorities are not ruling out the establishment of customs fees on imported hardware equipped with GPS navigators not supported by the Russian national satellite navigation system GLONASS. “Currently the fee is zero. There are plans to introduce customs fees for GPS equipment that is notoriented to GLONASS GPS. It is possible that [the customs …
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Russian electronic device maker AK-Systems has started production of compact ‘plug computers’ on three different sites in Russia. Plug computers are a class of miniature computer hardware that plugs directly into alternate current (AC) outlets and offers basic computing functions. The news was announced by AK-Systems’ General Manager Arkady Karzhitsky to CNews.ru, a Russian website …
The Moscow city government has signaled its preliminary approval for a five year city informatization program on Tuesday. The draft proposal of the program concludes that the whole initiative would cost 329.5 billion rubles, about $11 billion –a quarter of the city’s annual budget – and would be rolled out from 2012-2016. Following a series of public …
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Russian nanotechnology giant Rusnano and French MRAM chip maker Crocus Technology have selected Kaliningrad based satellite TV system maker General Satellite as their partner in their multimillion dollar joint project to transfer the manufacturing capacities of Crocus Technology to Russia.
Russia’s national telecommunication operator Rostelecom inked an agreement earlier this month with Sitronics, the country’s largest producer of microelectronic devices, to produce microchips containing the electronic signatures of Russian citizens. These microchips are to be integrated to conventional banking cards, the Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported.
Leading Russian microelectronic device maker Sitronics and Chinese firm ZTE signed a memorandum announcing their planned joint venture at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum last week The document was signed by Vladimir Evtushenkov, a major owner of Sitronics mother company Sistema, and ZTE President president Shi Lirong in the presence of Russian President Dmitry …
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Sitronics and state owned nanotechnology company Rusnano will launch a pilot project to integrate radio frequency identification tags (RFID) in the retail outlets of Russia’s largest food retailer, X5 Retail Group. The three way agreement was signed at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum held in Russia’s Northern capital last weekend.
Santa Clara, Calif. — As Russian scientists increasingly deploy GPU-enabled supercomputers to tackle scientific challenges, Moscow State University is upgrading its Lomonosov system with NVIDIA Tesla™ GPUs to be one of the world’s fastest supercomputers.
Moscow-based Sitronics, the LSE-traded, high-tech arm of the diversified Russian conglomerate Sistema, is ready to ink a pact with the second-largest Chinese telecom equipment maker, ZTE, to open a research and development center on the outskirts of Beijing, Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported on Wednesday, citing Sitronics’ vice president Irina Lanina.
RUSNANO has announced its investment partnership with SiTime Corporation, an American company, for the development of electronic components for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) for use in sensors, computing and telecommunications equipment.
