Tele2 Russia, a subsidiary of Stockholm based European telecom group, received a warning earlier this week from Russian telecom regulator Roskomnadzor that its licenses may be recalled should the company or its local subsidiaries continue serving regions where they have no licences, reported Russian business daily Kommersant.
Pavel Vrublevsky, the founder and main owner of electronic payment company ChronoPay, was arrested last Thursday, being suspected of having organized a cyber attack on the website of Assist, a competitor ChronoPay, in an attempt to block payment transactions with the Aeroflot website.
St. Petersburg – In addressing participants at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum last Friday, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev’s speech did not reveal any substantially new position regarding his government’s now established stance on modernization, but innovation was nevertheless put forward as the first and foremost theme in the President’s address. “Modernization is the only way to address …
The Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) has announced on its website last week that it will conduct three tenders for licenses to provide fixed WiMAX services in the 3.4-3.45GHz and 3.5-3.55GHz frequency bands in 30 Russian regions.
CTC Media, a leading Russian broadcasting company, has embarked on a joint campaign with Vkontakte, the largest social network in Russian and the CIS, to combat illegal content and promote Videomore, CTC Media’s own licensed player. According to CTC Media, which is backed by MTG, the campaign will have the tools at its disposal to search for …
The Russian Federal Supervision Agency for Information Technologies and Communications (FSA ITC) together with the Moscow police has conducted a number of pilot special operations to prevent the illegal distribution of databases containing personal data, the agency reported in a news release last week. The campaign held on June 8 targeted sellers of CDs containing …
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The Russian President signed amendments to the Federal Tax Code last week aimed at fostering the development of innovation across the nation. The new legislation accounts for a revised concept of R&D expenditure in respect to the creation of new products, works and services or towards the improvement of existing products as well as for …
Pirated software accounted for 65% of the volume of all software units installed on PCs in Russia for the year — down 2% from 2009 but nevertheless representing a commercial value of approximately $3 billion, reports Business Software Alliance (BSA) in its 2010 report on global piracy.
Microsoft will run a 30-day ad campaign in Russian newspapers Delovoy Peterburg and The Moscow News in an effort to notify the parties responsible for the Rustock botnet that the botnet has been shut down and that they are being summoned to court, the company reported in its blog on Monday.
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development report on Russia, published on June 6, urges the Russian government to step up protection of intellectual property rights, strengthen competition and invest more in research and development to boost innovation and entrepreneurship across the economy.
Tucked away in Syktyvkar, the capital of the Komi Republic some 1,400 km northeast of Moscow, Russian programming researcher Efim Bushmanov is getting a lot of attention. Having reverse engineered Skype protocols and then made his research available to the public via his blog just a few days ago on June 2, search queries bearing …
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30 year-old Efim Bushmanov from Syktyvkar, the capital of the Komi Republic some 1,400 km north-east of Moscow, a self described “free lance researcher,” claims he is on the way to completely reverse-engineer Skype’s proprietary protocol and encryption systems. “My aim is to make Skype open source and find friends who can spend many hours …
