Mobile World Congress, a four-day international conference on the mobile industry and adjacent industry sectors, will hold its 30th edition in late February 2016 in Barcelona, Spain. More than 95,000 attendees — including many from Russia and CIS countries — are expected to attend the event. “We’re less than a month away from Mobile World Congress …
You could be a fluffy bunny. You could be a scary Zombie. You could even be Conchita Wurst. But you just had to be Stalin, huh? In a country as keen on Instagram as Russia, anything that helps you up your selfie game has a good chance of attracting attention. But the recently launched MSQRD …
The price of iPhone 5s in Russia has decreased by approximately one third to become the lowest in the world, writes Russian business daily RBK. As of January 13, the iPhone 5S for 16 GB costs just $326 in a number of popular retail chains. “The price of $326 is now the lowest in the world,” …
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Russian lawmakers have introduced draft legislation that would levy a tax on the purchase of content and software from foreign IT companies. In particular, the tax would apply to the App Store and Google Play online stores, where Russian customers currently pay no sales taxes. Lawmakers say the new legislation could bring in tens of …
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Russia’s development of its Glonass global navigation system is nearing completion and it is now undergoing final tests at the Defense Ministry, the Izvestia newspaper reported Monday. “I don’t want to skip ahead, but I can say that we are doing our best to get the job done. We hope that after the tests the …
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For the first time, Alexander Zharov, the head of Roskomnadzor (Russia’s state media watchdog), floated the prospect of blocking mobile apps sold through Apple’s AppStore and Google Play. Speaking to a group about copyright law earlier today, Zharov proposed the formation of a working group to review the possibility of blocking mobile applications. Boris Edidin, …
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Next year, a network of kick scooter rental stations will open in Moscow, St Petersburg and Kazan, then in Berlin, Brussels and Paris. The service, designed by Russian startup Samocat.net, will be available through an app, and rental points will be linked into a single network through a cloud platform. Samocat’s founder, Vasily Bykov, has …
The company that provides free wireless Internet on the Moscow metro has asked law-enforcement agencies to look into users’ complaints that they were being redirected to a page with threats of terror attacks in the Russian capital when trying to use the Wi-Fi service, the TASS news agency reported Tuesday. Some subway passengers trying to …
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Astro Digital, a startup created by Ekaterina Kotenko-Lengold, won second place in the startup competition at Slush, which is a major event in northern Europe for innovators and developers interested in attracting international investors. “I’ve always been interested in the space industry and wanted to apply space technology to everyday life,” Kotenko-Lengold, a graduate from the Skolkovo Institute of Science and …
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This year Russia is home to over one-third of mobile phone users in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), according to eMarketer, with more than 105 million people in Russia owning at least one mobile phone and use it at least once per month. Thalamus, a leading crowdsourced database of ad vendor data, has just released its research on …
When ISIS terrorists want to hide what they’re saying, they are increasingly turning to an app called Telegram. It’s “the new hot thing among jihadists,” said Laith Alkhouri, director of Research at Flashpoint Global Partners. Telegram, an international instant messenger founded by Pavel Durov in 2013, boasts two layers of encryption and claims to be “faster and more …
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Lituanian startup Trafi has launched its public transport app in four Russian cities — Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Rostov-upon-Don in southern Russia and Chelyabinsk in the Urals. The mobile app is designed to help users plan and optimize journeys, while cities may avoid congestion and make commuting faster. “Our combination of scientific algorithms, real time processing of traffic situations and crowd-sourced reports allows …
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