There were slightly over one million LTE subscribers in Russia as of April 2013, Artyom Kuznetsov, a spokesman for Sweden’s Ericsson, told the Russian news agency RIA Novosti last week. Earlier this year, the consultancy firm J’son & Partners estimated the number of LTE subscribers in Russia to have been “around 500,000 to 750,000” at …
The Russian government has named pharmaceutical and biomedical as priority sectors for innovation, and has set a fairly ambitious strategic goal of increasing the share of domestic medical equipment products in the Russian market to at least 40%. In these highly important fields, two new players have emerged recently in Russia, assisted by the global …
Russian innovators offer solutions for mobile medicine; Cisco backs hi-tech endeavors Read More
Russian search giant Yandex has released its Android home launcher, Yandex.Shell. It is available free of charge in 28 languages for users worldwide through Google Play or on Yandex.Store, the company’s own Android app marketplace which launched in February. Released today, the Yandex-flavored launcher includes a homescreen and a revamped dialer with address book, as …
Yandex releases its Android 3D launcher Yandex.Shell worldwide Read More
McKinsey consultant Ivan Osadchiy once took a trip to New York – at the same time as his seventy-year-old father went into hospital in Moscow. “I couldn’t help my dad to keep in touch with the family, or give him any support”, Ivan recalls. Osadchiy’s father had no way of reaching him either by Skype …
Moscow, Russia – i-Free is introducing the first full-featured NFC wallet in Russia and CIS. Embedded in smartphones and the TSM (Trusted Service Manager) platform, the wallet brings all the advantages of NFC technology to Russian and CIS consumers, including the remote issue and secure download of Mobile MasterCard PayPass® cards. Both the NFC wallet and the …
i-Free, Tinkoff Credit Systems Bank and MasterCard launch NFC wallet in Russia and CIS Read More
MTS, a leading Russian mobile operator and retailer, has made its way onto the Millward Brown Optimor list of the ten most valuable global telecom brands, reaching ninth place for 2013 with a brand value of $10.63 billion. This marks the first appearance for MTS in the elite group of sector leaders since its debut …
The three-year federal embezzlement investigation into Russia’s GLONASS national satellite navigation program saw a new development earlier this month as Moscow’s Tverskoy District Court ruled to keep in custody both the former and current CEOs of Synertech, a Moscow-based company contracted for R&D work by Russian Space Systems – one of Russia’s key space exploration …
More embezzlement seen at GLONASS – $213 million total over three years Read More
Amsterdam – Gemalto (Euronext NL 0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, is supplying Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), Russia’s largest network operator with over 70 million subscribers, with its UpTeq NFC high-end SIM cards for a mobile phone-based public transport ticketing solution in the city of Novosibirsk. Produced and personalized at Gemalto’s Moscow service center, the …
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Novosibirsk scientists have developed a smartphone technology to let female users know the best time to conceive a baby. The solution, christened ‘Baby Cloud,’ includes a special sensor that women who want to get pregnant attach to their body. “The sensor measures body temperature and other parameters and sends a text message to the user’s phone …
Last week the Russian search giant launched an Android app for its Yandex.Music service. The news from Yandex came just one day after an Android app with similar features was officially announced by Mail.Ru Group — Yandex’s arch-rival on the Russian Internet scene — for its Moi Mir social network. The search giant claims its …
Yandex and Mail.Ru Group tap into Android music apps Read More
Landing in a very young, yet already competitive market, the Berlin-headquartered startup SumUp has just announced its launch in Russia. Like its US model, Square, and its Russian competitors, 2can, iPay, Pay-me and SellbyCell, SumUp empowers merchants to accept debit and credit card payments with their mobile devices. Its portable card reader comes with an …
Western mobile payment startup SumUp teams up with Svyaznoy to compete in Russian market Read More
Russian iPhone users can now experiment with social banking – an entirely new concept in the country – with an app launched last month by Instabank, a Moscow-based startup. The iPhone app allows clients to transfer money to Facebook friends who also use Instabank, get notifications of new account activity, and add geotags and photos …
