Rusnano will finance the first production of MRAM memory chips in Russia in cooperation with Crocus Technology, based in Grenoble, France, the Russian press reported. Production will be organized through a technology transfer of chip design and packaging. The project will focus on producing Secure Digital (SD), MiniSD/MicroSD, and USB 1.1/2.0/3.0 flash memory cards.
Attending the presentation of the first annual report of the Skolkovo Foundation in Moscow yesterday, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev called for more active efforts to encourage foreign partners to take part in Skolkovo, the state-sponsored innovation hub under construction near Moscow.
Tele2 Russia, the Russian subsidiary of the Swedish telecommunications group, launched “Cheaper Calls” last week, its first offer to Muscovites. The offer includes discounted calls from the Moscow region, from sea resorts and for calls from abroad.
Google AdWords and Begun, a leading Russian ad network acquired by Google in 2008, have announced further technological integration of their advertising capabilities.
Yandex, Russia’s leading search engine, has launched Webvisor, a service that works with Yandex.Metrica to track and visualize the actions of site visitors. Webvizor is only for sites using Yandex Market, a marketplace for merchants affiliated with Yandex, or Yandex Direct, the contextual ad service of Yandex.
VimpelCom, a major Russian mobile operator, is talking with outsourcing companies about developing an IP telephony product functionally similar to Skype. The news, provided by unnamed sources, was reported last week by CNews.ru, a Russian site covering IT and telecom issues.
Russia’s intelligence service, FSB, announced last week it will spend 10 million rubles (approximately $350,000) to create software that can identify similar objects or people within images and videos. The project is designed to help recognize potentially dangerous people, objects, and situations in real time.
Intel and Nizhny Novgorod University launched a training center for Intel software support this week. The center will broaden the scope of the university programs and ensure the certification of personnel, particularly in the areas of parallelism, high performance computing and mobile applications, Telecom Daily reported.
Softline Venture Partners and Ecwid have launched Magazinga, a new joint project that represents “an entirely new approach to promoting goods and services through social networks,” claim its creators. Magazinga provides merchants with ready-made e-shops as well as access to its own marketplace of products intended for social network users.
Svyaznoy, Russia’s second largest mobile retailer, has just launched a mobile advertising campaign using the geotargeting capacities of AlterGeo, a Russian startup inspired by the real time interactive map and navigation of Foursquare. The campaign promotes Samsung’s new Galaxy Gio handset among AlterGeo users who come within the vicinity of a number of Svyaznoy’s physical …
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MTS and Sitronics have entered into a three-year contract with Oracle to purchase and integrate Oracle licenses into all the companies of the MTS group, Russian business daily Vedomosti reported this Tuesday. Sitronics will maintain the purchased software.
As announced earlier this month by Communications and Mass Media minister Ilya Massukh, 29 billion rubles (approximately $1 billion) has been slated for IT modernization of the Russian public health service in 2011 and 2012.
