IBM has opened Telecom Solutions Lab in Moscow, its first solutions center for telecommunications companies in Central and Eastern Europe, the firm reported last week at a news conference. The new research and development facility will allow IBM and its partners to develop, test and deploy software services demanded by client telecom companies. The lab …
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 …
YEES 2011, a collaborative Russian-US forum dedicated to modern entrepreneurship and innovation techniques took place in Moscow last week. The forum gathered over 50 speakers from venture funds, scientific circles, government agencies as well as tech firms and Internet startups. Among them were high level representatives from Cambridge University, Google and Intel Capital as well …
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.
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 …
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.
Parallels Research, an international research center owned by Parallels, announced last week it has received a 150 million ruble grant ($5.3 million) from the Skolkovo Foundation for cloud computing research and development. The research center will get another 150 million rubles from its parent company Parallels.
Intel intends to close its R&D center in the Sistema-Sarov technopark in order to consolidate its offices in Nizhny Novgorod, Interfax reports. The decision was reportedly made in light of the considerable maintenance costs for an office with a relatively small staff, as well the need to optimize the company’s office structure and make its …
Sarov technopark: Nokia Siemens Networks becomes resident, Intel leaves Read More
Had not Sergey Brin emigrated with his family to the United States at the age of 6, his destiny might have perhaps resembled those of Arkady Volozh and Ilya Segalovich, the Russian mathematicians who founded Yandex. Until the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Volozh and Segalovich were rather typical representatives of …
From startup to IPO: How Yandex became Russia’s search giant Read More
“Where are the Russian technology success stories?” As a foreigner, this question often sounds like an odd question. There are many Russian success stories in the IT sector, ranging from world-class software outsourcing companies like EPAM and Luxoft, to Russian software product companies that have international success, like Kaspersky Labs, Abbyy and Parallels. However, simply …
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Russia’s national telecommunications operator Rostelecom and authorities in Belgorod region have signed an agreement to set up a regional innovation center, the company reports. The regional innovation center Aurora-Park is reportedly to be located in the South-Western district of Belgorod.
