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.
Founders Bootcamp, a four day intensive training program for Russian startups, took place June 2–5 at the Moscow State University Science Park. More than 60 startup teams gathered to discuss their projects with business angels and venture capitalists from the US and Russia.
VimpelCom brand Beeline TV has made available six additional high definition television channels in its programming package for Moscow subscribers. VimpelCom is a leading Russian and international telecoms group.
An original event took place last week in Moscow: Positive Hack Days — an international forum on practical information-security issues that aimed to “unite hackers and information security companies so that they could understand how much they need each other.” In addition to roundtables and masterclasses on a wide range of information security issues, the …
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Rostelecom, Russia’s national telecommunications operator, opened its first digital signature center yesterday, reports CNews.ru, a website covering IT and telecommunications issues. Rostelecom offers USB keys designed to facilitate access to e-government services. The keys cost 600 rubles—a little more than $20.
Moscow-based startup incubator Fast Lane Ventures has just launched Jizo.ru, a metasearch engine for airline tickets. Jizo.ru aggregates ticket information “from a myriad of sources,” says the company, including the booking systems of leading travel agencies, airlines and booking sites. Its simplified, uncluttered interface allows users to select airline tickets by two main criteria: date …
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Sistema Mass-Media (SMM), part of financial corporation Sistema, announced it would resume the project of creating a mobile digital television system in DVB-H standard in Moscow, reported Vedomosti, a Russian business daily. Digital Television and Radio Broadcasting (DTB), a wholly owned subsidiary of SMM specializing in automobile digital TV, will take up the project in …
Every Spring since 1996, for three days, the Russian Internet incarnates into a sprawling mass of living high tech energy — the Russian Internet Forum at Lesnye Dali (Far Woods), a hotel complex located in a picturesque pine forest 38 km northeast from Moscow. From Moscow and far beyond, RIF attracts virtually all those who count …
Some 500 speakers at the annual three-day Russian Internet Forum (RIF) participated in dozens of conferences and forums on virtually everything from SEO, online PR and non-standard advertising to usability, group buying, payment systems, and online monetization issues. Those concerned with legal issues and regulation were served with conferences on author’s rights, children’s Internet safety …
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Moscow, Russian Federation – Subscribers of MegaFon can now enjoy crystal clear voice call quality and an enhanced overall communications experience. The operator now provides High Definition voice services on its Moscow and Sochi GSM and UMTS networks.
TomorrowVentures, a US investment fund founded in 2009 by Google chairman Eric Schmidt, announced earlier this week the formation of a strategic partnership with Digital October, a Moscow-based cooperative work space and events organizer. Court Coursey, Managing Partner at TomorrowVentures, agreed to speak with EWDN on the subject of their new partnership.
Digital October, a Moscow-based cooperative work space and events organizer created in 2010, and TomorrowVentures, a US investment fund founded in 2009 by Google chairman Eric Schmidt, announced yesterday the formation of a strategic partnership aimed, in particular, at selecting, financing and promoting Russian startups on international markets.
