Sony products to be sold on Russia’s largest social network

June 7, 2011

Sintez-rus, a traditional and online retailer of Sony electronics products in Russia, has opened its first online retail outpost for Sony-branded products on Russia’s largest social network, Vkontakte.ru. The news was announced yesterday by e-commerce solutions provider Magazinga, which provided the software platform for the new outlet. Magazinga, launched last April, is a joint venture …

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Mail.ru Group stops accepting payments for online games through rival Yandex.Dengi

June 6, 2011

Starting from last week, the users of select online gaming services provided by Mail.ru Group, a leading Russian Internet player, are no longer able to replenish their accounts through the Yandex.Dengi payment system owned by Mail.ru Group’s local archrival Yandex. The group has reduced the number of services for which it will accept payment through …

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Stanford students to study Russian telematics success story

June 6, 2011

Russian Navigation Technologies (RNT) announced last week that the story of its formation and growth has been included as a business case study at Stanford and a number of other US universities. RNT is Russia’s largest manufacturer and integrator of telematics systems and a leader on the Russian fleet management systems market. Its Auto Tracker …

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Efim Bushmanov: “Good products can’t stay proprietary for long”

June 5, 2011

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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Skype reverse-engineered by Russian geek

June 4, 2011

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 …

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Russia’s Sitronics and ZTE to jointly open R&D center in China

June 3, 2011

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.

OpenDocuments become standard in Russia

June 3, 2011

As of June 1, Russian civil administrative authorities have been accepting documents submitted by citizens in electronic form, specifically in the OpenDocument Format, or ODF, an international standard for documents, spreadsheets, charts, and presentations.

Vologda region to set up technopark in Cherepovets

June 3, 2011

Authorities in Vologda region intend to set up a technopark for small businesses carrying out innovation projects in the city of Cherepovets, news agency RIA Novosti reports.

Russian students take home gold, silver and bronze from international programming contest

June 2, 2011

Russian students won five medals in a total of twelve competitions at the Association of Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM ICPC) held from May 27 -31 in Orlando, Florida this year. The student team from St. Petersburg State University, in particular, won the 4th place gold medal at the IBM-sponsored championship.

Glonass sets goal to exceed GPS accuracy twofold; Vice PM guarantees free service worldwide

March 2, 2017

Roscosmos Deputy head Anatoly Shilov announced yesterday significant improvement in Glonass accuracy. “Today, the system’s precision is to 6 meters, compared to 7 meters for GPS. In the next one or two years we must achieve an accuracy of 2 to 3 meters.” The statement was made at an international forum on satellite navigation held in …

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VimpelCom affirms itself on HDTV market

June 2, 2011

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.

Harman’s car entertainment systems to be outsourced to Russia’s Luxoft

June 2, 2011

Luxoft announced that it has agreed with Harman International to design and develop sophisticated infotainment systems for the automotive industry. Part of the Moscow-based IBS Group and traded on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, Luxoft is a prominent offshore software developer with headquarters in Moscow.

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