By East-West Digital News / Aug 26, 2011 Last week, Anatoly Chubais, Chairman of the Board of Rusnano, presented Russian PM Vladimir Putin with an e-reader prototype from Plastic Logic, a world leader in plastics electronics, reported news agency RIA Novosti. If … Continue reading
By Marchmont News / Apr 21, 2011 Megafon, a major Russian mobile operator, is considering purchasing St. Petersburg Internet provider Web Plus, Russian business daily Kommersant reports. The deal price has yet to be disclosed, but, according to experts, the price … Continue reading
By ICT Online, East-West Digital News / Aug 25, 2011 Dassault Systèmes and the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) announced a “strategic partnership” last week that will include the provision of Dassault Systèmes IT solutions and internships in France for the Russian … Continue reading
By East-West Digital News / Aug 22, 2011 The Russian Ministry for Economic Development adopted earlier this month its final schedule for the launch of its project for universal electronic cards for all Russians in 2012. In accordance with a Federal … Continue reading
By East-West Digital News / Jul 28, 2011 The Russian Federal Communications Agency (Rossvyaz) has started accreditation of organizations that will test and certify LTE equipment, the agency announced on Monday. Accredited organizations will carry out tests of infrastructure related … Continue reading
By East-West Digital News / Aug 24, 2011 Leading Russian payment operator Qiwi is in talks with Western European mobile operators, including Orange, Vodafone and Telefonica, about launching a new, offline payment system for mobile phone bills in Europe. … Continue reading
By East-West Digital News / Aug 30, 2011 NASDAQ-listed Russian search engine giant Yandex announced last Friday it fully acquired The Tweeted Times, a website offering social news services, for an undisclosed amount. Yandex aims to use the technologies developed by The … Continue reading
2011-08-25 Rosnano, a Russian state-owned holding company specialising in the implementation of nanotechnologies, will start testing 1,000 plastic e-book readers in schools in September 2011. According to Andrei Fursenko, Russian minister of education, if the test is successful the … Continue reading
By East-West Digital News / Aug 22, 2011 Drchrono, a Silicon Valley based startup offering an electronic health record (EHR) platform for the iPad, announced last week it has received an additional $650,000 in seed funding from prominent startup investor … Continue reading
2011-08-22 Total investments in the development of the national LTE networks of four operators in Russia will hit RUB 342.8bn (€8.54bn) under the condition that the operators will use simultaneously 690-880 MHz and 2,500-2,700 MHz radio bandwidths, according to … Continue reading