CNews found out that the organizers of the Russian state lottery "Gosloto" intended to launch their project in mobile retail outlets. The leading market participants confirm negotiations with the project managers, Euroset told CNews it would not like to participate
Russia has refused to sign the European Convention on Cyber Crime. A corresponding resolution has been passed by the RF President Vladimir Putin. Russia did not manage to agree upon appropriate terms for cross-border access to data-processing networks. Several experts
The Russian Holding Altimo has demanded $1 bn compensation from Telenor. The Norwegian Company is accused of damaging Vimpelcom shareholders as the acquisition of the Ukrainian Radio Systems (UTS) gets bogged down. However, experts are sure the true reason for
Another person has been trialed for using counterfeit Microsoft software in Omsk. A local businessman has been sentenced to three months of imprisonment conditionally and imposed a fine of 150 thousand rubles. Over the last two years the number of
License software sales have grown significantly on the domestic software market in 2007. Several players have grown by more than 250%. Market participants forecast positive dynamics for the given segment to preserve in 2008. The annual market growth rate over
A glitch in VTB 24 data base shut down bank service to its customers in the Moscow Region for some time. But currently all the bank systems are operating properly. According to specialists glitches in the bank systems have occurred
The retail franchising network supervised by the Merlion IT distributor has increased its turnover from zero to 5 bn rubles ($200 mln) in two years. In the near future the managing company intends to expand its sales area by 10
Megafon has launched roaming with the Norwegian mobile operator AeroMobile AS on airliners. Thus, the operators of the "big three" are providing their customers with the possibility to make calls from airplanes of several air companies.
Having acknowledged that it would be impossible to receive GSM frequencies in India in the near future, JSFC Sistema intends to apply for CDMA frequencies. The Russian telecommunications companies have been focused on GSM technologies on the foreign markets so
Worldwide shipment of handsets is expected to slow down substantially in 2008, analysts forecast. About 1.2 bn devices will be sold, which is 5.7% growth over 2007. The slowdown is attributed to economic challenges and a slowdown in sales of
St. Petersburg Cable Television Association (CTA) has filed a claim to St. Petersburg Office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service asking to acknowledge St. Petersburg Cable Television Company (CTC) the market leader. CTA points to CTC to be servicing more than
Rossvyazohrankultura has won in confrontation with the RF Ministry of IT and Communications. The radio frequency centers have come under the control of the former. However, under the upcoming change of government, all supervisory services might be closed, state committees
Since 2009 Avtovaz plans to equip LADA Priora with a multimedia platform that can be connected to the GLONASS-GPS binary navigation system, whose development has been launched by the Russian AvtoAudioCenter company and the Chinese Shenzhen Hangsheng Electronics. In the
