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The Russian company “Rosnano” will invest 550 million rubles in the production of microsystems in St. Petersburg

April 7th, 2010 admin

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The Russian manufacturing factory of microsystems and detectors will appear to 2012. These products will be used in the GLONASS / GPS navigating receivers, in the mobile phones and in the high-frequency digital TV equipment. The Roslano firm plans to invest in the manufacturing 550 million rubles, so the common project’s budget is estimated in 1.24 billion rubles. “The project’s output on the planned figures is expected in 2015” –said the corp..
It is planned that the main portion of project’s revenue will be got from the sales of energy-efficient and affordable systems, which have a big number of the operating temperatures. And these temperatures are used for checking the stress-strain distribution of the building structures. The security systems of gas-processing plans to have a large proportion of sales. In addition, the project corporation will carry out the production of microsystems which is the strong to the hard environmental conditions.
The initiator and co-investor of the project is the St. Petersburg corporation “Avangard” and it thinks to provide “the intellectual property in the patents, the know-hows and in the units of design and technological documentation”. The organizers realize to attract the experts from main Russian scientific centers, primarily – from the Kotelnikov’s Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, so they will work on the new models of micros.
Experts say that the world market’s volume of sensors and components was about $ fifty one billion in 2008. And It is expected that if the growth rate is approximately five % yearly, the extend will reach $ 67 billion in 2018.

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The selling of Apple iPad tablet opened in the USA

April 5th, 2010 admin

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The selling of Apple iPad began on the third of April in the United State. The instrument is sold at the Apple shops, as well as in the biggest electronics stores “Best Buy”.
Ipads, which are now easy of access in the market, have no access to the 3G and GPS networks. Nevertheless, hundreds of people had gathered at the Apple shops and “Best Buy” before the opening. Many of them crowded in front of the main NY Apple stores on Tuesday.
The enrollment of IPad reservation began in the U. S. A. On the 12th of March. According to the analysts, the consumers had already booked the hundreds and thousands of the iPads, although nobody had not even held them in their hands. The iPad charge is 499 $ for the 16-gigabyte version, 599 $ for the 32-gigabyte and 699 dollars for the 64-gigabyte model.
Soon before the opening of the sales more than 2300 IPad apps came in the official Shop. On the average their price is higher than the iPod touch and iPhone supplements are. However, the applications for iPod also operate on the iPad, there are more than 150 thousands of these apps in the store.
The IPad tablet was presented by the Apple chief, Steve Jobs, on the twenty-seventh of January in 2010. The iPad is equipped with a multisensory screen with resolution of 1024 by 768 pixels and a diagonal in 9.7 inch. The iPad operates under a mobile operating system iPhone OS.
In Europe and in some other countries, the sellings are going to begin in the last days of April. At the same time the IPad 3G-version will appear in the American store.

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