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MTS, the largest cellular network operator in Russia and CIS, announces that it has won the GSM Association’s (“GSMA”) 15th Annual Global Mobile Award at the 2010 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. MTS won the award in the “Best Billing & Customer Care Solution” category for its “Your Individual Optimal Tariff Plan” service. MTS is the first mobile operator from Russia and the CIS to be recognized with one of the most prestigious awards in the telecommunications industry.

Now in its 6th year, Eurasia Com conference and exhibition returns to Istanbul for 2 days of networking, learning and business development.  With 400 senior level attendees from operators, regulators, MVNOs ISPs, service providers and solutions and technology vendors from across the Caspian, Black Sea and Central Asia, this is a unique convergence of all that is communications in this growing market.

Mobile Content Russia Magazine is pleased to share with its readers the video of Victor Saeijs' presentation at VI Mobile VAS Conference. Victor Saeijs is Vice-President Sales Eurasia Nokia. Victor presents the new SDK with Ovi Maps integration for mobile developers and explains why Nokia stepped into mobile internet-based services market.

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Mobile Content Russia Magazine is pleased to share with its readers the video of Ivar van Dijk presentation at VI Mobile VAS Conference “Driving scale through bundling: Strategies for delivering mobile entertainment”.

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We'd like to share the video of Antti Viitanen presentation at VI Mobile VAS Conference "What’s next for mobile data?".

Antti Viitanen is director of Digia company. Antti Viitanen is responsible for Digia's international products. Before joining Digia, Antti has worked for 10 years in mobile operator & mobile service industries and 10 years in media industry. He worked for AlmaMedia, Yahoo! Mobile, TeliaSonera and RealNetworks occupying various management positions.


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Russian mobile advertising agency MobileDirect has offered master classes on mobile marketing in high schools, and recently has given the first lecture to students of political science faculty in Moscow State University.

Ten years ago special courses on «big internet» were read both to students and teachers in a trial mode. There were neither student books, nor lecture material. Today the history repeats itself with mobile internet. The significant example of the western market and stable mobile market growth in Russia let us say that marketing experts of new generation should have a good knowledge about mobile internet capabilities, so that they could use it in active products promotion on the market.

i-Free has joined Google in «Help Me!», a humanitarian project for Russia. The proceeds will go to children with disabilities via the CAF Russia charity.

Help Me! is a charitable initiative undertaken by Google and the Russian YouTube Symphony Orchestra in conjunction with the philanthropic fund, CAF Russia. The two other project participants, i-Free and Chrono Pay, will make it possible to donate money by mobile phone, online or by plastic card.

Plastic Media conducted mobile voting trial that took place at several polling stations in Raduzny, Vladimir region, during legislative assembly elections on March 1, 2009. During the trial voters sent text messages to free short number 5061, specially provided by operators for the occasion. After sending SMS users opened a special Java application for voting that was preliminary installed on their handsets.

Plastic Media offered solution, which allowed subscribers of all operators working in the region take part in the voting. More than 3 000 people took part in the trial (that is about one third of all voters in Raduzhny), and that demonstrated high potential of mobile voting.

Russian prosecutors have sent a notice to Interpol seeking the arrest and extradition of Yevgeny Chichvarkin, 34 the former co-owner of Russian mobile phone retailer, Euroset. Mr Chichvarkin is understood to be in the UK at the moment, after leaving Russia in January, following allegations of kidnapping and phone smuggling.

"Today the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia has sent an instruction to Interpol on adding Yevgeny Chichvarkin to the international wanted list," said a spokeswoman for the Russian prosecutors.

Last September, police arrested four employees of the phone company, accusing them of kidnapping an employee, Andrei Vlaskin - who they suspected of stealing from the firm - and phone smuggling in a case which dated back to 2003. Chichvarkin was grilled by the General Prosecutor's Office Investigations Committee for over four hours following the arrest of the employees.

Spb Software, Windows Mobile applications maker is named winner in Sony Ericsson Content Awards. Spb Traveler, an application which helps to keep track of travel arrangements, meetings, time zones, exchange rates, and even clothing sizes at virtually any spot on the planet wins in the XperiaTM Panels category. Unique to Spb Traveler is the 3D globe which animates trips with sleek animation and offers a Geo Game for a fun way to test ones geographical knowledge and kill time on the go.