IT SECTOR

Progress is not in place, and over the past few years, cellular communication has proven already covered more than half the population of Earth. One of the "side effects" has been rapid saturation of the relevant markets. Back in 2000-2001, investment in mobile communication networks were considered possibly the most profitable in the IT-industry. But today the situation variables in a radically. Earnings before that investors are not sufficiently developed in search of "mobile" market picks up the most exotic places in the world. A good example of such an investor is the millionaire Egyptian Naguib Saviris that owns the majority of shares in Egypt's largest cellular operator Orascom Telecom. Trying to any cost to enter new markets, he even attempted to obtain 25 - year license for cellular communications in North Korea. Subsequently, in an interview Naguib Saviris jokes that his latest business plan born of desperation. Quote: "I wanted to show that no oth...

For the global IT-industry seems to have come quiet period. Indeed, the first quarter of this year proved overly saturated with events, so it is logical that early summer IT-market participants wanted to use for simple relaxation. Either way, but the main news of recent weeks were related to social networks and mobile communication. One of the world's largest cellular operators British company Vodafone Group published its current financial report. It follows that net profit operator on the basis of 2007-2008 fiscal year (ended March 31) amounted to 8.49 billion euros. Over the same period last year, the company suffered a net loss of 6.04 billion euros. Revenues for the company's 2007-2008 fiscal year increased by 14.1% to 44.58 billion euros against 39.08 billion euros a year earlier. Operating profit amounted to 12.62 billion euros, while in the same period a year earlier the company received operating losses amounting to 1.97 billion euros. The guide Vodafone successful fina...

In recent years, development of the Internet has made considerable heights. Curve growth in the number of users worldwide network - eloquent proof. However, talk of further development of the Network falls in the context of extensive: Internet successfully developed and will evolve, however, the effectiveness of the use of its resources constantly decreasing. For scientific purposes, and some tasks, even existing megabitnyh velocities clearly not enough… One of the tasks for next-generation network, is to increase the speed of information transfer up to 10 Gbit/s. And this is just the beginning… Internet. A brief digression It all started in the distant 1962, when ARPA research on military applications of computer technology led by Dr. JCR Licklider, who proposed to use for these purposes interaction of government computers. The main idea of this "experiment" was to build a network of functionally equal nodes, each of which would have some autonomy and would have its own rece...