IT SECTOR

World oil prices since the beginning of the year, growing rapidly. Barrel time after time beats own record, "oil" topic is not similar to the first strips of newspapers and screens. But few people still thought about how energy situation may affect the IT-industry. Meanwhile, the impact could be quite strong. According to most experts, as soon as the price of oil reaches $ 200 mark per barrel, is a global recession. Of course, straight towards the IT-industry oil prices affect poor. The chain of relationships in this area looks much more difficult. But can be traced two main ways. The road first. The increase in oil prices directly leads to an increase in food prices - that we are witnessing today. According to the laws of economics, where expensive food basket, falling levels of consumption items are not necessities. In this case all kinds of gadgets - digital cameras, mp3-players, etc. Relationship simple: went products - means fewer people will replace their cell phone to...

Venture to suggest that news about the relationship between Yahoo and Microsoft will soon be published in the press exclusively in the sections "Humor". Because a case, without humor, understood this long-standing history has been difficult. It all started when some weeks ago scandalous millionaire Carl Ikan Microsoft and Yahoo have given leadership 24 hours to the proposal, which was as follows: Microsoft buys search Yahoo, and Ikanu get the rest of the company. The latest subjected to restructuring. More deals were unknown, but judging by the reaction, they were offensive. Authors ultimatum given to understand that the negotiations did not go, and soon received a sharp denial. In fact in the corporate correspondence is not obscene phrases. But there are their equivalents, which were fully utilized in reply Yahoo. Chairman of the Board of Directors Yahoo Roy Bostok Ikana called the Alliance and Microsoft "strange and unprincipled". And now brilliant quote: "Th...