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Buy whether Mormons Facebook?

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Facebook social network once again reminded of themselves, with a very unusual way. On the Internet lightning razneslis rumours that buy the world's largest social network plans to Mormonskaya Church ("Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of recent days"). The first reported by the Zak Klein, bloger videoservisa and founder of Vimeo. Klein referred to their own sources of information inside the company Facebook. A bit later another authoritative bloger Brady Brim-DeForest said: "I contacted an old friend, who works for one of the interested parties, and learned that this information may be truthful". The most interesting thing is that with the financial and legal standpoint, this transaction is possible. According to the magazine Time, already in 1996 financial assets Mormonskoy churches were $ 30 billion, and by 1999 its annual revenues exceed $ 5 billion, in turn, to date the market value of Facebook - from $ 5 to $ 8 billion However, wishing to buy Facebook , and...

Java: a success story

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Today, at each site, offering jobs for those who wish to find a job easily find many vacancies for Java-programmers. Java - most popular language in which write anything: from on-board systems for the management of satellites to small utilities. Many recall how Java programming language became № 1 in the world. But, nevertheless, are familiar with the history of Java do not even everyone who writes in that language. According to Sun Microsystems, the company that developed this programming language, started his story because in 1990 - Patrick Noutonu m, one of the programmers, tired of supporting hundreds of incompatible interfaces with each other X11 systems and NeWS. Share urgent with the executive director of Sun Scott McNeil, Nouton received good at creating a team that was supposed to address the problems of compatibility with various software devices. The group was called the Green Group, and, in addition Noutona, it also includes Billy Joy and James Gosling. Shortly after the st...

Telecommunications landscape. Part 1

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Telecommunication market in its scope clearly superior computer. Today, the world just over one billion PCs, but more than three billion cell phones plus approximately one billion of fixed lines. Add here enormous data transmission infrastructure, which, to all other things, provides the Internet - and you'll understand why even the hands of the average telecommunications company in scope of their business clearly superior to most computer giants. Nevertheless, often specialized press pays little attention telecommunications sector world IT-industry. We will attempt to rectify that omission. Telecommunications giants. Comparison of subscriber capacity. Company Number of subscribers million 1 China Mobile 369,3 2 Vodafone 252,3 3 Telefonica 171 4 China Unicom 160,1 5 Amercia Movil 153,4 6 T-Mobile 123,1 7 Orange (France Telecom) 109,7 8 Telenor 90 9 МТС 81,97 10 AT&T 71,4 11 Verizon Wireless 67,2 12 SingTel 66,02 13 Telecom Italia 65,7 14 MTN Group 61,4 15 Bharti Airtel 60 16 Or...