IT SECTOR

German group Siemens intends to leave the business of manufacturing personal computers. To this end, the holding company parent company Siemens will sell its share in the joint with a Japanese company Fujitsu enterprise (source newspaper The Wall Street Journal in banking circles praised the joint computer business corporations and Fujitsu Siemens at $ 3.12 - $ 4.65 billion). Under the terms of a prisoner 9 years ago the contract, Fujitsu has a preferential right to purchase shares of Fujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC). However, so far unknown whether this right will seize the Japanese corporation. Moreover, in various media from time to time pops up information on what to buy shares of Siemens might be interested company Lenovo - the largest manufacturer of computers in China and the fourth largest in the world. According to the President Fujitsu Kuniaki Nodzoe, production of mobile phones his company is now considering a more profitable business. Using phones in the short term, Fujitsu ...

Let not this year, but next crisis the world economy has just hit the IT-industry. A well-known business analyst Richard Holvey am sure that in 2009 the company employed in the sector of hi-tech, face a credit crisis and the slowdown in business activity.  Holvey predicts that the sustainability of the sector to the effects of the global financial crisis is not long enough. In an interview with the publication Computer Weekly, he explained that in 2009 revenues in IT industry decline: the decline reaches almost 2%. Quote: «In my opinion, in the first half of 2008 has not yet created real problems in the world of technology, and possibly in the next half year will not happen, do not. But I sincerely believe that 2009 will be the year when all those scrape in the economy, in the end, nastignut technical sector ». Holvey pointed out that different types of companies within this sector, too, will have different perspectives. «Some areas of greatly expanded, and some of whom, unfo...

At Russian Mission Internet company Google has a vacancy for a very unusual position for the post-Soviet space - «political representative» (Russia Policy Counsel). As stated in the description of the vacancy, the political representative of the Russian office of Google should be seized «interaction with government agencies and the lobbying interests of Internet companies in the Government». Simply put, the Moscow office of Internet giant require specialist who will be able to effectively maintain a dialogue with the authorities. It is clear that while the Russian representation of Google information about the new office confirmed the utmost caution. Many IT-experts and journalists, however, have expressed the view that American Internet companies require new - political - tools to further increase the proportion of the Russian Internet market. For Russia and the CIS countries this post until the gimmick, but the West is a perfectly normal to have in the state specialist in government ...