IT SECTOR

Image via CrunchBase The economic crisis continues to have on the IT-industry pressure, and companies from a variety of areas continue to announce losses in IV quarter, pessimistic forecasts for 2009 and often - and major cuts. Even giants such as Cisco, indicate a weakening in the past quarter and adjust the forecast for the future. For example, Cisco recently announced that in the fiscal quarter ended January 24, profit fell by 7.5% compared with the previous year and amounted to $9.1 billion. But most of the other crisis hits the manufacturers of hardware. Upgrade computers in the corporate sector - this is the first, on what companies are starting to save, when the hard times. With regard to specific companies, for example, Lenovo has announced that its quarterly profit fell by 20% - to $3.6 billion. It must not bypass the crisis and the traditionally "hot" markets, as, for example, mobile communication. Many companies in this market report is not just about slowing growt...

Image via Wikipedia December 9, the company AOL has once again showed all his very special relationship to the users of the same protocol ICQ. Around the dinner, many users of older versions of clients ICQ, as well as some alternative clients when trying to connect to the ICQ servers have received the message type: "ICQ version 5.1 is no longer supported. Download a free authorized version of ICQ from the official web-site ICQ. "From the contact with the nickname« 1 ». No other information on the contact was not, though, and so could guess who is the author of this message. Meanwhile, all other contacts in the list were from this time are not available. However, even alternative and old customers, the problem affected only those who have tried to connect to the server. Customers that have already been online and not made reconnection has long publicly stated that they "worked". In fact, of the popular clients for Windows to remain fully operational, only ICQ and ICQ...

Own Internet blogs nowadays have no surprise. Blogs has long ceased to be «the phenomenon on the Internet» - now a powerful marketing, social and political tool. Indeed, the very notion of «civic journalism» evolved precisely because of the wide spread of blogs. Blogging, like many other phenomena, generated by the Internet, have become not only a social factor, but part of our recent history. Well, let's see how it all began. Phenomenon Similarly, we can say only one thing: it all began in 1994. Researchers differ, who was the first bloggers on the planet. According to one view, the first time began to keep a diary on the internet no one famous student Justin Hall. According to another version, the creator of the first blog has been known programmer Dave Weiner. His online diary - Scripting News - first became widely known among users of the network. However, the word «blog» then did not exist. The word appeared 17 December 1997. The first used the word weblog Dzhorn Berger, autho...

It is now four companies - Yahoo, Google, AOL and Microsoft - continues «ritual dances», began the spring with Microsoft trying to buy the Internet Corporation of Yahoo. That attempt failed (Yahoo has made saving alliance with Google), but the nerves members destroying a lot of events. Meanwhile, the race around the deal is still in progress. I'll start with the fact that Google has abandoned the transaction on the partnership with Yahoo in the market of internet advertising. The official blog search giant says that the review of conditions of transactions by United States competition authorities has been held for four months, but regulators are still many questions remained. According to Google, the Department of Justice antitrust investigation into the U.S. could negatively affect «the relationship with the company's valuable partners». In early October, Yahoo and Google have postponed the conclusion of transactions for a month due to negotiations with the Ministry of Justice...

Even the most dramatic events often end without any noise and even more so without too much sensationalism. Since early spring, we witnessed the confrontation Internet companies Yahoo and Google with one hand and Microsoft in the company's odioznym billionaire investor Carl ICANN - on the other. Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo, or at least its search engine to increase its ryvkom little to date market share of Internet advertising. Yahoo, through its top managers desperately resisted. Google with its rejection of the organic business model Microsoft has actively supported Yahoo. Karl Ikan, though, and was the largest shareholder of Yahoo, stood on the side of software giant, with its own business interests. Passions Kipelov and should have reached the highest point on 1 August, at a key meeting of shareholders of Yahoo. Even in mid-May, Karl Ikan, representing a group of investors and controls nearly 5% Yahoo, promised change at the annual shareholders' meeting of the Board of Dir...

Incredible did happen. Anyone who watched the last months of ritual dances around the altercation Yahoo and Microsoft, awaiting the culmination of events on Aug. 1 - at that date was designated fateful meeting of shareholders Yahoo. But now - for all of a sudden - top managers of Yahoo were able to agree with his greatest investor Carl Ikanom. But the corporation Microsoft, it seems, are left with the nose. I recall: billionaire Carl Ikan, who represents a group of investors and controls almost 5% Yahoo (the largest stake), from mid-May threatened at the next shareholders' meeting to replace the old to the new board of directors. And all in order to resume talks with Microsoft about selling Internet portal. Against Ikana acted together top managers of Yahoo, did not wish to sell the software giant even on a price. It is not difficult to guess, opponents alliance with Microsoft enjoyed the support of Google. In general, kipeli Shakespeare's passions. And suddenly all over. Even ...

From China came unexpected news: working in the field of next-generation networking company Huawei Technologies agreed to sell its unit to develop terminals - cellular telephones and modems for wireless data transmission. Among the prospective candidates for the purchase of business - the largest operators of cellular communication AT & T and Vodafone, as well as the investment company Blackstone, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and TPG. All this seems all the more strange that, according to Director of sold units Meddi Lu, a business company in the field of ringtones and modem cards broadband access is on the rise, and its contribution to overall corporate income Huawei - more than 10%. From January to May this year under the brand name Huawei has sold more than 30 million of these devices, which yielded income of $1.8 billion end of the year the company plans to sell another 40 million devices. It turns out that the annual sales volume will grow nearly twice - for the entire past year ha...

Last month the spring, barely begun, immediately brought some unexpected news. And chief among them, of course, was the news of the sudden capitulation of Microsoft, was never able to overcome Layered defence Yahoo. So, the confrontation ended with Microsoft and Yahoo. And a very unexpected way: Microsoft simply withdrew the proposal for purchasing portal. But recently the software giant Yahoo has promised to absorb any cost. The day before Microsoft even withdrawing the proposal to increase the amount proposed for the portal, for five billion dollars. Suddenly, May 3, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent an official letter Yahoo leadership of conscientious objection to the transaction. Press office in Redmond said: "After with colleagues, Steve Ballmer came to the conclusion that the conditions put forward by Yahoo unreasonable. Therefore, in the interests of shareholders and employees of Microsoft proposal to purchase Yahoo withdrawn ". At the ensuing press conference Ballmer t...

March 31, celebrated its tenth anniversary organization Mozilla. The wide range of users Mozilla are most commonly known as the developer of the popular browser Firefox, which is now a successful close on the world market Microsoft Internet Explorer. And only a few know that in fact quite Mozilla produces a wide range of different software to work with the Internet. Initially, perhaps, is to remember history - even more so, that many young users of the global network certainly little knowledge about the dramatic events of the first years of the WWW. Like that Mozilla was "the debris" legendary company Netscape. In the mid-and late nineties last century, Netscape dominated the browser market. But the company began to experience increasing pressure from Internet Explorer. Unlike browser Netscape, which was worth about $ 30 (free version was only to curtail functionality), "Online brodilka" from Microsoft was free and, moreover, comes with Windows. After several years ...

Trades on the high-tech NASDAQ stock exchange impose observers (including your humble servant) in a state of deep confusion. One day literally all indexes rise, the next - are falling. Rubbish determine the trend can not. However, in the last week of March mainly news IT industry has been reshuffling personnel. Shortly company Intel could leave immediately, four top manager. Reports from various sources, in particular, stated that the reduction and the reshuffling in management positions in the company come from the ongoing massive restructuring. Presumably, the company will take Shirley Turner, director of marketing for Intel in North America, Nick Davidson, director of North American sales department, Head of marketing programs and initiatives, Mike Steward, as well as another has not yet been named manager. However, an official statement from Intel on the subject has not yet been followed. The company only say that more than a year has been undergoing reforms affecting staff structu...