IT SECTOR

Normally, summer - a period of quiet business activity in the IT-industry, and with the onset of autumn business life has intensified. But looking at the past months, you know that this year no summer slowdown in business, actually, was not. And the question arises: whether and, indeed, now wait a marked recovery? Personally, I have no answer ... Sun eve of change Sun is can be bought one of the world IT-leaders, analysts believe. To promote this can collapsed capitalization companies, as well as reducing costs for large customers «big» servers - is based products Sun. The sharp fall in prices of shares Sun (YTD quotes the company fell by half - from $ 18 to $ 9 per share) sparked renewed old debates about the future of the company and options for the purchase of Sun any of the major players market. Among the most likely buyers, many referred to as technology partner Sun - the Japanese manufacturer's server and telecommunications equipment Fujitsu, which may be interested in acquir...

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...

Last week the global IT-industry is literally frozen in anticipation of the appointment on 1 August meeting of shareholders Yahoo. It was on Friday addressed the fate of the Internet giant. Unfortunately, the technology newspaper does not allow me to tell you now, dear readers, than all over. But I promise: a detailed account of the event, you will see in the next issue of KG. In the meantime, let's talk about other significant developments IT-business. Sony Corp. summed up the results of activity in I quarter of 2008-2009 fiscal year. Sony Net Profit for the period from April to June amounted to about $ 327 million That is almost twice lower than I quarter of last fiscal year. Thus, Sony has been unable to meet the expectations of analysts, who predicted last quarter profits of $ 486 million decline in net profits of Japanese corporations explain the increasing competition in the market game console, weak sales of smartphones Sony Ericsson, as well as the strengthening yen against...

I begin with the patient topic. The situation in the upper echelons of power Yahoo employees of the company itself is not otherwise called as "chaos". Since the beginning of the year from their posts have already gone 114 top managers, staff and no one believed. Staff crisis, according to analysts, could seriously weaken the position of Yahoo in the market. Ko addition, nearly two weeks ago disappeared executive director of Yahoo Jerry Yang. Its location is unknown, is now operational guidance for implementing President Sue Decker. Among the most notable figures who have left (or leave) the Internet company - Jeff Weiner, vice president of Yahoo! Network Division, Usama Fayad, head of data processing, Jeremy Zavodny, one of the key developers, Qi Lu, executive vice president in charge of search and advertising technologies, Brad Garlinhays, senior vice president, and Vish Mahidzhani, Senior Vice President Responsible for search technologies. Analysts company Canaccord Adams b...

In the global IT industry over the past couple of weeks anything wrong, fortunately, did not happen. Horse racing world oil prices and the American financial crisis has not had a significant impact on the market of information technologies and telecommunications. But something important has happened yet. We begin, as usual, with global issues. According to the research company Pyramid Research, in a few years, the global market for mobile undergo unprecedented change, and to the existing 2.8 billion users of cell phones in the next three years by a new billion. Of these, 87% occur in developing countries amount. The majority of potential users do not give China and India. Overall, in those two countries will be about 35% of the promised one billion new users, and the rest pridutsya on the part of the world where the level of urbanization is less than 50%. By 2010, 74% of users live in countries with developing economies. However, due to low ARPU their share of 40% of total revenues. ...