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According to estimates analyst firm Gartner, worldwide PC sales in a quarter of 2010 increased by 27.4% to 84.3 million units. This means that the results of the quarter exceeded even the most optimistic forecasts. And, it's interesting - personalok sales grew not only in developing countries (as expected), but also in developed countries, where users have changed your PC for the transition to Windows 7. Previously it was thought that the PC market will grow by 22%, mainly due to developing countries. However, in developed markets much earlier than expected, revealed a tendency to repleysmentu - replacing old PCs with new ones. The impetus for repleysmentu became, in particular, the launch of Windows 7. Now, Gartner analyst Mikako Kitagawa said that the influence of the G-PC sales will be felt until early 2011-th. With regard to specific PC manufacturers, the market leader is HP with a share of 18.2%. Second - Acer c 14.2%, third - Dell with 12.1%. Close to the first three crept Ch...

If you do not do the economy, the economy itself will you Ten years ago there was the largest disaster in the history of the IT-industry - "the collapse of the dot-com. In March 2000 the index of shares fell computer and Internet companies on the "high tech" stock exchange NASDAQ. Most IT-companies have burst with the American Stock Exchange shares. During 2000-2001, thousands of Internet companies (mainly in the U.S. and Europe) went bankrupt, were liquidated or sold. Many of their executives were convicted of fraud and embezzlement of investors' funds. The majority of new business models focused on Internet technology firms were not viable. IT-industry entered a period of prolonged recession. Creator packet technology of computer networks Ethernet Robert Metcalfe somehow derived a formula: the usefulness of any network is directly proportional to the square of the number of its users. Metcalfe certainly never guessed that his formula will one day be almost the main...

Image via CrunchBase Just recently, Google has ceased to censor Chinese users search queries. Immediately thereafter, the world's largest domain name registrar GoDaddy has announced the termination of registration sites in the Chinese area of CN, but Dell has now started to consider the possibility of transferring their production from China to India. And last week brought new news. Now another major U.S. asset, namely Yahoo, as before Google, too, was subjected to hacker attacks. Reportedly hacked mailboxes some users - namely, foreign journalists working in China. The company itself is still in a rather general statement, which states that "Yahoo condemns all cyber attacks, whatever their origin or destination. We are determined to protect the security and privacy of our users and take appropriate action in case of any violation of this kind." Experts believe that in Yahoo, apparently, still thinking about strategy - how to respond to harsh actions of hackers. Neverthel...

Image via CrunchBase More interesting news comes from the camp Microsoft. Just recently, the corporation announced that in May this year bring to market a new Office application Microsoft Office 2010, and free. During that users will run ads, but who wants ad-free, he will be able to pay for the appropriate version. And now the Internet has appeared a lot of unofficial information about how Microsoft is going to earn a promotion. In particular, it is a platform under the name Madison. It can be used in various products of the company, including operating systems. The idea here is the same - users enjoy free software in exchange for displaying advertising messages. Based on these rumors so far some IT publication has to speculate that in the future, and the operating system is Windows can thus become free. An indirect confirmation of this is the number of recent actions and statements of the company development of its representatives. For example, in Windows 7 in the "Personalizat...

Image via CrunchBase Internet company Yahoo plans to close its regular online project launched back in "fat" pre-crisis time. This is the advertising platform Yahoo Publisher Network Beta - it is designed specifically for smaller advertisers with limited budgets. Service Yahoo Publisher Network Beta was launched in 2005, and since then he had existed in the form of beta, but access to it has been possible only by invitation. This platform is designed for small businesses, small ad agencies, bloggers, etc. users. Business Model Yahoo Publisher Network Beta was a classic - Yahoo disseminated advertisements on their portal and partner sites, taking his commission. The scheme of pay per click and display content relevant advertising. Announced the closure of Yahoo Publisher Network Beta, in Yahoo, however, did not report how many companies used the service. The only official representative of Yahoo, so this is what customers were "a little".

A half-century marks one of the most widespread office dwellers - copier. His "career" began in March 1960 - it was then a small American firm Haloid Xerox (Rochester, New York) will deliver the first so-called office "Electrophotographic apparatus indirect copying. Dimensions of these devices were comparable with two washing machines, they weighed approximately 295 kg and consumed a lot of electricity. It is not surprising that for a long time customer of early Xerox has been, basically, the U.S. government like the State Department, FBI, etc. And, of course, large libraries. The success was astounding. While in 1959 income Haloid Xerox has made $32 million, then two years after the presentation of the legendary 914-th model revenue tripled. And after 6 years of rapid development of Xerox became a multibillion-dollar corporation. Interesting fact: the proposed Xerox then, in the early 1960's, the technology of copying the image - xerography - still used in many mode...

At times, the global IT-industry news issues that cause sustained sense of déjà vu. And because you know for certain that this is exactly news - but from a sense of deja vu is impossible to escape. But everything else was good: IT-economy once again on the rise. If someone does not understand - I once again became Head talk about semiconductors. I have often written about the fact that Russia persists in trying to buy somewhere abroad microprocessor production. So how to create your own elusive. Well, in fact, do not take as seriously Zelenograd chips, which, according to a popular joke, basically all the same tube. But turn to the substance. The Russian state-owned corporation Rosnano, also known as holding AFK "System" agree to buy the French company - the manufacturer of microelectronics Altis. It admitted the Russian business newspaper Vedomosti some official from the administration Dmitry Medvedev, the question of the transaction Rosnano Altis and was recently discussed ...

A small U.S. company Air Guardian has successfully patented a gas mixture consisting of 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen 0.93% argon 0.038% carbon dioxide, as well as how it uses it for energy to mechanical and biological systems. According to the company in the near future it is going to require owed royalties for the use of proprietary gas mixture with the major airlines, transport operators and thermal power plants. In the future business plan Air Guardian provides for deductions from the automakers, as well as with any commercial organizations, in which the gas mixture can be used in public places. The third step is to receive contributions from individual users. It should be noted here that the company takes quite a liberal policy - the use of proprietary gas mixture in a personal non-commercial purposes will remain free. However, according to the representative of Air Guardian, "the use of counterfeit air in commercial activity is simply unacceptable, so the Association for the Prot...

Staff research division of IBM said that they were able to develop the last element of the set, which is required for the construction of fundamentally new - optical - computer chips. In such circuits signals between transistors and cores will be transmitted through the light pulses. So far, IBM is not specifically advertise the fact that a large group corporation engaged in applied scientists silicon photonics - the science that is examining ways to transfer data within computer systems using light pulses. But now the press office of IBM proudly told the world: scientists have created a corporation nanophotonic avalanche photo detector - a miniature device, capable of extremely high speeds to convert light pulses into a binary code. It is based on all the same semiconductors. Spillage on the photodetector of a light pulse, in his material released several carriers, which then release the other carriers - is cascading effect. As a result of the original signal is multiplied many ti...

As is known, in late February, the EU began antitrust investigation against Google, launched by small companies, close to Microsoft. It turns out that this is not an isolated case. The Wall Street Journal cites evidence of so-called "proxy wars", that is a global campaign, which was organized by Microsoft against Google smallest third of firms and, at first glance, unrelated to each other cases. Such "competition" of affairs is becoming more and more, they start in individual countries and towns of the United States, but, surprisingly, against Google, they serve the best-paid lawyers from law firms, and sometimes the "former" top lawyers Microsoft, is now supposedly Leading independent legal business. For example, a small business firm in Ohio against Google is famous Charles Ruhl (Charles "Rick" Rule), the former head of the Antimonopoly Committee of the Ministry of Justice. According to analysts, in the near future we can expect that many small...

Perhaps more difficult to meet the stereotype "about computer" concept than real time. And yet, as practice shows, not only the majority of users, but most IT professionals have a very vague idea of what lies behind these very common term. Real time - it is actually a sign that the system place a stringent requirement on the reaction rate (response time) to any external events. The term "real time", by the way, almost never used - talk about real-time systems or, more often about real-time. If the system is operating in real time, does not provide the required response time, then talk about her refusal. Real-time systems tend to interact with processes in the real world (hence the "real" time), which usually do not depend on the actions of the system - on the contrary, by the way, the actions of both time and are dependent on external "stimuli". Events in the outside world can occur spontaneously, and the system operates in real time, should alwa...

The company Monster Worldwide, which specializes in business recruitment, bought for $ 225 million from the Internet company Yahoo! Western popular recruiting site HotJobs.com. The deal will be completed in the III quarter of this year. Top managers of Yahoo! already announced that proceeds from the sale money will be spent on technological innovations, including the development of new technology, the Internet search. This transaction is fully fit into the new development strategy of Yahoo. Recall that in the end of 2008 a new CEO Carol Bartz announced that Yahoo! gradually abandon non-core activities. This will be done in order to concentrate on the work of the main segments of its online business - online advertising , search and e-mail. Previous major victim of the new policy became unprofitable for Yahoo! project GeoCities. "Get Money for Clicks" NameDrive.com - Fastest Growing Domain Parking Company in the World.

Company Gartner conducted a special study of the possible role of service mikroblog Twitter in corporate communications of the nearest future. According to experts, Twitter-platform will be used for joint work of employees, prompt discussion of ideas and direction of flow of information. In Gartner say that now, in post-crisis time, companies are beginning to rebuild its internal communications. So, move on to more advanced forms of Internet communications - to the social networks and service Twitter. Gartner analysts are confident that over the next two years, about half of the world's leading companies will start using Twitter to organize its business processes. And about one in five of the company will go further: dare to replace e-mail social networks and such services as Google Wave and Opera Unite. Today the popularity mikrobloggerskogo service Twitter is such that many organizations (largely following the fashion) create "corporate Twitter-register an account, secure an...

Powerful IT-infrastructure in our time has become one of the essential factors of success for any large company. However, the economic crisis has noticeably shifted the emphasis. IT-director, forced to fit into a much curtailed budgets, are betting on the rich capabilities of web-technologies. The corporate sector is actively developing on-line business services and solutions in the spirit of Web 2.0. Research firm IDC released a survey in which its analysts describe as modern business processes are undergoing significant cultural change in the rapid development of the social web. It is given and an example: in a recent IDC study 57% of employees of various U.S. companies admitted that they often use online social resources to solve problems directly related to their work. In the IDC survey also says: "If we carefully examine the social improvement of business today, we see that it is now fundamentally changing the way companies interaction with its customers, partners, suppliers ...

In the industry, which manufactures solar cells, night vision devices, as well as digital cameras and camcorders, is planned to something that later could well be called "industrial revolution". It is the application of new material, now known as "black silicon". Himself material for over ten years old, but its commercial use can only start this year. The ancestor of the new technology was Eric Mazur, an experimental physicist at Harvard University. A decade ago, he worked on the Pentagon's order - was engaged in studies of catalytic reactions on metal surfaces. As later described himself a scientist, at some point he "bored to death metal." Then Eric Mazur decided to slightly change the direction of research and experiment with other materials. Arm caught silicon semiconductors - and at that moment the researcher did not anticipate that this may give some practical results. Anyway, Mazur helped him with the students began to irradiate silicon wafer sh...

How much money is spent on providing services to IT? Why spend just as much? Where could we reduce costs without losing quality? With these issues in its activities to a greater or lesser extent, each head facing IT-units. They are impossible to answer accurately, they are relevant regardless of the crisis or the global situation in the economy of enterprises, because it is such a language the customer speaks, for which IT and offers its services. And, most difficult and sometimes incomprehensible to staff IT, these issues do not relate directly to information technology. Organizational Challenges IT Managers can be divided into three types. The first grew out of the system administrator. He knows the infrastructure, because it participated in its construction. Decisions them through suffering sleepless nights, broken at times exhausting negotiations with management. He was turning and twisting almost all "nuts" in the construction of IT-services. They, these services - his ...

At the beginning of the new year, as in the last few weeks of last year, IT-community, Russia and the CIS countries are actively discussing the short and medium term regional markets. However, most not so much of the software market as the entire software industry in the FSU. Interestingly, the various participants in the debate sometimes come to opposite conclusions. In 2007, Russia's retail software market grew by 35%. According to experts, the turnover of Russia's software distribution software market in 2007 - m amounted to $ 3.7 billion, the turnover of Russian companies in the world - $ 1.7 billion in 2008 Russia's software market has grown to five billion dollars. To obtain similar figures for the CIS as a whole, is enough to increase Russia's performance in half. The structure of the net sales of packaged software in 2008, according to a study association of independent software developers ISDEF, is as follows: 65% of software sales account for corporate custome...

Over the past months I have repeatedly written that the global economic crisis should accelerate "peretekanie 'advertising budgets to the Internet. And thanks largely to the process of Internet business could be affected by the crisis considerably less than other sectors of IT-industry. In early February, were published the results of a study conducted in RuNet agency PR Technologies by order of IMHO VI. Results eloquent: more than half of Russia's largest advertisers are planning in 2009 to increase advertising budgets on Internet projects. At the same time, interestingly, online advertising attracts the advertisers is not the relatively low price, and especially the possibility of targeting and the availability of precisely targeted audience. Among other advantages are called transparent budgeting, as well as the opportunity for rapid assessment of the effectiveness of advertising campaigns on the Internet. Figures The study polled 70 respondents - they had become direct...

LED lighting is slowly beginning to come into the market and home displays. Rumors about the beginning of the mass supply of various major manufacturers of monitors, LED matrix go quite a long time, but only now on the market first began to appear "live" panel. The pioneer in the promotion of LED-backlighting on the domestic market became the company monitors ViewSonic, released dvadtsatidvuhdyuymovuyu panel VLED221wm. The uniqueness of the monitor is not in the LED lighting, which some manufacturers have used successfully before, but that in this case, the monitor with this type of lighting used conventional modern inexpensive TN-matrix. In so doing, the first monitor with LED-backlit targeted at the mass market rather than a narrow cohort of professionals who are willing to lay out for equipment killing, by the standards of an ordinary person, the amount. Out of this model led to a kind of excitement - not even many computer publications and media deemed it my duty to menti...

Image via Wikipedia Two years ago, the internet has become a glimpse of information that the U.S. is going to introduce a new currency - Amero, which must be completely replaced by the dollar. Company Larson & Holz IT Ltd - a professional Dealing center on the world currency market Forex could not help but draw attention to this phenomenon. Moreover, the first customers and then simply visitors trainings Larson Holz Ltd became more and more frequently asked questions: "What will happen to the dollar? Not whether the United States subject to a huge vnezhnim duty to conduct monetary refomu"? Unfortunately, experts Larson & Holz Ltd with the responsibility of state, the probability that there are substantial. For thinking people, capable of «uhvatyvat» causal relationship, this fact is not a surprise. The point is that in theory, this problem was discussed long ago - initially in the range of economists, but then (especially in light of recent events), the idea of replac...