IT SECTOR

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...

Image via CrunchBase Intel has always been one of the leading newsmakers IT-industry. But now the news from the microprocessor giant has received so much that I decided to compile them in a separate article. Main news: the president of the board of directors and former head of corporation Intel, Craig Barrett will leave the legendary company in May this year. On the reasons for his departure there is no reliable information, but you have to remember that in recent years due to financial crisis, Intel earnings declined. As a result of IV quarter of fiscal 2008, revenue of the company fell by 90%. Net profit of the corporation amounted to $ 234 million and total net profit for the year 2008 - $ 5.3 billion today the high-tech NASDAQ market share Intel is the order of $ 13. Recently, the company also announced the upcoming restructuring, which involves the dismissal of employees and closing five plants. However, it is taken into account, as far down the sale of processors in the world. Fo...

The World Trade Organization (WTO) often becomes the latest instance in economic disputes developed nations. But rarely such proceedings relate to companies IT-industry. One of those rare cases occurred relatively recently. Conflict of interest This is not completed so far story began in June this year. Then the U.S. government and Japan sent a joint complaint with the WTO. They complained to the European Union, which in their view, charged with manufacturers of computer equipment unnecessary taxes. Specifically, it was about companies that produce computer monitors, printers and cable converters. The reason for the differences is that these groups when importing goods into the territory of the EU duty-free to reach 14%. Interestingly, however, that the major manufacturers of such equipment - China, Taiwan, Malaysia - claims not to the Europeans. In a sense, the root of the conflict - the International Agreement on Information Technology (International Technology Agreement - ITA), whic...

The world financial crisis continues, though, seems to have passed its peak. But while the number of jobs is declining, and in Silicon Valley top managers think: What generally mean a financial crisis for the IT sector? One of the main expectations due to the reduction in IT-budgets of large companies would ensure that these companies rather prefer to have a universal model. There will shift to computing clouds and programs taken from the network, because in this case, you have to pay only the cost of services, rather than the work of an entire IT commands. Also, corporations will be more willing to use software with open source. The crisis has opened new areas of IT-development. Due to the fact that the same U.S. companies close their offices or out of business real estate, it is expected that many adapted from a distance model. And with the changes, which are expected to occur after the adoption of a law on flexible working hours, the companies may have additional reason to allow the...