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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 ...

WWW Founder Tim Berners-Lee announced the creation of a new nonprofit organization, Foundation world of the Internet "(WWW Foundation). There are already existing consortium WWW, who also created with the direct participation of Berners-Lee and that at the moment is the technical development of the World Wide Web - is a protocol, standards, formats, etc. The new fund will not engage in engineering and social problems. The Fund intends to start its activities in January 2009. Already, the project has received sponsorship from the American Foundation for journalistic research Knight Foundation in the amount of $ 5 million More information about the reasons for establishing a new fund Tim Berners-Lee spoke directly to the meeting with the Knight Foundation, which occurred in mid-September. In his speech, he touched upon all the tasks that he had to decide for the life of the World Wide Web. Thus, the first problem that was resolved was the need to persuade the leadership of C...

* Working Group, composed of professionals leading software producers, will develop a standard interface Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS), which should be similar to SQL for unstructured data. According to the participants in this project, the amount of unstructured information stored in corporate repositories is growing very rapidly, and therefore require special tools to work with such information. To date, to develop a new standard brought representatives of companies Alfresco, EMC, IBM, Microsoft, OpenText, Oracle and SAP. Company Gurock Software announce SmartInspect 3.1 - an updated version for debugging and monitoring of programs at Delphi,. NET and Java. The new version adds support for new versions of Delphi and C Builder (2009), corrected some mistakes from the previous version. Microsoft has released a beta version of XNA Game Studio 3.0, the development of games . Journalists from MSMobiles.com noted that "Microsoft re-releases new technology without...

As the autumn - normal season intensifying IT-business. But this year, all waiting for the autumn with some nastorozhennostyu. It shows one important thing: how the global financial crisis - Enhanced oil, falling dollar and the recession in the U.S. - will affect (and will affect whether) to the computer and telecommunications industries. Search Engines: Evolution In anticipation of the issuance of shares of the company «Yandex» Russian journalists asked for financial analysts to calculate cost-effectiveness of the Internet companies. Was a figure in the 54,7-55,8%. Illustrative time: «Yandex» released only one option for fiscal year 2007 - revenue. According to the company, this figure compared with the 2006-meters rose «roughly double», ie can make $ 167 million According to reporting Ltd. «Yandex», published in «SPARK-Interfax», company revenue in 2007 - $ 172.9 million (4.4 billion rubles.) net profit - $ 64.2 million (1.6 billion rubles.). Let me remind you that this autumn «Yande...

Any good PR Specialist you will say: if the information needed excuse, any intrigue can unleash literally on level ground. That's what seems to have been the company «RBC» (RBC) in an effort to make public the fact that among its assets to add popular among Russian users of Internet-pager QIP. I recall that QIP is considered one of the most common in post-Soviet space programs for instant messaging. QIP is 100% compatible with ICQ, as passed on a protocol Oscar - is proprietary protocol, developed by Israeli company Mirabilis - the creator of the program ICQ. The main difference between QIP official ICQ-client is the lack of advertising - is considered an advantage, and most users of the program. Plus, of course, given the absolute «bezglyuchnost» and stability combined with ease of use. It should be recalled that the developer of ICQ (and at the same time and the ideology of Internet pagers) company Mirabilis few years ago was acquired by telecommunications giant AOL and converte...

Fair amount of business news in recent times associated with Apple. Perhaps the main news was that the Taiwanese company Foxconn has accelerated the production of smartphone iPhone 3G, which it produces to order Apple, to 800 thousand units per week. Such rate for the year will be 40 million such devices. According to the blog TechCrunch, the current rate exceeds the capacity of factories, Foxconn, which raises concerns about quality control. Last week, already poslyshalis complaints about the poor performance of the hull of certain models, in basic white. Previously, industry media reported that Foxconn will supply only 24-25 million iPhone 3G. At the same time, analysts predicted, the market will need only 25 million of these smartphones for the whole of their life cycle. For comparison: Apple managed to sell only six million iPhone previous generation. Overall, in 2007, the world has sold 1 billion mobile phones and converged devices. I recall that the iPhone 3G was introduced by co...

* Michael Videnius, one of the founders of the company MySQL AB and the author of the original versions of critical DBMS MySQL, resigned from Sun Microsystems. Recall, Sun acquired MySQL AB earlier this year, and at that time, Michael served as the technical director of MySQL AB. That led to the departure of Videniusa, Sun does not speak, as well as about who will lead the development of MySQL instead. However, the most likely candidate to become vacant post is Brian Eyker, guiding the development Drizzle - variety MySQL, focusing on Web 2.0. * The new version of PHP - 5.3 alpha. It developers have implemented a number of useful innovations: firstly, there namespace (namespaces), lambda functions and circuits, new expansion (extensions) - intl, phar, fileinfo and sqlite3. Support of NOWDOC, restricted GOTO, reduced the ternary operator. Developers finally to abandon support for older versions of Windows (Windows 98, NT4 and ME). On plans regarding the issuance of the final version...

Pride Google Last week proved historic. At the joy of the entire progressive mankind, Google solved the birth of a new browser Chrome. The first beta test, it was decided to those who do not mind, that is exclusively for users of MS Windows. Beta-testing is successful, critical errors were found not only in the program, but even in the licence of the browser. Versions for Linux and Mac users are expected later. A specially for linuksoidov come up in Google occupation far more interesting than simply discuss Sedo new browser user interface. The Corporation submitted a new engine for the execution of scripts JavaScript V8 ( code.google.com/p/v8 ). This interpreter is not only a direct part Chrome, but also distributed in the form of free code that can be compiled in a separate console application or introduce any program. Personally, I just console version and tested. V8, without a doubt, is the main pride of Google. To date, this interpreter has shown the highest productivity scripts co...

* Company JetBrains announced the release of IntelliJ IDEA 8 Milestone 1 and ReSharper 4.1, which certainly did not need the extra representations. IntelliJ IDEA is considered one of the best development environments for programming language Java. IntelliJ IDEA 8 Milestone 1 - this is the first preliminary release the eighth version of "Ideas". The new version offers a Java-developers to increase productivity IDE, integration with the application server JBoss, debuggers for JavaScript and Flex, as well as editor of Flex-code. Among other things, the development environment including special support for creating applications on the basis of frameworks Struts 2 and Spring 2.5; added possibility of using technologies FreeMarker and Velocity as an alternative to Java Server Pages. IntelliJ IDEA 8 Milestone 1 platform supports GWT 1.5 and technology REST WebServices. Tools writing JSP/HTML- pages display window joined the list of names of styles and spaces. With regard to ReSharpe...

Samsung Electronics Company opened first in the CIS plant for the production of electronic equipment. Private industrial enterprise Korean corporation erected on the territory of Russia in the industrial park "Vorsino" in the Kaluga region Borovskom area. So far only completed the first stage of production capacity. It began production of plasma and LCD televisions, and before the end of the year is scheduled for launch in the production of LCD-and computer monitors. In addition, already is building new factory buildings, where will be produced and other electronic products. Russian participants largest trading business, as stated publicly, it is hoped that Samsung will begin mastering the production of mobile phones at the site "Vorsino." Construction of the first plant in Russia Samsung lasted less than a year. So far, the total area allocated for the production of Samsung, is 470 sq. km. m., of which 38 thousand square kilometers. m. took the first turn reflects ...

The most discussed news in the field of information technology has become a production company Google browser Chrome . The most interesting of the topics discussed in connection with the exit of the browser - whether Google has finally been decided to move from sea to land, that is, from the Internet on the desktop? And that, in connection with this expected? Google, in general, has long been no secret of its plans for conquest of new markets and, primarily, as in every segment of the desktop software. True, far beyond the plans it is not visited. Google produced various desktop applications (for example, the same Picasa), but call it a serious development for a large company such as Google, neither language is not rotated, neither hand is not raised. The browser - so, all the same, annex more than respectable, although, of course, Google with its resources well and could develop its own engine to display pages, rather than using WebKit from Safari. While, on the other hand, of course,...

All we hear from time to time about vulnerabilities in software that allow people to organize botnety nasty, get control of servers and banks to write off from the accounts of unsuspecting ordinary person and then earned blood money ... Vulnerabilities - is, of course, an integral attribute of any software. But what they found? And, more importantly, by whom? In general, if there is a program without mistakes, they are so simple in structure, that the user is not interested. Where the number of lines of code exceeds one program (which is written something like "printf (" Hello World !");"), appears and place for a variety of bugs, vulnerabilities and other unclean, which zagovarivayut program programmers yes testers. There are, of course, some ideas on how to reduce the number of errors in the software, where this is particularly critical. Think programming language Ada, functional programming, development through testing (test-driven develop-ment) ... Only special ...

Staff members of the state of Virginia Polytechnic Institute (USA) compiled a list of technical skills of programmers, for which no longer offer high salaries. HTML As companies use such Web 2.0-technologies such as Ajax, the demand for specialists in HTML is rapidly declining. According to a study conducted by Foote Partners, pay for the ability to understand the technologies such as Ajax and XML, has increased in the second half of 2007 to 12.5%, while demand for such technology predecessor as HTML, just fell. Obsolete programming languages The ability to program in languages such as Cobol, Fortran and others, are no longer valued as they used to. Specialists involved in language Cobol, have been on a horse when there was a desperate year 2000 problem, but now they do not have affairs. Some other applications, for example, Delphi and PowerBuilder, widespread in 90 - x, also did not enjoy more active demand. According to a study Foote Partners, knowledge of Cobol, PowerBuilder and Jin...

August 27 American Bloomberg news shocked his clients news of the death of founder and head of Apple Steve Jobs. The information was released tape prepared in advance obituary multi-executive director of Apple. As noticed obtain a copy of journalists of various media, "fish" obituary has not been filled and contained scribbled text-processing staff for Bloomberg. Of course, the error was quickly detected and quickly corrected: £ agency publication of news feeds, and then apologized to subscribers. However, journalists online edition of Gawker.com managed to retain the text obituary and subsequently released him with minor cuts. Error admitted staff Bloomberg, in general, not so accidental. We already wrote about rumors of serious illness 53 - Jobs summer - they began to spread after the June statement strongly pohudevshego chapter Apple developers at the conference WWDC. At the time, many media talking about the deadly disease Steve Jobs and recalled that this IT-charismatic ...

The term "core operating system" can be especially often hear from fans POSIX-systems. However, you can see, this does not mean that the same, for example, Windows, the kernel does not as such. What is the operating system kernel? What are they for? What are the nucleus of different OS? Here's to these questions we are with you and try to find answers. Why kernel? It would be logical to assume that the kernel - this is a central and in so doing fairly important part of the operating system. In general, this is true - the operating system kernel called by analogy with the atomic nucleus, which is the most important part of any atom. However, the atomic nucleus simultaneously and most massive of the atom, but the operating system kernel, by virtue of their design features, the largest part of the whole OS is not an option. So, what is a kernel? This is part of the operating system permanently located in RAM and a dedicated processing system interruptions. That treatment int...

* The company Embarcadero Technologies presented CodeGear Delphi 2009 and C Builder 2009, new versions of legendary means to develop Windows-applications. The main innovation was a long time ago expectancy full support for Unicode in the library VCL. Certainly not the only innovation implemented by developers of the Embarcadero. In 2009 Delphi has support Delphi Generics and anonymous methods, C Builder in 2009 - support the standard C 0x. In the library VCL controls introduced in the style of Microsoft Office 2007, added standard modules to work with a graphical format PNG. Now Web-library to create applications with support for AJAX and Silverlight, and in working with the database updated dbExpress-drivers for InterBase, Blackfish SQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Informix, IBM DB2, SQL Anywhere, Sybase and MySQL. Also products in 2009 - and an opportunity to line architecture design databases with funds ER / Studio. Sales of new versions of Delphi and C Builder has already begun, ...