IT SECTOR

Research Company Game Developer Research conducted a survey of developers of computer games for the popularity of various gaming platforms. The results of this study showed a clear trend among developers in the direction of the platform Apple iPhone. For example, for Sony PSP write about 9,5% the creators of games for Nintendo about the same. At the same time on the iPhone OS platform is currently creating their own games about 19% of developers. Moreover, over the last three quarters of virtually all of the creators of games for mobile devices have written at least one application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. In the published report also recalls that at one time gadgets from Apple significantly stimulated the market for mobile games. If prior to their appearance, he accounted for 13% of the total entertainment market, now has almost doubled to around 25%. Among the reasons that lead to migration of developers to iPhone OS, the report's authors called the popularity of devices Ap...

The largest software corporation beginning in 2009 rather rapidly. At least, judging by the number of news coming from Redmonda. Microsoft is willing to spend $ 150 million on an advertising campaign, which aims to persuade businesses not to reduce IT-budgets in the face of crisis. The campaign, launched on 11 January, will be the last, third phase of a broader campaign, People Ready, propulsive business applications and Microsoft has already done three years in a row. As the slogan was chosen as a new phase of the phrase "It's everybody's business". During the campaign these customers Microsoft will talk about how technology had helped their business. Among the participants in the campaign - Marketing Director of Coca Cola in North America, the head of the American unit Nestle Co-founder and producer of consumer goods Method. Stories of business were recorded over the phone, and then superimposed on an animated video. This allowed to save money on the production of c...

It happens does! July 21, Yahoo leadership suddenly found a common language with its principal enemy and leading shareholder - Carl Ikanom (he owned nearly 5% corporation). August 1 by a general meeting of shareholders Yahoo, which will be decided by fate companies, and especially the fate of its top managers. The new distribution of powers is as follows. Eight of the nine-member board of directors will be re-run to their seats. Among them are the ideologists of Yahoo, which we know - the chairman of the board of directors Roy Bostok гендиректор and Jerry Yang. Not only will run Robert Kotik - he goes to rest. At the same time, the board of directors will expand to 11 seats. One of them takes himself Karl Ikan. Another two will be given to people from the list Ikana. This means that "the faction Ikana" will receive about 27% of votes in decision-making. Sam Ikan pay these three places its stake votes - he would support the current board of directors at the shareholders meetin...

Now, at the very end of autumn, the world's most IT-companies show strong enough growth - like most sectors of IT-industry. However, the overall information technology in business environment is quite nervous. This is due primarily to overall economic instability in the world (rising oil prices, falling dollar, the financial crisis in the U.S.). The second "nerviruyuschy factor" - what experts and analysts were not able to predict a number of important developments in the world and tendetsy IT. For example, appears on the market in less than six months after the iPhone a number of similar devices, mostly from producers from South-East Asia. However, keep the general issues and move on to specific events. Last week crisis on American stock exchanges took place on the high-tech companies, the most won Apple. Literally per day value of one share "apple company" fell from $ 190 to $ 153. Thus, the offspring of Steve Dzhobsa together lost nearly 20% of the value of i...