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July 5th State Duma deputy from the "United Russia" Robert Schlegel has published in his blog the text of the draft law on the internet. Rather, it is about 30 pages of amendments to the law "On information, information technology and information security. On July 7, had already been officially declared that the working group of the Duma committee on information policy, prepared a draft law regulating the use of the Internet in Russia. Changes for the better Duma amendments to the law "On information, information technology and information security for the first time in the history of Russian law-introduce such basic concepts as" global computer networks "and" operator of a web-site. " They also determine the limits of jurisdiction of national legislation on the World Wide Web. It is known that the Duma bill will be introduced no earlier than autumn, when he sent to the presidential administration and government. The Working Group is predicated o...

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...

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Portal MSN has bought the rights to broadcast video on the Internet Russian Premier League for one year. Now this site will be the only place where you can watch games for free. Last weekend, MSN began testing an online broadcast: pictures and comments offered NTV-Plus, because the portal has no right to comment on the matches. Audience MSN portal in Russia amounts to 6.5 million unique visitors per month, due to football broadcasts MSN they can attract more 0,5-1 million visitors.

Many of us, if not everyone, every day we have to deal with search engines, and, again, many are choosing to do so "Yandex". In this case, routinely using the search, we do not often think about how it is arranged, unaware of those passions, which sometimes rage on the other side of the search string. Already in the early to mid-2009, many SEOs and search engine optimizers, sounded the alarm - from the index's largest search engine Runet sites began to disappear literally "bundles". The fire apparently was carried out on target - it disappeared from search sites with poor content, sites that use technology to move out spam or specific engines for the mass creation of so-called satellites. Also significantly affected and many are suitable sites participating in trade or exchange links on exchanges such as Sape . Even went so far as to search out "Yandex" disappeared even some government departmental websites. The panic among webmasters spawned many th...

The St. Petersburg FSB conducted an operation to arrest the attacker Victor Pleschuka, which is considered the organizer of one of the most daring burglaries in the history of the banking business. In 2008, he and accomplices broke into the billing system RBS World Pay (a processing unit of Royal Bank of Scotland), stole information about debit cards and have access to personal data of clients and banking systems, including ATM-processing and payroll card. Somehow they were able to implement even reverse engineering PIN-codes, reports Wired. November 8, 2008 almost simultaneously with 44 cloned salary cards were withdrawn about $9.5 million within 12 hours of action were involved in about 2100 ATMs in 280 cities, including Atlanta, Chicago, New York, Montreal, Moscow and Hong Kong. The operation of cashing involved hundreds of ordinary "cashier" (mules). The large amount of damage due to the fact that the hackers managed to advance to raise the limits on withdrawals on each c...

It seems that all the inhabitants of Russia, using counterfeit software, you can start slowly rusk and learn "thieves' slang for facilitating mutual understanding with the inhabitants of" places not so remote". Because, as demonstrated by news that came from our neighbors to the east last week to become a victim of demonstration killings "evil pirates" may literally every... Of course, while that for the most part those whom Russian police caught red-handed for using non-licensed software, receive suspended sentences or fines, but, presumably, is not far off when the practice of intimidating the courts will force users to send "pirates" in the colony . In the meantime, as reported last week, news sites, in Cheboksary for copyright infringement probation was a student of the 5th year student of accounting and applied informatics one of the Cheboksary universities provided at the announcement of "computer services", is installing counterfe...

Unit Internet holding "Rambler" - statistical office Rumetrika - in October-November 2008, conducted a study on audience Runet from 2004 to 2008. The study - statistics Rambler TOP100, Goskomstat RF, own data Rumetriki. According to the system Rambler TOP, total daily audience Runet sites participating in the rating is 19.5 million visitors. This figure takes into account not only the Internet users in Russia, but also visitors from abroad (in runet in 2008 these were about 38%). Community The main result: four years general audience Runet increased more than fivefold. In 2004, growth was small - 23%, but then began a considerable rise, which peaked in 2005-2006, when the audience grew by 80% and 55% respectively. But in 2007-2008 the growth rate decreased and the audience was 33% and 37% respectively. Having analyzed the development of broadband access (and especially its value in the dynamics), Rumetriki experts concluded that the price of traffic has the greatest influenc...

Site Mail.ru is one of three largest portals Runet, so that attention is paid to him, entirely justified. At the end of last year around Mail.ru launched a massive plot. Its essence was as follows: Mail.ru search engine has long been one of the most popular in RuNet, but few people know that their own search engine at Mail.ru was not. Portal use search technology "Yandex", with the trademark "Yandex" it was not mentioned. Instead, the largest search engine Runet received only a few deductions from advertising. By the end of 2009-the first such situation no longer organize ambitious Yandex, which demanded the "divorce" from Mail.ru. In response, the administration Mail.ru began negotiations with Google, which has long sought a foothold in Russia's market. It was assumed that the search service Mail.ru had to go to the engine Google, as well as displaying search results ads from contextual advertising system AdSense. Moreover, the draft contract with Goo...

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...

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...

In Russia in the near future may be legislation, which is tighten the fight against software piracy . And especially do not fall under attack by pirates, and users of counterfeit software and content, including involuntary users, acting without any malice. Plenum of the Supreme and Supreme Arbitration courts of the Russian Federation prepared a draft decree, which clarifies which entered into force on 1 January 2008 Article 1250 Civil Code ( «protection of intellectual property rights»). The article states that the absence of fault does not absolve the offender of the need to end the use of Audio, and does not preclude the application of the sanctions. Thus, in the near future the Russian users of pirated software, as well as owners and customers house networks and videohostingov can begin to fine for violation of intellectual property rights. And even if they did not know (and could not know) that the use of Audio. Previously, the law-enforcement and judicial authorities acted in anot...

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 network has a new Web resource offering all those wishing to download the video at an affordable price - site ZML , another offspring of the founders of scandalous known AllofMP3. In July this year, the site AllofMP3, in a database which hosts thousands of musical compositions of Russian and foreign performers, was closed. Claims of Western record companies a long time not to impede resource function, because Russian law does not provide penalties for failure to pay royalties to foreign companies. When under threat of being Russia's entry into the WTO, government authorities rushed to terminate the existence of the resource. Following the closure of the site just a few hours gave his counterparts, claimed that operate in Russia and strictly followed Russian law. The situation is repeated in that time, in this case, changed only to trade. ZML.com site offers thousands of movies, watching where possible on most devices, including iPod, Zune, and DivX players. ZML refers to the R...

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...

Results in 2007 largely shame makers analysts forecasts. Namely: the Russian market of Internet advertising, on the basis of 2007 surpassed all expectations. Experts now estimate it at $ 400 - $ 450 million, though I half on the basis of most of them predicted a final amount of $ 300 million For comparison: in 2006, the Russian business is spent on online advertising about $ 210 million So, the market for Internet advertising RuNet doubled in the past year, exceeding the mark of $ 400 million and taking about 4% of the total mediareklamy located in Russia. Market participants predict that in 2008 the market will grow by 50-70%. This does not take into account the costs of moving, creative and online PR. That is the aggregate cost to business presence on the Internet by anyone yet to really not appreciated. These and other figures were announced during a very representative Internet conference organized by investment company "Finam". In particular, the head of the Research Div...