IT SECTOR

Company's mobile communications industry seems to have managed to sort out the crisis and is now determined to defend their place in the sun and a piece of consumer money. China Mobile - China's largest telecom operator - plans to invest this year's $8.6 billion in the development of the network 3G. The company, which recently received a license to use developed by Chinese standard TD-SCDMA, will build about 60 thousand base stations covering 238 cities. At present, China Mobile operates more than 20 thousand base stations of mobile communication across the country. Technology of 3G, the use of which the Chinese government recently issued long-awaited licenses, provides much faster data transfer. The right to use the European standard WCDMA received company China Unicom, and the North American CDMA 2000 the company went to China Telecom. In December, Beijing announced that within two years, Chinese operators are investing in the development of 3G-network $41 billion, of whi...

Company's mobile communications industry seems to have been able to orientate themselves in a crisis and is now determined to assert its place in the sun and a piece of the consumer money. China Mobile - China's largest telecom operator - plans to invest this year $ 8.6 billion in the development of a network of 3G. The company, which recently received a license to use the standard developed by the Chinese TD-SCDMA, will build about 60 thousand base stations covering 238 cities. Currently, China Mobile operates more than 20 thousand base stations of mobile communications throughout the country. Technology of 3G, for use by the Chinese government recently issued long-awaited licenses, provides much faster data transfer. The right to use the European standard WCDMA received company China Unicom, a North American standard for CDMA 2000 out a company China Telecom. In December, Beijing announced that within two years of Chinese operators are investing in the development of 3G-netwo...

The world financial crisis in some countries has led, as in others - is about to lead to a sharp drop in consumer demand for various kinds of electronic devices. Simply put, people have become markedly less to buy various gadgets - from mp3-players to digital cameras. Let us try to understand how things in the market of mobile phones. Analytical company IDC summarized analysis of the global market of mobile phones in the III quarter of this year. According to the results, supply mobile phones in the period from July to September inclusive, amounted to 299 million units, which is 3,2% higher than that of III quarter of last year and 0,4% below the results of II quarter of this year. A decline in sales of cellular phones Analysts attributed the financial crisis in the United States and Europe. First place in the list of the largest suppliers of mobile pipes continues to keep the Finnish company Nokia. Last year, Nokia supplies mobile phones rose by 5,5% - to 117.8 million units. The mark...

Against the backdrop of crisis Intel will continue to invest in new products and technology, despite a potential slowdown in emerging markets because of the financial crisis in the United States. The company chairman of the company's Craig Barrett. According to him, when financial markets crashing, it has some impact on everything else, but nobody can get and to predict how serious it is. In particular, Barrett said: «We have always thought that must be sustained investment - whether in good or bad times. And, as a blind greyhound, we just continue to move in that direction ». Barrett also expressed the view that it is impossible in advance to protect themselves from the global crisis, but you can proinvestirovat their salvation. «We have always had a plan for the rainy day», - figuratively put chairman of Intel, backed its words with information that the company has Stabfund of about $ 10 billion in the event of a crisis. In doing so, Barrett made it clear that the financial crisi...

Let not this year, but next crisis the world economy has just hit the IT-industry. A well-known business analyst Richard Holvey am sure that in 2009 the company employed in the sector of hi-tech, face a credit crisis and the slowdown in business activity.  Holvey predicts that the sustainability of the sector to the effects of the global financial crisis is not long enough. In an interview with the publication Computer Weekly, he explained that in 2009 revenues in IT industry decline: the decline reaches almost 2%. Quote: «In my opinion, in the first half of 2008 has not yet created real problems in the world of technology, and possibly in the next half year will not happen, do not. But I sincerely believe that 2009 will be the year when all those scrape in the economy, in the end, nastignut technical sector ». Holvey pointed out that different types of companies within this sector, too, will have different perspectives. «Some areas of greatly expanded, and some of whom, unfo...

The research company Gartner released its medium-term outlook of the market mobile phones. According to analysts Gartner, before the end of 2009 the market of mobile phones, a number of new players, while the market will take only a few frank outsiders. Most manufacturers will actively promote the services of data transmission and value-added services, and the devices become easier to use with the old functionality. It is the greatest sales growth will occur in developing countries, while in Western Europe and Japan will begin declining, while in the U.S. - a long period of stagnation. Gartner experts have identified five key trends in the industry of mobile phones by the end of 2009 th. First of all, the market of cellular devices will new players - for example, a manufacturer of GPS-navigators Garmin - the company postponed the release of its first phone with the IV quarter of 2008 th next year. The emergence of new producers in a fairly competitive market driven by the expansion and...

* 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...

The research company Gartner released its medium-term forecast of market development of mobile phones. According to analysts Gartner, before the end of 2009 ringtones will appear on the market a number of new players, while the market will take only a few frank outsiders. New manufacturers will increasingly move data transmission services and additional services, and the devices become easier to handle when former functionality. In doing so, the greatest sales growth will occur in developing countries, while in Western Europe and Japan will begin declining, and in the United States - a long period of stagnation. Gartner experts have identified five major trends of the industry of mobile phones before the end of 2009 - go. First of all, the market of cellular devices will new players - for example, a manufacturer of GPS-navigators Garmin - the company postponed the release of its first phone with the IV quarter of 2008 - go for next year. The emergence of new producers in the face of fi...

The world's leading IT-company together published their reports on the work in II quarter of this year. Reports really impressed by your humble servant. And in the first place - its contradictory. As if single market trends disappeared altogether, and famous brands operate on the principle of "those in the forest who firewood". The most dramatic situation is from the producers of mobile devices. Initially, the company Nokia announced that the results of its work in II quarter of 2008 were "generally positive". The company sent a retailer 122 million phones - a 21% more than in II quarter of 2007, and by 6% more than in the current quarter I. According to experts the company, Nokia now controls about 40% of the world market - a 2% higher than a year earlier, and by 1% more than the quarter ago. In general, there is steady growth - without breakthroughs and derogations. In doing so, a Finnish company, despite the pressure of competitors, has managed to retain posi...

How do you think, than even engaged in IT-business figures during the summer, except that count profits in the first half and identifies with the plans for a second? Correct: they evaluate the prospects of markets. And these prospects, I should say, look quite tempting. The company Vanson Bourne conducted a study during which revealed that 79% of mobile subscribers in Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain and the U.S. would invest in advertising messages, if the very mobile e-mail-service became free. 62% of the respondents admitted that interested in the opportunities of mobile e-mail-services - even though they themselves have not yet enjoyed. 58% of users stated that tried to use new services, if they were free. For comparison: test services, on the advice of a friend agreed to only 5% of the respondents. In doing so, 98% of users admitted that did not use any service because of its high price. This study has shown interest to users of a new generation of services and their tolerance...

ZTE - is one of the largest manufacturers of mobile phones and telecommunications equipment in the world. But about a company ZTE very little is known, and even vseveduschaya Wikipedia gives minimal information. Successful Chinese Following IV quarter of 2007 in ten major world producers of cellular phones has been a marked change. For the first time in their numbers hit Chinese company ZTE, which produces cheaper phones for emerging markets. While the proportion of Chinese companies in general still very small, they continue to confidently select from other market players. The most obvious and most complete coverage in the press "mobile" event in 2007 was, of course, the market entry of mobile phones company Apple, which for several months azhiotazhnyh sales of its Communicator iPhone has been able to enter the number of major players in the market. In the IV quarter of 2007 its share of only through record sales in the U.S. reached 0.6%. However, remained almost unnoticed o...

Trades on the high-tech NASDAQ stock exchange impose observers (including your humble servant) in a state of deep confusion. One day literally all indexes rise, the next - are falling. Rubbish determine the trend can not. However, in the last week of March mainly news IT industry has been reshuffling personnel. Shortly company Intel could leave immediately, four top manager. Reports from various sources, in particular, stated that the reduction and the reshuffling in management positions in the company come from the ongoing massive restructuring. Presumably, the company will take Shirley Turner, director of marketing for Intel in North America, Nick Davidson, director of North American sales department, Head of marketing programs and initiatives, Mike Steward, as well as another has not yet been named manager. However, an official statement from Intel on the subject has not yet been followed. The company only say that more than a year has been undergoing reforms affecting staff structu...