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The Procuracy of Germany began investigating the case, which could lead to very loud scandal in the telecommunications industry in Europe over the past decade. This is a case of listening to telephone conversations top managers of Deutsche Telekom - the largest telecommunications company in Europe and one of the largest in the world. The German prosecutor's office has evidence of illegal use of stationary and mobile phones by its employees in 2005-2006. However, the current prosecutor investigation does not become a consequence of successful law enforcement or security services. Even on 26 May this year, official representatives of Deutsche Telecom admitted that the corporation several times specially hired a private detective firm to monitor telephone calls their leaders. Also under the control of telephone calls were taken of some journalists, specializing in the subject of IT and telecommunications. But, on assurances from representatives of Deutsche Telecom, listening and / or ...

In 2008 for ruNet has all chances to become a turning-historic. Leaders of the Russian segment of the worldwide network in the best traditions of the American Silicon Valley fall outside investment to western financial markets. This year, their primary placement of shares (IPO) on western stock exchanges are planning to hold two Russian Internet holding company. Not surprisingly, perhaps, that the first to enter the market with its shares decided portals, combines the search engines and a number of free web-services: Mail.ru and "Yandex". Mail.ru Mail.ru on the adopted plan already in the company in mid-summer plans to go on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). Audience portal is estimated to be 30.5 million people a month. Mail.ru consultants at the upcoming IPO will feature the world financial investors such as Citibank, Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse. These banks and financial companies while trying not to give even rough estimates of business, now awaiting the results of exa...

In China begins major redistribution of the telecommunications market. Tasks have initiated two reforms: to create a normal competitive environment in China itself and to ensure Chinese companies - operators - free access to world markets. In the first phase of the reform of Chinese telecommunications company China Telecom and its parent state will have to acquire the second largest cellular operator in China connection - a company China Unicom. This peace tell news agency Xinhua - it also stated that the amount of the transaction amount to one hundred billion yuan ($ 14.4 billion). However, on its own information agency Reuters, the transaction amount will exceed $ 15 billion, and according to a number of other sources, that figure could rise to 110 billion yuan ($ 15.2 billion). At the moment, aware that 60 billion yuan ($ 8.5 billion) will pay the parent company (founder) China Telecom, while the remaining 40 billion yuan (about $ 4.5 billion) to pay directly itself China Telecom. C...

Continuation. Beginning here . M-yes, it is not always good, when Arts and Sciences merge into one under a certain discipline. Artificial intelligence - just such a case. While it can take on the law and the cream of modern scientific thought in general. On the one hand, it is clear that the development of artificial intelligence to a mid-level offers tremendous growth in technology and, consequently, the quality of human life. Then I will continue in the style of television "Maximum": -- But what we have, when AI will be many times stronger and better when the level reaches its perfection and, through self-embedded algorithms will evolve from here? -- Where to now be sent to the ship, called "modern technologies"? Journalists should not blame - it is their bread. And our bread with you - computer technology, as if to understand them well, then bread with butter. Today, "pink" theory with Turing tests and laws Ayzimova we will gradually move on to practice...

The term "Unified Communications" appeared quite recently, but already evident: it is defining a new trend in the development of custom telecommunications. With regard to home users is already well known service Triple Play (data transmission services, voice and video on the same Carrier Networks, as an option - Multiple Play). In addition, a number of principles "unified communications" for private PC users are trying to realize the framers of the latest versions of the most popular Communicator - ICQ. As for corporate users, it is not all so simple and unambiguous. On the "unified communications" in the segment of corporate communications there is no common understanding - that they must include themselves in and what business functions to provide. But we do try to answer some questions. Namely: What benefits of "unified communications"? How do they put into practice now? As with these things in the U.S., Europe, Russia, Belarus? And start from...

This operating system has been called the biggest missteps Microsoft over the past decade. Previously, compared with its Windows Millenium Edition, now even such comparisons Linux not receives. Whether it has earned such kicks and clip round the ear? Let us think together ... On its own experience with this operating system can not say that he showed me this really terrible. Immediately after the installation were the same sentiments, and that at the time getting acquainted with XP after 2000 - and with or 98 - after a 95 - year. That is, something in between "Uh, how beautifully done" and "Where are all the poubirali something?". With notorious brakes of the OS also particularly say nothing, because the toys are not played on it, and without toys there is nothing particularly stall. Why do not want users to set their computers to Windows Vista? In my opinion, all dealing in platitudes herd instinct. That is, no one does not make it, all spit, so why do I install it...

Progress is not in place, and over the past few years, cellular communication has proven already covered more than half the population of Earth. One of the "side effects" has been rapid saturation of the relevant markets. Back in 2000-2001, investment in mobile communication networks were considered possibly the most profitable in the IT-industry. But today the situation variables in a radically. Earnings before that investors are not sufficiently developed in search of "mobile" market picks up the most exotic places in the world. A good example of such an investor is the millionaire Egyptian Naguib Saviris that owns the majority of shares in Egypt's largest cellular operator Orascom Telecom. Trying to any cost to enter new markets, he even attempted to obtain 25 - year license for cellular communications in North Korea. Subsequently, in an interview Naguib Saviris jokes that his latest business plan born of desperation. Quote: "I wanted to show that no oth...

For the global IT-industry seems to have come quiet period. Indeed, the first quarter of this year proved overly saturated with events, so it is logical that early summer IT-market participants wanted to use for simple relaxation. Either way, but the main news of recent weeks were related to social networks and mobile communication. One of the world's largest cellular operators British company Vodafone Group published its current financial report. It follows that net profit operator on the basis of 2007-2008 fiscal year (ended March 31) amounted to 8.49 billion euros. Over the same period last year, the company suffered a net loss of 6.04 billion euros. Revenues for the company's 2007-2008 fiscal year increased by 14.1% to 44.58 billion euros against 39.08 billion euros a year earlier. Operating profit amounted to 12.62 billion euros, while in the same period a year earlier the company received operating losses amounting to 1.97 billion euros. The guide Vodafone successful fina...

In recent years, development of the Internet has made considerable heights. Curve growth in the number of users worldwide network - eloquent proof. However, talk of further development of the Network falls in the context of extensive: Internet successfully developed and will evolve, however, the effectiveness of the use of its resources constantly decreasing. For scientific purposes, and some tasks, even existing megabitnyh velocities clearly not enough… One of the tasks for next-generation network, is to increase the speed of information transfer up to 10 Gbit/s. And this is just the beginning… Internet. A brief digression It all started in the distant 1962, when ARPA research on military applications of computer technology led by Dr. JCR Licklider, who proposed to use for these purposes interaction of government computers. The main idea of this "experiment" was to build a network of functionally equal nodes, each of which would have some autonomy and would have its own rece...

This is really "news, which surprised us". The largest search engine Yandex in RuNet investbankami tentatively estimated at five billion dollars…. Founder and гендиректор "Yandex" Arkady Volozh, as well as chairman of the board of directors ru-Net Holdings (one of the shareholders "Yandex") Leonid Boguslavsky refused to comment on these data. According to the media business, such a huge figure was voiced during the competition by the organizer IPO (initial issue of shares) search engine, which is scheduled for autumn this year. I recall that the company "Yandex", the owner of the portal Yandex.ru, was founded in 2000. Yandex, a daily audience of more than 5 million people, ranks second among non-English speaking after Chinese search engines Baidu. Revenue "Yandex" in 2007 reached $167 million Corporation Microsoft, committing bypass maneuver, again taking the "conquest" Yahoo. Quote from a press release dated 18 May: "In ...