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Largest software corporation started in 2009 rather heated. At least, judging by the number of news coming from Redmond. Microsoft Corporation will spend $ 150 million on an advertising campaign, which aims to persuade businesses not to cut IT-budgets in crisis. The campaign, launched on 11 January, will be the last, third, phase of a broader campaign of People Ready, promotive business applications of Microsoft and ongoing for three consecutive years. As the slogan of the new phase was chosen phrase "It's everybody's business". During the campaign the real customers Microsoft will talk about how technology helped their business. Among the participants of the campaign - director of marketing for Coca Cola in North America, head of the U.S. unit Nestle and co-founder, producer of consumer goods Method. Stories of business representatives were recorded on the phone, and then superimposed on an animated video series. This resulted in savings in the production of commerci...

The new conditions, which proved to the entire world IT-industry as a result of the global economic crisis, forcing market participants to operate the most active. And the result is obvious: in addition to the numerous staff reductions and restructuring of the business computer companies increasingly report success in a particular sector. Semiconductor industry The largest supplier of microprocessors, Intel is ready to reduce prices on a casual two-and quad-core chips for desktop systems, and custom family of Xeon quad-core chips for servers and workstations. According to Michael McConnell of the company's Pacific Crest, the price of quad-core processors will be reduced by 15-40%. These figures are valid for the user, and for server solutions. Dual-core CPU will drop by 13%. Judge calls this unplanned event, as usual Intel updates price list in the spring (in April) and autumn (October) each year. McConnell said the two causes of the emergency adjustment of prices. The first - over...

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...

Internet mail, or, as they say, "soap", no longer a rare phenomenon in the network spaces. Such servers are known as mail.ru , yandex.ru and rambler.ru, there are about 20 million registered users, and every day, this figure increases. Mail is used as an ordinary nick, and a variety of companies, organizations, companies for communication. And ever since the appearance of the first e-mail servers, and there are people who are interested in gaining access to the mailbox. The objectives for this were different: someone wanted to read the letter from his wife, who had wanted to get money for breaking in order, someone to know the names of clients competing firm, someone else something. So they began looking for a variety of vulnerabilities in security, quite successfully. It's been a long time since the detection and removal of the first vulnerabilities, but the problem of protecting your email account remains valid to this day. Too many sites - mostly on the hacker theme - ...

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...

"Plizzz, give the key to anti-virus, ceased litsuha"! Who among us has not seen the mountains of such requests in the network? Some may even remember their similar requests. But what's behind them? Personal financial crisis? The contradictory desire to feel secure, safe to use hacked antivirals? There is no single answer will not let nobody, but you can definitely say that this is a mass delusion, of whom we'll try to get out. Do you, dear friends, that to date the number of illegal users of licensed software security exceeds the number of legitimate? This is anecdotal evidence, because officially confirm it until that very few people can, and even those who could officially confirm it, usually for one reason or another do not do. What is the problem, do anti-virus software and firewalls in fact so expensive that many people can not afford their own legally? No, no, no, it does not it. Just a mass of people everywhere and in all prefer that the well-advertised, to wha...

For many people the word "hacker" is associated with the word "bank". This is not surprising, because for several decades, crackers , who wanted to "get" a lot of money, paid his calculating gaze is on the banks. And this is understandable: what can give the most money, if not an attack on a major bank? But to break into servers that manage transactions and accounts, - a thankless task. It will attract too much attention, and attention increases the risk of being caught. So much more interesting to the attacker's just another option - it is to gain access to the assets of one bank's clients. Quite simply: less scale hacking - more likely to remain at large - inverse, speaking in mathematical language. This is where I would like today to stay. In this article I make out the following: the types and the work of malicious software that specializes in banks and other financial organizations, social engineering techniques used by hackers, attacks that a...

At the beginning of the new year, as in the last few weeks of last year, IT-community, Russia and the CIS countries are actively discussing the short and medium term regional markets. However, most not so much of the software market as the entire software industry in the FSU. Interestingly, the various participants in the debate sometimes come to opposite conclusions. In 2007, Russia's retail software market grew by 35%. According to experts, the turnover of Russia's software distribution software market in 2007 - m amounted to $ 3.7 billion, the turnover of Russian companies in the world - $ 1.7 billion in 2008 Russia's software market has grown to five billion dollars. To obtain similar figures for the CIS as a whole, is enough to increase Russia's performance in half. The structure of the net sales of packaged software in 2008, according to a study association of independent software developers ISDEF, is as follows: 65% of software sales account for corporate custome...

The phrase "Silicon Valley" has long been a household word - today they represent any techno park, any isolated area, which are concentrated high-tech production and development. But those who use this expression, as a rule, themselves know little about the history of the very - first - the Silicon Valley. Let's try to fill this gap. University Silicon Valley (Silicon Valley) - District of California, high-density high-tech companies - in the first place, computer and telecommunications. Silicon Valley is located in the San Francisco Bay: in fact it is the space between the cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles. Today the main factors of this valley, a phenomenon called the presence of Stanford University and major cities within less than an hour away, sources of funding new companies, as well as superb Mediterranean-type climate. It all started back in 1891 when the valley near the town of Palo Alto as a bequest large landowner Lilenda Stanford opened Stanford Universi...

For someone who retired a year remembered for the financial crisis for someone - the epidemic of influenza. For me the year was unusually rich in various kinds malvar as a template completely, and really worthwhile that wrenched me out of the usual cycle of events. In any case, it's time to take stock of "work" virus in 2009 and make projections for the future. To begin, as usual, with the unpleasant: the myth of the invincibility of computers from Apple, and, respectively, and their operating system (for individuals who spent the past ten years in a bomb shelter, do remark - an OS for Macintosh computers called MacOS) shattered. In 2009 was created the first "apple" botnet, discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the operating system itself, and in the third-party applications. Sami attack, I'll say straight, does not represent anything interesting - Unix architecture is conservative, and, if desired, players can browse the Internet, you can easily rewrite t...