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Moscow, May 30-31, 2007. More...
Start date - 31 May 2007 The 2nd International Congress of Nanobiotechnology Nanomedicine 2007 June 18-20, 2007 in San Francisco, California, USA. More...
Start date - 17 June 2007 7th annual RUSSOFT Software Outsourcing Forum St. Petersburg, June 20-22, 2007. More...
Start date - 20 June 2007
28.05.2007 Ponosov accused the Prosecutor's office in piracy Alexander Ponosov has filed a claim to the Russian General Prosecutor's Office and the Prosecutor's Office of the Perm region accusing Vereshagino district's Prosecutor, his subordinates, and the independent expert of using counterfeit software, which Mr. Ponosov himself was accused of. More...
25.05.2007 Alksnis in rage: the depute attacks Microsoft Depute Viktor Alksnis intends to address the General Prosecutor's Office to inspect the activity of Information Technologies Ministry officials. He claims the Ministry lobbied Microsoft and pushed for the government to pay for the installation of the company's products at Russian schools. Mr. Alksnis believes the money could be used to develop Russia's own software. More...
25.05.2007 Sistema doesn't "waste its talent on trifles" Despite numerous statements about AFK Sistema's intention to exchange the company's telecommunications assets for monetary packages abroad, it is not going to do so, the company's Head Alexander Goncharuk said. Telecom will remain the group's main source of income. It accounts for 68% of AFK Sistema's consolidated revenues. More...
24.05.2007 Russian mobile market continues to grow As of April 30th the number of mobile users in Russia was 156,790mln (as to the number of SIM cards sold). The number grew by 1,1% as compared to March 2007. The cellular penetration reached 108%, AC&M report says. Moscow accounts for 27,531mln. The prnetration there is 162,1%. The number of subscribers grew to 8,984 with 141,7% penetration. More...
24.05.2007 Matalan cuts cost with offshoring Mumbai and Krakow measure up. More...
23.05.2007 IT outsourcing boosts Europe's hospitals It seems that healthcare is the latest industry to benefit from IT outsourcing, with hospitals employing the popular strategy as a means of combating escalating costs and growing complexity. More...
23.05.2007 Sitronics "marks off" its profit The Russian Sitronics concern has published its financial and operational results for 2006 based on the US GAAP standards. Despite the decrease in revenues which the company explains by the dollar's fall, analysts say it has rather good financial results. However, experts do not clearly see factors that could assure the company's stable growth in the nearest few years. More...
22.05.2007 Russian peer catch up with LJ The Russian blog services are catching up with foreign ones. According to a research, LiveInternet has caught up with LiveJournal in the number of every day records and blogs. However, the latter is still the most popular with the Russian audience. More...
22.05.2007 Offshoring to India - top tips from CIOs Late last year Welsh Water signed a deal with Indian services giant TCS, which is working alongside Capgemini and Logica in an alliance to deliver service to the utility and its business partners. More...
28.05.2007 Internal IT threats in Europe 2006 The author welcomes you to our - and the world's - first-ever annual study on the problems of inter-nal IT security in Europe. Our findings are based on sur-veys we conducted with a range of middle- and upper-tier IT management professions from 410 companies across Europe. More...
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