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Comarch to exhibit at Futurecom 2014

Comarch will be showcasing its comprehensive portfolio of solutions for telecoms at booth H12 at this year’s Futurecom event in Brasil. Visit us to discuss how we can help you face the challenges of the digital era: Compete and cooperate with OTT players by efficiently managing the whole digital service lifecycle and partner ecosystem using [...]

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Miratech Expands into Slovakia with New R&D Center

Miratech has opened a second R&D center in the European Union, located in Košice, the Slovak Republic. Miratech plans to grow its size to 50 peope within a year. The new location offers advantages such as availability of English-, German-, and French-speaking engineers for service delivery to Western European customers; government IT investment support programs; [...]

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Key Trends in IT Governance 2014

As organizations are preparing themselves to embrace the new COSO framework that will help IT auditors achieve compliance standards and obligations, the top management needs to regularly evaluate their position with respect to efforts and initiatives for effective IT governance. Growing concerns over cyber-security, IT risks and increasing regulatory pressure have impelled global enterprises to [...]

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Russo-American edutech startup Coursmos gets $530k

Russo-American startup Coursmos, a developer of short online courses, has raised $530,000 from Russian venture fund Imperious Group and business angel Evgeniy Medvednikov. The funds will be used to develop the platform and to add more staff. Coursmos is also planning to develop new features for the site including a system to recommend courses to users depending [...]

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Ukrainian Students Rank High in ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (IBM)

The ACM ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Contest) is a sport programming world championship sponsored by IBM, held annually under the auspices of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery). For several decades now these four words stand for the most important programming competition among student teams. The World Finals took place in a special ICPC Zone in [...]

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Ukraine Ranks #40 Among Top 100 Countries By Game Revenues

According to the recently published Global Games Market Report 2014 by NewZoo, as of today Ukraine has earned $118 million in games revenues, and currently ranks #40 globally in the List of Top 100 Countries. In the Eastern European region, Ukraine ranks #4, following Russia ($1,2 billion), Poland ($280 million), and Romania ($122 million), and [...]

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Microsoft To Close Nokia Plant In Hungary

Microsoft will shut down the Nokia plant in Komarom (NW Hungary), which employs about 1,800 people, the company told MTI. Microsoft, which recently acquired Nokia’s handset business, announced on Thursday that it plans to cut 18,000 jobs over the next year. Zoltan Laszlo, a union official in Komarom, told MTI that the management of the [...]

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Moldavian “E-invoice” to be implemented by September 1, 2014

Moldavian Prime Minister Iurie Leanca requested State Tax Inspectorate (STI) to ensure until September 1, 2014, mandatory connection of 150 public institutions to the automated “e-invoice” in accordance with a decision of the Government. Thus, in August 2014, the STI will organize a training program on the use of information system “e-invoice” for representatives of [...]

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What are Common Approaches to Software Back-End Testing?

Back-end and front-end are integral parts of any software product. Any web site testing, desktop testing and mobile testing must pay due attention to both of them. Back-end testing has much to do with API testing and front-end testing. It has some specificity as well. Any software testing company can say that there are fewer [...]

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Belarus Took The 36th Place In The Good Country Index

According to The Good Country Index, Belarus was placed 82nd in the rating of the best countries in the world. However, in the Science and Technology category, it took the 36th place, with Great Britain being the category’s leader. Surprisingly, the United States took only the 26th place in this category, while Russia, with the [...]

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