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IBM, in collaboration with the Slovak University of Technology, are working on establishing a research centre devoted to the analysis and protection of data in mobile devices, IBM Slovakia general director Martin Murgac announced Monday. The project will seek to support state-of-the-art research that will ultimately enable businesses and organizations to keep in touch online [...]
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Poland’s most powerful supercomputer in installation at Kraków university
February 27, 2015 No Comment
Poland’s most powerful supercomputer is being installed at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków. Poland’s second city will be home to Prometheus, a Hewlett-Packard product worth PLN 41 million (EUR 9.8 million). The supercomputer, the world’s 30th most powerful, will be unveiled at the beginning of April. Its computing power of 1.7 [...]
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No doubt the mobile web industry has been successfully conquering the digital market. According to the latest 2015 digital device stats, provided by Global Web Index, 80% of users aged 16-64 own a smartphone. Users make the best of smartphones, using them for shopping (increased by a tremendous 174% year-over-year in 2014), organizing life, messaging and even watching [...]
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Bloomberg published a list of the most innovative worldwide countries of last year. Its Specialists ranked the countries based on their overall ability to innovate and identified the Top 50. The approach focused on six basic activities that contribute to innovation – Research & Development, Manufacturing, High-Tech Companies, Postsecondary Education, Research Personnel, and Patents. Ukraine [...]
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Ukraine is one of the major IT-destinations in Eastern Europe and, thanks to MappedinUkraine project, soon it will become more visible. AVentures Capital and Hybrid Capital have recently joined their efforts for the development of online-map of Ukrainian startups, product and outsourcing companies and other IT-related organizations called MappedinUkraine. The aim of the project is [...]
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In a report entitled “Depreciation of the rouble threatens growth and profitability,” Goldman Sachs’ Global Investment Research Division has predicted a drop in advertising sales in Russia of 20-30% across all media, including television. This would cause the share of GDP generated from advertising sales to drop to its lowest since 2001. Goldman Sachs’ analysis [...]
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At the end of last year, Yevgen Sysoyev of AVentures, a venture capital firm in Kyiv, published a comprehensive research on Ukrainian tech startups including a most prominent gaming companies of 2014. The most influential person in Ukrainian tech industry according to AIN.UA, Ukraine’s leading tech tabloid, Sysoyev created a detailed map of Ukrainian IT [...]
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For the smartwatch industry, the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show has served as a sort of massive strategy meeting to figure out how to turn the wristwatch into a technology device. The panel speaking at a smartwatch session at CES in Las Vegas this morning brought up an interesting parallel – how the traditional watch made [...]
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A hacker group based in Russia and Ukraine is gaining access to the internal payment systems of banks and payments providers and has stolen about £16m in the past six months. The group, known as Anunak, has been described in a report from Group-IB in Russia and Fox-IT in the Netherlands. The report said Anunak [...]
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Russian search engine Yandex said on Tuesday it planned to capitalize on its expertise in data analysis to develop its business beyond Russia which could help to drive its expansion as advertising revenue growth slows. Yandex, the market-leading Internet search engine in Russia with a market share of 60 percent, gets the bulk of its [...]
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