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Continue readingAccording 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 [...]
Continue readingMicrosoft 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 [...]
Continue readingMoldavian 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 [...]
Continue readingAccording 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 [...]
Continue readingA leading global software application development and consulting company held an interactive conference on emerging IoT and Analytics trends for Austin, TX tech leaders. On June 26, 2014 SoftServe, Inc., a leading global software application development and consulting company, held their 2014 Innovations Conference at the InterContinental Stephen F. Austin hotel in Austin, TX. Continuing [...]
Continue readingThree students from St. Petersburg State University have won the 38th Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM ICPC), sponsored by IBM. This is the second year in a row that a team from St. Petersburg has taken top honors in the competition and marks the seventh win for a Russian team since [...]
Continue reading(MTI) – Internet service providers will soon launch a new interactive website designed to help children with the basics of online security. The content on otthonaneten.hu will be different for each age group. The website will teach 5-6-year-olds the basics of the web by letting them put together their own videos. The more adept hungarian [...]
Continue readingProject Management Professionals and senior team members use multiple tools to plan, manage and track their projects or tasks being assigned to their team members. In today’s world, manual mode of management for mission critical projects is passé. Also, projects which go through constant churn with multiple change requests, frequent resource movement or change in [...]
Continue readingIT specialists of a group of companies “Penki kontinentai” that has been operating in IT and banking technology sectors for more than two decades visited Silicon Valley in the USA. At the meetings with such partners as “Cisco Systems”, EMC, “NetApp” and “Vmware”, the guests shared experience, discussed about trends and perspectives in the IT [...]
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