June 18, 2007 at 13:46IT News Digest
Over the past week (June 11-17), the most mentioned events in the Russian-language press were: “Apple released a browser for Windows”, “Growth in the number of mobile subscribers in Russia and Ukraine”, “State-owned stake of Ukrtelecom in the amount of 0.07% of the shares sold on the stock exchange ”,“ Sony Ericsson introduced 6 new phones ”,“ The number of personal computers in the world will reach one billion by the end of 2008. ”
1. Apple has released a browser for Windows.The company claims that Safari is faster than all its competitors and supposedly twice as fast as Microsoft Explorer. On the very first day, security experts discovered 18 errors. Updating the program to version 3.0.1 did not save from most critical errors. For example, text in bold is not displayed; when working with bookmarks, as well as when AutoFill is turned on, the browser displays an error message and turns off. In two days, the browser was downloaded a million times.
2. The growth in the number of mobile subscribers in Russia and Ukraine.The total number of mobile subscribers in Russia reached 158.52 million people, which is 1% higher than the level of the previous month. In May, Vimpelcom accounted for 32% of new connections in the Russian Federation, MegaFon - 22.4%, MTS - 17.9%. The number of mobile subscribers in Ukraine amounted to 51.379 million people. Over the past month, their number has increased by 100 thousand people. Kyivstar accounted for 41.7% of new connections, Astelit - 34.8%, URS - 22.1%, other operators - 1.4%. Outflow of subscribers over the past month was observed only at UMC, the number of subscribers of which decreased by 257 thousand people.
3. The state-owned stake of Ukrtelecom in the amount of 0.07% of the shares was sold on the stock exchangePFTS at the starting price of 15.525 million UAH. ($ 3.074 million). A 1% stake in Ukrtelecom was put up for auction (the starting price of 1 share was 1.15 UAH ($ 0.23), the nominal price of 1 share was 0.25 UAH ($ 0.05)). The next trading date for the sale of a 1% stake in Ukrtelecom OJSC is June 19. It is planned to sell five one-percent Ukrtelecom packages on Ukrainian stock exchanges during the summer. After that, the sale of a state-owned stake in the amount of 37.86% should follow on international exchanges (50% + 1 share of the enterprise is fixed in state ownership).
4. Sony Ericsson introduced 6 new phones.Walkman series are represented by models W960 and W910. The W960 is equipped with a touch screen, WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0 modules, an eight-gigabyte flash drive and a 3.2 megapixel camera. A stereo stereo headset comes with the phone. In the K series, the K850i and K530 will come out, as well as two budget “clamshells” z320 and z250. Phones will go on sale in the second half of 2007. Cost has not yet been announced.
5. The number of personal computers in the world will reach one billion by the
end of 2008 , and two billion by 2015. Such data are contained in the
forecast of the marketing company Forrester Research. Of the two billion PCs in 2015, 775
million will be in Russia, China, India and Brazil. Generally,
Analysts predict that the growth in the number of personal computers in the world will
mainly occur at the expense of developing countries, and not at the expense of consumers in
developed countries, watching the latest IT market.
For the analysis, the InfoStream news monitoring system was used , which provides access to news content of more than 2800 sites in Russian and Ukrainian.
1. Apple has released a browser for Windows.The company claims that Safari is faster than all its competitors and supposedly twice as fast as Microsoft Explorer. On the very first day, security experts discovered 18 errors. Updating the program to version 3.0.1 did not save from most critical errors. For example, text in bold is not displayed; when working with bookmarks, as well as when AutoFill is turned on, the browser displays an error message and turns off. In two days, the browser was downloaded a million times.
2. The growth in the number of mobile subscribers in Russia and Ukraine.The total number of mobile subscribers in Russia reached 158.52 million people, which is 1% higher than the level of the previous month. In May, Vimpelcom accounted for 32% of new connections in the Russian Federation, MegaFon - 22.4%, MTS - 17.9%. The number of mobile subscribers in Ukraine amounted to 51.379 million people. Over the past month, their number has increased by 100 thousand people. Kyivstar accounted for 41.7% of new connections, Astelit - 34.8%, URS - 22.1%, other operators - 1.4%. Outflow of subscribers over the past month was observed only at UMC, the number of subscribers of which decreased by 257 thousand people.
3. The state-owned stake of Ukrtelecom in the amount of 0.07% of the shares was sold on the stock exchangePFTS at the starting price of 15.525 million UAH. ($ 3.074 million). A 1% stake in Ukrtelecom was put up for auction (the starting price of 1 share was 1.15 UAH ($ 0.23), the nominal price of 1 share was 0.25 UAH ($ 0.05)). The next trading date for the sale of a 1% stake in Ukrtelecom OJSC is June 19. It is planned to sell five one-percent Ukrtelecom packages on Ukrainian stock exchanges during the summer. After that, the sale of a state-owned stake in the amount of 37.86% should follow on international exchanges (50% + 1 share of the enterprise is fixed in state ownership).
4. Sony Ericsson introduced 6 new phones.Walkman series are represented by models W960 and W910. The W960 is equipped with a touch screen, WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0 modules, an eight-gigabyte flash drive and a 3.2 megapixel camera. A stereo stereo headset comes with the phone. In the K series, the K850i and K530 will come out, as well as two budget “clamshells” z320 and z250. Phones will go on sale in the second half of 2007. Cost has not yet been announced.
5. The number of personal computers in the world will reach one billion by the
end of 2008 , and two billion by 2015. Such data are contained in the
forecast of the marketing company Forrester Research. Of the two billion PCs in 2015, 775
million will be in Russia, China, India and Brazil. Generally,
Analysts predict that the growth in the number of personal computers in the world will
mainly occur at the expense of developing countries, and not at the expense of consumers in
developed countries, watching the latest IT market.
For the analysis, the InfoStream news monitoring system was used , which provides access to news content of more than 2800 sites in Russian and Ukrainian.