Mobile version of Flash Player was not destined to appear

The company «Adobe» refused to develop mobile versions of plug-in Flash Player, recognizing the fact that soon mobile browsers do not need this technology. Closure of this area the company has reduced its staff of employees to 720 people.

By doing this step, representatives of Adobe indirectly proved right the late Steven Jobs, who said that Flash Player has no future on the mobile platforms in mind a number of its conceptual flaws. According to the online edition of the «ZDNet», in an internal document the company «Adobe», her guide explains that the company has no plans to continue to work on adapting applications for mobile Flash Player browser versions, and focus on creating alternative applications of existing HTML-based protocol 5.

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China Telecom wants to go to the U.S. mobile market

China Telecom, the largest Chinese companies, targeting the major U.S. cellular market. The Chinese company is ready to sell its wireless communications services to the United States under its own brand.

The main point of this operation – to attract a huge number of its service by Chinese students, tourists and workers who travel to America or frequently moved between the two countries. The largest fixed line operator China offers its clients and subscribers a good and interesting system of service: subscribers will receive 2 local numbers – one for China, and the second to the United States.

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Getting to the Arctic oil. The new method, invented by scientists from Norway!

Large-scale warming and the growth of technological progress have made extraction of underground resources in the Arctic more accessible. And given the rise in such minerals as oil, the development of prospective oil fields, located on the Arctic Ocean, is becoming more real.

Most of the oil corporations have already staked out places that are smaller and get accustomed to the deeper regions. At some sites have already begun test drilling. Scientists are trying to develop alternative solutions to oil in the Arctic, because oil production in the harsh conditions in the Arctic, where serious danger, as the icebergs and pack ice, can lead to enormous environmental catastrophe. Norwegian professor Ove Gudmestad (University of Stavagere), a specialist in maritime technology, put forward a proposal to make its way through the tunnels oil fields are located horizontally, rather than the usual way (via vertical wells).

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DRAMCloud – the next leap in the development of information systems

The specialists at Stanford University offered to create computers without hard drives. All the information they offer to keep in DRAM-memory, refusing also to all the existing solutions for the storage of files.

The university has created a project DRAMCloud, offering to use the memory of the set of servers to accelerate the normal information processes. However, hard drives, the project is still present, but only for storing backups. Completely abandon them will not work, since DRAM-memory loses all recorded information after a power failure. Yet the majority of operations will be carried out entirely in DRAM.

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Parametric Technology sums up the year

Corporation Parametric Technology Corp. summed up the 2011 fiscal year. The company’s revenues in the global market for the year grew by 15.8%, the same marginality was 17.7%. In Russia and CIS corporate revenue growth outstrips the growth of RTAs is much the rest of the company, the year it exceeded 50%.

Total revenues in fiscal year 2011 amounted to 341.3 million, operating margin – 22.7%. Corporate income RTS last year exceeded the overall growth of the market almost doubled. Market management business-class platforms, PLM (software solutions to optimize processes, ranging from conceptual design and finishing of the product withdrawal from service), according to analysts, the agency CIMdata, grew by 9.1%.

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Olympus Company concealed from investors and shareholders millions in losses

For several decades, Olympus has suffered heavy losses. But making out a contract to purchase the company’s products, the consultants added to the document suspicious payments, under the guise of “consulting payments, which are associated with the absorption of the company.”

It turns out that the Japanese manufacturer of household appliances, including cameras and various medical devices such payments were trying to compensate losses and to cover the actual financial loss. This was the company officially admitted the press. On this occasion, an independent commission conducted its study.

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