International roaming – one of the most expensive items for customers and for mobile operators. Going into this market, we formed a very competitive offer, which can be called a true revolution in the market of SIM-cards, – said Vitaly Studitskih , Director of Business Unit “Sky Link – Moscow”, “Sky Link – The Center . – From the similar products of SL-Travel different order of magnitude lower cost calls and SMS messages from roaming in Russia and around the world. In addition, family members, friends and colleagues back home will be able to call the subscriber SL-Travel, who is abroad the Russian Federation, Moscow on the local number. It is much cheaper than all alternatives. ”

SIM card SL-Travel can be used in any phone GSM. The process of launching international roaming connection to SL Travel is only available in Moscow. When you connect to SL Travel subscriber receives a Pre-activated SIM-card with a starting balance of 300 rubles. Federal Moscow number and the code 901. Existing subscribers of Sky Link can connect the GSM SIM-card to your personal account. Calls SL-Travel billed as local, which will allow significant savings to colleagues and friends of subscribers.

To avoid monthly debt acts lockout threshold – 200 rubles. In the case of reduction of account balance up to 200 rubles. and lower service delivery GSM-roaming will be temporarily suspended.

Launch International Roaming – part of the plan development services GSM. As noted, the service SL-Travel-oriented mass market. Connections are made in the sales offices of Sky Link and mobile phone stores in the Moscow region.

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«native resolution for the monitor is FullHD. The device uses UWB (Ultra wide Band) for wireless data transfer from computer to display. It contains both wired interfaces – USB 2.0 and 3.0, HDMI.

Samsung shows in Europe, Wi-Fi Monitor

Monitor will be available in late April at a price of 600 euros.

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Chief Engineer “Pikoteh» Vladimir Ilyin commented on the results: “As a young (relative to the market leaders Polycom and Cisco) domestic manufacturer of videoconferencing systems, we are committed to providing our customers with solutions that best fit their specific needs. We are pleased that the tests confirmed the competitiveness of our products. ”

Development of satellite communication technologies in recent years has provided users with all the benefits of broadband multiservice networks. System “Inmarsat BGAN» provides the user with a service speed (up to 492 kbit / s) data transfer with support of all Internet applications, including VPN, FTP, real-time applications. One of the most popular application is video conferencing. However, the specificity of satellite networks puts special demands on aerospace devices.

Deputy General Director for Business Development Pikoteh » Yuri Valov noticed that the holding of multipoint videoconferences requires a large bandwidth connection, but with a substantial increase in the number of participants comes into play especially satellite technology . Optimization of series devices “verb” under the requirements of satellite communications networks, such as Inmarsat, is an important element of the partner company policy “Pikoteh.

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As it turned out as a result of its own research Mail.ru, young audience members (16-25 years) prefers to use the free phone calls “from computer to computer, while the paid service of voice calls” from computer to external networks “are beginning to use people are a little older (18-30).

While people have resorted to VoIP, with almost equal frequency (55% men and 45% of women), paid severity are lot of men (65% of the audience).

The most interesting part of the report Mail.ru refers to comparison of prices for voice calls between its own agent, Skype and MGTS. As a result, price comparisons undisputed leader in the study was Mail.ru Mail.ru Agent.

CNews independently examined the rates of leading Russian VoIP-service by adding a comparison QiP, the third popular in Russia, IM-messenger.

Comparison rates Mail.ru Agent and QiP gave an interesting result: the price of calls from Mail.ru lower than QiP, and all popular destinations difference in favor of Mail.ru is 1-3 pennies. Interestingly, if the price list QiP consists of rounded prices, price Mail.ru Agent gives you a feeling fast activity prices for the best results. For example, when calling on the Russian mobile phone tariffs QiP listed as 2.4 rubles. And Mail.ru Agent – 2,39 rub.

In his own study Mail.ru most profitable VoIP-client was Mail.ru Agent

Mail.ru representative confirmed in a conversation with CNews, that the company really “recently” there was a recalculation of rates associated with a change in the dollar and the price of the operator Sipnet, channels used to deliver voice traffic Mail.ru Agent. Terms of this conversion company representative did not specify.

Chapter owns QiP service company “media world» Mikhail Gurevich said that, while competing Mail.ru Agent and has a price advantage to 1-2 dime, calls QiP usually cost the consumer more cheaply: in Unlike its competitors, it uses per-second billing (when calling through Mail.ru Agent charging per minute).

Voice over IP – the basic price of the major players (RR)

* Charges apply for connection to 1.32 rubles. The calculation was based on the exchange rate $ 1 = 29.2859 (on 22.02.2011)
** Per second billing

Source: Mail.ru, QiP, Skype

Director of Skype’s business development in Russia and Eastern Europe Raj Patel said CNews, that its service rates depend on several factors, not all of which control Skype. Since the price impact rate, which is charged by the operator for the “landing” traffic.

According to Raja, significant savings on international calls compared with the per minute rate tariff plans allow unlimited Skype, and plans to build on the monthly package of minutes, which can lower the cost per minute to 68 cents (for calls to fixed numbers in Russian).

Raj Patel said that “competition in the VoIP market is not confined to prices and, given the price, product range, availability on different platforms, audio and video quality of Skype is very strong position».

Own VoIP-projects in Russia suggest three messenger instant message: Mail.ru Agent, Skype and QiP. ICQ, the summer of 2010 belongs Mail.ru Group, also has voice services – as a “computer to computer» (PC2PC), and with access to external network operators (PSTN).

None of the operators surveyed did not want to call CNews size of its audience, enjoying the voice services in addition to chat. The total monthly audience of subscribers QIP in late 2010 estimated at $ 10.2 million against 15 million people monthly audience Mail.ru Agent. Skype, which is used by more than 500 million people in the world, does not disclose specific figures for Russia.

Market Analysis Voice IP – not an easy task, shared with CNews analyst iKS-Consulting Irina Yakimenko . Because of the complexity of calculation of the market, iKS-Consulting has not conducted its research. According to her, planned to run reports on this market are likely to be based on expert assessments.

present estimate of the domestic market VoIP-telephony is reduced to no more than 3% of the total market for voice services, which is forecast Irina Yakimenko, in 2010 amount to 833 billion rubles. Thus VoIP-operators in the past year, according to experts iKS-Consulting earned about 25 billion rubles.

Moreover, stressed Irina Yakimenko, the proportion of traffic generated VoIP-operators in the Russian networks, significantly higher than 3% of the traffic Runet. However, most of it does not monetize, because the formed free calls PC2PC.

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Under the new strategy for HP intends to offer customers a hybrid service model that combines private and external cloud platform. “Everything that we deal in the future, will be delivered to us in the form of services – said Apotheker. – And now for the first time HP intends to bring together all the elements in order to realize such a future. ” Ultimately the company intends to become the leading provider of cloud-making.

In particular, HP is going to run a cloud service that allows third party developers can offer their applications to corporate and private users of products and services to HP. At the same time, Leo Apotheker announced that his company intends to annually sell more than 100 million devices running WebOS – its own operating system from HP based on Linux. Given that this is not just about personal computers, but also on mobile devices, printers and other products, HP’s cloud initiative could cover an extremely wide range of different functional units. At present a similar opportunity is not none of its competitors such as IBM and Oracle.

After 4,5 months after his arrival at HP Apotheker submitted development plan

Under cloud strategy, HP plans to open a shop of web applications. It will be available to users in different countries (localized) and is available for third-party developers, which will be presented with the appropriate tools. Database users store the company intends to build up, releasing devices based on the operating system webOS.

HP is the world’s largest manufacturer of PCs and printers. And given the fact that since 2012, the company intends to provide the ability to run webOS on all new computers, and intends to use this system on printers, it has every chance of success, experts say.

The main goal is to increase profitability Apotheker. In 2010, 32% of the income of the company formed the sale of desktop computers and laptops, but the profitability of this direction is only 6.4%. For comparison, the profitability of HP software business makes 17,6%, but it takes only 3% of total income.

As noted by Bloomberg, HP can benefit from his popularity as the enterprise market, and among private users. Because people tend to use the same device for personal use and for business, then the presence of HP in both markets could be key to the success of cloud strategy: “The convergence of consumer and business properties – is a very big deal, and HP can really get ahead here” – Joshua Greenbaum says (Joshua Greenbaum), analysts at Enterprise Applications Consulting.

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