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Brainbench Contest: Belarus #4

Monday, March 26th, 2012

Following the results of the online worldwide certification competition – Bench Games, Belarus has won the 4th place by the number of certified specialists of Master level and the 6th place by the number of certified specialists in the country (out of 50 countries which have taken part in the competition). Also our specialists take the highest places as individuals. The participants of the contest who have successfully passed the tests will get their certificates for free. Once again our country has proved that our specialists are the one of the best in the world!brainbench

If you get to know in details the results of the contest, visit the page at http://www.brainbench.com/xml/bb/landing/offer/promotion.xml?contentId=2944.

The contest was held by the world’s leader in the sphere of online certification the American company Brainbench. Its certificates are accepted in the biggest companies from more than 100 countries of the world and are considered the demonstration of the specialists’ qualifications.

The participation in the given contest and the obtained results will contribute to increasing the rating of Belarus as the country possessing the developed competitive IT industry. Belarus has many offshore software development companies and is known in the world also for its mobile software programming for iPhone apps.

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JetBrains WebStorm 3.0: Integrated JavaScript Application Development Environment

Tuesday, December 27th, 2011

JetBrains Company has informed about the availability of the new version of its product – WebStorm – the integrated JavaScript application development environment. The powerful and functional tools included into the package will allow professional IT software development companies to work more effectively and to ensure the exclusive quality of the end product.5c4ad6d6e66ccf1923f461ba369e0dca

At present JavaScript is one of the most popular languages and, consequently, deserves its own fully functional integrated development environment. The main task of the given set of tools is increasing the productivity of Java software developers by providing them the support of the most innovative and advanced web standards and technologies.

The list of changes offered in WebStorm 3.0 includes the support of CoffeeScript scenario language which will simplify the process of solving the tasks connected with navigation by code, completing syntax constructions, refactoring, bug searching, etc. The close integration of the environment with the JSLint tool will simplify the study of the written code and the realization of careful checking on complying to the quality standards. The Node.JS framework support will let use all the power of the given set of tools while editing and fixing the server part of the JavaScript code.

Some key peculiarities of WebStorm 3.0:

• Node.JS framework support.

• JavaScript block testing using JsTestDriver.

• Smart algorithms for searching identical fragments in the HTML, CSS and JavaScript code.

• Improved mechanisms of FTP/SFTP synchronization.

• Unified interface with the similar set of functions for all operating systems.

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16-Year-Old Programmer Cleans Internet

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

The young software developer from London Nick D’Aloisio, who has just turned to be 16, has attracted the attention of the entire world having started the commercial development of his innovative technology which lets users get the required information from the Internet much more quickly. trimittttttttttttttttttttttttttt

The main idea of the Summly technology (in the summer it appeared under the name Trimit) is in making digests on the content inquired by a user. The Suumly utility automatically analyses the content of the sites and creates a short list of 1000, 500 or 140 symbols. Such shortlists are also produced automatically. Nick D’Aloisio has already applied for getting a patent for his innovation.

At first, this technology was debuted in the App Store for the iOS (mobile phone application development store) as a utility application Trimit. It allowed getting a short summary of the page opened in the browser. The technology attracted the attention of experts and investors and, as a result, the billionaire Li Ka-shing from Hong-Kong joined the project Trimit. Now all the further development of the technology is financed by his investment company Horizons Ventures.

Under the supervision of Horizons Ventures, the new company Summly Limited was established. The company has already received the first tranche of $250,000 for hiring new web development experts.

The main function of the Summly technology is automated preparation of the concise summary of the content so as the user will be able to share the ready-made digests vie text messages, e-mail, social networks and blogs. The team of software developers will develop a powerful architecture based on Nick D’Aloisio’s basic algorithms that, according to the author, use the principles of genetic programming and artificial artificial intellect.

According to the author, the Internet at present is overloaded with content and the Summly technology will make it much simpler thanks to more convenient information viewing and searching options.

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World of Tanks Became Best European Online Game

Saturday, November 5th, 2011

world-of-tanks-logoThe Game Stream Company informed that the project ‘World of Tanks’ had won in the nomination Best European Online Game in the framework of the European Games Award (EGA). Among the nominees to this title from EGA there were such famous projects as EVE Online: Incursion, Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword, Runes of Magic – Lands of Despair. The winner was determined by means of the closed ballot among the visitors of the site.

European Games Award is the first award for European software development companies who develop video and computer games. The title has been awarded since 2010 and unites the professionals and players from Europe for choosing the best games in the gaming industry.

Moreover, World of Tanks is also a nominee to the most prestigious world’s gaming award Golden Joystick Awards that has been awarded since 1982 to the best games and mobile application development companies. Last year more than 1.5 million people took part in voting and thus the Golden Joystick Awards has been named the World’s Most Popular Videogames Awards by Guiness Book of Records.

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Google+ With New Games

Sunday, September 4th, 2011

The social platform Google+, launched about two months ago, starts attracting users by popular social network games. According to the officials from Google, the new social network will soon accommodate such popular games as Angry Birds, Zombie Lane and Edge World. The representatives from Rovia and Zynga say that in Google+ their projects will work the same as in Facebook or on the screens of mobile devices.

Google+-launches-games-for-social-networking-siteApart from two big web development companies, Google has also signed agreements with Wooga, Funzio and Kabam. According to Google, users will see in their accounts in Google+ a new tab ‘Games’ that will contain games. The users who don’t want to play social games can hide this tab.

Ezra Gottheil, the analysts from the Technology Business Research, thinks that the social network Google+ will allow Google to get the additional growth in the user database since web games are becoming one of the key competitive advantage of social networks.

At present the company offers some promotional actions for games and web developers in Google+. Thus, for fans of Zynga theu offer a 5% discount for buying virtual gaming accessories (in comparison: Facebook offers a 30% discount in case of paying via Facebook Credits).

This news can stimulate software development companies to develop new games for social networks and the competition will increase.

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Free Games Stimulate Gaming Industry Growth

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

According to the analytics from the German IT Association Bitkom, the growing popularity of free games provides the growth of the gaming industry income.

Having analyzed the German market, Bitkom made a conclusion that 45% of gamers have never bought the projects for ‘big’ platforms – they have preferred casual fakes for smartphones, social networks and all possible shareware. It may seem strange but the total profit of this industry is even increasing.

43% players in Germany are ready to spend no more than €15 monthly for buying games for PCs and gaming consoles. But at the same time these people are ready to give away with several thousand for the sake of some inter-gaming tools and bonuses. That is exactly what makes a profit for a software development company who specializes on free games.

The auditory of free projects is increasing with an incredible speed. For example, the European mobile application development company of social network games Wooga increased its client database from January 2010 to June 2011 from 3.15 mln people to 32.83 mln.

Thus, the analytics have made a very simple conclusion: In the nearest future the market share of games for social networks, 99-cent mobile applications for smartphones and tablets are likely to grow and soon it will take the leading position in the market.

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Microsoft Encouraged New Technologies on Computer Protection

Sunday, August 14th, 2011

Microsoft Corporation has established the competition ‘BlueHat Prize’ for experts in the sphere of computer security. It was announced at the BlackHat conference.

Microsoft promises to award prizes to software developers for developing innovation tools and systems for counteracting the attacks concerning the activation of the vulnerabilities connected with the memory organization. The Corporation thinks that the emergence of the principally new tools against modern hackers will provide more effective computer protection unlike searching and fixing separate ‘bugs’ or ‘holes’ during software development.

The winners of the competition will get a prize of $200,000. тыс.; the runner-up will get $50,000, and the ‘bronze’ software developer will be given the subscription to the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN), which is equal to $10,000. Thus, the total sum of the prize will be more than a quarter of a million dollars.

The developments can be sent by April 1, 2012 and the winners will be announced at the following Black Hat conference.

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Gartner Reviewed Global Forecast on IT expenses

Friday, July 8th, 2011

The analytical company Gartner has updated its forecast on global expenses on information technologies this year and has stated that they will probably increase by 7.1% up to 3.7 bln dollars. The growing expenses on the migration into the cloud computing as well as the integration of new IT services and software development is likely to become the main driven force.

Earlier Gartner forecasted the growth of expenses by 5.6% up to 3.4 bln dollars. According to Richard Gordon, Vice-President on R&D of the company, the growth of expenses will be observed in 2012 as well.

IT_costs952The expenses on cloud services will reach 89 bln dollars. However, cloud services are expected to present the sphere that will attract many other trends as well. By the year 2015, Gartner is expecting the expenses on cloud services will reach 177 bln dollars.

The expenses on telecommunication solutions will grow up to 2.1 bln dollars, which means the increase by 6.9% in comparison with the previous year. Thus, we are likely to expect that mobile software programming will develop as well and we’ll see many new cutting edge solutions in the nearest future.

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iCloud:What’s this?

Sunday, June 5th, 2011

On June 6 Steve Jobs, the head of Apple, presented the new service – iCloud – as well as the latest versions of programming platforms for mobile software programming portable devices and personal computers – Mac OS X Lion and iOS 5.

icloud5303Cloud services provide an opportunity to port the data to the remote servers and recently they have become the main trend in the development of information technologies. This approach has many benefits. However, most mobile apps developers are not making haste to abandon completely the local infrastructure since the new service requires high quality communication and a very reliable cyber security system.

Experts have been expecting for long the appearance of the cloud service ‘iCloud’. It will allow users to store their record library online. Amazon and Google have already launched the similar services. The services from the Internet companies Google and Amazon make users download their musical collection on the servers. And if the library is big, it will take much time. Apple offers a simpler decision – scanning user’s musical files and creating the copy using the service database of iTunes Store.

In general, iCloud is a substitute to the synchronization service MobileMe (which is not free). The free functions of iCloudа are the following: storing and synchronizing information between various portable and desktop devices.

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Sony presented the added reality technology for video games

Friday, June 3rd, 2011

I guess this information can be really interesting for each software development company. Sonny has announced and presented the Smart AR system that allows virtual objects and images to become parts of the surrounding reality. It is suitable for smartphones and portable gaming consoles.

In contrast to many other similar systems, Smart AR doesn’t apply the GPS navigation and special markers for defining where to place the virtual object in the real world and how it should be moved. Instead of this the object recognition technique is used. gamsonypinkbear530

At first, Smart AR identifies the object from the computer game or application considering its outlines. The system also tracks its movements and orientation in the virtual reality. At the same time, the approximate 3D map of the room is built based on the differences in snapshots which are taken at various angles during the movement of the mobile device camera.

As a result, the 3D model of the computer character can walk on the table in the user’s room in response to his commands and actions. Of course, to see this, you have to look at the table via the screen of the portable console or a smartphone.

This new technology can guarantee that software developers for iPhone will apply it for creating various cutting edge apps for smartphone and not only.

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