Bulgarian day on CeBIT` 08

It was held on March 6 at the CeBIT convention center, organized by the State Agency of Information Technologies and Communications (SAITC). The chairman of the Agency Mr. Plamen Vachkov said year 2008 is a key one for Bulgaria in which technological development will grow in months not years, will be set competitive science and innovation system so in 2010 1.2 percent of the GDP to go for R&D. He presented also the results achieved as 38% Internet penetration, mobile coverage of 98% of the population, 23.4% growth of ICT market, fast development of IT export market (growth of 60% per year). Other cited figures are - 5000 ICT companies are operating in Bulgaria, 80% of Bulgarian software companies revenue are coming from abroad, 90 000 are ICT specialists in the country, 12% of all East European specialists are Bulgarians.
The audience was mostly of Bulgarian companies and specialists and very small number of foreign businessmen who in principle were the main target of the day.
On CeBit 2008 totally 17 Bulgarian company participated with booths, 10 of which on shared Bulgarian booth.

 
Ericsson will help the development of IPTV in Bulgaria itForum
This was said in an interview for it FORUM weekly, given by Aurelio Calicchia, manager of Ericsson Bulgaria. The idea is to provide IPTV media in combination with Internet and other services. Already some test systems are done and Ericsson Bulgaria is in talks with Internet providers and mobile operators in the country. "Company is focusing and investing a lot of resources in deployment of IPTV technology", said Mr. Calicchia. Having in mind that the price is higher than of the cable TV Ericsson together with operators is looking for the best solution for providing the service. The company will support and finance the Internet operators in establishing IPTV solutions. All this will result in the best price for the end user.

Java is the winner in the second IT Boxing Saga Technology
The second tournament of the open IT Boxing again offered emotions, verbal and physical fights. The Java team this time is a winner equalizing the result with .NET team who won the first technological debate. The topic was which technology is better in Web design: .NET, Java, PHP or Ruby. After long discussions and presentations the guests decided that Java is the winner. Second is .NET, PHP is third and Ruby defenders were last. Special gust of the dispute was Alex Tissen, .NET evangelist in INETA association. More than 300 other guests overcrowded the holl. The organizer was Bulgarian association of Software Developers and sponsor the software company Telerik.

Asbis Bulgaria with ambitions in mobile solutions itForum
Asbis Bulgaria held a press event in Hilton hotel, Sofia, where presented its results for 2007. The revenue of the company was 28 million USD and the growth 42% from 2006. Asbis is growing faster than the market even without mobile lines except Prestigio, said the regional manager Mitko Topalov. Now with Acer and Dell in the portfolio the distributor will have more possibilities in the segment. Famous with the component business now Asbis is taking a turn to ready mobile devices following the market trend. Asbis Bulgaria is contributing only with 2% to the total business of Asbis Enterprises but its economical indicators are giving it second place among all company's branches.

Mrs Bezuhanova, General Manager of HP Bulgaria talked on the forum Women and Technologies Saga Technology 
The conference was held at 6-7 March in Brussels, Belgium under the aegis of Vivian Reding, Eurocommissioner for Information Technologies and Media. The goal is to attract yang women to consider ICT as a carrier. The statistic shows that in 2010 Europe will lack 300 000 engineers and one of the potential to overcome the crisis is to get more women on board. Despite growth in the number of students across Europe studying ICT still 2.3 per cent of all students study IT. In the US the five per cent of graduates are in technologies, and in South Korea the figure is six per cent. In the conference participated ICT organizations, mangers from companies as юlcatel-Lucent, HP, Cisco, Ericsson, Motorola, SAP, Nokia, Philips, state and European authorities, universities. The expected result is establishment of European center for women and technologies under the aegis of European Union.

Public Tenders
NK Railways Infrastructure: Modernization of complex system for automatic control of trains Sofia-Plovdiv.
Sofia University: Delivery and support of optical connectivity to MAN for data transfer via VLAN.
Municipality of Yambol: Delivery of software for collecting and administrating of regional tax revenue.
Ministry of finance: Planned orders 2008

Source: Saga Technologies