PC Magazine Bulgaria will award green initiatives

The environment issue is getting more and more significance, also with regard of information technologies. As the power of the computers increase as well as their usage in every office and home the environmental problems raise the questions about power consumption and materials used in making hardware. Many companies are approaching these problems with different initiatives in their products and solutions. PC Magazine Bulgaria will encourage this process adding to its prestigious award "PC Magazine Editors Choice" also a "green" prize "PC Magazine Greentech Approved". It will be given to desktops, laptops, notebooks, motherboards, videocards, monitors, power supply devices, printers, routers, home electronics products, etc. which are made from harmless materials and include systems for power saving.

BTC increased its Internet market share Saga Technology
ADSL service of Bulgarian Telecom Company (BTC) gets more and more popularity among Bulgarians. The conclusion is made by recent market study. According to it ADSL is gaining share from LAN vendors, which have 56% of the home Internet market, followed by the cable TV vendors with 20% and ADSL 18%. On the ADSL market BTC is a sole player. The average price users pay monthly for Internet is the same as last year: 22 BGN. The study also shows that 56% of the active town population has a computer in home. BTC has awarded with laptop its 200 000 client.
Logicom plans to get partners up to speed on security Saga Technology
International system integrator Logicom is planning to boost the ability of more than 100 of its resellers in Bulgaria to sell and deliver security solutions and thus add more value to their customers and give a boost to their own business. Logicom with the help of Cisco started a series of six WebEx-based training sessions - three sales and three technical - during June and July. The aim is to get more registered Cisco partners up to speed on the benefits of security solutions for their customers and equipping them to provide installation and support services as well. The courses are free-of-charge to qualifying resellers. Each session lasts for approximately one hour and covers specific sales and technical aspects of Cisco security.
Panduit presented solutions for datacenters building itForum
A seminar for end clients from financial segment, telecommunications and State Administration organized Panduit. Managers from PostBank, Banka DSK, Bulbank, BTC, Neterra, Net IS Sat, Bulgarian Railways and other organizations participated. The new technologies offered by the company were presented by Ivaylo Yotov, account manager in the company responsible for Bulgaria and Romania. Panduit will organize other seminars in September and October, where clients will have the possibility to see its new products and solutions.
CNSys celebrated 10th anniversary Saga Technology
More than 200 people showed their deference to the IT system integrator. The guests were from State Administration, experts from telecom and financial segments, as well as HP, Oracle, Cisco, Fujitsu Siemens managers for Bulgaria. During the celebration was presented also the award by Cisco World Partners Meeting "Technology Excellence (Data Centre)" for Central and East Europe, which CNSys got for notable achievements in the datacenters communications.
The Minister of Justice doesn't follow the law itForum
The round table discussed the destiny of the United Information System for Crime Counteraction. Ordered in 2002 and implemented in 2006 the system worked until May 2007 when the new Minister of Justice Miglena Tacheva stopped functioning of the core of the system which under the law Ministry of Justice must support. All six organizations involved in the crime counteraction need to load standardized data in the core under the law but also they can use the information from any other administration to increase the effectiveness of crime counteraction. The reason system do not work is simple - there is no specialists to support the core after the last system administrator has leaved last year. The IT FORUM newspaper is asking in its last article: "Is it possible the crime counteraction to depend on one system administrator?"
SAITC won a project under OPAC itForum
A contract for full funding by the Operative Program ?Administrative Capacity? (OPAC) was signed by Plamen Vatchkov, chairman of State Agency of Infromation Technologies and Communications. The funding amounts to 2 million BGN and is for one year. The goal is a single portal for geospatial information to be built according to Directive 2003/98/ея. Another goal is integration with the administrative services with GIS components. The project should overcome Bulgaria?s delay in the development of complex services through geospatial data. With this project SAITC also got its role as a national coordinator under the INSPIRE Directive which regulate the creation of geospatial infrastructure in European Union.
Public Tenders
Ministry of State Administration and Administrative Reform: Delivery of e-signature certificates.
Technical University, Gabrovo: Delivery of computer equipment.
University Multiprofile Hospital "N.I.Pirogov": Delivery of computer equipment and peripherals.
Medical University, Plovdiv: Delivery of compute equipment.
Ministry of Finance: Development and Implementation of Information System (hardware and software) for National Revenue Agency e-archive management.
Bulgarian National Bank: Development of web page of the bank.
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