2010, Digital Music Industry Starting prices slide

LONDON - The digital music industry seems not very attractive in the year 2010. Even an institution indicate if digital music sales slipped to single digits. This exposure was reported by the International Federation of the pornographic Industry (IFPI), as quoted from Straits Times, Friday (21/01/2011). According to the federation of digital music sales grew only by six percent, or less than half compared to sales growth in 2009. This decrease can be said is the first time since the company started a record label and do believe in the Internet world of digital music sales in cyberspace in 2004. Federation assess the legal digital music market was in number 4, 6 billion and they claim that illegal music content will still be very important to follow up. "As an industry, we remain the industry's most challenging. Because 95 percent of the downloads are no longer licensed," said CEO of the Federation, Frances Moore. IFPI is currently regarded as one of the enemy from taking one's copyright files illegally. Even the majority of the funds claimed to have been used to create the campaign further crack down on music piracy. Fighting piracy and expanding digital market is very important to make up for declining sales in retail brick-and-mortar such as HMV, which earlier this month announced plans to close about 60 of the UK stores. Thomas Hesse, president of global digital business Sony Music Entertainment said the industry had 'fought against the backdrop of the continued decline of the CD, the decline continues to retailers that sell music.

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Lenovo acquisition of NEC ?

BEIJING - Lenovo is reportedly being held discussions with the NEC as the early stage acquisition process. Both want to strengthen competition in the PC market. Launched by PC Pro, on Friday (21/01/2011), the Nikkei business daily said the source who threw the issue. Lenovo said to be interested to invest in the Japanese company. Lenovo is still ranked fourth for the global PC market. The position on it is still filled in succession by HP, Dell and Acer to the top position to third. With this acquisition Lenovo expects to expand in the Japanese PC market in particular. In addition to Lenovo interested in technology due to NEC. NEC itself is one of the largest PC manufacturers in Japan but the name has not been delivering him to the top 10 global markets. With this acquisition the NEC could expand into the China market, Lenovo's central location, which automatically will boost its position in the global market. We confirmed the Nikkei, NEC and Lenovo declined to comment but they sure will always look for strategic ways to expand and expand market share and potential partners. According to analysts of Fukoku Capital, Yuuki Sakurai, one of the reasons the Chinese PC manufacturer was interested in buying Japanese technology companies is that they are not accused of stealing technology. "I think measures like this purchase will be more widespread leading to Japanese industry. Chinese companies have a lot of money so that they will see which companies are eligible to be purchased and potentially expand their brand, both in terms of market and technology has to offer," said Sakurai

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HP Destroy Board leadership

NEW YORK - Hewlett-Packard announced a major turnover of leadership ranks after the departure of CEO Mark Hurd. A few months after CEO Mark Hurd was forced to resign over allegations of sexual harassment, the company now says five new president, including former chief executive of eBay, Meg Whitman. Similarly, as quoted by AFP on Friday (01/21/2011). Leo Apotheker took over as CEO of Hewlett-Packard in late September last year. Step reshuffle the leadership ranks of Hewlett-Packard is now being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission. In a recent note in U.S. District Court in southern California, HP said that they would see the condition after Mark Hurd resignation in August. "Each member of the new president are honorable people and leaders who have the experience in the business world," said Raymond Lane, Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Hewlett-Packard. "Together they will be provided to the ranks of our management team and a new outlook and perspective to the business of Hewlett-Packard," Leadership ranks of the new Hewlett-Packard are: Patricia Russo (former Chief-Executive of Alcatel-Lucent), Dominique Senequier (Chief-Executive Officer of AXA Private Equity), Shumeet Banerji (chief executive of Booz & Company) and Gary Reiner ( ex-Chief Information Officer) of General Electric.

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2011, Achieving Data Needs 35.2 Zettabytes

SAN FRANCISCO - The use of predicted data will increase in this year's competition due to the rise of cloud computing as well as tablets. Launched by PC Advisor, on Friday (01/21/2011), IDC said that the use of statistical data in the world is predicted to increase by 44 times, a total of 35.2 zettabytes (zettabytes equal to one billion terabytes). The world's largest storage company, EMC, IDC predictions prove. According to EMC's approximately 1000 customers have been using more than one petabyte of data. Figures for consumer-owned EMC also predicted to increase to approximately 100,000 in 2020. Even in the next two years some predict consumers will start spending more than one exabytes. "The need for data is increasing rapidly. The purpose of their use began to spread. The type of data richer and more. Every prediction that growth in our state must always wrong because it turns out that it takes more than what we predicted," said division president of EMC's unified storage, Rich Napolitano. The same is also said to CTO of Melbourne IT, Glenn Gore. According to the data needs of many phenomena, called the industry with 'Big Data', has been known since 18 months ago. This statement is evidenced by data from a hosting company that saw many large companies began to notice a fairly large data requirements, such companies in the areas of health, geospatial depiction, and digital media. They all said is building a dataset that added up to multiple terabytes. Some big tech companies started to make acquisitions to meet the needs of its customer data. IBM's acquisition of Netezza in September amounted to USD1, 7 billion, followed by EMC, which acquired the Isilon worth USD2, 25 billion. Greenplum technology company EMC has also been acquired for the financial details are not published. One other large company, Oracle, began to build data warehousing and analysis capabilities for its customers did not switch to competitors.

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2010, WD Sell 52.2 Million Units Hard Drive

JAKARTA - Western Digital Corp. earned approximately USD2, 475 billion by sending your hard drive as many as 52.2 million units. "We are very pleased to generate revenue, profitability and December quarter gross margin is higher than expected, reflecting solid execution and improvement in the condition of the hard drive industry as compared with the previous two quarters," said John Coyne, president and chief executive officer, as quoted from its official statement on Friday (21/01/2011). He said the opportunity for profitable growth in the WD is still very large industry and the company is committed to improving financial performance in the long term. "We plan to do this with due emphasis on low cost structure of industry-leading, high quality, highly reliable products and have high availability, and a sharp focus for production in accordance with customer demand," adds Coyne. In the fiscal year ending on December 31, 2010, WD revenues reached USD2, 475 billion and a total of 52.2 million units of hard drives have been sold. Net income gained as much as USD225 million or WD USD0, 96 per share. In the same quarter last year, WD reported revenue of USD2, 619 billion, sending the hard drive as much as 49.5 million, and reported net income and profit per share, amounting to USD429 million and USD1.85. This company produces USD505 million in cash from operations during the December quarter, bringing total cash and cash equivalents held amounted to USD3.1 billion.

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OlivePad, Tablet 'India' Assault Indonesia

Jakarta - Competition tablet market in the country is increasingly crowded with thepresence OlivePad. This is a tablet Android under the auspices of Haier Mobile, which uses technology from India.
Name OlivePad may not yet familiar sound in the ears of Homeland tablet users, but the product of collaboration Olive Telecom and Haier Mobile is trying to come up withreligious features and competitive price.
"OlivePad technology developed by India under the auspices of Haier Mobile," saidJohn Dwi, Marketing Head, United Global Technology OlivePad as a distributor inIndonesia.
Compared with tablets which had been circulated earlier circulated in Indonesia, Dwiclaims its product has a distinctive market segmentation, not least with the iPad.
"Unlike the iPad more focused on multimedia, OlivePad 70 percent of the base is designed for Internet applications. So our products can also be used to work," addedDwi in a ceremony at the Crown Plaza on Thursday (20/01/2011).
OlivePad, a 7-inch tablet will be marketed at a price starting at USD 4.6 millionincluding unlimited data package from Telkomsel for 6 months.
"OlivePad available starting tomorrow (Friday, January 21, 2011-ed.), and althoughin-bundling with Telkomsel unlock but these products," said Dwi.

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