Software is very diverse. There is almost as many software types as human needs. Or is it? What are the biggest markets in software, what are the software, that most people use. If we skip the specialized markets (like dentist software for dentists, development software for developers, etc), what is left for real mass market. [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Consumer Software Market
January 29th, 2009 by Serguei Alleko in Information Technologies | View Comments
Secret training of Russian programmers
January 28th, 2009 by Serguei Alleko in Information Technologies | View Comments
In IT world Russian programmers have good reputation. Some say that all the Russians aboard either IT-guru’s or mafia. Of course it’s a joke, but it is true that during the IT-bubble, conveniently timed together with national financial default in Russia in 1998 a lot of bright engineers from the best universities of Russia have [...]
San Francisco Vacation Part 1
January 20th, 2009 by Serguei Alleko in Photos | View Comments
In my own rating of the most beautiful cities San Francisco shares the first place with Amsterdam. I’m talking about the natural beauty, the one, which makes you just walk and enjoy on normal, usual streets. Thouse photos were taken in may 2008 in San Francisco. [...]
Real Virus attack on corporate network
January 20th, 2009 by Serguei Alleko in IT Security | View Comments
I’ve been working for many years in a anti-virus company. Of course my view on computer viruses and incidents is biased, but this angle could be interesting anyway. Currently the anti-virus coverage within corporate networks is close to 100%. Within home users it’s estimated from 70% to 90%. How exactly does infeactions happen in real [...]
Payback time
January 16th, 2009 by Serguei Alleko in Electronic Payments | View Comments
If you want to know how to receive money via online transactions, you have to know, how to pay it back. Why refund? There are different reasons for paying customer their money back: (obvious) Customer is not happy about the product. In different countries there are different periods, when customer has right by law to return [...]
“Ideal” Online Payment method
January 12th, 2009 by Serguei Alleko in Electronic Payments | View Comments
In my previous post I’ve described 3 major modern online payment methods. Let met give more attention to the most modern one – iDEAL. iDEAL is one of the online payment methods which are using online banking with special tokens. Currently such methods are deployed by different European Banks. Of course each bank has it’s [...]
Past, present and future of online payments
January 6th, 2009 by Serguei Alleko in Electronic Payments | View Comments
Pioneers sometimes pay more than their followers. It’s harder to be the first in any field, and in any industry as well. To be The First of course means you’re also The Best, at least at the beginning. Pioneers invest heavily in R&D, infrastructure and they find methods to do what they do cheaper. [...]
Good and Bad in Credit Card processing
January 3rd, 2009 by Serguei Alleko in Electronic Payments | View Comments
Credit cards are good for online purchases. Everybody knows that. They’re popular, they’re fast, they’re convinient for the client. A lot of Payment Service Providers are dedicated mostly to credit cards only. But actually, for merchants, credit cards are the worst and least secure method for online payments. The authentication is week Third party (the [...]
WordPress is coming to age
January 3rd, 2009 by Serguei Alleko in Blogging | View Comments
I’ve tried to use several versions of WordPress, starting with 1.5.something. It always looked like a “very old’ software. The kind of software were made by programmers. Not coders, not designers, but good old “programmers”, “hackers”. Persons, who can master the whole cycle of program production by themselves. Version 2.6 looks a bit different though. [...]
