In January 17, according to foreign media reports, IBM (January 14) released a study report: survey from 2000 minor enterprises in 20 countries, it shows that more than half of SMEs plan to increase their IT budgets in the next 12 to 18 months. Specifically, 53% of IT managers surveyed expect to increase their budgets in the next 12 to 18 months. As for where the budget increase, the report pointed out that these new investments in small and medium plans is for hardware, software and services, such as business analytics, cloud computing, collaboration, mobility and customer relationship software packages.
Joomla content management system, the official version 1.6, has finally arrived. This 1.6 new version is based on PHP5.2.X, but stop supporting for PHP 4. Developers are also removed legacy code from Joomla 1.5, improve the clarity of code with a decrease of about 30% of code. Although the developer says there are hundreds of new features, but the appearance of new version is very similar to the older. Therefore, the old Joomla users can adjust to the new version easily. One of the highlights feature is the new "Access Control List" (ACL) function, replacing the previous version of the User Manager.
In 2011, the first support industry is software and integrated circuits. In January 12, Premier Wen Jiabao chaired a State Council executive meeting, studied and planned to further encourage the software industry and IC industry development measures. This was seen as the software industry-anticipated wonderful news--new 18 article, which means "to encourage the development of software industry and integrated circuit industries a number of policy"---the old 18 article launched in 2011. This policy benefit hundreds of million of software and IC enterprises during the past ten years.
Recently, the Chinese economic leaders Festival 2010 will be held in Beijing, with 10 top Chinese entrepreneurs award. Among them, Wang Wenjing--chairman and president of UFIDA, Charles Chao--CEO and President of Sina. Chinese Economic Leaders 2010 Award is the second activity since 2009. In the 2009 selection, Chinese economic leaders and IT industry had also two entrepreneurs selected: Robin Li--Baidu's chairman and chief executive officer, Jack Ma--Alibaba Group Chairman and CEO.
According to the data from Taiwan DIGITIMES Research, the sales for Android mobile phone exceeded 60 million units in 2010, which also award the second of 20% market share. And research predicts sales for Android mobile will be double and will be the leader among world's smart phone.In contrast with sales in 2008 and 2009, the market share is only 0.5% and 3.9%.