Engineers are critical of the benefits of mobile MWC fair deviate to tourism and trade

 

Members of the College of Engineers and Surveyors Telecommunications of Catalonia (COETTC) have criticized the appointment of Barcelona and Mobile World Capital has most benefited the tourism industry conference and trade sector at the Information Technology and (ICT).
Specifically, almost 30% think that the volume of business that has brought the celebration of the World Mobile Congress has been diverted to other sectors beyond telecommunications as conference tourism, and not in the ICT sector, which has not benefited at all (41%).
28% of respondents believe companies have congress tourism or commerce which increased revenues that quote being taken out of the sector.
For the president of COETTC, Ferran Amago, the current economic situation and the limited internationalization of national ICT company can not afford to waste as the global opportunities offered by the Barcelona World Capital.
"Domestic companies are not now benefit from the boost that could give them both the capital of Barcelona as the successive editions of the World Congress of reference for the sector," he said.
MOBILE: BETTER FUTURE
For 36% of these engineers, industries engaged in the development of products and applications for mobile devices will be the ICT sector will have a positive progression in the next two years.
In addition to the mobile sector, technical engineers and experts say telecommunication electronic commerce (21%) and cloud computing businesses (17%) as the other two sectors that also have good prospects.
In addition to the world of mobile phones, smartphones and tablets, technical engineers and experts say telecommunications e-commerce has been chosen as the second sector mark a significant growth in the next biennium.

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Microsoft hopes to sell several million in its first year Surface

 

The CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, has said that the company expects that its first 'tablet', Surface, able to sell "several millions" of units in its first year. Ballmer is confident in the capabilities of the device, but has not specified the exact sales forecast consider attainable.
Surface is one of the major bets on Microsoft for this year. This is Microsoft's entry into the market of 'tablets' as a manufacturer and its potential can make the future of the sector and partly by the company. Microsoft Surface is expected to consolidate a device that stimulates the adoption of Windows 8 by other manufacturers and that this battle to the current ruler, the iPad.
At the moment we do not know the price of the device or its exact release date, which could be in October with Windows 8, but each presentation makes clear that Microsoft is one of their star products. The latest to confirm it has been the CEO of Redmond, Steve Ballmer, who has dared to make an estimate of sales that could get Surface in its first year.
Without going to specify an exact number, Steve Ballmer has said that Microsoft hopes to sell "several million" Surface in its first year, as quoted by ZDNet. This is a forecast that, without being at all clear, to see the optimism that permeates Microsoft to release.
Ballmer did not want to give accurate forecasts, in part not to condition the release of the terminal. But he noted that sales of Surface shall be computed on the total expected Windows terminals sold in the next year, which will reach 375 million. Thus, it is clear that Microsoft is confident that both get Windows 8 as Surface boost PC sales and increasing the presence of Windows in the field devices 'tablet'.

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