Samsung's vice president visited Bulgaria
During his visit the vice president of Samsung Joosang Eun gave a press conference where he said that printers will be the focus of the company on Bulgarian market. On the world arena the Korean giant is again on second place after HP in printers? field. Mr. Eun said they will try to win the first position through stronger presence in Asia and Europe. Samsung also will strengthen further its partnership with Bulgarian distributor K&K Electronics. He expressed his satisfaction of the work with K&K and said: "K&K Electronics is Samsung Bulgaria."

Bulgarian-German joint-venture was established itForum
Bulgarian company Bianor Service and German TechniData will establish joint venture. They already signed frame contract, stated that Bianor will held 51% of the new company. The name of the company will be TechniData Labs Bulgaria and will do R&D of the leading products for ecological compliance of the German company, implemented in more than 1300 clients spread in 59 countries worldwide. The expectation is new company to start working in April with staff of 10 people, which will grow to 25 at the end of the year. The business plan envisages the revenue of the new company to be more than 1 million BGN in 2008 and this to be doubled in 2009.

State IT budgets should be monitored and managed strictly itForum
This was said in an interview for itFORUM last week by the chairman of Bulgarian State Agency for Information Technologies and Communications (SAITC) Plamen Vachkov. He said agency could not fulfill this task last year because of the reluctance with which the other organizations give information about their systems. In 2008, he said, SAITC will finish its work about passportization of state information systems, so the feudal mentality and doubling will be avoided. Also Bulgaria need to monitor centrally IT budgets as it is done even in rich countries as USA. Priorities for Agency in 2008 will be European programs, finishing the National Communication Network, building regional centers for emergency phone 112, information security and disaster recovery. Maybe also the planned IT R&D center will be in vision. Mr. Vachkov hopes the Government will approve the plan so the Agency could start work. During his visit in USA companies as Cisco, IBM, Microsoft said they are interested to participate or to collaborate with such center.

Bulgarian airports are not secured Saga Technology
"Airports in Bulgaria are not equipped with technological guarding system for all areas with facilities", said Michael Girel, marketing director of Israel company Rbtec during the exhibition Security 2008. The company with its local partner Security Global presented perimeter guarding system for airports, prisons and manufacturing camps. Its vibration system SL-3 has been patented for its imbedded sensor line which could substitute all types of sensors. It can detect sensitively every intruder in angel of 360. The Rbtec products are used by many international airports as well as of big manufacturers.

Oracle Bulgaria presented a solution for corporate content management itForum
Oracle Technology Day - Content Management gathered in Hilton experts, clients and partners of the company interested in corporate content management. Oracle solutions decrease the costs, increase efficiency and lower the risk for the companies was said on the seminar. Oracle Content Management technology is an integral platform for unified management of more than 400 file formats but the focus if not on diversity but on the way of their management, said Daniela Milanova, senior sales consultant in Oracle Bulgaria.

Plesio presented the newest Toshiba laptop itForum
The Plesio team together with the distributor of Toshiba for Bulgaria TechnoPro, presented to media the newest notebook of the company Portege R 500 ? 121, which is part of the R500 line. The mini machine is unique with its 990 g weight. The heaviest part is the battery which can work 12.5 hours. Other unique feature is embedded 3G module which allows users to use internet connection everywhere the mobile coverage is available. They need only to insert SIM card in the special slot.

Parliamentarians proposed anti-corruption measures in tenders Saga Technology
The main proposed change is that the envelopes with company offers will be opened only if at least three companies have applied for specific State tender. In the other case the procedure will be terminated. Now the law allows the procedure to continue even if there is only one candidate. This weakness gives opportunity to State employees to define the winning company at the stage of writing the requirements. Other proposal is against replacing the offers and saying that at least three members of the commission should put their signatures on the sealed envelope. One of the most important changes is about the methodology of evaluation. It should not include the time parameters. They have to be determined in the tender requirements, because many companies win promising impossible delivery times as one day, said Jordan Kisjiov from Bulgarian Association of Information Technologies. The business representatives propose also the price for documentation to be no more than the price of coping. Now it is usual the assign party to ask for 300-500 BGN and even to 2000 BGN (1000 Euro).

Public Tenders
National Insurance Institute: Delivery of internet connectivity for remote offices.
State company "Air Traffic Services Authority": Delivery of notebooks
Ministry of Administration and Administrative Reform: Development of e-payment environment for the process of delivery of administrative services in electronic way.
Bulgargaz EAD: Extension of information system.
Economics University Varna: Delivery of computer equipment, peripherals and multimedia equipment for 2008 and 2009 and service.

Source: Saga Technologu