Articles and reports

The rivalry, or so-called “browser war”, is in full swing. The two most popular browsers- Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox recently brought to work their latest and most serious arms.

More and more Poles choose shopping online. According to market research, this year e-commerce sales will increase by 1 to 7.5 billion zł. This is the best result of the last few years. However in comparison to other countries, Poland’s position is rather weak.

“Automatic recognition of musical notation” and “Artificial intelligence and agent systems in computer games” turned out to be the best theses in the competition of Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center and the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry PAS in 2010.

Article describing the open source software used by the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Centre in the creation of the Multimedia City Guideof Poznan at osor.eu. A specialized portal is dedicated to the use of free software in the European administration.

In the latest TOP500 ranking “Reef” – supercomputer working at the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center – was about half the rate, at the 312 position. The winner of the race was China.

Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center Security Team conducted a set of comparative tests of Web browsers, addressing resilience to attacks on SSL/TLS encrypted tunnels. Particular emphasis was put on if the browsers are able to detect those attacks at all and how the user is informed (including the users without specialized knowledge on IT issues).

28th February, 2010 was the deadline for submission of reports on the application of The Commission Recommendation on Digitisation and Online Accessibility of Cultural Material and Digital Preservation. Poland, as a Member State of the European Union, was also obliged to submit such report on the current implementation stage. You can download it here.

In the today’s issue of the “Przekrój” magazine (3/3369) you can find an article of Piotr Stanisławski titled “Narodziny e-książki” (“The Birth of the E-book”). It contains interesting introduction in the e-paper technology and presents positive and negative aspects of e-books. The article is also enriched with quotations of representatives of several large Polish publishers, referring to the future of e-books in Poland.