Being a graduating student, one may think about the future. What should he/she do? Where should he/she work? Is he/she going to cope with the responsibility? These and more questions are asked at the last year of studying. Those students who study science have already understood that the options they have are not varied. One may choose a University scientific research job, a government scientific research, industrial science, scientific entrepreneurship, consultancy technology transfer, or other careers. A work in the University scientific research center may be interesting for one student and may be boring for another. There is no reason to dwell upon advantages and disadvantages as tastes differ. Still, we have decided to ask for scientists to express their personal opinion on the profession to provide students with reliable information about a job of a University scientific researcher.

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The outlook for mobile device management (MDM) technologies is good. The results of this quarter’s study reflect the end of the slowdown that impacted the wider handset market from the end of 2008 and through the first three quarters of 2009, caused by global economic conditions.

The data from this quarter’s study shows positive quarter-on-quarter growth and year-on-year growth for penetration of FOTA, OMA CP, and OMA DM.
Our estimates show that: 129 million handsets shipped in 4Q09 supporting FOTA, 262 million handsets shipped in 4Q09 supported OMA CP, and 122 million handsets shipped in 4Q09 supported OMA DM.

By 2011 Ovum expects that MDM technology will be included in more than half of all handsets shipped, making it one of the most widely deployed mobile technologies.
Ovum estimates that at year-end 2011 shipments will reach a total of 659 million FOTA-enabled handsets (representing 53% of global shipments), 1 billion CP-enabled handsets (representing 81% of global shipments) and 580 million DM-enabled handsets (representing 47% of global shipments).

The theme of language in relation to science can be developed in different ways. An interesting and potentially useful thematization is through the idea of translation.

The notion of translation occurs sporadically in philosophy of science, but much of this literature merely glosses over the issue of translation. Even where translation is explicitly invoked, it is mostly understood in terms of what is usually called the naïve view of translation. Such an approach does not do justice to the philosophical complexity inherent in the idea of translation. It is by paying heed to the complexities inherent in the ‘idea’ of translation, which one realizes the intrinsic link between science and translation. Similar to the suspicion which science has towards language, language itself harbors a suspicion towards translation. This has contributed to the view that translation is essentially a secondary activity, derivative and dependent on the idea of an original text. As much as the scientific discourse likes to believe that it can distill ideas outside the purview of language, so does the naïve view of translation believe that translations only change the language of the text but continue to keep its ‘essence’ intact. These beliefs reinforce the naïve view of translation, which, according to Andrew Benjamin (1989: 60), has ‘two dimensions’:

First it involves the idea of recovery; of the recovery of a meaning, or truth, and the subsequent re-expression of what has been recovered. Second this understanding of translation also involves the idea of free exchange; of an unmediated and unrestrained economy in which signifiers are the object of exchange.