CNN launches news program for the iPhone for two dollars

The cable television network CNN on Tuesday released a snippet of news management for iPhone users in the U.S., which has a feature that have few similar programs for the Apple smart phone: it costs money.
On Apple's iTunes site in the United States began offering the program along with others of their so-called "Apps" or snippets to users of iPhone and iPod Touch. The CNN App cost $ 1.99.
Although the price is relatively low, represented a bold step into the world of news for digital media, where users are already very used to read news without having to pay a cent.
The director of USA Today, David Hunke, has expressed concern that news companies are committing to the mobile phone the same mistake they did in the 1990s, when newspapers began to create websites where they offered the news at no cost.

His original idea was to generate revenue through ads, but Internet advertising has not replaced the amount received for their newspapers printed product. Now readers were accustomed to reading news online without having to pay.The news media executives do not want to repeat that in cell phones and therefore how CNN sell your App for iPhone and iPod Touch will be followed closely by other media, struggling to make against losses by advertising revenue.

Some corporate executives believe that communication with cell phones comes the opportunity to finally be able to condition consumers to pay a few dollars in exchange for a steady supply of news in his pocket. CNN is one of the first businesses that will make the test.

CNN believes that readers will pay for your App instead of choosing a free from its many competitors, including one from The Associated Press, noting that the service is better. "It really depends on the quality and nature of what you are offering to market," said KC Estenson, director of CNN.com.Overall, the new App looks similar to CNN television service, with prominent use of photographs and live video signal if you have big news events.

If a plane falls on the Hudson River from New York, App users will not have to run to the nearest television screen, but simply see a live report on their phone.
The program is also customizable, allowing the activation of alarms when there are reports of some topic that interests the particular user. Consumers can select an item of local news, that besides the CNN offer news newspapers notes Topix collected through an internet company that is mostly owned company news.

There is evidence that many readers will not want to pay for an App to read news. The Associated Press, for example, tried to charge $ 2.99 this year for a BlackBerry. Due to the low rate of discharges, AP decided to lower its price and since then the snippet became fallen sharply, said Jane Seagrave, AP's vice president for global product development.
"There were too many more that were in the free market," said Seagrave. For now, The Associated Press is trying to generate revenues from its App by selling advertising.

Google released its Wave tool for 100,000 users

Wave Google, the Google tool to improve communications between users in real time, cease to be an exclusive club members and counting as of this Wednesday will be used by almost 100,000 users.

Google announced Tuesday that some 100,000 people, mainly programmers and application users of the browser, starting tomorrow receive invitations to use Wave, which has been dubbed the email revolution.

Wave combines elements of Google email, instant messaging, photo sharing services and documents in a single tool to send messages and content to a wide range of contacts.

However, Google removes Wave mails back and forth and keeps all messages on a single page, allowing simultaneous conversations between different members of the group.

Lars Rasmussen, co-creator of the popular mapping service Google Maps and one of Google's Wave makers warned on the corporate website of the browser that this release could still cause problems and fail on occasion.

"We have focused almost exclusively on the scale, stability, speed and ease of use of the service," said Rasmussen, who in presenting Wave said last May that the tool is "what will be the email if been presented today. "

Internet censorship in China increases by national party

Tens of thousands of Internet sites were blocked by Chinese authorities "paranoid" when approaching the 60th anniversary of Communist China on October 1 on Tuesday accused the organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF).

The Chinese authorities specially dedicated to VPN (virtual private network) and other media used by residents in China, including foreign journalists to bypass Internet censorship, said the NGO.

According to RSF, "paranoia" of the government prior to Thursday's celebration turns into nightmare for Internet users and journalists. "

The NGO says that tens of thousands of Internet addresses became unreachable in recent days and that blocking access to social networks like Facebook or Twitter as well as some blogs was strengthened.

"The Great Wall has never been so consolidated electronics as now, the approach of the anniversary October 1, which proves that the Chinese government is not so sure of his balance," the organization said in a statement released in Washington.

The Chinese Army provides a show of force on Thursday and a parade of his new ICBMs, presented by the Chinese Communist Party as a symbol of the country's access to the rank of world powers.

U.S. broadband Enlarge cost $ 350 billion

United States would need about 350,000 million dollars in grants and investments to expand the use of broadband in their territory, said Tuesday the industry regulator.

The Federal Communications Commission, U.S. (FCC for its acronym in English) is carrying out a national plan to increase the use of broad banking in urban and rural areas. The project would be sent to Congress in mid-February.

In a report, the working group of the FCC said that preliminary estimates show that investment would be needed in the range of between 20,000 and 350,000 million, depending on the speed of service.

The committee said that most Americans have Internet service at home, a third have broadband access but has not been signed and that 4 percent have no access.

However, broadband subscribers are receiving lower rates to those predicted, said the panel, which estimated that current rates are lower by 50 or 80 percent to the contract.

Apple exceeds 2,000 million application downloads

Apple Inc. announced Monday that its iTunes application store has surpassed the 2,000 million downloads and has more than 85,000 applications available for your mobile devices iPhone and iPod Touch.
The company did not say how many applications were offered for sale and how many were free.
ITunes initiative has inspired the opening of other stores to rivals and has helped boost sales of the iPhone since the summer of 2008.
Apple said it has sold over 50 million iPhones and iPod Touch teams in 77 countries. AT & T Inc. is the exclusive carrier for the iPhone in the United States.
Google Inc also has an application store for Android mobile platform, but has fewer applications than Apple.

Europe seeks to impose limits on the volume of MP3 players

The European Union said Monday he wants the makers of the popular digital music players users recommend lowering the volume of its devices to conserve your hearing.
The Commissioner for Consumer Affairs in the EU, Meglena Kuneva, announced that specialists and entrepreneurs drawn together stronger regulations to curb the problems of hearing.
"If you want to enjoy your favorite songs in 20 or 30 years down the volume," Kuneva advised to submit the proposal to reporters.
Action is needed, he explained, because there are reasons for concern about the health risks, particularly the younger ones.
A scientific advisory body of the European bloc estimated that between 2.5 and 10 million people could lose hearing by listening to MP3 players at volumes over 89 decibels harmful for over an hour a day for at least five years .
The EU's executive commission said the maximum sound level players between 80 and 115 decibels. With other headphones the sound could increase by up to nine decibels. Above 120 dB is the noise of an airplane taking off.
Kuneva said the new regulations would go a full sound at 80 decibels optional equipment. However, users could turn off if they wish.
The risk of hearing damage also depends on continuous listening time, the commissioner said, which raised the manufacturers to strengthen warnings on the equipment, either on the instructions or the same product.
Several firms welcomed the proposal but said they would have to analyze how best to provide better health warnings.
The new standards could be ready next year, predicted Kuneva.
Sales of digital music players have soared in recent years and between 50 and 100 million people listen to them daily, according to the EU.
, Said the safety of consumers "remains our highest priority."

Warner and YouTube, according to some music videos

Warner Music Group Corp and YouTube are finalized an agreement which will see music videos from artists like Madonna and Green Day are again presented in the popular Internet site, sources close to the deal.
The deal, which one source described as imminent, would resolve a dispute over licensing fees that caused Warner Music retire in December from Youtube music videos of its artists.
YouTube and Warner declined to comment on the deal, which was reported Monday by AdAge.
A deal could mean that the list of artists, Warner Music could again begin to appear in the video-sharing site's most popular planet, joining those from EMI Music, Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group, who have renewed their deals .
Financial details are not clear, but the chief director of Warner Music, Edgar Bronfman, has announced its desire to improve the terms of their agreement with YouTube.
Like other industry executives, he faces a music market that has been beaten by sagging CD sales and slow growth of digital music.
The agreement could also leave the door open for a possible role for Warner in a new website called Vevo music video, which has been backed by Universal and Sony and will support YouTube's technology platform.

Microsoft Announces Launch of a free antivirus

Microsoft Corp. said its new computer security program can be downloaded from Internet on Tuesday.

Microsoft Security Essentials, as it is called free antivirus software, has been available in a beta test version since June.
The software is constantly updated to keep up with the latest virus threats that can steal passwords or turning PCs into spam server. Microsoft says that this program will not make computers run more slowly.
Microsoft has said it does not intend to rob the business to companies like McAfee and Symantec Corp., made popular antivirus programs with more features. Microsoft says it hopes the free software is of interest to people who still have no antivirus software.

Without profit, Twitter is worth 1,000 million dollars

Twitter, one of the most popular communication services, Internet, will receive $ 100 million from investors to finance its operations, in a transaction listed on the social network created three years ago at 1,000 million dollars despite not yet considerable revenue generated much less revenue.
The news suggests that the founders of the message service to 140 characters, Evan Williams and Biz Stone, are determined not to sell your idea to a large company while looking for ways to make money from it.
Twitter did not elaborate on the size of the investment, saying only that it involved a large sum. However, two people briefed on the negotiations confirmed to him amounts to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
Williams and Stone declined to be interviewed.
Investors who bought parcels of shares in Twitter are three that have already invested in the company Benchmark Capital, Institutional Venture Partners and Spark Capital and two new shareholders: Insight Venture Partners and T. Rowe Price.
Twitter, based in San Francisco, had raised $ 55 million previously. The last capital of 35 million, was seven months ago.
With so much money in the bank, the company now can buy more computers and further improve the stability of its service, which is prone to interruptions. You can also add employees to its roster of 60 without feeling the pressure of being acquired by a larger company.
"This is a smart move on the part of Twitter because it gives them time to get revenue to its momentum and generate a business plan," said Ken Marlin, a banker specializing in technology investments.
The intention is that the funds preserve the independence of Twitter until it can generate enough revenue to cover their own expenses, said one source familiar with the negotiations.
Twitter has already rejected a takeover offer for 500 million dollars from Facebook and it was rumored that both Google and Microsoft made consultations on a possible takeover.
Williams, one of the founders, said Friday in a blog that Twitter want to see how far you can reach alone

The iPhone gets the green light to enter South Korea

The South Korean telecommunications regulator said on Wednesday that Apple Inc. may sell its successful iPhone in South Korea, thus potentially shake up a market controlled by cell phone manufacturers.
The announcement came one month after China also allowed the entry of Apple's device to its massive mobile phone market. As part of its agreement with China Unicom Ltd., estimated that Apple will begin selling the phone in China in the fourth quarter.
The Korean Communications Commission approved the sale of the equipment at a meeting attended by five commissioners, said spokesman Lee Sang-hun.
The presentation was awaited iPhone in South Korea, where the market is dominated by Samsung Electronics Co., LG Electronics Inc. and other local manufacturers.
Apple spokesman Steve Park said the company had no statement to make on the decision of the committee, but added that nothing was decided or planned on selling the iPhone in South Korea.
However, some local service providers said they are in talks with U.S. firm. "We will try to launch the iPhone as soon as possible," said Yeom Woo-jong, a spokesman for KT Corp.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency, quoting officials in KT did not identify, said the company plans to start selling the iPhone in South Korea next month.

Google sits on the bench for pirating French books

The Internet search company Google on Thursday sat on the bench of the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris for an alleged crime of "hacking" denounced by French publishers before scanning and made freely available on the network of many of his books.
The complaint was lodged by the publisher The Martinière in June 2006 to verify that Google had digitized and posted on the Internet several of his titles in a process conducted in U.S. libraries.
Subsequently, he joined the National Union of Publishers (SNE), which groups five hundred publishing houses, and the Society of People of Letters (SGDL).
In its digitization process works to create a World Digital Library, Google included some that are subject to payment of copyright and, in that, underlying the claim of the complainants.
The head of the Martinière Hervé de Martinière denounced "this sort of arrogance that makes your books and take without asking digitize.
According to publishers, Google has digitized more than 100,000 French securities, in an agreement it signed with the great French libraries to use their funds.
The lawyer claimed that publishers stop digitizing books French under a penalty of 100,000 euros per day (147,972 dollars) and sought damages worth 15 million euros (22 million).
He said Google is "parasitizing" the work of publishers with a practice "unlawful and dangerous and harmful to publishers."
The defense focused much of his speech to try to answer the French court's competence to judge events that are occurring in America.
Moreover, the software giant's lawyers noted that concerns the digitization of short excerpts of works to develop a search tool, which they claim is covered by the right to quote and not have to pay royalties.
The verdict will be delivered on Dec. 18, but in the meantime, the editors do not rule out opening talks with Google as they just did their U.S. counterparts.

Artist captures the world with images from Google Street View

The artist Bill Guffey is attracting international media attention for the originality with using Street View, free resource offered by Google in their online world maps as a reference for his paintings. Recently, the Sun newspaper dubbed him "Vincent Van Google.

Guffey, who lives in Kentucky, USA, painted two series of paintings based on images from only those services, integrated with Google Maps that provides 360 ° panoramic view of a growing number of locations, in real images.

In the first series, Guffey "visited" all American states and made a painting typical of each region. As he explains on its website, the only thing that stood out was Hawaii, it does not own the Google service.

In the second set, Guffey "traveled" all over the world. There are paintings of the canals of Amsterdam (Netherlands), houses of Florence (Italy), vineyards in France, even the taxis in New York. The paintings can be seen in the direction www.bnguffey.con.

The artist published in one of their blogs are examples of the differences between the original photos and paintings. As in Table Berkley Street Morning, made an image of the street Berkley Street in the city of Rockland, where he says that changed the season, time of day and the accentuation of the curve in the street.

Guffey also further stresses that received permission from Google to make reproductions. The search portal would have said that artists can use Google Street View as a reference for their work when using traditional methods of artistic creation. Google also requires that the original photos containing the company logo when they are displayed.

"This action opens a world away for artists who are disabled or unable to leave their homes or studios," Guffey says on its website.

Guffey also created a blog, The Virtual Paintout, especially for collecting paintings by artists worldwide who also use Googe Street View. The blog, accessed under virtualpaintout.blogspot.con, has a rule that establishes that the artist used images from Google Street View to create his paintings.

Security agencies seek to ban Internet telephony

The Indian security agencies have recommended banning international Internet telephony until there is a system to track the calls at the scene, officials said, in the latest initiative to cover security holes after the attacks in Mumbai.

India fears that the militant groups operating from outside can use Internet telephony to circumvent security systems during the planning and execution of attacks, officials said.

"Since it is impossible to trace Internet phone calls from foreign countries, have asked the Department of Telecommunications to block such calls until you install a system," said an official of the Intelligence Department, which could not be identified.

Indian Telecom Secretary, Siddharth Behura, confirmed he had asked the operators to "block some calls," but gave no further details.

India has initiated an overhaul of its security systems after the terrorist attacks in Mumbai that killed 166 people in November 2008.

Police recovered a satellite phone and said the activists had been in contact with their accomplices in Pakistan through phones and Internet telephony.

"There have been many cases in which detainees said the shooters they had received instructions from outside via internet systems," said Rakesh Maria, said a senior police official in Mumbai.

Last year, India said it was concerned about emails sent by Blackberry services that could not be traced or intercepted.

The company later agreed to meet safety standards in India following a series of meetings.

India is also considering a new law permitting review all imported telecommunications equipment to ensure that does not compromise national security.

Several vendors, including Skype, Google, Yahoo and Windows Live offering VOIP (protocol for digital transmission of voice over internet). Any ban would affect thousands of users who use the internet to make phone calls economic inside and outside of India.

From January to March this year, India made 130 million minutes of Internet phone calls, according to the Indian Telecommunication Authority.

Apple iPod nano is in the recipe for business success

The newly refurbished iPod nano is a product that combines several multimedia design skills and economy. This player, which according to Apple is the world's bestselling -100 million units, now has video camera, radio and a lower price.


It's a mid-range player, that is, offers more features than just play music, like the iPod Shuffle, but not enough to act as an iPod Touch. This allows the user to get a powerful and economical device while the recipe for success.

Here we look at the evolution of the nano since its first release 4 years ago and features the latest version of the device.

The first generation iPod nano was launched on 7 September 2005 in two colors (black and white) and had a capacity of 1 GB, 2 GB and 4 GB. A year later, on 12 September 2006, a second generation came to market, this time in color and greater storage capacity (up to 8 GB).

In 2007, the nano had a radical change of look, he won a bigger screen and longer produced the 2GB version. On 9 September 2008, the fourth generation iPod nano came with a sleeker, more variety of colors and in two versions: 8GB and 16GB.

Exactly one year later, Apple launched its fifth generation with several noteworthy changes. The most important improvement is the camera that records VGA video clips at a resolution of 640x480 pixels in MP40 format.

The funny thing is you can not take pictures. Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder, said it was impossible to include a camera without enlarging the device. In addition, the first impression of the experts is that the camera is located in an uncomfortable place for the user.

Another new feature, and unexpected, is the FM radio included. This application has interesting things like the ability to pause, rewind and forward. It also has a label service that allows users to browse and buy in iTunes the song you are listening.

In the event of launching the new nano, September 9, Apple stressed its new Genius Mixes application that plays songs by musical genre. This means less user effort to mix your favorite topics.

An integrated microphone and speaker allow internal users to record voice memos and listen to all kinds of files without headphones. A pedometer, which can synchronize with the Nike website, facilitates monitoring exercise routines.

This fifth-generation iPod nano has a larger screen of 2.2 inches, comes in more colors but retain the same storage capacity of its previous version. In the U.S., the 8GB model costs $ 149 and the 16GB is priced at $ 179.

Reprints Google had digitized texts

Google Inc. will give two million books in its digital library can reappear in the print world.

As part of an agreement announced Wednesday, Google opened part of its index to the inventor of a high speed printer that can produce a paperback book and 300 pages in less than five minutes. The new service is a recognition that not everyone wants to read his books on a computer or on a digital readout as those manufactured by Sony Corp. and Amazon.com Inc.

The fastest printer called "Espresso Book Machine" and has several years running, but may charge notoriety now has access to many books scanned from some of the largest libraries in the world. And On Demand Books, owner of Espresso, could get access to texts more difficult to achieve if Google gets court approval to the settlement of a class action that gives the right to sell print books.

"This is a key event for us," Dane said Nelle, executive director of On Demand Books, watching a demonstration of the espresso machine Wednesday at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California.

Some of the books that Google has spent the last five years for scanning into digital format back to their origin on paper.

"It's like the circle was completed," said Google spokeswoman Jennie Johnson. "This will allow the public to get the physical copy of a book even if only one or two copies in a library in this country, or if not available here at all."

Founders of Skype to eBay in rights claim

A company owned by the founders of Skype sued the Internet and phone service so parent company eBay for intellectual rights violation, it was reported Thursday.

The move could thwart the plan of eBay to sell Skype to an investor group for 2,000 million dollars.

Joltid Ltd., Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, filed suit in federal court in northern California. Skype claims that violated an agreement on the use of communication technology that Skype uses Joltid licensed in their programs that channel phone calls through the network.

Joltid included in its application to all private investors agreed to buy Skype, among them are Marc Andreessen, a pioneer of Internet search engines and board member of eBay, and Skype's former directors Danny Rimer and Mike Volpi .

Joltid calls a resource for Skype to desist from using that technology and damage estimated at more than $ 75 million per day.

Zennstrom and Friis sold Skype to eBay for $ 2,600 million in 2007. Since then the companies are involved in a dispute over the use of the technology, called software index global.

Intel reduces power consumption of chips for cellular

Intel has reduced the energy consumption of its new chip platform for mobile devices "Moorestown," which is a major step forward to enter the market for chips in mobile phones and electronic devices.

Anand Chandrasekher, Intel vice president and general manager of its mobility group, also said the company is open to joining forces with the world's largest manufacturer of mobile phones, Nokia, to create a Linux-based operating system.

Analysts have said that Intel platforms of chips and chip sets require too much energy to be used in portable electronic devices and mobile phones, compared with the creations rival ARM Holdings.

But Chandrasekher told Reuters that the company is solving this problem. "We will be very close and almost at the same height," said energy consumption of the platform "Moorestown".

He explained that the average energy use Intel is improving now that the company has been able to drastically reduce the consumption of the chip in 'standby', esperanod one to another task.

The battery life - affected primarily by the large screens and powerful processors - is one of the most important challenges in the telephone sector. Last month, a senior official at Nokia said today ARM is "light years" from Intel in power management issue.

"This is really their first foray into mobile and 'smartphones'. This is the part of exploration, so to speak," said analyst David Kanter Real World Technologies.

"His 32-nanometer process will involve a series of relevant products for mobile phones," said Kanter.

"Moorestown," which is scheduled for 2010, is based on a 45-nanometer Atom processor. It expects its 32nm mobile platform, based on Atom and called "Medfield", quit in 2011.

Chandrasekher said that Moorestown would strengthen the position of Intel in the emerging markets of mobile Internet devices.

"This market is very wide. When we reach the middle of the next decade will be a category of 400 or 500 units," said Chandrasekher.

This year, Intel unveiled a deal with South Korea's LG Electronics on developing an Internet-based device "Moorestown".

In June, Intel introduced a joint technology project with Nokia on mobile devices and analysts said the deal would provide an opportunity for Intel when it comes to close the gap on the leaders in making chips Qualcomm and Texas Instruments.

U.S. and Canadian judges approve sale of Nortel's business

Nortel Networks Inc. on Wednesday received the approval of judges in Delaware and Ontario to sell $ 900 million of its units, specializing in the manufacture of business communications systems.

In a joint hearing, involving a link between courts in Wilmington, USA, and Toronto, Canada, where Nortel is based, the U.S. federal bankruptcy judge Kevin Gross and Geoffrey Morawetz Canadian judge approved the sale of Nortel Enterprise Solutions to Avaya Inc., headquartered in New Jersey, for $ 900 million in cash and a contribution of $ 15 million to an employee retention program, Nortel.

The hearing followed an auction completed on Monday morning, and led to Avaya, a private company, agreed to pay nearly double the amount of the initial offer made in an auction. Originally, Avaya had offered $ 475 million per unit of Nortel, which provides telephone systems and other communications equipment companies and large organizations, including government agencies.

Derrick Tay, a lawyer representing Nortel in Canada, said the auction, which lasted for the weekend, included an increase of $ 8 million per hour in the selling price. Tay joked that this figure would barely cover the fees of the professionals involved.

"I think this is good news not only for the creditors," he said, and considered that the agreement will end the uncertainty for employees, customers and potential customers, Nortel.

The court actions relating to the sale of Nortel's Enterprise Solutions business in North America, the Caribbean and Latin America and Asia. Nortel and Avaya have a separate agreement that includes Europe, Middle East and Africa. Avaya said the company still needs court approval in France and Israel, among other procedures.

Meanwhile, Canadian Industry Minister Tony Clement said Wednesday that the government will not prevent the sale of the wireless division of Nortel Networks, for 1,100 million dollars to the Swedish Ericsson.

Nortel, once a giant in the manufacture of telecommunications equipment, came to represent one third of the market value of the Toronto Stock Exchange. However, it declared bankruptcy in Canada and the United States in January, a day before you should make a debt payment by $ 107 million.

The approval of the sale of the business unit that came after Gross rejected an objection by Verizon Verizon Communications Inc., headquartered in New York, is one of the main users of Nortel products and services, and argued that the refusal Avaya to enter into contracts with Nortel telephone operator would check communications systems enterprise customers of Verizon, including military and other government agencies.

Scientists create 3D images that can be played

Imagine a light switch or a book that appear only when you need them: Japanese scientists are one step closer to becoming reality scenes from science fiction movies after you create a hologram that can also be felt.

"Until now, holography was only for the eyes, and if you tried to touch her hand shot through," said Hiroyuki Shinoda, a professor at Tokyo University and one of the developers of the technology.

"But now we have a technology that also adds the sensation of touching the hologram", told Reuters.

Holograms-usually appear three-dimensional images on credit cards, DVDs and CDs to prevent counterfeiting. The larger ones have also been used in the entertainment industry.

But by using ultrasonic waves, scientists have developed software that creates pressure when the hand of a user "touches" a hologram projected.

To track a user's hand, researchers use the controls on the popular Nintendo Wii console, which cover the projection area of the hologram.

So far the technology has been tested with relatively simple objects, but researchers are planning more practical, as virtual switches in hospitals, for example, and other places where pollution is a problem contact.

Shinoda also said the technology could be used to replace other physical objects, making it economical and ecological.

Twitter is about to assert u $ s1.000 million

The network of microblogging is within walking distance of belonging to an exclusive group of companies that are valued at that figure billionaire

Twitter started with an investment of $ 55 million and 50 million extended to achieve more. In that race, and success in the sum of users rated money rounds microblogging network in 35 million more, being valued at 140 million.

But the network is always growing and adding twittered around the world, which means a great speculation by money tables. The last round-the third-increased its value to climb to $ 250 million.

This escalation was exponential, as global growth of the service. That's why it is assumed that the next round Twitter finally be worth one billion dollars. The number, which at first seem exaggerated, it is also about the latest announcement of its creators, who advanced mechanisms for generating profits, such as the inclusion of advertising.

Applying your traffic exponentially multiplied and participation, "so it is speculated the capital of the network grows disproportionately," published Techcrunch.

Biz Stone a few days ago, the site manager, announced a change in the terms and conditions of the platform leaving the door open for better monetization of the system. In addition, the API system seems to change to be brought under greater control.

There's no official confirmation. But already there is speculation with a wider range of possibilities to study a profitable business model.

Google acquires system that prevents fraud and digitizes books

Google acquired a program developed at Carnegie Mellon that seeks to reduce spam and phishing, as it scans books.

With reCAPTCHA, the user must complete simple word games in order to register on a Web page or by completing an electronic purchase. As computers by themselves can not decipher distorted letters or numbers, the product ensures that customers really are and not automated programs that are running the board.

But reCAPTCHA offers something else: the puns come from real books, which makes the system you create digital versions of texts as users enter the words.

Google Inc. was developing a project of scanning books to place on the internet. In most cases, the "scan" and then used a program for optical character recognition engines that allow you to use in the text. However, this technique does not always work in books with impairments or with distorted letters. In such cases, the choice was typed by hand the work.

ReCAPTCHA offers another alternative to take the pieces that the computer does not recognize and separate them into individual words that are used in safety tests on the internet. Then again reCAPTCHA reconstruct the text of the book with the words entered by users.

Luis von Ahn, Carnegie Mellon professor who developed the tool and reCAPTCHA founded the company in 2008, said the program is great for Google.

Were not disclosed details of the acquisition, announced on Wednesday.

Wall Street Journal charged for sending news to mobile

The Wall Street Journal plans to start charging $ 2 a week to read their articles on BlackBerry, iPhone and other mobile devices, expanding its efforts to become less dependent on revenues from their print edition.

The rates will be imposed on one or two months, according to Rupert Murdoch, CEO of the company owning the Journal, Murdoch said News Corp. charges Tuesday during an investor conference in New York.

Details of the deal for the Journal's new rates next week.

The Journal introduced a free application, "Mobile Reader for BlackBerry in August 2008 and began offering the iPhone for about five months ago. The newspaper announced that users would free mobile application for a limited time.

Unlike most American newspapers, the Journal has long required a subscription to read most of its articles on its Web site. The strategy has been effective so far and claims over one million online subscribers.

Now Murdoch tries to generate more revenue through other channels to help offset a sharp drop in advertising in recent years. It is proposed to charge for online access to other News Corp. newspapers, including The New York Post and the Times of London.

Readers who subscribe to the newspaper's Web site can access it on their phones at no additional charge if they use a mobile browser.

Subscribers to the print edition of the Journal will have to pay a dollar a week if they want the mobile application, Murdoch said on Tuesday. The rate of two dollars a week will be for mobile readers that do not subscribe to the newspaper.

Company launches interactive TV ads in the U.S.

Cablevision Systems Corp. on Wednesday unveiled a system for interactive television advertising, parallel to those that already are transmitted normally, which enable viewers to order samples and brochures Americans and even purchase products immediately by pressing a button on the remote control .

Such ads, which are already used on the Internet under the name of banners (banners), will deploy in the bottom of certain television commercials, in collaboration with at least half a dozen advertisers of consumer products.

When viewers press the announcement, the main image is reduced to one quarter of its size and the rest provide product information. The scheduled commercial announcement for television and his banner ad will be the same advertiser.

The ads only allow viewers to request product samples, brochures and coupons when they start airing in the U.S. in early October.

By year's end, users can keep certain trade, such as movie trailers, to be repeated later. Purchases through remotes will begin in 2010.

"We believe that television can give more and this is a fun new way to extend their television experience," said Gemma Toner, senior vice president of marketing and business development. "This is done a certain way to avoid being annoying. The consumer is in control," he added.

Cablevision serves 3.1 million subscribers in the metropolitan New York.

German City advertised internet porn by mistake

Officials in the city of Gelsenkirchen, western Germany, accidentally advertised on its website pornography among the services offered to its residents.

"It was a mistake," a spokesman said Tuesday the city authorities. "There was never any intention that the city offer pornography as a service," he added.

The clerical error arose when an employee who compiled the list thought that brothel owners could type "porn" into the search box to find information on the tax to the sex of the city, he added.

The city has already removed the word from the list.

Zune HD officially comes into the market to compete with iPod

The software maker Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday released a slimmer version, and renewed its Zune digital media player, in another attempt to compete with Apple's iPod.

The Zune HD touch screen, which has radio and wi-fi, is priced somewhat lower than the comparable Apple iPod Touch to try to gain market share in the holiday season this year in the United States.

Microsoft says that the device claims to have a technical superiority over the iPod, with a display of organic light-emitting diodes the newest and the ability to transmit high-definition video to televisions.

However, there is not generating an impact on the iPod, which dominated from among digital music players after its launch in 2001 and now controls more than 70 percent of the market.

Microsoft announced the value of new models last month, setting the black version of its 16 gigs at $ 219.99 and platinum from 32 gigs worth of $ 289.99. Also available in red, green and blue.

At the time, those numbers were far below that charged $ 399 for Apple iPod Touch 32 gigs, but since then Apple lowered its value and now offers an updated version with the same memory for $ 299. He also launched a Touch with 64 gigs and video camera in your model iPod Nano.

By controversy resurfaces relationship between cellphone use and cancer

Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, chairman of the Pensions Commission, Health, Education and Labor, U.S. Senate, promised to thoroughly investigate any possible link between mobile phone use and cancer.

Harkin, who took office in committee this month after the death of Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, said he was concerned by the fact that no one could prove that cell phones do not cause cancer.

"I was reminded of this country's experience with cigarettes. Decades passed between the first warnings on snuff and the final conclusion that cigarettes caused lung cancer," said Harkin, who now has powers to investigate matters on the health.

The mobile phones used by some 275 million people in the U.S. and 4,000 millions around the world use radio waves. Years of research have failed to establish any clear link between its use and various cancers, including brain.

Recently there have been concerns raised by the activist group Environmental Working Group and epidemiologist Devra Lee Davis of the University of Pittsburgh, who wrote a book that said that the Government has overlooked many potential sources of cancer.



Linda Erdreich, the science and engineering firm Exponent in New York, said that 50 years had not shown evidence that cellphones cause cancer.

"This part of the spectrum is known as non-ionizing radiation, said at a hearing, explaining that this means that radio waves can not damage DNA in cells.

Yet Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter pressed repeatedly asking if the science was conclusive evidence that there was no connection.

Erdreich replied: "Your comment that it is difficult to prove a negative result is accurate.

But Specter, a cancer survivor who said he avoids refined sugar and flour by the possibility that they may feed tumors, said: "What I conclude is that we do not know the answer."

The Web site of the Federal Communications Commission, U.S. (FCC) displays a statement that says there is no scientific evidence that the use of wireless phones can cause cancer, headache, dizziness or memory loss .

Meanwhile, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA for its acronym in English) has issued a letter of the same tenor.

Schools get rid of the controversial Chinese Internet filters

The schools in Beijing are beginning to quietly remove the filter Green Dam, which in July ordered the installation mandatory for all school computers, to the complaints of problems with the program.

Last month, China pulled back to their initial plan to pre-install this program that acts as a filter on the internet in all new computers sold in the country from 1 July, before the protests sparked national and international level.

But the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology held the order for schools to install the filter, which it said would block pornography and other unhealthy content.

However, critics say that will be used to spy on Internet users and to block pages that are politically sensitive.

However, some colleges have chosen not to install it.

"We will remove all programs Green Dam of computers at school because it has strong conflicts with the educational programs we need for normal work," said a notification on the school page 50 (www.bj50.com), dated September 1.

A technology director surnamed Wang confirmed Tuesday that the program has been removed from most computers.

"Severely influenced our normal work," he said, adding that it has proved to be incompatible with most software used for school administration.

"We have received many complaints from schools about the problems with the software," Reuters said an official surnamed Sun at the Education Commission of Chongwen District.

"It is a contradictory situation for us," said Sun, who said they are among the directives of central authorities to install the program and the complaints of the schools.

Minister of Industry and Information Technology, Li Yizhong, said in August that schools, Internet cafes and other public places should install the Green Dam, but ordinary users would not be required.

The program, developed by Jinhui Computer System Engineering, has been criticized by the technology industry for being poorly designed even for those who want to protect children. The program must be installed on each program, not on a central server, and can cause failures in other programs.

Dell will pay 4 million after complaints from consumers in the U.S.

The computer maker Dell Inc. will pay four million dollars in compensation and fines, more than a year after a New York court ruled that the company incurred false and deceptive advertising and promotional collateral on loans.

New York Attorney Andrew Cuomo said that some consumers paid for things they never received, including warranties that cost them additional payments of between 99 and 250 dollars each.

Cuomo said that Dell should clearly disclose that most customers are not eligible to get free plans for financing or repair "the next day.

Dell did not admit any fraudulent act in an agreement with the authorities of the State of New York announced on Tuesday.

U.S. customers can apply for rebates through cibersiitio www.nyagdell.com. It was not clear how many customers were affected.

A spokesman for Dell, a company based in Round Rock, Texas, said the company is pleased to resolve the matter.

Smart roads proposed solar technology

Like a giant video game. More or less this is how the roads would be in the U.S. if the Solar Roadways project were to become a reality.
This is an initiative that seeks to transform the routes across the country in "smart roads" constructed with solar panels.
Recently, the U.S. Transportation Department awarded a contract to that company $ 100,000 to continue developing a prototype solar panel resistant to replace traditional asphalt highways.
Each panel, four meters by four meters, has the capacity to produce 7.6 kilowatts per day and as he told BBC World Brusaw Scott, one of the two founders of the company, if these pathways are implemented throughout the country, generate three times more electricity than it needs throughout the United States.

To give an idea on a smaller scale, one mile four-lane built with these panels could generate (and store) close enough electricity to supply 500 homes.


Not only helps in the fight against climate change because it precludes the use of bitumen, a petroleum derivative, it also opens the way-a very appropriate metaphor in this case for electric cars because they can be recharged at any instead of the road, says the company.

Another advantage of the panels is that they "have built a kind of heating to prevent accumulation of snow during the winter."
"This will allow the Department of Transportation to save much of the budget that goes to the vehicles to clear roads of snow shovels and other tools," he told BBC World Brusaw.

As for the signaling system, no need to paint the lines on the route: it contains LED lamps (English acronym that means light emitting diode) that light marking the white and yellow stripes, "which makes them more visible at night, especially for people with vision problems, and when it rains ". Moreover, as also have a sensor that recognizes the weight if there is an animal, a pedestrian or another car nearby, has the ability to tell the driver whether to stop or slow the march.
According to Solar Roadways, it takes about 5,000 million of these solar panels (4m. X 4m.) To cover all the paved areas of the country. If we consider that each panel has a value of about $ 10,000 total cost is exorbitant.

Brusaw However for long term benefits are such that the costs are compensated.
But for this project will be implemented in practice remains to test the material and assess its strength, because "it would be the first time that a car driving on glass.
For this reason, in this first phase, the idea is to install solar panels in parking lots, "where cars travel at lower speeds," explains Brusaw told the BBC.

Solar Roadways is expected that the first plant to manufacture these panels become operational within two years.

Adobe buys Omniture by 1,800 million

Adobe Systems Inc. announced Tuesday it will buy the analytical software company Omniture by 1,800 million.

The move will enable Adobe to offer marketers ways to better monitor the effectiveness of content created by their software.

Adobe Systems Inc., headquartered in San Jose, Calif., said it would buy Omniture Inc. for $ 21.50 per share in cash, a premium of 24% over the closing price of the shares of Omniture Tuesday.

The purchase announcement came at the same time that Adobe posted who won $ 136 million, or 26 cents a share, during the third quarter ended in August. The figure represents a drop of 29% over the same period last year.

Adobe achieved earnings of 35 cents per share, a penny above what analysts expected who were interviewed in a poll by Thomson Reuters.

The manufacturer of the programs Photoshop, Flash and Acrobat, said profit fell 21% to 697.5 million dollars.

Facebook says he won more than it spent in 2nd quarter

The social networking site Facebook said Tuesday it reached a financial milestone by winning more money than it spent in the last quarter, a goal he did not plan to meet next year although the company is worth billions of dollars .

The company achieved a "positive value of cash flow" during the second quarter ended in June, wrote the founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a Facebook blog site.

"This is important for us as Facebook prepares to be an independent strong long-term," he said.

The novelty does not mean that Facebook is profitable as measured by commonly used standard most companies. Cash remaining after the costs covered could be eaten by other costs such as taxes, debt payments and accounting expenses.

Zuckerberg did not say whether Facebook is about to file an IPO in the bag.

The company raised more than $ 600 million from investors since its founding five years ago. The latest shot came from the internet investment fund Digital Sky Technologies Russian, who bought 2% of the company for 200 million dollars, so that their total value came to 10.000 million.

Zuckerberg also said that Facebook already has 300 million users worldwide

Server "The Pirate Bay creates fund for judicial

The Swedish service provider Black Internet today announced the creation of a fund to raise money to pay legal disputes against judgments that require operators to leave the internet to their customers.

A Stockholm court last month forced to leave Black Internet to your server to "The Pirate Bay, one of the leading portals in the world to exchange files over the Internet, under threat of a fine of 500,000 kronor (50,000 euros less) .

Black Internet has today launched Open Internet (www.openinternet.se), which offers options to donate money, and according to the company director, Victor Möller, other Swedish are interested in joining the initiative.

Open Internet intends to "fight on the side of citizens, supporting, in lawsuits and create opinion where the Internet basics are threatened."

As stated on the website, Open Internet aims to be an open platform that supports creativity and innovation and intellectual property rights claims that are in "symbiosis" with Internet and not in conflict, and that measures against crime in the network be "in proportion to the damage they do."

Black Internet has decided to appeal in court the sentence that requires him to leave the house to "The Pirate Bay", which used the former as their main server.

The decision of the court in Stockholm has been the first of its kind in Sweden, which has aroused strong criticism across the political spectrum.

The four makers of "The Pirate Bay" were sentenced on 17 April to one year in jail and pay a compensation of 30 million kronor (2.7 million) for violating intellectual property law.

The sentence the four defendants considered accomplices to a crime against the law of copyright, and that providing the necessary technology, the portal, created in 2004, facilitated the illegal downloading of files.

Government intervenes to stop the spate of 23 suicides in 18 months on Orange

The French Government, through its Employment Minister Xavier Darcos, today pleaded to the president of France Telecom, Didier Lombard, to try to stem the tide of suicides telecommunications operator's employees, who number 23 in the last year and a half .

Darcos, who received Lombard in his Ministry, he asked the company to take better account of "personal status" of their employees in the organization of work, the image of the agreements on the issue of companies have signed on as the electricity EDF and automobile manufacturer Renault.

The Job holder told reporters that we need a human resources management "appropriate, offering visibility to employees about their career development.

The president of France Telecom, which said that the most urgent is to "control the phenomenon of contagion" of suicides, announced the creation of a call center with psychologists outside the company and will address "without taboo" on Friday negotiations with unions on stress.

To break the "vicious spiral movement" of suicides, Lombard said suspending until October 31 since all the changes of their workers, who have been able to emerge as triggers in the decision by some employees take their own lives .

The long succession of suicides in the operator-in which the state retains 27% of the capital was about to have a new chapter yesterday when a senior agency Metz was found lifeless by other colleagues after having eaten a cocktail of barbiturates.

According to the first elements, the gesture might have to do with the news he had received that his mission was over and would have to work elsewhere.

Thus, the last employee of France Telecom to take his own life was a woman of 32, who on Friday was launched into space from the window of his office in Paris.

For this woman, who spent ten years with the company and took care of debt collection companies Orange (brand name of the group), also was told he had to change jobs.

LG "gets on the train" of the phones with Android software

Days after Motorola announced its smart phone operating system Android, Google, LG on Monday decided to launch its own smartphone with the software, whose popularity is growing by leaps and bounds in the mobile market.
GW620 The device will be launched in the European market later this year. It has a 3 inch screen touch and slide-out QWERTY keyboard. The company did not disclose technical details but says the phone "will take many applications and services created by Google.

The Korean manufacturer claims that the GW620 will focus both mainstream users of such equipment as rookies in smartphones, with a design "more friendly" and, of course, closer integration with social networks.

Unlike Motorola, who bets all his chips to Android, LG notes that no system will be restricted to Google. The company announced at least 13 new smartphones to be launched in the coming months. These devices have Windows Mobile 6.5, Microsoft, to be launched officially in October.

Google hopes that readers browse the new format

Google Inc. is testing a new format that will be assumed that reading stories online as easy as flipping through a magazine, a change that could eventually provide additional advertising sales revenue-hungry publishers.

The leader of Internet search revealed Monday the experiment called "Fast Flip" (Quick Tour) in a conference presented by TechCrunch, a popular blog of the global network.

The service is intended to replicate the visual appearance and operation of a print publication. The stories are displayed on websites that can be moved quickly by pressing large arrows at the side instead of the standard web link required to wait several seconds to display a page. Readers can choose through the content based on topics, favorite writers and publications.

For now, Fast Flip display only the first page of a story. Readers who wish to continue will have to click through the site's editor, where the deployment is rolled back to a traditional Internet page.

More than three dozen publishers, broadcasters and electronic media Web sites have agreed to share their content on Fast Flip. Among the participants are two major daily newspapers: The New York Times and Washington Post and major magazines like Newsweek and BusinessWeek.

Publishers who provide stories to Fast Flip get the bulk of the revenue from ads that Google tries to show in the new format. That is a change in relation to the main search page of Google and its news section, where the company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, gets all the money from the ads displayed alongside headlines and snippets of stories.

Fast Flip is the latest step made by Google to improve its relationship with publishers of newspapers and magazines, many of whom have complained that the company benefits financially from its articles without sharing the money.

Cybercriminals will focus on small businesses

Cyber criminals are attacking with increasing frequency to small and medium businesses that do not have the resources to renovate its computer systems security, federal officials said.

Many of these attacks are perpetrated by organized groups that operate outside the United States and are therefore able to steal credit card numbers and personal information of the cardholder, said Michael Merritt, deputy director of the Office of Investigations U.S. Secret Service.

As larger companies have protected their computer networks with complex security systems, cyber criminals have adapted and now directing their attacks toward smaller companies are less protected, the official said in testimony before the Committee of Senate Homeland Security.

Phil Reitinger, a senior official of the Department of Homeland Security, said there are several simple steps that companies can implement to protect themselves.

"Protecting the entrance of a factory or shop is part of the nature of business for the owners, so consideration should be ciberprotección," Reitinger said in his testimony.

He added that according to a recent study, up to 87% of cybercrimes could be avoided by simply taking simple preventive measures or intermediate level.

Reitinger and Merritt said that government agencies are working to increase cooperation among themselves and with private companies.

Some lawmakers believe it essential to create agreements between the private sector, security forces, government and allies abroad.

"Security can not reach the government alone," said Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, chairman of the panel of national security.

Yahoo! sell its 1.14 percent in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba

The U.S. multinational Yahoo! sell its 1.14 percent in the Chinese giant Alibaba.com, one of the largest global e-commerce websites, almost two years after the Chinese company went public, media reported Wednesday in Shanghai.

Yahoo! expected to dispose of such participation by nearly 150 million dollars (102 million), today announced the official newspaper "Shanghai Daily".

Nevertheless, Yahoo still controls 40 percent of matrix Chinese portal, Alibaba Group, since October 2005 the Chinese group, which last week celebrated 10 years since its founding, seized all shares of the local version of the American company, Yahoo! China.

At that time, Yahoo! paid more than 1,000 million for its investment in Alibaba Group, but now available for sale of 57.48 million H-shares of Alibaba.com on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, share prices reflecting between 4 and a 6.4 percent discount to their value at market close yesterday.

The Alibaba Group, which controls 74 percent of Alibaba.com, recovered 1.14 percent and that kept Yahoo! from the portal's IPO in November 2007, which at the time was the largest initial public offering (IPO) of the sector from that of Google on the NYSE Nasdaq in 2004.

"We are delighted with the decision of Yahoo!" Said John Spelich, vice president of corporate affairs of the Alibaba Group.

"Having more control of Alibaba.com, with increased liquidity and support of our major institutional investors, Alibaba.com is what we hoped to achieve when freed his main investor," he said.

Spelich was referring to the move of last July when released Alibaba.com major investors in its IPO in 2007 then signed commitment not to sell their shares until at least November 2009.

Shares in Hong Kong portal precipitated the crisis last year, but have been recovering since 2009 and have nearly quadrupled since January.

In August, the Alibaba Group announced the restructuring of Yahoo! China, which separated the classified ads portal for transfer to Taobao.com Koubei.com its eBay-style portal.

Both the portal as a business group that emerged around them were founded by former English teacher Ma Yun (Jack Ma internationally known as) that he has surrounded himself with an aura of charismatic and visionary entrepreneur who has made it famous in the Chinese business world.

They offer ideas to charge for internet news

Some of the world's largest technology companies say they can help companies successfully publishers to charge for news on the internet.
IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and even Google a company which many newspapers blamed in part for their financial wrongdoing responded to a request by the Newspaper Association of America for proposals for ways to charge for news online.
But while preparing the infrastructure to charge is a part of the equation, the new proposals underscore what may be the most stubborn problem: Getting to stop publishing news on the internet free.
Randy Bennett, vice president of business development at the newspaper association, said his group began the process after a meeting with publishers in May near Chicago. A report posted on the internet on Wednesday by the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University includes 11 different answers from tech companies.

Bennett said the group wants to give options to the papers, and proposals will not recommend any more than the others.

The Google proposal might be the most catches attention, but only because the company that adds thousands of media articles on its news pages is closely associated with the idea of an open Internet. "Google believes that an open internet benefits to users and publishers," the company writes in its proposal. "But open does not mean free.

Google has proposed to offer news organizations a version of its Google Checkout system, which is used to process payments over the Internet. This would give readers a place to access an account and then pay for the news in a variety of sources without having to put their data again and again. And the company says it can offer publishers a variety of payment methods, from regular subscriptions to payments per item.

Companies hire experts to promote themselves on Twitter

People from around the world communicates with Alecia Dantica all day, but do not know if he is young, older, male or female.
What his supporters on Facebook and Twitter do know is that it's nice, sometimes daring, and a blue and gold box of popcorn Garret. That is the symbol of the popular fast food chain based in Chicago that attracts crowds of tourists and locals here and in New York.
And when Dantica sends a "virtual box" of popcorn to a follower in Twitter is innovating the way companies advertise, joining a growing list of social networking experts hired to handle Twitter, Facebook and similar web portals.
"My day begins on Twitter and never really ends," said Dantica. The executive remains glued to his Blackberry at all hours to meet their contacts in different time zones. "This is my family crazy, but good."

Multinational corporations such as Ford and Coca-Cola are beginning to use social media to spread a positive image, establish good communication with customers and correct misinformation, said Adam Brown, director of social media for Coca-Cola.
"By having the most recognizable brand in the world, we feel an obligation or responsibility to respond when people talk about us," said Brown.

Best Buy gave the talk of the world of social sites this summer to announce the creation of a job as head of marketing in emerging media. One requirement was that candidates had more than 250 followers on Twitter. (When that drew criticism on the Internet, the electronics store had a new job description of work).
Dantica, who is studying a Ph.D. in communications with its emphasis on building brand identity in Internet communities, says there has been an increase in sales when it has sent messages to Twitter since he was hired by the company in June.

"I really believe in the power of conversation in social portals" he said. "Some days we talk of time. Other days we speak of''Chicken Dance.''Some days we talk about recipes and popcorn parties and Garret shipments out to a wedding." Dantica mentioned popcorn in your messages to Twitter and has secured funds to their customers for special functions, but has never asked users of the portals that go to buy popcorn.

The sell through social websites is much more subtle. "In the social portals have to be social," said Nora Ganim Barnes, a marketing professor and director of the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. "The biggest mistake companies is to use social sites to hawk products. That's not like it."

The companies of the Fortune 500 are those that take longer to adopt strategies to buy social portals, Ganim Barnes said. However, nonprofit organizations have been the fastest.

"It's free," said the expert. "They never had such access to the media before. Investigations of Ganim Barnes and colleagues demonstrate a growing familiarity with social websites, even among the biggest brands in the world.
"It goes far beyond Twitter, MySpace, Facebook or blogs. It is encouraging people," said Ganim Barnes.

The incredible speed with which they develop social websites, Twitter in particular has forced businesses to adapt, "said Brown, Coca-Cola. "If you do not respond in about three or four hours, perhaps better than no answer," he said.

For example, a Twitter user complained about the difficulty of requiring a trip with all expenses paid which had won through My Coke Rewards program. In just half an hour, Brown was connected to the user on Twitter, talked with him by phone and solved the problem. Shortly after the user changed his avatar on Twitter for a can of Coca-Cola Zero.
Like Brown, Scot Monty is working to create a social strategy for your enterprise portals, Ford, where he works as a multimedia communications supervisor in Michigan. "Best of Web sites like Twitter and Facebook is that it is a personal conversation," said Monty. "You can lead who made an initial comment, but you're going in a public square."

Whether a business is large or small, Monty recommends those interested in accessing social websites to inform themselves before embarking on the adventure. "You can not go to a party, start out your card and leave. On the internet portals same thing happens," said Monty.

Dantica, Garrett popcorn, said he answered every time someone mentions your company on Twitter, either negatively or positively. And if one of his followers in the arcades is having a bad day, Garrett Popcorn is normal to send some boxes.
"Popcorn is fun. My brand is fun," said the executive. "Talks are already taking place. My job was to join them. This is the best job in the world."

Internet Virus runs hidden in an e-mail about the AH1N1

Hackers have taken advantage of worldwide interest AH1N1 flu to create a virus that gives access to the computer and confidential information that travels through an email, said Friday the Pandasecurity computer security company.

This email, from an unknown address, said that avian H1N1 is a potential economic conspiracy of pharmaceutical companies, and requests to read an attachment, which reveals "the conspiracy" as the Spanish company statement.

The opening of that document releases the virus, which then allows the sender access to confidential information.

The computer security company that discovered the virus claimed to have detected in heavy traffic late on this post.

"Its creators have used a topical subject, the AH1N1 flu to spread infected programs," he said in a statement a senior Pandasecurity, Luis Corrons, adding that "puts at risk the confidentiality of use.

U.S. extended review of agreement between Yahoo and Microsoft

The U.S. antitrust regulators requested more documentation on its investigation of Microsoft's agreement to provide search technology to Yahoo, the companies said Friday.

Both Microsoft and Yahoo confirmed that the antitrust division of the Justice Department had made a second request for documents, which shows a decision to conduct a deeper review that could take months.

"We received this additional request of the Government, as we expected," said Microsoft spokesman Jack Evans.

"Obviously we are cooperating fully," said Yahoo spokesman Adam Grossberg.

The companies said they expect the deal, reached last July and could challenge the leader of the Google Internet search, is expected to close in early 2010.

Google is the number one search engine with a 65 percent market share, while Yahoo is second with 19 percent and Microsoft is third with about 9 percent.

Antitrust experts expect the deal to be analyzed in detail by regulators, but that was ultimately approved.

In late July, Microsoft and Yahoo have signed a 10-year agreement under which Yahoo will have websites Bing, the new Microsoft search engine.

Microsoft obtained a license to the Yahoo search technology, allowing Microsoft to integrate certain aspects Bing. The advertising search product, AdCenter, also replace the equivalent products from Yahoo, Panama.

While Yahoo's agreement with Google for search ads was frustrated by the vehement objections from advertisers and newspapers, the two sectors were enthusiastic about the prospect that Microsoft and Yahoo come together to be stronger competition for Google, said a source who asked not to be quoted by the sensitivity of the topic.

Microsoft has expressed confidence that he can persuade regulators that a stronger rival to Google is the best for the market.

A second source close to the deal declined to describe what information they had requested. "Must we provide evidence of our agreement by the search engine," said one source, who also declined to be quoted.

Court overturns damage compensation against Microsoft

An appeals court overturned a U.S. compensation of 358 million dollars in damages against the software maker Microsoft, for a protracted patent dispute with telecoms equipment firm Alcatel-Lucent.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which handles many cases of patents and trademarks, indirectly held that Microsoft infringed Alcatel patents, but determined that the damages was not justified and therefore should fail again.

A federal court judge last year to compensate for the Alcatel-Lucent $ 358 million for damage produced by Microsoft, as a result of a violation of patents related to technology that allows users to enter their commitments to schedules Outlook program, patent known as the "Day".

Alcatel-Lucent officials were not immediately available for comment on the decision.

A Microsoft spokesman said the company will comment on the court order once you have reviewed.

Hacker pleads guilty to stealing millions

A 28 year old hacker pleaded guilty Friday to one of the crimes of identity theft known larger, leaving a federal judge with the problem of deciding how to compensate its millions of victims.

Documents filed last month had shown that Albert Gonzalez of Miami, would plead guilty to the charges he is accused in Massachusetts and New York who helped create a global network that stole more than 40 million credit cards debit and major retailers, including TJX Cos., parent of TJ Maxx and Marshalls.

He faces similar charges in New Jersey.

In his first public appearance since reaching the plea deal, Gonzalez was much more humble than it was last year in the same room, after his arrest in the case of New York.

During this time he has cut his long hair, and spent Friday meeting with prison clothes and giving only brief answers while reviewing Judge Patti Saris of the 20 charges he pleaded guilty.

Gonzalez faces up to 25 years in prison as part of its agreement, which would be one of the tougher sentences are recalled for a similar offense.

Saris set a sentencing date in December, but first seeks to review how the authorities can compensate its victims, which include shops, banks that issued the cards and millions of people.

Authorities seized cash, computers, a house and a gun, which in total accounted for more than $ 1.6 million, but both his lawyers and prosecutors agree that these assets are "modest" compared to the damage caused to their victims.

"I have a growing feeling that the death toll may exceed the (value) recovered available," said the judge in court.

After the hearing, a handcuffed Gonzalez was quickly moved out of the room, and remain in a federal prison in Rhode Island. His attorney, Rene Palomino, said later that the detainee "is extremely remorseful for what he has done."

When asked about his new behavior, the lawyer said.

"Once you make the decision he took, you take away a lot from him. Take responsibility for your actions is the first step to leave behind," he said.

Out of service forums that often include messages from Al Qaeda

The most important Islamist forums often pick up messages from al Qaeda leaders have been out of service today, coinciding with the eighth anniversary of the attacks against the Twin Towers in New York and the Pentagon.

From the fact reported in a message by the network "twitter" SITE Intelligence Group organization dedicated to controlling the activities of radical groups, which also argues that there is "confusion and concern" among the "jihadists".

Messages that makes known the terror network usually appear on discussion forums of radical Islamic groups, most often in sound recordings or videos that appear Osama bin Laden or his deputy, Ayman al Zawahiri.

Today you could not access these Internet forums, although it could go elsewhere to collect statements from groups linked to al Qaeda in Iraq, Afghanistan or the Maghreb, but not top leaders of Al Qaeda.

The last message from the senior leadership of Al Qaeda which was released on Islamic forums such was recorded by al-Zawahiri on 28 August, and he talked about the war in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

On 11 September 2007, Osama bin Laden released a video to coincide with the sixth anniversary of 11-S in which he called a hero to one of the perpetrators of the massacre.

Key mission for Space Station

The cargo ship HTV-1 will carry food and scientific equipment to the International Space Station (ISS).

His role is very important for the ISS project, which next year could no longer count on the services of the shuttle fleet in the United States.

Japan's space agency (JAXA) launched the module this Thursday at 17.03 GMT in the H-IIB rocket.

The mission of HTV-1 is run by engineers from Tsukuba, Japan, and from the control center of the American Space Agency (NASA, for its acronym in English) in Houston.

A few minutes after liftoff, the rocket separated from the module, which now heads for orbital complex, which will arrive as scheduled in a week.

The HTV-1 is a cylinder ten feet long by four wide capable of carrying up to six tons of material.

In the coming years the HTV and other robotic vehicles of the same type will play an important role for supplying the ISS when it is fully operational.

"This flight of HTV-1 is proof to verify their functionality and performance," said Masazumi Miyake, one of the officials of the U.S. JAXA

"After the end of this mission we plan to launch on HTV average a year."

Unlike other cargo spacecraft, the HTV-1 Japan's dock on the ISS helped by the station's robotic arm, which is the first time that captures something so great in flight path. The HTV-1 remains anchored to the ISS for about six weeks, while the supplies are unloaded and the material it carries.

The re-entry spacecraft loaded with waste from the ISS at the end of the mission and burn somewhere in the South Pacific.

The HTV will be vital to fill the gap that current U.S. shuttles will be used when no more after 2010.

Then the ISS depends five trucks for its logistics operations.

The Russian Progress spacecraft and the European ATV have already demonstrated their ability to fly. Four flights are planned over the ATV to the ISS, each year, beginning in 2010.

After this first mission of HTV, Japan plans to launch six more missions until 2015.

Two private U.S. companies, SpaceX and Orbital Sciences, are developing the Dragon spacecraft and Cygnus. The first is expected to transport cargo to the ISS by the end of 2010.

HTV and Dragon are particularly important for its ability to carry their heavy loads depressurized compartments that normally would not withstand the load points of a pressurized compartment.

NASA a few hours delay Discovery's return

NASA decided to delay a few more hours, until 23.23 GMT today, the return to Earth of space shuttle Discovery, after two aborted attempts due to bad weather yesterday.

The U.S. space agency determined that since the bad weather conditions persist, will miss the first attempt to return, which would occur at 21.54 GMT at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Therefore, the aim is to use the second attempt, which shall take place at 23.23 hours GMT, according to NASA on their website.

In the event that the weather improves, NASA could choose to divert Discovery to Edwards based U.S. Air Force in California.

However, NASA prefers landing in Florida is made because the costs of transporting Discovery coast to coast may reach $ 1.7 million.

The delay in return another day added to the 13 planned for the STS-128 mission, which first involved two astronauts Hispanics: Johnny "Danny" Olivas and Jose Hernandez.

The main objective of the mission, which included three extravehicular activities, was to replace a huge tank of ammonia that is part of the cooling system of the International Space Station (ISS), which is inhabited by six astronauts.

The seven members of Discovery's mission to the ISS also carried food supplies and new equipment, including a refrigerator to preserve biological specimens and a second belt for physical exercise for astronauts.

Failure to pay Microsoft releasing 358 million to Alcatel Lucent

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that Microsoft Corp. does not have to pay Alcatel-Lucent $ 358 million for patent infringement, because a number of problems with the way in which such compensation was calculated.

The patent in dispute relates to a method of inserting information in different parts of a computer screen without using a keyboard. Alcatel-Lucent said that the calendar in Outlook and other Microsoft technology used illegally.

A jury in federal district court ruled that compensation should equal roughly the amount that Microsoft had paid in advance to Alcatel-Lucent to license the technology.

But on Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found that the telecommunications equipment company did not demonstrate that its technology was valuable enough to warrant the payment of $ 358 million in royalties.

The judges of the appeals court ordered a district court to reconsider the penalty.

Mary Ward, spokeswoman for Alcatel-Lucent, said in an e-mail that the company was disappointed with the decision.

But in the same ruling, the judges reaffirmed the central verdict against Microsoft, considering it was adequately supported by the evidence.

Microsoft shares fell 14 cents Friday to $ 24.86. Shares of Alcatel-Lucent gained 18 cents or 4.6%, to close at $ 4.07.

This patent application is the last of six charges stemming from Lucent Technologies Inc. filed in 2003 against PC makers Gateway Inc. and Dell Inc., on technology developed by Bell Labs, Lucent's research arm. Then, Microsoft joined the list of defendants.

Panama national project promotes free internet

The Government of Panama is promoting a project that puts the forefront in Latin America to provide free internet to the Panamanians through an open signal and wireless technology, from next October.

The secretary of government innovation, Eduardo Jaen, told EFE that the project of "national network of internet access" was approved last August and awarded on Sept. 2 in a best value proposal to the Panamanian company Liberty Technology Corp. , for a total of $ 25.5 million.

He explained that two other companies made proposals, but those presented by Liberty were more attractive because it includes 405 points of connection even in indigenous areas.

Funds for this proposal will come in part from the 1 percent of the revenues that telcos have to provide the State, under the rules that were established with the privatization of this sector in the late 90s.

The Government hopes that the network becomes operational on 10 October in ten cities and 200 access points to benefit 1.5 million Panamanians in its first phase.

The program provides reach when fully operational from 2.3 million to about 3.3 million Panamanians.

Between the connection points are schools, health centers, parks and tourist sites, libraries, sports centers, fire stations, police, hospitals and training institutions and government educational training.

"This is a project that really is targeted to the stratum with less economic potential of the country to give you access to the world of cyberspace and to reduce the digital divide, especially between urban and rural sectors of the country," Jaen.

The plan, the official said, aims to enable students to have a tool to access international gateways for their homework and research.

The second phase will include seven hubs in the region Ngobe Bugle indigenous, west of Panama City and two in the Comarca Embera, east of the capital, like the Kuna Yala, northwest of the country the border with Colombia.

The official emphasized that the first time included in a project like this the territories of indigenous populations, which are the areas' most remote, less accessible and less connectivity. "

Jaén explained that wireless technology platform to be used for the national network of Internet access is the same that was used in the U.S. city of Baltimore.

"No country in Central America has announced a project of this size, and we will be the first in Latin America to have a system of these nationally," said Jaén.

He acknowledged that there are countries where similar models exist but only for certain cities, like Uruguay, "who have nothing more to focal points of urban concentration or tourism."

"We have it nationally, and our approach is essentially social," he said.

He said that what gives "very confident" this project is the ability of the contractor who was awarded the contract to five years, as is supported in the network design and equipment for U.S. technology companies Cisco Systems and Intel .

He also clarified that the project is not at odds with private enterprise because it aims at providing basic Internet access at the national level but not at high speeds with a speed limit of 256 Kbps in its first phase and the possibility of growing to 512 Kbps .

He said experience shows that young people and families will have better and greater demand for services, such as higher speed and that somehow that will encourage private enterprise offers them at competitive prices.

Robots allow surgery without incisions, experts say

In about 10 years there will be need to carry out surgical incisions in operations, the experts predict.

Some scientists say that in the future may use the holes in the human body and the umbilicus (the belly scar natural environment) in which robots are inserted to help carry out the surgical procedure.

Although it might sound like science fiction, there are already prototypes of robots that can move within the body and swim and take pictures in places of difficult access.

In particular, they have high expectations with Ares (acronym in English of Endoluminal Surgical System with Assembly and Reconfiguration), developed by the Sant'Anna School in Italy, with support from the European Commission.

The Ares is a robot that self-assembles in the body after the patient has swallowed up to 15 separate components and then helps the surgeon perform the procedure.

The introduction of the robot in the body avoids external incisions, minimize pain and shorten patient recovery time.


Another type of robot, such as Freehand (Handsfree), a robotic camera that can be controlled minimally invasive surgery.

Traditionally, laparoscopic camera (for minimally invasive surgery) is controlled by an assistant, but the Freehand allows the surgeon to control the camera using only head movements and a pedal.

Another example is the Da Vinci robot, which is mainly used to perform prostatectomies (the removal of all or part of the prostate), removal of tumors, and gastric and neurological operations.

Its robotic arms can rotate 360 degrees allowing the surgeon to operate with more precision than if they were using their own hands.

As said Dr. Justin Vale, urologic surgeon at Imperial College London, today's robots are already part of their work JOURNAL.

The specialist uses the Da Vinci robot for prostatectomies and all for half of their kidney tumor excisions.


"What I say to all my internal is that it is almost inconceivable, as surgeons, who in 10 years we are interfering in the body of our patients," the surgeon said.

"As we reduce the price and smaller factories is almost inevitable that robots are the norm."

But the expert adds that there are still issues to resolve, as the training and use of computers will be required for this new approach.

"There are certain limitations," said the expert.

"One of which surgeons will discuss the lack of sense of touch. When we use our hands with standard surgical instruments, we can have a sense of tension and pressure and feel if something is hard or white."

"But that we can not do with a robot."

"It's difficult when you're learning, because you feel you are losing one of your senses. But when you become an experienced robotic surgeon, you develop other skills to overcome this minor loss," adds Dr. Vale.

About 300 young people competing for three days in online games

About 300 young people involved in the Lanparty Uruguay Uruguay 2009 and compete simultaneously for three days in games networked computers.

The event, held at the Technological Laboratory of Uruguay (Latu), has the support of several public bodies and companies in the field of computers and network gaming.

The competition includes sports fighting, war, fighting and action, said sources within the organization.

Participants must pay a registration fee of 390 pesos (about 17.7 U.S. dollars) which entitles them to compete in the three-day tournament, which runs until Sunday, uninterrupted.

The spacious halls of Latu were fitted also with a rest room and refreshments for participants and another for discussions and lectures.

Moreover, the curious or sympathizers of the participants may enter the premises by paying an entry of 100 pesos ($ 4.54).

Stuffed lion mascot is new expedition to ISS

A stuffed lion is the mascot for American Jeffrey Williams and Russian Maxim Suráyev Canadian Guy Laliberté, the expedition members who will depart on 30 September at the International Space Station (ISS, for its acronym in English).

Suráyev, who will engineer aboard this mission, said the lion will be at the same time "mascot and indicator of weightlessness, when separating the Soyuz propellant third stage. The Russian astronaut said toy is a very endearing: "I have two young daughters, whom I asked to take turns sleeping each night with this lion, that smacked home during the six months that will remain in orbit".
The next expedition to the ISS will be the first in his career, so both daughters, Arina and Ksenia, they will fire him at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, built in the days of the Soviet Union and Russia currently leases in Kazakhstan.

Suráyev takes 13 years for the Russian team of astronauts and said jokingly that probably needed to "grow old like a good cognac. The Canadian Guy Laliberté, founder and president of the company famous Cirque du Soleil, will travel to the ISS as space tourists. In addition to a photo of his newborn grandson and small mementos of his wife and children, Laliberté will be put into orbit nine clown noses to give to all tenants of the station. The most important function is to make propaganda for Laliberté of One Drop philanthropic project aimed at preserving the water resources of the Earth.

For six months in orbit, the new issue should receive the three ISS Progress cargo space, take a hike extravehicular to install Russian research module MIM-2, working with crews of three U.S. shuttles and carry out almost fifty scientific experiments of various lengths.

Google News plans to charge for the service

The giant looks to develop a payment system, like a Paypal, which will allow the media to charge for access to online versions of their content
Newspaper Association of America (NAA) has contacts with Google in Mountain View to explore possibilities for collaboration.
Nieman Journalism Lab, who also unveiled a working document, said that Google has contacted the company. In the paper, outlines a model for future micro-payment platform, which will subscribe to multiple news websites, will enable the search for specific information and facilitate their purchase.
"An open web benefits all users and publishers. But open does not necessarily mean free. We believe that online content can prosper being supported by various business models, including exclusive content via subscription," they explain.
This revelation comes in an eight-page response to the request of the NAA content on proposals for payment, demand has spread to other technology companies and startups.

The surprise is given by Google's tense relationship with the newspaper industry

Spain: Nearly half of Internet users have surfed the Web from your phone

47% of Spanish Internet users reported having ever browsed through your mobile phone, although only 10% do so daily. This is clear from the first edition of the study "Trends in mobile navigation," conducted by Antevenio through interviews with more than 11,000 Internet users between 14 and 65.

It assesses the level of awareness and usage of different services and content offered Internet access through mobile phones and navigation preferences of users.

Read the mail is the main reason for access (49%), followed by navigation (46%) and content downloading (32%). And you can access from anywhere (60%) and take advantage of downtime (30%) the biggest advantages we found the phone from unauthorized access by the computer.

Google, YouTube, Facebook, MSN and Tuenti are the most visited portals on mobile navigation and Facebook the most popular among the social networks.

Regarding the applications and content are the most downloaded ring tones and logos (42%), games (35%) and banking applications (17%)
The cost, the main barrier.

Some 83% of users have a 3G mobile, ie adapted to connect to Internet at high speed. However, 53% had never been connected, and of that percentage, almost half do not recognize an economic issue.

Regarding the payment, 79% of the 'movilnautas' paid his own phone bill, to 8% company paid him and another 12% their parents. Among those with data rate, those who enjoy company-paid phone up to 13% increase.

Internet auction a dinner with former candidate Sarah Palin

Dining with one vice presidential candidate most famous of U.S. history is an expensive fad, at least if one gets through eBay, a platform that calls for at least a quarter million dollars for an evening with Sarah Palin.

Hours after jumping into a popular internet auction network, which will remain open for at least 10 days and had received 13 bids, the highest for $ 37,500.

The luxurious dinner with the former governor of Alaska is not close, will also attend because her husband, Todd, and four other diners who elect whoever wins the auction, according to CNN.

All proceeds are raised through eBay will go to "Ride 2 Recovery, a charity that provides bicycles and other forms of transportation to wounded veterans.

"The former governor is happy to be asked to contribute in this way to honor veterans of our country," said Palin spokeswoman Meg Stapleton.

The initial success of the dinner invitation to Palin has caused the emergence of other auctions for meetings with politicians, such as asking for a minimum of $ 7,500 for an evening with the former adviser to former President George W. Bush, Karl Rove.

Cuban bloggers open space for freedom of expression

A vibrant independent bloggers culture is emerging in Cuba, according to a report by the Center to Protect Journalists (CPJ) published on Thursday in New York.

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"The bloggers, mostly youngsters from different professions, have opened a new space for freedom of expression in Cuba," the study of Carlos Lauria and Maria Salazar, specialists to CPJ's Americas.

According to the authors, Cuban blogs are "a ray of hope for the rebirth of independent ideas within the closed Cuban system."

"Despite major legal and technical obstacles, a growing number of Cuban bloggers has prevailed over the strong restrictions on Internet use imposed by the government, making the island to spread news and views online," the document said.

CPJ estimated 25 independent newspaper blogs are being fed by Cubans, as well as 75 more blogs with personal or family interests and 200 blogs of journalists with official approval.

Unlike the independent press in the nineties - says CPJ - composed mostly of opposition activists, bloggers have marked their differences with respect to the government and dissent.

"Their blogs have been harsh critics of the Cuban government or rather have been spaces for sharing information and viewpoints," CPJ said the writer Manuel Vazquez Portal, jailed in 2003 along with 74 other dissidents, before being released one years and sent into exile.

Intentionally or not, bloggers have been astute in not openly challenge the Cuban government, said Daniel Erikson, an analyst at the Inter-American Dialogue, a think tank based in Washington.

"Their blogs have been harsh critics of the Cuban government or rather have been spaces for sharing information and viewpoints," said Erikson, quoted in the paper.

Cuban bloggers are mostly young people between 20 and 30, students, teachers, lawyers, artists or musicians, often written by name and are located mainly in Havana, where it is easier access to computers and Internet inside the island.

According to authorities, nearly 13% of the Cuban population has Internet access, independent journalists insist though that number is inflated. Cuba has the lowest rate of internet access in the Americas.

In practice, individual access to the Web is largely restricted to foreigners, intellectuals with government ties, senior officials, some doctors in hospitals, academics at universities and companies that are owned by the government, reports CPJ.

"The emergence of independent bloggers is also evidence of a generational shift, a sign that even a country as isolated as Cuba is moving slowly into the 21st century," concludes the report.

In its recommendations, CPJ calls on the Cuban government to "end the harassment" of bloggers and journalists, remove barriers to individual access to internet and free the journalists currently imprisoned in Cuba.