The arrival of a GPS navigation system for mobile with Android, Google's software for mobile phones, has led to plummeting stock manufacturers such as TomTom and Garmin devices, with which the Internet browser will now compete .
The first mobile phone to incorporate this function is the expected Droid by Motorola, which was officially launched on Wednesday and running the Android software from Google.
Shares of TomTom and Garmin reacted with declines of around 17 and 20 percent respectively in the markets traded.
TomTom, one of the manufacturers of most popular GPS navigators of Europe, acknowledged on Wednesday, further, that their selling prices were 9 percent less than they expected.
Google can now add to these and other companies in the industry to the long list of companies in industries with which it competes.
Your browser for mobile phone, called Google Maps Navigation, is an extension of Google Maps mapping service that provides audio directions to the driver, a role which had been demanded by many users.
For now, the software works only on phones equipped with Android as the Droid, but according to Vic Gundotra, Google engineering vice president, the firm hopes to offer the service in the future on other smart phones.
Unlike systems from TomTom or Garmin, which can cost up to U.S. $ 900, Google Maps Navigation will be totally free.
TomTom also has an application for Apple's iPhone device which, by the way, comes with the Google Maps service, but their price range is $ 99.
With 40 years, the Internet remains a major adolescent
40 years ago, Leonard Kleinrock was far from imagining that planetary social phenomena such as Facebook, Twitter or Youtube would be born from the invention he had just created with his team: internet.
"We are constantly surprised by the applications that come up," he told as he prepared to blow along with other colleagues the 40 candles on his "baby" at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).
"It's a teenager now," he concluded. "He's learned things, but still has a long way to go. It behaves unpredictably, but has given much satisfaction to his parents and his community."
On 29 October 1969, Professor Kleinrock headed the team that achieved for the first time to "talk" to a computer at UCLA with a research institute.
He was guided by the certainty that computers were designed to communicate with each other and that the network would emerge would be as simple to use as a phone.
"I thought it would from computer to computer, not from person to person," said Kleinrock, referring to social networks and sharing of content that is now the emblem of the Internet.
"I never would have imagined that 99 years my grandmother would spend his time on the Internet and did so until his death," he admitted.
One of the main keys for computers to exchange data is to divide the digitized information packets that can be transmitted on demand and without delay, according Kleinrock.
The teacher had written down his idea in 1962, in a college textbook published then.
But "nobody wanted to talk about it, particularly (the telephone operator) AT & T," he said. "I went to see them and say that does not work and that even if it worked would have nothing to do with that."
The operator provided anyway cables to connect computers to the ARPANET, a project funded by a branch of the U.S. military engaged in the research.
Engineers began typing "LOG" to enter another computer remotely but it broke down after the "O".
In the second attempt, the professor and his team managed to enter the other computer and send data over the ARPANET. Computers located at two other universities were built the same year and the network researchers tested endlessly as Kleinrock.
Funding was provided by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), a Defense Department organization established in 1958 in response to the launch of Sputnik by the USSR at that time the U.S. was mired in a technology race with its rival Cold War.
A series of "super computers" were added to the network in the late 1980s, opening the online community to other scientists.
"The Internet was there, but behind the common people," said Kleinrock, explaining that only when mail systems were installed in companies exploited the universe. "Com".
As for the "dark side" of the web, according Kleinrock dates back to 1988 with the first appearance of "worm" computer, followed in April 1994 by the first 'spam' (junk email).
Today 75, Kleinrock believes that much remains to be seen on the internet.
"The next step is to make it enter the real world," imagine. "Internet will be present everywhere. I will walk into a room and know I'm there. I speak".
"We are constantly surprised by the applications that come up," he told as he prepared to blow along with other colleagues the 40 candles on his "baby" at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).
"It's a teenager now," he concluded. "He's learned things, but still has a long way to go. It behaves unpredictably, but has given much satisfaction to his parents and his community."
On 29 October 1969, Professor Kleinrock headed the team that achieved for the first time to "talk" to a computer at UCLA with a research institute.
He was guided by the certainty that computers were designed to communicate with each other and that the network would emerge would be as simple to use as a phone.
"I thought it would from computer to computer, not from person to person," said Kleinrock, referring to social networks and sharing of content that is now the emblem of the Internet.
"I never would have imagined that 99 years my grandmother would spend his time on the Internet and did so until his death," he admitted.
One of the main keys for computers to exchange data is to divide the digitized information packets that can be transmitted on demand and without delay, according Kleinrock.
The teacher had written down his idea in 1962, in a college textbook published then.
But "nobody wanted to talk about it, particularly (the telephone operator) AT & T," he said. "I went to see them and say that does not work and that even if it worked would have nothing to do with that."
The operator provided anyway cables to connect computers to the ARPANET, a project funded by a branch of the U.S. military engaged in the research.
Engineers began typing "LOG" to enter another computer remotely but it broke down after the "O".
In the second attempt, the professor and his team managed to enter the other computer and send data over the ARPANET. Computers located at two other universities were built the same year and the network researchers tested endlessly as Kleinrock.
Funding was provided by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), a Defense Department organization established in 1958 in response to the launch of Sputnik by the USSR at that time the U.S. was mired in a technology race with its rival Cold War.
A series of "super computers" were added to the network in the late 1980s, opening the online community to other scientists.
"The Internet was there, but behind the common people," said Kleinrock, explaining that only when mail systems were installed in companies exploited the universe. "Com".
As for the "dark side" of the web, according Kleinrock dates back to 1988 with the first appearance of "worm" computer, followed in April 1994 by the first 'spam' (junk email).
Today 75, Kleinrock believes that much remains to be seen on the internet.
"The next step is to make it enter the real world," imagine. "Internet will be present everywhere. I will walk into a room and know I'm there. I speak".
Amazon introduces new payment system
Amazon.com seeks to simplify the buying process online by allowing customers to pay their articles with words like "shopping fanatic" and an identification number.
The Internet retailer showed on Thursday the new system known as Amazon PayPhrase.
The numbers of credit card and the address to which the product must be sent, which now must be provided on every purchase with Amazon, may be represented with a short and an identification number. Customers can type the phrase and the number without giving further information about the bank account and address to buy things with Amazon and other websites that accept the system of "PayPhrase" (phrase of payment).
Amazon claims that it is easier to empty the information on the credit card and more flexible because clients can establish multiple phrases identification numbers associated with the same credit card. This will also allow parents to provide their children with phrases pay monthly limits.
Transactions are processed by Amazon, which gets a commission every time someone uses the PayPhrase an external website.
The Internet retailer showed on Thursday the new system known as Amazon PayPhrase.
The numbers of credit card and the address to which the product must be sent, which now must be provided on every purchase with Amazon, may be represented with a short and an identification number. Customers can type the phrase and the number without giving further information about the bank account and address to buy things with Amazon and other websites that accept the system of "PayPhrase" (phrase of payment).
Amazon claims that it is easier to empty the information on the credit card and more flexible because clients can establish multiple phrases identification numbers associated with the same credit card. This will also allow parents to provide their children with phrases pay monthly limits.
Transactions are processed by Amazon, which gets a commission every time someone uses the PayPhrase an external website.
Wikipedia is fighting a hard battle against vandalism
Wikipedia is probably the largest collection of human knowledge of history, but the free online continues to record numerous cases of vandalism despite its attempts to eradicate it from their pages.
For a few hours Monday, the Spanish Minister of Culture, Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde, was "minister of ignorance" on Wikipedia, the latest example of the practical jokes that occasionally affect the profiles of personalities in this portal.
With over three million articles in its English version-half million in the Spanish-Wikipedia is the most interesting encyclopedic project in history because his articles have been created by its own users and anyone can theoretically enter information or change it.
In this vast wealth is its scope and also its main weakness, as the different taste jokes and slander occur in it with some frequency.
Among the mistakes is the article on known U.S. journalist John Seigenthaler, who was wrongly linked him "with the assassinations of John F. And Robert F. Kennedy Kennedy.
Most errors are published in a few hours in the community "wiki" or sometimes by individuals themselves, but Wikimedia is the foundation behind Wikipedia, is trying to stop the lies about living persons adversely affect its reputation.
Wikimedia announced last August that all changes on individuals living in the future will be reviewed by a "trusted editor" before getting on the network, attention has so far only received entries on people like U.S. president .
Jay Walsh, spokesman for Wikimedia, told Efe that the system already works for some time in the German version of the page and will be implemented shortly in the English version, but it is unknown when it will come to Wikipedia in Spanish.
The requirements to be "trusted editors" are simple and, in theory, any person who is a user of Wikipedia for over 48 hours and has at least five articles published in that time you may receive this status, so that control of the rest community is still needed.
Walsh acknowledges that the procedure is controversial. "It's a very complicated process," he said. "People want to be very careful" with changes in the functioning of the portal and added that it is being discussed extensively on the subject.
Some members of the community "wiki" were in favor of increasing the level of control over all items and not just those living personalities, but Walsh said that was discarded because it would slow the rate of content creation.
Moreover, this idea would run somewhat against the spirit of independence and anti-bureaucracy of Wikipedia and the last thing needed now is free to drive away the thousands of selfless contributors, he said.
Wikipedia reached its zenith in March 2007 with about 820,000 employees, but this figure is now about 750,000 a month, according to a study by Palo Alto Research Center in California.
According the same source, published today in Wikipedia about 40,000 new items every month, up from 60,000 three years ago.
It is true that the number of items grows, but does so at a slower pace than before. Internet users seem less interested in collaborating with the project without anyone knowing exactly why.
One theory circulating is that dwindles as knowledge areas cover or to edit, because practically everything is now written, at least in the English version.
The Wikimedia Foundation is trying to counteract the tendency to simplify the editing interface and tried to attract new publishers with little presence in the Universe "wiki", especially women and people of developing countries.
"Wikipedian''''The medium is a young man from a developed country that is probably a college student, recently acknowledged Sue Gardner, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation.
In contrast, the contributions of women are only 13 percent of the total. "We just started to worry about this.
It really is a complicated problem, "he added.
For a few hours Monday, the Spanish Minister of Culture, Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde, was "minister of ignorance" on Wikipedia, the latest example of the practical jokes that occasionally affect the profiles of personalities in this portal.
With over three million articles in its English version-half million in the Spanish-Wikipedia is the most interesting encyclopedic project in history because his articles have been created by its own users and anyone can theoretically enter information or change it.
In this vast wealth is its scope and also its main weakness, as the different taste jokes and slander occur in it with some frequency.
Among the mistakes is the article on known U.S. journalist John Seigenthaler, who was wrongly linked him "with the assassinations of John F. And Robert F. Kennedy Kennedy.
Most errors are published in a few hours in the community "wiki" or sometimes by individuals themselves, but Wikimedia is the foundation behind Wikipedia, is trying to stop the lies about living persons adversely affect its reputation.
Wikimedia announced last August that all changes on individuals living in the future will be reviewed by a "trusted editor" before getting on the network, attention has so far only received entries on people like U.S. president .
Jay Walsh, spokesman for Wikimedia, told Efe that the system already works for some time in the German version of the page and will be implemented shortly in the English version, but it is unknown when it will come to Wikipedia in Spanish.
The requirements to be "trusted editors" are simple and, in theory, any person who is a user of Wikipedia for over 48 hours and has at least five articles published in that time you may receive this status, so that control of the rest community is still needed.
Walsh acknowledges that the procedure is controversial. "It's a very complicated process," he said. "People want to be very careful" with changes in the functioning of the portal and added that it is being discussed extensively on the subject.
Some members of the community "wiki" were in favor of increasing the level of control over all items and not just those living personalities, but Walsh said that was discarded because it would slow the rate of content creation.
Moreover, this idea would run somewhat against the spirit of independence and anti-bureaucracy of Wikipedia and the last thing needed now is free to drive away the thousands of selfless contributors, he said.
Wikipedia reached its zenith in March 2007 with about 820,000 employees, but this figure is now about 750,000 a month, according to a study by Palo Alto Research Center in California.
According the same source, published today in Wikipedia about 40,000 new items every month, up from 60,000 three years ago.
It is true that the number of items grows, but does so at a slower pace than before. Internet users seem less interested in collaborating with the project without anyone knowing exactly why.
One theory circulating is that dwindles as knowledge areas cover or to edit, because practically everything is now written, at least in the English version.
The Wikimedia Foundation is trying to counteract the tendency to simplify the editing interface and tried to attract new publishers with little presence in the Universe "wiki", especially women and people of developing countries.
"Wikipedian''''The medium is a young man from a developed country that is probably a college student, recently acknowledged Sue Gardner, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation.
In contrast, the contributions of women are only 13 percent of the total. "We just started to worry about this.
It really is a complicated problem, "he added.
Google adds free service Voice Voice Messaging
Google Inc. provides a service which answers calls from cell phones when you can not or simply does not want to
In its latest effort to be more involved in the telecommunications market, the leading Internet search engine offers users the opportunity to have a free online message service cell phones. The bid was submitted on Tuesday.
The voice message service is part of Google Voice service, which is in its infancy but it could become a mobile service for the home and office.
To enjoy all the resources offered will have to get a new number of Google Voice, a step that many people are not willing to give.
Google's offering is to link the cell phone numbers with voice mail service. The process requires that you request an invitation from Google and follow the instructions on http://www.google.com/googlevoice/about.html.
Invitations are also available for users of Google Voice.
"We see this as a perfect way to familiarize yourself with Google Voice without much change," the sales manager Vincent Paquet.
Persons wishing to keep their current phone numbers can not benefit from Google Voice services, such as redirecting the calls to the home or office.
In its latest effort to be more involved in the telecommunications market, the leading Internet search engine offers users the opportunity to have a free online message service cell phones. The bid was submitted on Tuesday.
The voice message service is part of Google Voice service, which is in its infancy but it could become a mobile service for the home and office.
To enjoy all the resources offered will have to get a new number of Google Voice, a step that many people are not willing to give.
Google's offering is to link the cell phone numbers with voice mail service. The process requires that you request an invitation from Google and follow the instructions on http://www.google.com/googlevoice/about.html.
Invitations are also available for users of Google Voice.
"We see this as a perfect way to familiarize yourself with Google Voice without much change," the sales manager Vincent Paquet.
Persons wishing to keep their current phone numbers can not benefit from Google Voice services, such as redirecting the calls to the home or office.
Metallica video game comes to the screen of the iPhone
The rock group Metallica comes to the screen of the iPhone from Tuesday with a game to drum his fingers to the beat of music under the name of "Tap Tap Revenge: Metallica". ( "Hints of Revenge: Metallica")
In the game, participants have to give finishing touches on areas of the screen to the beat, as is done with plastic instruments like guitar or drums in popular video games like "Rock Band" and "Guitar Hero "although the new game is on a smaller scale than these.
The iconic rockers could probably make more money in one or two presentations, with the equivalent payment of 10 songs included in the game, which include "Enter Sandman", which will sell for $ 4.99.
But the rock group participates in order to stay visible among today's youth, said drummer Lars Ulrich, 45, father of two children, ages 11 and 8 years.
"It's a point I keep up to date in the eyes of my children for six months until something new arises," said Ulrich. "It's not the money or gain, nor that it is the master plan. This matter falls into the category of fun," he added.
Last year, Metallica released their new album "Death Magnetic" in the video game "Guitar Hero: Metallica", as in other markets.
In the game, participants have to give finishing touches on areas of the screen to the beat, as is done with plastic instruments like guitar or drums in popular video games like "Rock Band" and "Guitar Hero "although the new game is on a smaller scale than these.
The iconic rockers could probably make more money in one or two presentations, with the equivalent payment of 10 songs included in the game, which include "Enter Sandman", which will sell for $ 4.99.
But the rock group participates in order to stay visible among today's youth, said drummer Lars Ulrich, 45, father of two children, ages 11 and 8 years.
"It's a point I keep up to date in the eyes of my children for six months until something new arises," said Ulrich. "It's not the money or gain, nor that it is the master plan. This matter falls into the category of fun," he added.
Last year, Metallica released their new album "Death Magnetic" in the video game "Guitar Hero: Metallica", as in other markets.
Hackers attacked Jobs page of British newspaper
Hackers have attacked the use of the web British newspaper "The Guardian" in a move "sophisticated and deliberate", the newspaper reported.
The attack began at risk the personal data of some users of the website, which attracts each month to over two million netizens, but the newspaper says the company that manages the web has taken steps to ensure safety.
The "Guardian" identified the victims and sent them an email with this warning: "You have used this site to make one or more job applications and believe they may have accessed personal data relating to these requests."
Although the paper finds no reason to believe that their bank details compromised, law enforcement cyber crime squad at Scotland Yard is investigating the incident.
One of the users of the web, Paul Rocks, a freelance journalist in London, expressed his anger over the attack by hackers.
"It's very disconcerting to think that some very important data related to my identity may have gone into the wrong hands. This includes details of my previous work, date of birth and my current residence.
Rocks, 40, said the information that the pirates may have gotten enough for an "identity thief" may apply for a loan or a credit card, hence it has been in touch with your bank to prevent greater evils .
The attack did not affect the U.S. version of the web "The Guardian", which is independent of Britain.
The attack began at risk the personal data of some users of the website, which attracts each month to over two million netizens, but the newspaper says the company that manages the web has taken steps to ensure safety.
The "Guardian" identified the victims and sent them an email with this warning: "You have used this site to make one or more job applications and believe they may have accessed personal data relating to these requests."
Although the paper finds no reason to believe that their bank details compromised, law enforcement cyber crime squad at Scotland Yard is investigating the incident.
One of the users of the web, Paul Rocks, a freelance journalist in London, expressed his anger over the attack by hackers.
"It's very disconcerting to think that some very important data related to my identity may have gone into the wrong hands. This includes details of my previous work, date of birth and my current residence.
Rocks, 40, said the information that the pirates may have gotten enough for an "identity thief" may apply for a loan or a credit card, hence it has been in touch with your bank to prevent greater evils .
The attack did not affect the U.S. version of the web "The Guardian", which is independent of Britain.
Chinese online gaming companies aimed at world markets
With the money from recent IPOs, the Chinese online video game makers are warming up engines for play in Western markets, challenging the industry leaders like Electronic Arts and Activision Blizzard on their own turf.
After thriving in the country, companies like Shanda Games Changyou and want a piece of Chinese export machine and send their products abroad.
Changyou, which grossed $ 120 million (about EUR 80 million) from an initial public offering on Nasdaq in April, is in final testing phase of its online multiplayer game martial arts, Dragon Oath to the market of the United, whose commercial launch is expected in late 2009 or early 2010.
The company began testing the game in Europe in August.
Many American players still prefer consoles like Microsoft Xbox and Sony Playstation before playing online.
But analysts say a change is happening slowly but surely towards online gaming, more flexible formats that allow multiple players and can be used from any terminal with Internet access or mobile phone. Chinese developers are embracing the trend.
"The western markets are changing, a market dominated by consoles but I think the MMO (massive multiplayer games, for its acronym in English) will be the next fashion," said Atul Bagga, analyst at research firm ThinkEquity.
"EA and Take Two Interactive are strong console side, but online gaming is a very different animal," he said.
With over 50 million players online, China is expected to hog more than 40 percent of the world market by 2011, according to research firm Samsung Securities.
Where gaming operators in Asia have taken the lead is in their business model of micro-transactions where players pay nothing for the game itself, but small fees each time they want to purchase an upgrade, either a map or weapon .
This differs from the current business model in the U.S. and Europe, which relies on subscriptions.
Analysts say companies like Chinese computer games and Percent Changyou World have operational experience and business model to compete with global rivals.
In September, Shanda Interactive created its game unit, Shanda Games, to expand abroad.
The console market in the United States accounts for about half of the entire market for video games and software for the consoles is estimated to involve around 26,000 million dollars in profits in 2009, according to Samsung Securities and UBS.
The online games sector is growing rapidly and is expected to grow profits by 21 percent to more than 13,000 million in 2010, while video games will fall by 5 percent, according to Samsung Securities.
After thriving in the country, companies like Shanda Games Changyou and want a piece of Chinese export machine and send their products abroad.
Changyou, which grossed $ 120 million (about EUR 80 million) from an initial public offering on Nasdaq in April, is in final testing phase of its online multiplayer game martial arts, Dragon Oath to the market of the United, whose commercial launch is expected in late 2009 or early 2010.
The company began testing the game in Europe in August.
Many American players still prefer consoles like Microsoft Xbox and Sony Playstation before playing online.
But analysts say a change is happening slowly but surely towards online gaming, more flexible formats that allow multiple players and can be used from any terminal with Internet access or mobile phone. Chinese developers are embracing the trend.
"The western markets are changing, a market dominated by consoles but I think the MMO (massive multiplayer games, for its acronym in English) will be the next fashion," said Atul Bagga, analyst at research firm ThinkEquity.
"EA and Take Two Interactive are strong console side, but online gaming is a very different animal," he said.
With over 50 million players online, China is expected to hog more than 40 percent of the world market by 2011, according to research firm Samsung Securities.
Where gaming operators in Asia have taken the lead is in their business model of micro-transactions where players pay nothing for the game itself, but small fees each time they want to purchase an upgrade, either a map or weapon .
This differs from the current business model in the U.S. and Europe, which relies on subscriptions.
Analysts say companies like Chinese computer games and Percent Changyou World have operational experience and business model to compete with global rivals.
In September, Shanda Interactive created its game unit, Shanda Games, to expand abroad.
The console market in the United States accounts for about half of the entire market for video games and software for the consoles is estimated to involve around 26,000 million dollars in profits in 2009, according to Samsung Securities and UBS.
The online games sector is growing rapidly and is expected to grow profits by 21 percent to more than 13,000 million in 2010, while video games will fall by 5 percent, according to Samsung Securities.
Netflix offers movie and TV broadcasts on PlayStation 3
PlayStation 3 owners will soon be able to watch movies and TV shows from Netflix on their TVs using the gaming platform, such as Xbox 360 owners do so from a year ago.
Sony Corp. and DeVeDe rental company is preparing to announce on Monday it will launch service next month. Pear available owners of PlayStation 3 with a subscription Nteflix whose starting price is $ 9.
Netflix allows transmissions in a wide range of devices such as digital video player Roku, televisions connected to the Internet (including Sony) and Blu-ray in addition to arch-rival PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 from Microsoft Corp. But on the Xbox, Netflix broadcasts are only available for members of the line "Gold" on Xbox Live, which pay $ 50 a year, mainly to play games online with friends elsewhere.
For Netflix Inc., the agreement opens the doors to millions of potential new customers to add to the 11.1 million it already has in America. Some 9 million PlayStation systems have been sold in the U.S., and over 25 million worldwide.
The transmission of films is an increasingly important service for Netflix but hoped to continue offering the car DeVeDe 2030. And its CEO, Reed Hastings, said that he would like the service was available for all three major gaming platforms: Xbox, PlayStation and Wii. But so far, the company has had an exclusive agreement with Microsoft.
Sony Corp. and DeVeDe rental company is preparing to announce on Monday it will launch service next month. Pear available owners of PlayStation 3 with a subscription Nteflix whose starting price is $ 9.
Netflix allows transmissions in a wide range of devices such as digital video player Roku, televisions connected to the Internet (including Sony) and Blu-ray in addition to arch-rival PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 from Microsoft Corp. But on the Xbox, Netflix broadcasts are only available for members of the line "Gold" on Xbox Live, which pay $ 50 a year, mainly to play games online with friends elsewhere.
For Netflix Inc., the agreement opens the doors to millions of potential new customers to add to the 11.1 million it already has in America. Some 9 million PlayStation systems have been sold in the U.S., and over 25 million worldwide.
The transmission of films is an increasingly important service for Netflix but hoped to continue offering the car DeVeDe 2030. And its CEO, Reed Hastings, said that he would like the service was available for all three major gaming platforms: Xbox, PlayStation and Wii. But so far, the company has had an exclusive agreement with Microsoft.
Manual Twitter for those who still do not understand
This year, Twitter has become the online social network of more rapid growth and technological theme that everyone talks about. However, there are still many who do not know what it is and how much albotoro. If you're one of them, here we give a brief introduction to "twittosfera.
Twitter is basically a site microblogs. By registering, the user purchases a home page where you can post short messages - 140 characters maximum, only text and links to other websites.
Sounds too simple to be so popular. It is the simplicity which emphasizes a social network. The site promotes itself as a service easy to use.
The first thing a user sees upon entering is a common question as simple as: What are you doing? The user posts a response and its contacts can learn in real time.
Twitter recently announced that prepares versions of its site in German, French and Spanish. Perhaps when that happens, there is an "explosion" of Twitter in Latin America, as with Facebook. Meanwhile, Here's the main steps for using the service.
How to use?
Signing up is easy. Enter Twitter.com, click "sing up now". After filling the registration form and create the account, you can immediately begin to "twitter". Just simply type a message of 140 characters or less in the space that says "What are you doing" (What are you doing?).
But that does not end the process. To have someone read a post you must enter your microblog either through the address of your microblog (Example: http://twitter.com/usuario) or when one of his followers.
For fans, the first thing to do is start to follow other people. Just enter your microblogs and click on the "follow". If you want to stop following someone, simply look for the button that has a nut icon and click "unfollowed".
If among his followers there someone you do not want to read your messages, find the button on the nut and click "block". Now, if what you want is that their messages are read only by followers authorized by you, go to "Settings" (Settings), check "Protect my tweets" and ready.
To find your friends on Twitter, click on "Find People". There you can find "twittered" for user name, searching through your contacts from Gmail, Yahoo and AOL e-mail to invite others to join and find suggested by Twitter users.
Over time, your network of supporters and grow straight and you will be heard by more people. In the dynamics of Twitter there are several actions that will be useful to mention another "twittered" (@), citing a "tweet" from another user (RT), add a label (#), include a short link to another page, photo or video, and follow the most Tweeting the moment.
- Mention: If in your message you mention another Twitter user and want their fans to access the microblog of that person, just put an at sign "@" after the username. The tweet will show that name published as a link, a click on it will open your microblog. Facebook implemented this tool in September, clearly modeled on Twitter.
- Quote: When a user of Twitter and want to publish on your microblog a "tweet" without stealing someone else's credit, there is a convention usuada frequently by users. RT Write letters, meaning Re tweet (forward) at the beginning of the message, followed by the name of the user (Example: RT @ user) is used for their fans see this message and know who is its author.
- Tags: pound sign "#" is used to create Twitter "hashtags" tags that allow users to see all the "tweets" on a specific topic in real time. For example, if you post a message about cancer, writing # cancer the term appears as a link. By clicking on it, their fans can see all the messages of Twitter users who have included that tag.
- Short Links: Twitter allows you to include links to other websites. The problem is that there are many directions that are too long to fit in the 140-character limit. For this there are several sites that "shrink" the url (tinyurl.com, bit.ly, etc.). In fact, the same box of "What are you doing" addresses automatically shortened if the entire message does not exceed the character limit.
- Photos / videos: You can also post pictures and videos via external applications of Twitter. For example, the site lets twitpic.com sign in with your username and password for Twitter, you upload a photo, adds a comment and the service is responsible for issuing that message on Twitter with a link to the photo.
- Trending Topics: On the right side of the Twitter home page is a list of "Trending topics, which are the terms most used by twittered. It is a kind of barometer of the issues of most interest to users. By clicking on them, you can view all messages containing those terms.
Twitter is basically a site microblogs. By registering, the user purchases a home page where you can post short messages - 140 characters maximum, only text and links to other websites.
Sounds too simple to be so popular. It is the simplicity which emphasizes a social network. The site promotes itself as a service easy to use.
The first thing a user sees upon entering is a common question as simple as: What are you doing? The user posts a response and its contacts can learn in real time.
Twitter recently announced that prepares versions of its site in German, French and Spanish. Perhaps when that happens, there is an "explosion" of Twitter in Latin America, as with Facebook. Meanwhile, Here's the main steps for using the service.
How to use?
Signing up is easy. Enter Twitter.com, click "sing up now". After filling the registration form and create the account, you can immediately begin to "twitter". Just simply type a message of 140 characters or less in the space that says "What are you doing" (What are you doing?).
But that does not end the process. To have someone read a post you must enter your microblog either through the address of your microblog (Example: http://twitter.com/usuario) or when one of his followers.
For fans, the first thing to do is start to follow other people. Just enter your microblogs and click on the "follow". If you want to stop following someone, simply look for the button that has a nut icon and click "unfollowed".
If among his followers there someone you do not want to read your messages, find the button on the nut and click "block". Now, if what you want is that their messages are read only by followers authorized by you, go to "Settings" (Settings), check "Protect my tweets" and ready.
To find your friends on Twitter, click on "Find People". There you can find "twittered" for user name, searching through your contacts from Gmail, Yahoo and AOL e-mail to invite others to join and find suggested by Twitter users.
Over time, your network of supporters and grow straight and you will be heard by more people. In the dynamics of Twitter there are several actions that will be useful to mention another "twittered" (@), citing a "tweet" from another user (RT), add a label (#), include a short link to another page, photo or video, and follow the most Tweeting the moment.
- Mention: If in your message you mention another Twitter user and want their fans to access the microblog of that person, just put an at sign "@" after the username. The tweet will show that name published as a link, a click on it will open your microblog. Facebook implemented this tool in September, clearly modeled on Twitter.
- Quote: When a user of Twitter and want to publish on your microblog a "tweet" without stealing someone else's credit, there is a convention usuada frequently by users. RT Write letters, meaning Re tweet (forward) at the beginning of the message, followed by the name of the user (Example: RT @ user) is used for their fans see this message and know who is its author.
- Tags: pound sign "#" is used to create Twitter "hashtags" tags that allow users to see all the "tweets" on a specific topic in real time. For example, if you post a message about cancer, writing # cancer the term appears as a link. By clicking on it, their fans can see all the messages of Twitter users who have included that tag.
- Short Links: Twitter allows you to include links to other websites. The problem is that there are many directions that are too long to fit in the 140-character limit. For this there are several sites that "shrink" the url (tinyurl.com, bit.ly, etc.). In fact, the same box of "What are you doing" addresses automatically shortened if the entire message does not exceed the character limit.
- Photos / videos: You can also post pictures and videos via external applications of Twitter. For example, the site lets twitpic.com sign in with your username and password for Twitter, you upload a photo, adds a comment and the service is responsible for issuing that message on Twitter with a link to the photo.
- Trending Topics: On the right side of the Twitter home page is a list of "Trending topics, which are the terms most used by twittered. It is a kind of barometer of the issues of most interest to users. By clicking on them, you can view all messages containing those terms.
Unspoken rules governing cell phone use manners
It may not seem like it when the public transport passengers yell while talking on the phone, despite the annoyance of people around, but most Americans believe that there are unwritten rules of etiquette on the use of cell phones.
Check emails, send text messages and make phone calls when you're with other people are certainly a lack of "manners with the phone.
Also write messages on a date is strictly prohibited.
However, most respondents in an online poll said it would not be offended if they received a thank you note electronic card instead of writing, and 75 percent said it had no objection to the use of laptops or cell phones in the bathroom.
"The label is first and foremost a question of conscience," said writer and protocol expert Anna Post, who nevertheless described the results of the survey by Harris Interactive for Intel as "quite startling statistics.
The 62 per cent of 2625 adults who participated in the survey were in agreement in that cell, laptops and other electronic devices are part of everyday life.
The 55 percent also believed that the demands of businesses make people have to be connected, even if that means take the laptop on vacation or answer the phone during a meal.
But despite that need, and general acceptance towards the technology, people became more sensitive about the uses of these devices on holidays and during religious activities.
Almost 90 percent of Americans believe that using the cell phone during a religious ceremony is unacceptable, and 30 percent admitted they would feel offended if you receive an email indicating a desired gift.
But more than half expressed its intention to send electronic greeting cards instead of traditional ones.
"There are matters of common sense," said Dr. Genevieve Bell, an ethnographer and director of User Experience Group at Intel, adding that the social rules of when and how to use appropriate technology are still forming.
Furthermore, the label on electronic devices is different in different parts of the world.
For his part, Post believes that the tag technology will become more important over time, especially in traditional meetings, to be more difficult to determine what is appropriate and what is not.
However, the limit placed on the cards of thanks.
"I stand by the written thank you note," he said.
Check emails, send text messages and make phone calls when you're with other people are certainly a lack of "manners with the phone.
Also write messages on a date is strictly prohibited.
However, most respondents in an online poll said it would not be offended if they received a thank you note electronic card instead of writing, and 75 percent said it had no objection to the use of laptops or cell phones in the bathroom.
"The label is first and foremost a question of conscience," said writer and protocol expert Anna Post, who nevertheless described the results of the survey by Harris Interactive for Intel as "quite startling statistics.
The 62 per cent of 2625 adults who participated in the survey were in agreement in that cell, laptops and other electronic devices are part of everyday life.
The 55 percent also believed that the demands of businesses make people have to be connected, even if that means take the laptop on vacation or answer the phone during a meal.
But despite that need, and general acceptance towards the technology, people became more sensitive about the uses of these devices on holidays and during religious activities.
Almost 90 percent of Americans believe that using the cell phone during a religious ceremony is unacceptable, and 30 percent admitted they would feel offended if you receive an email indicating a desired gift.
But more than half expressed its intention to send electronic greeting cards instead of traditional ones.
"There are matters of common sense," said Dr. Genevieve Bell, an ethnographer and director of User Experience Group at Intel, adding that the social rules of when and how to use appropriate technology are still forming.
Furthermore, the label on electronic devices is different in different parts of the world.
For his part, Post believes that the tag technology will become more important over time, especially in traditional meetings, to be more difficult to determine what is appropriate and what is not.
However, the limit placed on the cards of thanks.
"I stand by the written thank you note," he said.
Users can retrieve contacts from Sidekick
Phone users, T-Mobile Sidekick who lost the data stored in memory at least now they can retrieve contact lists.
The phone numbers, photos and other personal data began disappearing from the Sidekick and a half weeks ago due to a problem on servers run by Microsoft Corp., maker of the Sidekick owner and manager of data services.
Now Microsoft has saved a part in the mistake.
The company said Tuesday Sidekick owners can use a tool cyber site of T-Mobile to save information. The tool contacts only recover, but Microsoft is also working to recover photos, notes, task lists, high performance recorded on video games and other information.
Microsoft bought Danger Inc., maker of Sidekick, last year, and took charge of the servers where the information was stored. Following the malfunction, Microsoft said it had improved the stability of service and backup.
Several customers bothered much by the loss of your data and actions were brought, while some of them tried to make collective demands.
T-Mobile, which depends on Deutsche Telekom AG of Germany, has stopped selling the Sidekicks, putting a sign "out of service for a while" in all models presented in its website.
The phone numbers, photos and other personal data began disappearing from the Sidekick and a half weeks ago due to a problem on servers run by Microsoft Corp., maker of the Sidekick owner and manager of data services.
Now Microsoft has saved a part in the mistake.
The company said Tuesday Sidekick owners can use a tool cyber site of T-Mobile to save information. The tool contacts only recover, but Microsoft is also working to recover photos, notes, task lists, high performance recorded on video games and other information.
Microsoft bought Danger Inc., maker of Sidekick, last year, and took charge of the servers where the information was stored. Following the malfunction, Microsoft said it had improved the stability of service and backup.
Several customers bothered much by the loss of your data and actions were brought, while some of them tried to make collective demands.
T-Mobile, which depends on Deutsche Telekom AG of Germany, has stopped selling the Sidekicks, putting a sign "out of service for a while" in all models presented in its website.
Making Affordable Europe studying digital readers
The European Commission said that it could revise the copyright law to facilitate companies like Google Inc. to digitize books already published and distributed their copies over the Internet.
Those changes could include easier ways to compensate authors and publishers, possibly through a legal license with the company could get the rights to create digital copies and pay royalties into a common fund would be divided later among the different holders of copyright of the work.
Currently the copyright is handled differently in each of the 27 European Union countries, making it difficult to obtain permission to publish digitized material, especially when you can not find the owner of rights.
The European Commission, the executive authority of the union, said he would begin work on the case next year in order to promote large-scale digitization and suggested ways to compensate owners.
Any suggested changes to European law must be approved by EU governments and lawmakers.
The commissioner of the Media of the European Union, Viviane Reding welcomed the resolution.
"Europe can offer more and earn more with the digitization of books," said the commissioner, but said it still must be reviewed various legal matters.
The measure was prompted in part by a hearing committee in September with European authors, publishers, libraries and technology companies that exposed the ways in which they affect an agreement that Google is negotiating in the U.S..
In fact Google has begun to digitize millions of books following the law of copyright in the United States.
The company has proceeded according to a tentative agreement with U.S. authors and publishers that cover all books, unless there is an objection by the holders of rights.
A judge must approve the agreement after the parties involved will make modifications to meet the comments of the Justice Department. The U.S. antitrust authorities are not considering the case.
Those changes could include easier ways to compensate authors and publishers, possibly through a legal license with the company could get the rights to create digital copies and pay royalties into a common fund would be divided later among the different holders of copyright of the work.
Currently the copyright is handled differently in each of the 27 European Union countries, making it difficult to obtain permission to publish digitized material, especially when you can not find the owner of rights.
The European Commission, the executive authority of the union, said he would begin work on the case next year in order to promote large-scale digitization and suggested ways to compensate owners.
Any suggested changes to European law must be approved by EU governments and lawmakers.
The commissioner of the Media of the European Union, Viviane Reding welcomed the resolution.
"Europe can offer more and earn more with the digitization of books," said the commissioner, but said it still must be reviewed various legal matters.
The measure was prompted in part by a hearing committee in September with European authors, publishers, libraries and technology companies that exposed the ways in which they affect an agreement that Google is negotiating in the U.S..
In fact Google has begun to digitize millions of books following the law of copyright in the United States.
The company has proceeded according to a tentative agreement with U.S. authors and publishers that cover all books, unless there is an objection by the holders of rights.
A judge must approve the agreement after the parties involved will make modifications to meet the comments of the Justice Department. The U.S. antitrust authorities are not considering the case.
Microsoft seeks growth in internet advertising business
Microsoft said Monday that underpin its strategy to grow strongly in the segment of Internet advertising through Latin America, where this medium is undeveloped compared to other markets.
"For Microsoft, Latin America is one of the best public in the world. If the percentage of Internet advertising in the region were greater, we would automatically much of the business," said Darren Huston, corporate vice president of Consumer and On Line at Microsoft, in an interview today to Efe.
From first visit to Argentina, the Canadian director commented that, in the context of the global crisis, "Online advertising is doing well, while television remains and graphics and posters have gone down."
According to Huston, "the overall online advertising is growing in all countries", while noting that the use of this channel is mixed in nations like Argentina, which represents only 2% of total advertising investment, while in EE. UU. such participation is 15% and in the UK is 25%.
"Brazil has a 6% but the rest of Latin America is between 1% and 2%, which is very low in relation to Internet use in these countries," said Huston, who on Thursday will participate in the presentation Windows 7 in Brazil, one of the places chosen for the worldwide launch of the new operating system.
The manager said that Microsoft has many "levers of growth" in the region, but most in terms of increasing the percentage of Internet advertising: "Going from 2% to 5% would be a very big business for us," said.
To this end, the company founded by Bill Gates, will work with those responsible for the areas of advertising business, first with large multinational brands with presence in Latin America and then with local firms.
In addition to Internet advertising, Microsoft points to the dynamic segment of mobile phones in the region, offering applications for these devices.
Advertising and phones are a source of growth in Latin America, where Microsoft has a high penetration rate (70%) in products such as Hotmail and Messenger of the 175 million Internet users in the region.
The Internet business segment is growing at Microsoft, which began in 1975 and based its initial expansion products off line including Windows and Office.
"In 1995 we started building a lot of assets''on line'', such as MSN, Hotmail and Bing, who began to expand at a faster rate than off-line''products.''And the way to make money with these products, which are free to consumers, is selling advertising, "said Huston.
According to the manager, Microsoft gets annually about 3,000 million dollars in profits by advertising on the Internet, "which represents between 5% and 10% of the profits" of the company, a percentage that "in the future should be 25% .
Huston confirmed that Microsoft will launch next year a new version of Office pack and that "soon" will open two U.S. stores in Mission Viejo (California) and Scottsdale (Arizona).
"We have to open them and see what the reaction. If this works, we are global, so we'll go anywhere," said the manager about the possibility of opening more stores in other countries.
"For Microsoft, Latin America is one of the best public in the world. If the percentage of Internet advertising in the region were greater, we would automatically much of the business," said Darren Huston, corporate vice president of Consumer and On Line at Microsoft, in an interview today to Efe.
From first visit to Argentina, the Canadian director commented that, in the context of the global crisis, "Online advertising is doing well, while television remains and graphics and posters have gone down."
According to Huston, "the overall online advertising is growing in all countries", while noting that the use of this channel is mixed in nations like Argentina, which represents only 2% of total advertising investment, while in EE. UU. such participation is 15% and in the UK is 25%.
"Brazil has a 6% but the rest of Latin America is between 1% and 2%, which is very low in relation to Internet use in these countries," said Huston, who on Thursday will participate in the presentation Windows 7 in Brazil, one of the places chosen for the worldwide launch of the new operating system.
The manager said that Microsoft has many "levers of growth" in the region, but most in terms of increasing the percentage of Internet advertising: "Going from 2% to 5% would be a very big business for us," said.
To this end, the company founded by Bill Gates, will work with those responsible for the areas of advertising business, first with large multinational brands with presence in Latin America and then with local firms.
In addition to Internet advertising, Microsoft points to the dynamic segment of mobile phones in the region, offering applications for these devices.
Advertising and phones are a source of growth in Latin America, where Microsoft has a high penetration rate (70%) in products such as Hotmail and Messenger of the 175 million Internet users in the region.
The Internet business segment is growing at Microsoft, which began in 1975 and based its initial expansion products off line including Windows and Office.
"In 1995 we started building a lot of assets''on line'', such as MSN, Hotmail and Bing, who began to expand at a faster rate than off-line''products.''And the way to make money with these products, which are free to consumers, is selling advertising, "said Huston.
According to the manager, Microsoft gets annually about 3,000 million dollars in profits by advertising on the Internet, "which represents between 5% and 10% of the profits" of the company, a percentage that "in the future should be 25% .
Huston confirmed that Microsoft will launch next year a new version of Office pack and that "soon" will open two U.S. stores in Mission Viejo (California) and Scottsdale (Arizona).
"We have to open them and see what the reaction. If this works, we are global, so we'll go anywhere," said the manager about the possibility of opening more stores in other countries.
Panasonic hopes that their robots are profitable in 2015-16
Japan's Panasonic said on Thursday that he hopes that his robots emerging profitable business in the fiscal year ending March 2016, anticipating a growing demand for devices that help care for elderly or do chores.
Panasonic, which competes with Sony to become the largest maker of consumer electronics products in the world, said he hopes to record sales of 100,000 million yen ($ 1,120 million) or more robots in its business in that fiscal year 2015-2016.
The director of Panasonic, Masashi Makino, told a news conference in Kadoma, western Japan, which aspire to make it profitable year to that year.
Among their robots, Panasonic has developed a nursing bed is transformed into an electric wheelchair that gives patients greater mobility while also relieve caregivers of the physical task of moving patients between bed and chair wheels.
It is anticipated that demand for robots to help care for the elderly or sick or to help with daily chores to thrive in countries like Japan, where the population is shrinking and aging.
Panasonic, which competes with Sony to become the largest maker of consumer electronics products in the world, said he hopes to record sales of 100,000 million yen ($ 1,120 million) or more robots in its business in that fiscal year 2015-2016.
The director of Panasonic, Masashi Makino, told a news conference in Kadoma, western Japan, which aspire to make it profitable year to that year.
Among their robots, Panasonic has developed a nursing bed is transformed into an electric wheelchair that gives patients greater mobility while also relieve caregivers of the physical task of moving patients between bed and chair wheels.
It is anticipated that demand for robots to help care for the elderly or sick or to help with daily chores to thrive in countries like Japan, where the population is shrinking and aging.
Chinese make backpack with solar charger for mobile
A team from Shenzhen Enon Dynamic Technology Co. Ltd unveiled this week in Hong Kong developed its newest release from Chinese solar technology.
A backpack that has embedded a panel of solar energy capture allows users Mantana charged the battery of your mobile phone. The new "eco-friendly" enables the cell to be loaded anywhere.
The technology fair in Hong Kong Electronics Fair this week was the participation of 2.8 thousand exhibitors.
A backpack that has embedded a panel of solar energy capture allows users Mantana charged the battery of your mobile phone. The new "eco-friendly" enables the cell to be loaded anywhere.
The technology fair in Hong Kong Electronics Fair this week was the participation of 2.8 thousand exhibitors.
Social networks, "fuel" for smartphones
The so-called smart phones that allow, among other things, Internet access, will be of massive use thanks to the "insatiable appetite" of the public for social networks, analysts say the mobile phone market in Britain.
Researchers predict for next year an explosion in sales along with falling prices.
The prediction takes place the same week the launch of the latest Blackberry model, called "Storm 2.
While the "Palm Pre", dubbed the "iPhone murderer," finally makes its entry into the UK market.
Fuel
"The Internet on cell phones is on the same stage where the Internet was in 1998," says Ian Fogg, analyst at Forrester.
Ben Wood, a researcher at CCS Insight, agrees: "We are on the cusp of an explosion of devices that seem computers in the hands of consumers, where previously it was only a privilege of the first who could afford them.
"Social networks are the fuel that is encouraging the moment," said Wood.
Increasingly, mobile operators and handset manufacturers are delivering phones that are "an assortment for social messages, alerts are Twitter, IM or the latest pictures on Facebook," said the analyst.
For Eric Schmidt, Google's director, could be the time to leave the label of "smart phone".
"The smart phone is not really a smartphone. It's actually a GPS device is a camera and a camcorder and a place where you can play games and browse the Internet, and, oh by the way, you can make calls.
CCS Insight report predicted that by the end of 2009, 44% of cell phone users will access information through their phones, while it is expected that smart phones accounted for 17% of the over one billion equipment produced in 2009.
Researchers predict for next year an explosion in sales along with falling prices.
The prediction takes place the same week the launch of the latest Blackberry model, called "Storm 2.
While the "Palm Pre", dubbed the "iPhone murderer," finally makes its entry into the UK market.
Fuel
"The Internet on cell phones is on the same stage where the Internet was in 1998," says Ian Fogg, analyst at Forrester.
Ben Wood, a researcher at CCS Insight, agrees: "We are on the cusp of an explosion of devices that seem computers in the hands of consumers, where previously it was only a privilege of the first who could afford them.
"Social networks are the fuel that is encouraging the moment," said Wood.
Increasingly, mobile operators and handset manufacturers are delivering phones that are "an assortment for social messages, alerts are Twitter, IM or the latest pictures on Facebook," said the analyst.
For Eric Schmidt, Google's director, could be the time to leave the label of "smart phone".
"The smart phone is not really a smartphone. It's actually a GPS device is a camera and a camcorder and a place where you can play games and browse the Internet, and, oh by the way, you can make calls.
CCS Insight report predicted that by the end of 2009, 44% of cell phone users will access information through their phones, while it is expected that smart phones accounted for 17% of the over one billion equipment produced in 2009.
Pirated version of Windows 7 is still circulating in Chinese market
In the bustling shops of Shanghai Xinyang market, fake iPhones from Apple and Bose speakers are displayed in an orderly manner from illegal copies of the new operating system Microsoft Windows 7, days before its official release."Which version do you want?" The "Ultimate"? Is normal? In English or Chinese? ", Gesturing a seller, proudly showing his wide range of discs packaged in white boxes with no name.
Microsoft is preparing the world for the launch of its latest version of Windows, but the Chinese can buy pirated copies this month for only 20 yuan (2 million) each - a fraction of its price reaches 320 U.S. dollars (215 euros) .
The early release of Windows 7 in China highlights the challenge facing the leading supplier of software to try to do business in China, the second largest worldwide computer market.
Research firm IDC estimates that about 80 percent of software sold in China last year was pirated. While this figure does not fall is still twice the world average and about four times that in developed markets like U.S. and Japan.
"The main issue that drives piracy in China today is the price," said Matthew Cheung, an analyst with Gartner, another research firm.
"If you try to sell a program that costs 2,000 yuan to a student who lives at 400 yuan per month, simply does not work for most consumers."In a sign accusing these pressures, Microsoft lowered the price last year of its Office 2007 Home and Student Edition up to 199 yuan from 699 yuan. Sell the basic version of Windows 7 Home by 399 yuan, little to Western standards, but still 15 times higher than the pirated copies.
The violation of intellectual property rights has been a common dispute in China's relations with its major trading partners, despite having taken harsh measures against the rampant piracy of all kinds of items, from fake Gucci handbags to pirated versions software.
A Chinese court jailed four people in August to spread their version pirate "Tomato Garden" of Windows XP from Microsoft, in what the official news agency of China, Xinhua, called the greatest destruction of piracy in the nation.
"Many people are willing to continue with this for a long period of time," said Steve Vickers, president of FTI-International Risk. "There are signs that the legal efforts are taking effect, and this should help improve things."
The Business Software Alliance, a trade association created by the software industry, said the sector lost more than 6,600 million (4,430 million euros) last year in China because of piracy, only surpassed by the U.S. .
For better or worse
Most experts agree that piracy in China is a long-term issue, but many additional issues must improve as a reduction in prices of manufacturers, users are more educated and increase living standards .
"Piracy in China has been decreasing year after year because the government is paying increasing attention and price between the original and the fake has been approached," said Qian Liyong, director of the US-China to protect intellectual property rights , based in Beijing.
Gartner estimates that piracy rates in China will fall to 50 percent in 2012, almost on a par with developed Asian markets like Hong Kong.Educating clients is also taking off in China that is beginning to understand the dangers of installing pirated software that sometimes comes with virus and spyware.
"It's a long-term issue, 10 to 20 years, does not leave at a time," said Edward Yu, CEO of research firm Analysys International.In a bid to tackle the problem, Microsoft last year launched a campaign in China that caused unusual display of pirated Windows XP users are put in black every hour.
But this only provoked the anger of thousands of Chinese who switched to free software provided by national companies like Kingsoft, leaving Microsoft with its own black eye.
Chargers can get rid of wireless cable
Headache is a watch for shippers to go with cell phones, media players and other small electronic devices. It is even more annoying cables and adapters to put in a suitcase when traveling.Can you imagine loading equipment without having to connect them?
I've started doing just that. I tried two pills that charge small devices like the iPod to only put on them. Only the tablet is connected to a socket instead of every gadget. However, these tablets are far from perfect. Special covers are needed for certain devices and adapters. But there is something thrilling about getting rid of almost all the cables.
The first product I tested came from Powermat, which began selling two models of tablet for $ 100 U.S..
One is a rectangular table designed for home and office use, which impressed me since I took it out of the box because it is easy to install and compatible with many popular gadgets. Powermat also sells a rectangle that folds into three parts to travel.
Both are available in retail stores in the U.S. A Latin American stores has not arrived but can be purchased online at sites like Amazon.com.
Powermat Each comes with a white cube that has a miniUSB port - the kind that goes on BlackBerrys and other phones - and eight different ports that fit the charging port on an iPhone, iPod, Sony PSP and other small electronic devices. Once you plug the gadget into the bucket, the bucket should be placed on the tablet to begin charging.
You can omit the step of using the bucket, but it will cost more money. Powermat sells plastic holders for devices like the iPhone, iPod Touch and Nintendo DSi, with special covers for some BlackBerry. All these devices allow you to recharge by simply placing them on the charger. There is also a small charging port that fits the iPod or iPhone.
These supplements can cost between 30 and 40 dollars. But it is much easier to maintain the special sheath placed on the iPhone and then just put it on the shelf when you need more energy.
Each Powermat can charge three gadgets at once; magnets hold them in place. When you put a phone in the Powermat, it emits a soft white light and a buzz to let you know that you are properly connected. A different sound alerts you when the connection is broken.
Powermat uses induction to charge devices. Basically, when a device gets enabled on the table, the two are given a "handshake" using RFID technology, or technology of radio frequency identification. The table identifies the device, determines how much power you need and initiates the transfer of energy to it. Once the battery is fully charged, Powermat stop the flow of electricity.
More important than the process for me was the speed, and bore my gadgets Powermat fairly quickly. It took about an hour and half recharge an iPod Nano, an iPhone and a HTC smartphone myTouch. That was the time it took when I plugged the iPhone in myTouch and the traditional wall adapters. The iPod Nano still needs more time in a wall outlet, a little over two hours.
Table of others who tried, myGrid Duracell ($ 80) was less impressive. It had slow loading times and ease of use is more limited.
Initially launched in 2007 by a company called WildCharge Inc. and recently authorized by Duracell, myGrid is primarily a plastic box covered with steel rods.
The table will come with some ports that connect to the bottom of cell phones. The ports have to be connected to a "power clip and a magnetic disk is placed in the back of the phone helps keep the clip in place during charging. This is cumbersome. If all goes well, the equipment shall be connected and a blue light shining on the side of the platform lets you know that the gadgets are being recharged.
Of course this is assuming you have a gadget that is compatible with the board. MyGrid website says the product works with several phones from Nokia, Motorola and BlackBerry, and as the port that fits the last two marks is miniUSB, should also work with other devices that have this port of loading. I was able to load the myTouch HTC phone with her, although its slightly curved back made it a bit difficult to maintain the connection.
If you have a BlackBerry Pearl or Curve or an iPod Touch, you can buy a rubber sleeve $ 35, which can also load the gadget when you place it in the myGrid platform. I tasted one that fits the iPhone (which goes on sale in March) and found it quite simple.
MyGrid works differently than Powermat, and requires that the contact points of metal clips and rubber sleeves are touching the platform to transmit electricity.
I also took longer to load devices with Powermat myGrid: a little over 2 ½ hours for an iPhone, and about four hours in a myTouch. I could not charge an iPod Nano, because Duracell platform compatible ports or no sleeves.
The advantage of this charger is to charge up to four devices at once instead of three, and no matter where they are placed.
But in general, because of its greater compatibility with gadgets and faster loading times, Powermat offers a better option, although more expensive.
Technical Failure erases data from 150 thousand users of Facebook
About 150 thousand users of Facebook, the most popular social networking Internet, they lost their account data, photos and contacts after lel website suffered technical problems last week that prevented access to these Internet services. The company has already ruled that the cause of the problem have been pirates.According to the newspaper El Pais, the change of the home pages of the profiles caused technical problems that occurred around day 3 October, which prevented access to the Internet to their profiles on the website.
As reported by Cnet site, Facebook on Tuesday hoped that the situation is normalized for all users affected by the problems and lost some information in the process. The exact number of people affected was not defined, but could reach the 150 thousand Internet users, a small percentage compared to the 300 million social network members.In an official statement sent to users hit by the problems, the company apologizes for the inconvenience and the Internet warns that "some data may not be recovered" and recommended that they review their profiles. Facebook also admitted that some data can not be updated. The problem affected excluded or recently added photos and content, such as messages and profile updates, or additions sent in recent days.
Nokia sell a new computer for u$s 300
The Finnish company Nokia, the world's largest maker of mobile phones, announced Tuesday that its 3G Booklet, the first portable minicomputer U.S. launches may be purchased for $ 300 from next week.The Booklet 3G which weighs only 1.25 kilos and is fitted with the new Microsoft operating system, Windows 7, will be available from Oct. 22 in electronics stores Best Buy or on their website, but apparatus not available until mid-November.
The price for the device, with the Finnish firm aims to make the leap to the personal computer market, includes a two-year contract with telecommunications company AT & T that provides wireless internet access in the U.S. computer ."Juggling Booklet elegant design, impressive features and a competitive price with the new Microsoft operating system, the 3G network from AT & T and unparalleled brand of Best Buy, we present a winning combination for American consumers," said President and CEO of Nokia, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said in a statement.
The Booklet 3G, with a thickness of just over two inches, also has a long battery life (up to 12 hours), aluminum chassis and multiple ports, such as SD card reader and an HDMI output high definition video .
It also includes webcam, integrated Bluetooth and high-definition screen of ten inches, and integrates the Ovi services, the virtual store through which Nokia sells music, games and maps for mobile phones, among other applications.
"We are excited about Nokia's decision to launch its first personal computer with Windows 7. Thanks to the simplicity of the system and the mobility offered by the Nokia Booklet 3G, we offer new and valuable experiences to our customers," said CEO Microsoft's Steve Ballmer in a statement.
According to Nokia, the Booklet 3G offer its users the opportunity to stay connected "virtually anytime, anywhere."
Microsoft fixes 34 flaws in Windows security key
Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday issued a record number of security patches for its software as part of its monthly update.The maker of computer programs arranged 34 flaws as "critical", the most severe level. These include fixes for Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000 and even Windows 7, which goes on sale until 22 October but has been in use by developers and some people who did initial tests.
Security patches are for a range of Microsoft programs, including Internet Explorer, Media Player, Outlook and Silverlight technology, which is on the basis of many media portals.
Disclaimer board member of Google for conflict
Google Inc. announced the resignation of a board member who also serves as a director at Apple Inc. in a move that eliminates a potential conflict of interest at a time when both companies are competing more directly.Arthur Levinson, chairman of the biotechnology company Genentech Inc. and board member of Google since April 2004, resigned immediately. Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said Levinson has been a key part of Google's success in the past five years, "but gave no specific reasons for his resignation.
The announcement comes at a time when federal regulators carefully examine the ties between the two companies.
Schmidt resigned from his post on the board of Apple weeks ago, shortly after Google announced plans to give developing an operating system for computers that would compete with Apple's operating system, Mac OS. Google also produces software for mobile phones based in direct competition with the iPhone.
The increasing overlap of products of the two firms had made the Federal Trade Commission consider the dual role of Schmidt, concerned about the potential for cooperation that would reduce competition in the sector. After Schmidt resigned his seat on the board of Apple, the FTC said it would continue reviewing Levinson's ties with companies.
Google shares rose $ 8.03 to $ 524.28 by midday in the Stock Exchange in New York. Shares of Apple rose 29 cents to $ 190.76.
Online black market worth over U.S. $ 100 million a year
The black market in Internet shopping credit card details or sending "spam", moving around 70,000 million euros (about 103,000 million dollars) each year worldwide, according to estimates from computer security company GData .A study by the company, which moved this summer professionals in the fields of performance of digital criminals, makes known that these fraudulent business on the Net are "perfectly organized."
The report, for example, the price of each "product": up to 300 euros ($ 440) for the data stolen from a credit card or up to 800 euros (about $ 1,200) for sending one million spam or "spam".
According GData, these businesses are moving in forums and illegal shops, supported accommodation services "insurance" provided by cybercriminals in the services offered and get in touch sellers and buyers.
For stores, they add, there are some so "professionalized" offering volume discounts, advertised with advertisements from the Web or return the money if, for example, data from the credit card they have provided do not work .
Iceland: The ideal cyber-refuge
Since the financial crisis, Iceland has been forced to withdraw from the bubble in which he lived, and back to nature.Fortunately, there is plenty of that nature in which to find refuge.
Iceland is an amazing world of volcanoes, grasslands, endless winter and ethereal landscapes.
It is not, then one would think, the most obvious place to put millions of computer servers worldwide who are, despite their utility, a little less attractive.
But now this country is looking for exactly that: to become the world capital of computing power.
Behind all the big Internet companies are huge and growing data centers full of servers working.
It is believed that Google, for example, has about a million servers, but even less intensive computing operations, such as banks, require hundreds of thousands of servers to store all your information.
The problem is that while these computers seem innocuous enough energy use.
It is of course the energy required for the servers themselves, but almost as important is the energy used to cool."For every watt that is spent to operate the servers," says Dr. Brad Karp, University of London, "the best companies, who are more careful about optimizing efficiency found that typically spend between 40 and 60% energy extra chilling.
In Iceland, with its cool climate all year round and fresh, cold water would require only a fraction of that energy. That would represent a major savings.
On the outskirts of the capital, Reykjavik, work is advanced in the construction of a first site whose owners hope to start a frenzy of construction of buildings for servers.
In about a year if all goes well, begin the first companies to rent space in the datacenter.
And if this is successful, other centers are planned.
The sponsoring company expects demand to be huge because with increasing the number of servers worldwide, a large cloud looming environment: all that energy means an increase in CO2 production.
Iceland has more energy than can be used internally.
"The industry data centers is on par with the airline industry in terms of their carbon footprint," said Jeff Monroe, head of Verne Global, a company working data center in Iceland.
"But if you think about the growth of these two industries, growth in the data center industry is exponentially greater than that of the airlines.
Already producing as much CO2 as the airlines.
Verne Global thinks that soon the carbon footprint of the digital world will become "unacceptably high".
And that's when the natural resources of Iceland may be even more important.
Huge Savings
The volcanic forces that shaped the field also have given the country large amounts of geothermal energy. 100% of the country's electricity comes from renewable sources and is essentially free of carbon, much of it generated from water heated beneath the surface.
Monroe explained what would happen if a company moved its headquarters to Iceland.
"The carbon savings would be enormous."
"For example, if a large Internet company to operate thousands of servers in the relocated Iceland, the company would save more than half a million metric tons of carbon per year."
Thus we have a colder climate and an abundance of green energy.
But you would not want to move your data center to a site that is actually in the middle of nowhere, unless you have good connections to the world.
Iceland has been busy tending fiber optic cables to connect the country with North America and Europe.
The cables provide a capacity of more than five terabytes per second.
Traveling through this pipeline, the data stored in Iceland may be in London in just 17 milliseconds.
Being at home watching Youtube you would not know, but even that is too slow for some.
Gudmundur Gunnarson, head of communications company Farice, explains some of the problems.
"There are very sensitive to financial services can not go beyond the ring road surrounding London," he says.
"So everything has to be within that circle, but for about 70% of other traffic, this delay is not a serious problem."Even when speed is not a problem, however, the lure of Iceland is not for everyone.
Companies will have to overcome their natural tendencies to seek more and more servers, and some may have concerns regarding the safety of storing their data in a remote location.
But Iceland hopes that in the next five to ten years, this will be one of the major industries.
And in an ironic twist that will not go unnoticed in a nation impoverished by the collapse of the financial industry, it is rumored that one of the first customers to sign an agreement to move its servers to Iceland is just one of the largest investment banks United States.
Twitter is looking for volunteers to translate this social network into other languages
The social network Twitter, which are presently only available in English and Japanese, seeks volunteers to translate this microblog platform into French, Italian, German and Spanish, said Biz Stone, one of the founders of this website.In the blog Twitter, Stone says that created an easy tool for people who know other languages can "suggest" translations for new web pages.
The company, based in San Francisco, said that he invited a "small group of people to become volunteer translators," but more expected to join the project stakeholders to collect more contributions and proposals and thus accelerate the publication of new versions .
For Twitter, the idea of offering its platform in French, Italian, German and Spanish is just the beginning of its new business strategy, as later also wants to incorporate other languages into microblog.
Experts believe that nobody knows the future of internet
Nobody knows for what the future of the internet, but as all experts agree on is that it must remain an open platform, free and democratic.This was revealed Thursday at a debate within the World Telecommunications Forum 2009, the largest industry event in the world.
"I do not think anyone knows what the future of the internet, all I know is that you must follow democratically available," said one speaker, Ziga Turk, professor of Construction Informatics, University of Ljubljana.A lack of detail, Turk said it takes the Internet of the future are the "five i"."Innovation, investment, establishment of a specific IP protocol, inclusion, so that everyone can participate, and imagination to make it even more interesting and creative."
"The network must be accessible, free, open, globally connected, and the possibility of sharing technology," said Lynn turn St Amour, President of ISOC, Internet Society, an NGO dedicated to Internet policy.Another aspect that was mentioned in the debate was the fact the need for the future Internet is "green."
"We must achieve maximum speed and connectivity to the lower consumption," said Helmut Schink, director of Siemens."The optical network is much greener because it gets more bits per watt per hour, we must implement it globally," said Schink.
Activists reject U.S. arrest a Twitter user
The arrest of a New Yorker, who used Twitter to alert police protesters movements in a G20 meeting in Pittsburgh last month, would be considered a violation of their rights if it had happened in Iran or China, according to activists said.Pittsburgh police arrested on September 24, Elliot Madison, 41, at a time when hundreds of people-some of whom threw stones and broke windows of shops-protesters on the first day of a G20 summit of rich countries and developing nations.
The protesters, with a large anti-capitalist agenda, they were kept away from the convention site where world leaders maintained their two-day meeting. Police used pepper spray to disperse sporadically.
The criminal indictment against Madison argues that violated the law by using Twitter to give instructions to the demonstrators and others involved in criminal acts to avoid arrest and inform them of the movements and actions of the police.Twitter allows its subscribers to post text messages of 140 characters.
Madison, who was released on bail, is accused of hindering the apprehension, prosecution and criminal use of communication elements and possessing instruments for committing crimes, defined as telecommunications equipment.
"The same conduct (the authorities) in Iran or China during recent protests would be seen as violations of human rights, whereas here it is considered necessary to control crime," Reuters said Vic Walczak, legal director of the American Union Civil Liberties in Pennsylvania.
Twitter was used by demonstrators in Iran amid protests and government repression that occurred after the disputed June elections in the country.
At one point, the State Department urged even Twitter to delay a planned upgrade that would temporarily cut the service in Iran.
China has repeatedly blocked access to sites like Twitter, as in May, facing the twentieth anniversary of the massacre in Tiananmen Square, and again in July after the unrest in the northwestern region of Xinjiang.
Pittsburgh police, who were asked about illegal actions of Madison, noted Madison's accusation that was hindering the apprehension or law enforcement. "All law enforcement agencies should keep abreast of continuing developments in technology, both to determine how technology can help police to better serve the public and to find ways and can be used to commit crimes," said the spokesman Myra Taylor.
"The criminal indictment contends that Mr. Madison legal devices used to commit illegal acts," he said. Laura DeNardis, executive director of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, said the arrest of Madison could be used "by repressive countries that might be looking restrict the use of technology."
"They could cite this as a justification for freedom of expression even more direct and repressive measures in cases like those we saw in the protests by the Iranian elections," said DeNardis.
Dell plans to release a smartphone in the U.S.
Dell plans to launch a smart phone with Android software from Google via AT & T operator, according to a source, which would be the first PC maker's foray into the arena of mobile telephony in the U.S..Dell will be the last manufacturer of technology in trying to settle in the rapidly growing market led by Apple and Research In Motion. The phone also plans to give a boost to the fledgling mobile platform from Google, which competes with Apple and Microsoft.
A source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters that Dell plans to introduce a U.S. version of its "oPhone" for China - powered by Android - and the device is certified by AT & T for your home network.The Wall Street Journal, which broke the news on Wednesday, citing people briefed on the matter saying that the phone could be launched Dell in early 2010.
Smart phones - mobiles with complex functions ranging from email to media - have exploded in the corporate and consumer market as more and more users access information and entertainment outside the home.
Dell spokesman Andrew Bowins declined to comment on a deal with AT & T but said: "We are deeply committed to our operator partners around the world to offer computing devices that work with mobile broadband.
He added: "We have not announced anything about Android although we continue to explore opportunities in these areas with operators around the world."
Google declined to comment, as did AT & T. But the spokesman for the telecommunications giant, Michael Coe, said: "We expect to sell phones with Android in the future."
More than half of U.S. companies social networking bans
More than half of U.S. companies forbid their employees to enter social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace or Twitter during working hours, according to a study released last week."The addiction to socialize" takes over internet.
About 54% of those responsible for the information of the companies decided a "total ban" of visits to social networking sites.
According to 19% of those responsible, employees are entitled to visit social networking sites, but "only in the context of their work", and 16% warrants the occupation "for limited personal use". Only 10% had no objection to such access.
The study was conducted in 1,400 companies from at least 100 employees by the firm Robert Half Technology. "Using social networking sites can divert attention from the employees of more pressing priorities and it is therefore understandable that some companies restrict access," said executive director of Robert Half Technology, Dave Miller.
Judge sets deadline for agreement on Google Book
A federal judge on Wednesday set a month's deadline for the parties in the battle over Google Inc. 'efforts to obtain the digital reproduction rights of millions of books out of circulation in the United States submitted a revised agreement.Judge Denny Chin set a deadline for the Nov. 9, after a lawyer representing the owners tell him that Google's lawyers authors and publishers who were working hard to reach a new agreement in early November. An agreement of $ 125 million was being renegotiated after the U.S. government say that it seemed that the existing agreement would violate antitrust laws.
The original agreement was announced last October by Google and the publishing industry to settle two lawsuits that challenged publishing rights plans for digital broadcasting.
Michael Boni, a lawyer for authors, told the judge that the new agreement would contain amendments to make it more acceptable to the Department of Justice, which questioned the legality of the original version.
William F. Cavanaugh, a deputy assistant secretary of Justice, told the judge that the department has been in continuous testing with both sides. However, said the government was not aware yet of how the final agreement.
He said he expected "meetings in the near future to discuss the proposal."
Cavanaugh asked the judge to give the government 10 days after any deadline for filing objections, so that the Justice Department prepare its analysis of a new agreement.
At one point, Chin wondered what would happen if the talks fail and no agreement is reached.
Google's lawyer Daralyn Durie told the judge: "The expectation is we will get both sides to reach an agreement."
Chin did not set a deadline for when they should be submitted objections but said he expected objections to authorize only new provisions, it is hoped that the basic points of agreement remained intact.
The judge received almost 400 views on the new agreement, many of them expressing disapproval.
The Wii and PSP triple its sales in Japan after rebates
Sales of Nintendo's Wii console and Sony's PlayStation Portable tripled in Japan last week, thanks to price cuts and the launch game titles, according to a research firm.Desiring to encourage demand asleep before the crucial holiday shopping season, Nintendo cut the price of the Wii at 20 percent and Sony cut the price of the PSP by 15 percent last Oct. 1.
Sales also were encouraged by last week's launch of the PSP version of the popular game "Great Tourism" and "Wii Fit Plus", the second installment of the popular home exercise game "Wii Fit".
Sony sold 49,000 units of its PSP in the week ended Sunday, compared with 15,000 the previous week, while Wii sales were around 32,000, compared with the 10,500 machines that were sold last week, said Ascii Media Works.
The Pirate Bay uses German server after eviction
The Swedish site "The Pirate Bay, one of the largest in the world to exchange files over the Internet, has had to resort to a German server after being expelled from several Internet sites in recent days because of pressure from U.S. industry .Monique Wadsted Counsel, which represents Sweden's interests in several U.S. audiovisual industry, acknowledged at the digital edition of the newspaper "Svenska Dagbladet" that have been contacted in recent days with several people who have housed "Pirate Bay" to request they stop.
PatrikWeb, the last Swedish server that has provided a platform to broadcast to "Pirate Bay", expelled the portal of your server a week ago after receiving a letter requesting him to do so or he would face a lawsuit.In recent days, "Pirate Bay" server has changed several times, until yesterday found accommodation in the German CB3Rob.net portal linked to the German Pirate Party, which has confirmed to "Svenska Dagbladet" that will give him their support.
A court in Stockholm in August forced the Black Swedish Internet portal to leave your server to "The Pirate Bay" under threat of a fine of 500,000 kronor (50,000 euros less).
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 ruling found them to be accomplices to a crime against the law of copyright: to provide the necessary technology, the portal, created in 2004, facilitated the illegal downloading of files.
The second trial of the case is expected to start on November 27 in the Court of Appeal in Stockholm.A Swedish court on Tuesday rejected the application for recusal that one of the defendants had made against two of the judges of the case are members of the Swedish Association for Copyright (SFU) and the Swedish Association for the Legal Protection Industrial (SFIR) .
Sale to market the new Windows Mobile 6.5 mobile software
Microsoft will need a system for mobile phones more competitive after launching its Windows Mobile 6.5 this week, or run the risk of falling behind the iPhone, BlackBerry and Android in the smartphone market difficult.On Tuesday, several manufacturers released phones with Windows Mobile 6.5, the latest Microsoft software.
Includes a digital display and store applications and the ability to customize some elements of the phone screen.
But as consumers have similar characteristics in mobile rivals for some time, analysts believe Microsoft is still lagging behind rivals such as Apple Inc, Research In Motion, Google Inc. and Palm Inc.
"They are significantly behind in terms of experience of consumer use," said Current Analysis analyst Avi Greengart. "If we do not reach soon begin to lose relevance," he added.
In that vein, Microsoft has a good position and room to grow among corporate customers, because the Windows-based phones are a relatively easy and inexpensive option for IT managers who already use technology for e-mail programs from Microsoft.
But the absence of control in the largest market of mobile customers could be a serious impediment to progress, because consumers are appealing to the simplicity of the iPhone or the close integration of social networks like Facebook, Palm.
"Most are consumer market, even if (Microsoft) were to keep just for businesses, would lose most of the opportunity," said Greengart.Although research firm iSuppli expected to triple Microsoft mobile phone shipments using your system to 67.9 million in 2013, the company expects to lose market share if not then launches a substantially improved.
"Perhaps the most obvious obstacles facing Windows Mobile are on their own shortcomings," Teng said in a research report."The user interface of Windows Mobile seem poor compared to some of its competitors more skilled, particularly operating systems from Google Android and Apple's iPhone," he added.
However, I expected that next year Microsoft releases Windows Mobile 7, with updates to user interface and browser, and multi-sensitive controls, making it "much more competitive."
The director of product management at Microsoft, Aaron Woodman, said his company is already working on its next updates.
"I think it will be more and faster innovations on our part," Woodman told Reuters, without giving a deadline.
Some analysts say Microsoft needs a dramatic change of strategy to stay competitive because phone manufacturers are increasingly choosing to Android on Windows Mobile.While many Microsoft partners telephony still being manufactured devices based on Windows software, others such as HTC Corp. are turning to the Android phones to their highest profile.
A customer, Palm, now uses its own system webOS, while another, Motorola Inc, completely reorganized its approach to the Android.
One advantage that Google has on Microsoft is that Android is free software, while Microsoft charges fees for licenses to manufacturers of handsets using its software.
Cell phone lines will be 4,600 million at year end
The number of mobile lines in the world will rise to 4,600 million by the end of this year driven by emerging economies, said Tuesday the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), which accounts for about two subscriptions for every three people.The mobile broadband subscriptions will reach 600 million in 2009 and fixed broadband will amount to 500 million, said the telecommunications authority of the United Nations (UN).
ITU said its latest figures underline large regional differences, with penetration rates of mobile broadband very low in Africa and other emerging nations.There is a fixed broadband users per 1,000 inhabitants in Africa, compared to 200 subscribers per 1,000 Europeans.
In Africa have the highest relative price for communication services, especially broadband.
"The rapid growth of high-speed internet in the developed world contrasts starkly with the status quo in the developing world," ITU said in a statement.
Facebook knows if we are happy
Facebook has become indispensable for our social care and keep abreast of what happens in our circle of friends, but now aspires to much more: whether or not we are happy.The popular social network has developed an index to measure the degree of happiness and ensures that it can determine on which days the Americans were when they were happier and more miserable.
The system is simple and uses the personal information that millions of users share every day with the rest of the world: Facebook has analyzed the words used by members of the network in its status bar and answers the question "What are you thinking ?.
"Cluster, these updates are indicative of how we feel collectively," he writes in a blog post on Facebook Adam Kramer, a psychology student at the University of Oregon and one of the leaders of the project.
So Facebook finds good days when words like "happy" or "great" abound in the status bar of the users of social network and negative ones in which many members use terms such as "dramatic" in the description of moods.The result is an indicator that, to paraphrase the GDP, Facebook called "Gross National Happiness" and demonstrates that, like most people, Americans tend to be happier in the holidays.
"Some of the happiest days included U.S. national holidays such as Thanksgiving Day, July 4 and Halloween or religious holidays like Christmas or Easter," says Kramer.
One exception was the November 5, 2008, the day after the election of Barack Obama as U.S. president, in which, according to the study, Facebook members were twice as happy as anyone on a Wednesday.
But there were other moments of very low morale. On Facebook more pessimistic since the survey began two years ago was on 22 January 2008, date of death of U.S. actor Heath Ledger and the collapse of Asian stock markets.He was followed on 25 June this year, when the world was startled by the news of the death of the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, and Facebook status bar is filled with terms like "tragic," "sad" or "doubt .
The study is limited to users in the United States and to English, but Facebook has plans to expand into other languages and countries, says Kramer, who, according to the blog, is a 72 percent happier than the average user of social network .
Facebook has become an indispensable tool for millions of people around the world and many do not know and start the day without updating their status or check the news published by its contacts.
The pace of Facebook, which already has nearly 300 million users, is frantic: each user has an average of 120 friends and 20 million people update their status at least once a day.
Many companies even begin to be concerned about the business impact of excessive use of the network among its employees and has decided to impose limits.
According to a recent poll, 54 percent of all U.S. companies prohibit their employees to visit social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter or MySpace during work hours.
"The use of social networking can distract attention from the employees of other higher priority tasks, so it is understandable that some companies restrict access," said Dave Willmer, director of Robert Half Technology, Study.
However, one in five employers can use for work, showing that Facebook is also used to do business ... or that some have managed to convince the boss.
Microsoft rules out further purchases in the search business
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, do not expect more acquisitions to help the business to challenge Google's dominance in Web search market, said Monday."Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's strongman
"No, wait," he replied when asked if the acquisition is part of the strategy.
Microsoft recently reached an agreement with Yahoo search, after a long and fruitless attempt to buy the Internet media company.
"We will keep working hard and investing in marketing and the like, and of course we are trying to make the Yahoo deal achieves regulatory approval," he said after giving a lecture at the meeting with British businessmen.Ballmer also reiterated what was said on other occasions, he believes growth will return gradually to the world economy.
"Things have gone down. I see them staying there and growing slowly," he said in response to a question from the audience.
Ballmer added that Microsoft is going to freeze its budget for research and development, which is the largest sector of 9,500 billion dollars, partly to keep resources in reserve for fight with Google.
"We must ensure we have the money we need to continue to build new businesses," he said. "We're trying to give some competition to Google in the search market," he added.
In late June, Microsoft had short-term investments and cash of 31,400 million dollars.
Under the agreement signed with Yahoo for the next 10 years, the new browser from Microsoft, Bing, will be used in searches in the pages of Yahoo. In return, Microsoft will pay Yahoo for 88 percent of the revenue generated from advertising on those sites.
In theory, this means that Microsoft gets more traffic to refine its search technology and advertising base increases, while Yahoo gets revenue from search ads without having the expense of managing their own engine.
Operator Launches Program to iPhone and BlackBerry in U.S.
The company Vonage Holdings Corp., a pioneer in Internet telephone service at home, announced that created software for use on iPhone and Blackberry devices that will reduce international call rates in major U.S. wireless service.The free programs will allow U.S. users to make calls that are transferred through the Vonage network, at least at the international level.
As an example of their prices, Vonage allow a user to make a call to Colombia for five cents a minute, while AT & T charges $ 2.19 per minute or 17 cents a minute if the user purchased the international calling plan, costing $ 3.99 per month.
Calls are made at home for the cell phone using cellular plan minutes, although in the case of the iPhone will use Wi-Fi signal if available. The program also works with the iPod Touch, which only connects to the internet via Wi-Fi. Vonage will then connect the call to its final destination abroad.
The fact that Vonage program for the iPhone can be used as cellular voice channel is unusual.
Other programs of voice over Internet (VoIP) and programs for the iPhone and iPod Touch can already make calls over Wi-Fi, but the speech program, Google Inc., which is scheduled for the cellular network, has not been approved.
Google says its voice was rejected by Apple because it doubles the internal functions of the phone.
Vonage shares were at risk of being temporarily suspended by the stock market have fallen below a dollar, but rose 17 cents Monday (13 to $ 1.49 after the announcement of an international plan of free calls to 60 countries in its basic service.
A cyber criminal stole thousands of passwords from Hotmail
Thousands of users' passwords popular MSN Hotmail service have been stolen and posted on the Internet, said Monday the online news site Neowin.net.According to information collected after Neowin that other means in the network issued an Internet user data anonymous email accounts on 1 October at the pastebin.com blog, a forum used by software programmers.
The entry into the forum, which has now been erased, detailing the passwords of 10,000 mail accounts with Hotmail dominios@hotmail.com, @ live.com y@msn.com.
Accounts correspond to users with names that start with the letters "a" and "b" and most were located in Europe, adds Neowin.net.
Microsoft, which owns Hotmail, has not confirmed the existence of this list, but has acknowledged to reporters that it is verifying the information.
"We are currently investigating the situation and we will take appropriate steps as soon as possible," a Microsoft spokesman said the British news channel BBC News.
With nearly 300 million users, Windows Live Hotmail is one of the leading providers of free email service and was acquired by Microsoft in 1997, a year after its creation by some 400 million dollars.
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