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The younger generations now have the opportunity to laugh at their parents and friends of their parents through the internet where you can see old haircuts, regrettable tattoos, wearing tights or grimacing.

But not all of which appear in these images seems like a good idea.

These images, which were never taken with the intention to be seen except for a small circle of friends or relatives buried in the pages of a family album or wall of a home, are now reaching the network.

Americans who were spending his youth before the birth of the internet are opening their private lives into the world are picking through dusty boxes in search of photographs to share them through Facebook and other sites, sometimes to the chagrin of family and classmates who appear in group photos.

Most people who share old photographs are just having fun, but the practice can serve as a kind of collective catharsis.

"There's definitely a bit of exhibitionism involved," said Brandon Van Der Heide, a professor at Ohio State University who studies the social implications of the Internet. "It's a way that allows people to connect with something familiar to them and laugh at themselves."

Nikki Smith, one Facebook user who is 37 and resides in the state of Kentucky, used the scrapbooks that developed while she was a teenager and began to scan the old photos to upload them to your computer. The pictures were traveling 20 years ago, when the cuts were long hair, pullovers were larger and were the fashion Air Jordan sneakers and aviator sunglasses.

"We really had a very bad hair style in my senior year in college," said Smith. "But we all know. We were all there."

Smith said that turning the pictures to Facebook allowed everyone you know "laughing out loud."

His decision also contacted many of his old classmates from high school. A photograph, which shows Smith posing with his company, school dance, all with blue and white tights and knee-high boots, generated over 40 comments from other Facebook users.

"I do not think any of the pictures is so horrible," said Smith. "That happened 20 years ago, who cares?" He added.

Apparently some people do care, especially when someone has gone to the network some unflattering photo or video.

Screenwriter Mike Bender, who lives in Los Angeles, manages the site AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com (Family Photo embarrassing), dealing with such images of the past. He said a woman who shared a family photo for that page he wrote later to say that it took a few drinks when sent and that his family was upset with her. Bender immediately withdrew the picture, but it had been copied and was circulating on the Internet.

What happens online can directly affect the reputation of someone in real life, "said Van Der Heide, because those people who upload the photos of others not being given the opportunity to respond or to control how it will look. He said that certain photographs, videos or unjustified statements made on any person could "kill your credibility."

Online Photos also have the "potential for loitering, being copied and redistributed in such a degree that even if you delete the original little could be done to remove the shame, said Amanda Lenhart, research specialist at Pew Internet Project on the American lifestyle.

Facebook gives users limited control over the pictures shared by friends. Users can remove the "tags" (labels) that identify individuals in photographs, to make it harder for someone to find the picture if you do a search.

Facebook spokeswoman Malorie Lucich said users must "maintain an open dialogue with their friends who decide what kind of photographs rather than rising to the Internet."

Bender, AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com suggests to first ensure that all photographs appearing in a certain agree to upload to the network before they show something that apparently is funny and harmless.

"We're not trying to humiliate anyone," said Bender. "We really want people to have fun with it."

Olivia Rea sent his fourth-grade school portrait primary school LaserPortraits.net the site, a site dedicated to pictures of the 1980s and 1990s, complete with fluorescent lights in the background.

In his portrait of young, she displays a timid look, waiting, with Harry Potter-style glasses and braces. In a commentary accompanying the photo, she admits that at that time thought of becoming a model. Currently, she is a math teacher at a secondary school in San Luis.

"It is to laugh at yourself, to show the world we've all had embarrassing moments," he said.

What if your students see that picture online? "I think it would be funny," he replied. "It's good that my students know that is also okay to make mistakes."

Andalusian Institute of Technology will open two new branches in Brazil and Granada

The Andalusian Institute of Technology (AIT) forecasts a turnover of EUR 50 million over the next four years, increase by about 8 percent of its workforce, currently comprised of 129 employees, and open two new branches in Brazil and Grenada, which added to which is in Seville, Malaga and Guadalajara (Mexico).

These are some of the main objectives in the Strategic Plan 2010-13 of the IAT, presented today at a press conference by its president, José Luis Calvo, and its general director, Miguel Angel Luque, who have agreed that their goal this period is to "grow little but share everything we can" with client entities.

In addition, the IAT has until 2013 to set up two new technology-based companies (EBT), invest some fourteen million euros in R + D and add to your template fifteen new doctors specializing in engineering and technology.

Among the weaknesses identified in the activity of this institution, Luque has pointed to its shortcomings in the field of marketing and communication, so it was stressed that the Strategic Plan includes a strengthening of the Department of Communication and training policies in the template so that "everyone has commercial orientation in their work.

The Andalusian Institute under Technology is a private foundation declared of public interest and non-profit that provides knowledge-intensive and generates its own technology in order to enhance R & D on their customers.

Its principal businesses include the aerospace, energy efficiency, food and tourism.

Google changes its strategy in China just prior to expiration of license

The U.S. internet group Google announced Tuesday it will no longer divert Internet users to its site of Hong Kong, a day before the expiration of the government license.

After a long dispute with the Chinese government, Google, fed up with Chinese censors and cyber attacks from that country, decided in March not to censor its website in Chinese more and move to Hong Hong, diverting Internet users were connected to Chinese portal Chinese google.com.hk Google.cn to the portal.

"In the coming days, we will stop completely deflect (the Internet) and will welcome our Chinese customers on a new page," said Google vice president David Drummong, the official company blog, without specifying whether the group again be subject to censorship in China.

This new page Google.cn, which proposes a link to the Google portal Hong Kong, will allow "those who use it to search or continue to use Internet services like music Google.cn or translation without filters," said Drummond.

"This approach allows us to remain faithful to our commitment not to censor the results obtained in Google.cn and gives users access to all our services from a page," said Drummond.

This is due to end on 30 June agreed to Google's license to operate in mainland China, he said, stressing that the decision to direct Internet users to the former British colony was considered "unacceptable" for Chinese leaders.

"If we continue to divert users, our license ICP (Internet Content Provider) will not be renewed without this license (...) ICP, we can not operate a commercial site as Google.ch, which means that Google would keep the lights on in China "he added.

Contacted by AFP, a spokesman for Google China said the difference was that in future the Internet would no longer be automatically diverted to Hong Kong, but should do it manually.

"We hope to obtain renewal of the license, but we are awaiting the final decision," said Marsha Wang

"As mentioned in the blog, we resubmitted our request on the ground of this new approach," he added.

For his part, the Chinese Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said Foreign Affairs was not aware of Google's decision and reaffirmed the U.S. position in this case.

"I would stress that the Chinese government encourages foreign companies to operate in China under the law," the spokesman said during a regular news briefing.

U.S. plans to double its available wireless spectrum

United States pledged on Monday to auction 500 megahertz of wireless spectrum the federal and commercial, which will nearly double the amount of spectrum available for communications in the next decade in an effort to respond to the ever increasing demand for data transmission and video on cell phones, laptops and other mobile devices.

In a memorandum to the heads of federal departments and offices, President Barack Obama said he wanted to unleash the full potential of wireless broadband and encourage innovation.

"This new era in global technological leadership is only possible if there is adequate spectrum available to support the myriad of devices, networks and mobile applications that will drive ahead and the new economy," wrote Obama.
Lawrence Summers, director of the National Economic Council, was expected to explain the new policy is a speech to the New America Foundation, a school specializing in Washington DC.

In an extract revealed in advance by the White House, Summers said the initiative would "help create hundreds of thousands of jobs."
The government said it hopes to stimulate the expansion of wireless broadband across the United States, including rural areas.

The auction is partly intended to counter fears of a potential "spectrum scarcity" due the increasing popularity of supercell, laptops and other wireless devices.

Apple sold more than 1.7 million new iPhone in three days

Apple sold more than 1.7 million units of its new model of iPhone in the first three days of sale, the company said Monday.

The iPhone went on sale in April on Thursday in the United States, Britain, France, Germany and Japan. The high demand led to shortages and model swirling crowds at some stores.

"That is the most successful launch in Apple's history," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "Still, we apologize to those customers who failed to buy a stock because it sold out."

Some stores sold out of iPhones within hours. Analysts have said that Apple has enough problems to take the phone components like the new high-resolution screen.

Apple has said that it plans to produce white iPhone has been a challenge than expected and that will be available until late July. Only black color models went on sale on Thursday.

Apple Inc. sold more than one million units in the first three days when it launched last year's model, the 3GS. Canada, Italy, Spain and Switzerland were countries included in this release, but not Japan.

In addition to the sharper screen, the iPhone 4 is thinner and has a faster processor than the previous model, and an additional front camera to make video calls.

Shares of Apple, based in Cupertino, California, rose $ 1.52 (0.6 to $ 268.22 in trading Monday morning

High technology makes life difficult for the mechanics

As cars use increasingly advanced technology, independent mechanics are forced to accept work, they do not have enough money to acquire the knowledge nor the tools necessary for the repair of equipment controlled by computers.

Many of these mechanics say that today people have fewer options to fix their vehicles and that this situation gives an advantage to manufacturers.

"Before, I looked and looked until he found the solution," said David Baur, owner of Humming Motors garage. "Now, often no attempt to solve a problem. I think long before accepting jobs complexes."

Access to information is the key to everything, to the point that in America there is a bill under consideration. Proponents say the manufacturers try to monopolize the industry spare parts and repairs by providing information and tools only to the workshops of their dealers. The project is being considered by the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives, would require manufacturers to provide all the necessary information to diagnose problems and make the repairs.

Manufacturers, meanwhile, argue that spending millions of dollars in research and development and not want to give up their intellectual property. They claim that parts and repairs industry wants to have available to proprietary information to manufacture their own parts, which sell at lower prices.

"Coca Cola does not share with anyone his formula," says Charlie Territo, of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers (Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers). "What we look for this project is the formula for Coca Cola."

Many new cars are equipped with computers that control everything from the brakes to the wheel, and manufacturers are the only ones who know how to fix the problems. Often, changing one part involves reprogramming the computers, complex task because of the unavailability of software code or the electrical wiring diagrams of the vehicle.

The mechanics say that the information is constantly updated and should be able to find relevant information in a database. Keeping up with technology requires a large investment of dollars and time to get the proper tools and study online manuals for each model.

The technology makes basic things are complicated if you do not have the equipment indicated. Baur, for example, said he could not turn off the light that says "check the air in the tires of a 2008 Mercury Grand Marquis because he lacked a tool that costs $ 1,000 can reset the device.

The car's owner said he had to take the vehicle to the dealer's workshop to complete the job.

"The tires are fine, but for some reason the light stays on," says Louis Ontiveros, 42.

A study released in March by the Automotive Aftermarket Industry Association revealed that workshops dealerships charge a 34% more than independent garages.

Seyf mechanical and Donny, who owns a shop in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, said such businesses must specialize in certain models to remain competitive, because they can not keep up with knowledge and equipment necessary for repairing all types of vehicles .

Baur does not see it that way.

"What I do reject clients who have been attending for 20 years?" He asked.

Carolyn Coquillett, owner of a San Francisco shop that specializes in hybrid vehicles, said it spends about $ 11,000 a year for diagnostic equipment and subscriptions to online databases. He said he passes the cost to the customer, but you can still charge less than the dealers.

Great Britain: Implement a cat bionic legs

Oscar the cat may have lost one of its nine lives but their new artificial legs make it the world first bionic cat.

After losing their hind legs in a nasty encounter with a lawn mower in October, the green-eyed cat was black metal implants that connect with the new ankle artificial leg and emulate the way skin grows on the horns of the deer. Oscar is back up and plays with rolls of paper like any normal cat.

After Oscar accident, which occurred when he was 2 ½ years while basking in the islands of Channel, its owners, Kate and Mike Nolan, was taken to a local veterinarian. In turn, the vet sent Oscar with Dr. Noel Fitzpatrick, a surgeon in Eashing neuroortopédico, 56 kilometers (35 miles) south of London.

Together with experts in biomedical engineering, Fitzpatrick gave him two Oscar metal lugs artificial implants. These prostheses joined tailored legs and wobbles a bit to mimic the natural step of a cat.

Fitzpatrick said he and biomedical engineers designed the prosthesis to join with the bone and skin. "That allows this device to function as a rocker in the tip of the legs to give the cat a normal walking," he said. "Oscar can run and jump like any cat."

Veterinarians implants inserted in the ankle bones of Oscar. Metallic implants are covered later with a substance that helps the bone cells grow on them. Then the cat's skin grew over the tip of the implant to form a natural seal that prevents infection.

Charge your mobile phone without plugging

A key piece in the wardrobe of anyone who is planning to go to one of the many festivals held in England during the summer, is a good pair of rain boots. They promise good music, but they can not guarantee is the weather.
The pop music festival in the world, Glastonbury, starts with a novelty in the shoe for bad weather that kills two birds with one stone.

This is a pair of rubber boots which, while allowing us to walk smoothly through the mud and generates energy to recharge your mobile phone.
These wellies - as in this country commonly called the rubber boots - work with a thermoelectric system that allows you to generate energy from heat given off by the feet.

The energy generated is stored in the heel of his boot and sent to the phone, which is placed in the top of the shoe.
"Use the boots for 12 hours produces an electrical charge equivalent to connect the phone to a power outlet for an hour," he told BBC Dave Pain, GotWing CEO, the company that together with the Orange phone company developed the product.

Idle power

The advantage - especially for those who see the festival as an opportunity to relax and enjoy the music without doing anything else - is that you do not walk or dance without stopping for power generation, with sufficient contact.
"Even if you move or you exercise you will get a greater amount of energy," said Pain.
Its inventors bring a pair to the public during the festival for those who want to try it. Yes, whoever is interested, should fit 41, the size of the prototype is only so far.

If the project succeeds, they think bringing it to market soon. They believe that the boots cost about $ 30 more than it costs an ordinary couple.

Simulate the sound of subatomic particles

Great scientists Hadron Collider (LHC) in the French-Swiss developed a way to convert to sound the collision of subatomic particles. Now they hope with this method to detect the elusive, hypothetical Higgs boson, the so-called God particle.

The Higgs has never been seen but if there could explain the origin of the mass of other elementary particles and answer many questions about the origin of the universe.
The LHC - the largest particle accelerator in the world - are conducting experiments in which tiny particles are made to move in opposite directions simultaneously in the tunnel 27 kilometers in diameter.

The aim is to produce a collision of particles to recreate conditions that occurred just after the Big Bang.

Dr. Lily Asquith, who conducted the data model in the LHC experiment, worked with sound engineers to convert the data expected from the collisions of sounds. "If the energy is near you will hear a pitch low and away from you if you hear a high pitched" the scientist told the BBC.

"If it comes to large amounts of energy will be much stronger and if the tone is little power will be weaker," he adds.

In the LHC's circular tunnel, there are thousands of magnets that guide the proton beams of particles around the big "ring." At certain points around the tunnel, the beams intersect and collide with each other about four "subexperimentos" massive monitor these collisions.

Scientists hope that in these collisions emergence of new subatomic particles, which could reveal new information on the origin of the cosmos.

In one such experiment, called Atlas, was carried out the measurement of sound.

Within it is an instrument, the calorimeter, which is used to measure the energy and consists of seven concentric layers. Each layer is represented by a note and tone of each of these differs from the amount of energy that is deposited in that layer.
So far Dr. Asquith and her team have generated a number of simulations based on predictions of what might occur during collisions in the LHC.

"When you hear what they really are listening to the sonificaciones scientific data. These are authentic, and you are saying something about the data that might not otherwise know," said Archer Endrich, a software engineer working on the project.

The aim is to provide physicists another way to analyze LHC data. The team believes that the sonification ears are better adapted to the eye to detect subtle changes that might indicate the presence of a new particle.

Richard Dobson, a composer who is also involved in the project, said he was surprised by the musical sound of the collision.

'We can hear the sound structures, clear, almost as if they were composed.

"They seem to tell a story. Not very dynamic and change all the time, and they sound like music we hear in contemporary compositions," he adds.
Although the project is intended to provide particle physicists a new tool of analysis, Endrich Archer believes this could also be allowed to hear the background harmonics in the universe.

The scientist hopes that the particle collisions reveal "something new and something important about the nature of the universe."

Mexico Is drowning in electronic waste?

The TV you just throw a Mexican, after buying a better one to see his selection in South Africa, is part of the 170,000 tons of televisions that are discarded annually in Mexico.
Business According to a report by international monitors, Mexico is behind Brazil, the main market of electronic products in Latin America. The organization estimates that by 2013 the consumption of electronic devices per person in that country, would rise 20% to U.S. $ 119.

The consumption pattern of Mexicans has been influenced by lower prices of some consumer electronics and reducing the lifespan of these devices. "Everyone here has more than one cell, which they use and the other who knows where he is," he told BBC Esmeralda Rios, a young woman who lives in Mexico City.
The volume of e-waste can be a risk factor for the environment. Experts agree that the growth of branded e-waste a global trend.

Electronic wastes are not considered hazardous waste in Mexico. They are classified as "special handling" and its treatment is for each state.

"Our legal framework does not provide a specific law for electronic waste management, but does have a mechanism to have to implement large private generators at home (electronic waste), said Arturo Gavilán García, director of Studies on Chemical National Ecology Institute of the Ministry of Environment of Mexico.
However, according to a report compiled by the United Nations Program for Environment (UNEP), the majority of Mexico's 2443 municipalities lack the infrastructure and economic resources to solve the problem of solid waste.

Lethal combination

In some electronic devices can be extracted precious metals like gold, copper, tin and palladium. According to Guillermo Román, engineer specialist hazardous waste electronic equipment in landfills come Mexicans with 30% less than its original value, because its parts are separated into collection trucks.
But what is thrown away can pose a risk to health and the environment, because it contains metals such as lead, mercury, cadmium and nickel.

"The problem, when you make an improper disposal of electronic waste, is that due to phenomena such as rain, potentially toxic elements such as metals, can dissolve and disperse in different ways. When mixed with leachate generated trash may contaminate soil, "said Hawk.

Some recyclers in Mexico receive equipment that companies do not use anymore. In addition, incineration of garbage, a common practice in some landfills, makes the covers of several artifacts from becoming dangerous as they are substances that prevent teams catch fire if overheated.

If burning flame retardants are released highly toxic gases that can affect people who are close ", said Roman.

Another point of concern is the treatment specialist who should receive the rechargeable batteries of mobile phones and computers when they are disposed. Do you have Nickel and cadmium, "highly toxic metals.

What are you doing?

For some analysts, one of Mexico's challenges is to get pass a specific law on electronic waste management, without losing sight of the international debate over its classification as a hazardous waste and the responsibility that producers have to bear in management.

Hawk says the government is working towards concluding the specifications of the legal framework governing the states and municipalities in the management of electronic waste.

For its part, environmental and business groups believe the challenge is to see the recycling of electronic devices from the perspective of resource development and employment generation.

The process of disassembly of electronic devices is also an employment generator, according to experts. In Mexico, there are nearly 100 disassembled electronics companies to recover precious metals like gold, copper, tin and palladium.

In REMSA, a recycling plant in Queretaro electronics in the north of the country, the aim is also plastic, glass and postcards to re-integrate as raw materials at a chain.

Between 2009 and 2010 so far this company has recycled over 300 tons of electronic gadgets. In a day we can disassemble 400 phones and 60 laptops "said Maria del Rosario Moreno, head of operations for REMSA.

Euro falls to low stocks and waiting for G-20 summit

The euro fell widely on Friday as investors withdrew from risky assets while the stock down, but the market was cautious not to move very aggressively to the expected prices from the summit of leaders of the G- 20.

European shares erased early gains to fall 0.5 percent to 1015.52 points, while the Wall Street stock futures were down slightly.

"It is slowly increasing risk aversion, stock markets are under pressure," said Ian Stannard, currency strategist at BNP Paribas. "We think the euro is still vulnerable," he added.
Concerns about financing in the euro area also encouraged some fears, since the banks need to pay around 442,000 million euros in loans to a year to the European Central Bank next week.

The euro fell to a low of $ 1.2253, off its intraday high of 1.2351. Sales to curb losses below $ 1.2300 accelerated the decline, traders said.
At 1105 GMT, pared its losses to settle around $ 1.2270, down from the options at a price of 1.2300 which expire later, traders said.

The single currency was on his way back 1.2 percent against the dollar this week, after two previous weeks of gains.

Against the yen, the euro was down 0.3 percent at 110.15 yen, while hitting a record low against the Swiss franc to 1.3510 francs.

Market participants feared a lack of consensus at the summit of the Group of 20 developed and emerging nations, given the open disagreements over how rapidly address fiscal deficits, how to strengthen the banks and how to harmonize the regulatory reforms to financial markets.

The dollar index, which measures the performance of the greenback against a basket of six currencies benchmark, rose 0.3 percent to 85.990, but remained below their peak a week from 86.415.

The dollar was steady at 89.69 yen, nearly one-month low of 89.22 yen on electronic trading platform EBS on Thursday.

Australia's dollar pared gains to 0.4 percent lower at $ 0.8635, near a support level of $ 0.8600.

Anelka, Maradona and Messi Take Center Stage at Web 2.0 in Spanish

The French striker Nicolas Anelka, the Argentine coach Diego Armando Maradona and his countryman Lionel Messi who are most talked about these days in the Spanish-language sites devoted to Web 2.0 World South Africa.

This was revealed by a report released today by the Faculty of Economics, University of Palermo, Argentina, and that sounded SocialMetrix consultant who speak about Hispanic users of blogs, forums, social networks and areas for comments traditional online media.

The analysis found that from the beginning of World until Monday the most frequently mentioned were Anelka (4.13%), Maradona (4.03%) and Messi (3.73%), followed by the Spanish coach Vicente del Forest (3.52%), and the coach of the Chilean, Argentine Marcelo Bielsa (3.32%).

The selection is mostly discussed is that of Spain (7.02%), followed by Chile (5.43%) and Argentina (4.92%).

According to the report, Argentina is the team with fewer negative opinions (0.7%) and the second highest favorable rating (8.5%) after the Mexican (with 12% favorable rating).

At the head of the negative comments left France with 19.6 percent.

The study took into account 8483 542 comments left on Spanish-language sites.

YouTube set records in May and viewed more than one hundred videos per viewer

Last May was the best ever for the Web site YouTube, as it recorded record figures for the first time to exceed one hundred videos viewed per visitor, according to data released today by the consulting firm comScore.

The number of videos viewed online in the U.S. exceeded 33 900 million last May, of which almost 14 630 million (43.1%) were only seen parts on YouTube, a portal where your users will enjoy an average of 101.2 videos during that month.According to the consultant, is the first time that the Google web property exceeds the share of one hundred videos per visitor per month, a milestone for the portal, which also reached 144.6 million unique users, followed, and long-range by Yahoo (46 million videos per user and 7.3) and Vevo (45.6 million videos and 9.4).

In terms of total videos viewed on the web portal continues to YouTube Hulu, which offers free TV shows and movies without downloading and sponsored by several television networks and film studios.

In this website in May were more than 1.174 million videos (3.5% of total), a figure that surpassed the video sites of Microsoft (642 million), Vevo (430 million), Viacom (346 million), Yahoo (336 million), CBS (333 million), Turner Network (331 million), Fox (328 million) and Facebook (245 million).

According to data from comScore, 84.8% of internet users used part of his time to watch video content and it was estimated that a video posted online has a duration of 4.3 minutes on average.

Shares of Google, owner of YouTube, fell today at market close in New York Nasdaq 1.44% and ended at a price of 475.1 U.S. dollars each, while shares rose 0.19% in electronic transactions were made after the end of the regular trading day.

So far this year, their titles have been depreciated by 23.27%, but in the last twelve months, build up an appreciation of 16.08%

Cisco 1000 million dollars promised in a meeting with Medvedev

Cisco Systems Inc. said Wednesday it will invest 1,000 million dollars to boost technological innovation in Russia.

The CEO of Cisco, John Chambers, made the commitment during a meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at the company headquarters in San Jose.

Medvedev, visited the manufacturer of computer networks as part of his tour of Silicon Valley.

Medvedev said that he wants more innovation in technology for the Russian economy, which depends on oil, to create their own Silicon Valley Russian outside Moscow, in Skolkovo.

"We are honored to engage in his dream," Chambers said while the Russian president signed a memorandum of recognition before California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and other guests.

Cisco said it plans to have a physical presence in the center of new technologies and to establish the second international offices for emerging group of technologies in Skolkovo. The 1,000 million dollars in investment covered by the agreement will be disbursed over the next 10 years.

Medvedev did not make many statements after signing the commitment, but said this was the first to have achieved so far. Cisco issued a statement in remarks prepared in advance, in which Medvedev expressed his satisfaction with the significant commitment to Cisco on the future of Russia.

"In the next decade Russia will become a country in which the welfare and good living are insured by their intellectual resources rather than by their natural resources for their innovative economy," Medvedev said. 'The draft Skolkovo Project embodies the attention that we are putting so much on innovation as well as public and private partnerships.

During his visit, the Russian president noted some Cisco technology as the devices for video conferencing. Chambers participants communicated with offices in London, Bangalore and others in different parts of Silicon Valley. He also created his own video with an external camera to computer.

Medvedev began his tour of the computer firms in the Bay area of San Francisco in the offices of microblogs Twitter site, from where he sent his first "tweet."

The Russian president will end his visit to the United States in Washington, where he will meet with President Barack Obama Thursday.

Intel and FTC negotiated on a case of possible monopolistic practice

Intel Corp. and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC by its acronym in English) negotiated an agreement in an antitrust case against the company manufacturers of microprocessors, which could make obtaining compensation for damages from rival firms.

In December, the FTC filed a lawsuit against Intel for that would end what he described as decades of illegal sales tactics, which hurt his rivals and kept artificially high prices of microprocessors for computers.

This week, the FTC and Intel agreed to suspend the administrative procedures of the trial while trying to reach an agreement.In that agreement would result in a partial victory for Intel, said Robert Lande, director of the American Antitrust Institute on the University of Baltimore.

If Intel loses in court, rivals such as Nvidia Corp. could seek damages without having to demonstrate again the antitrust allegations. In contrast, these court settlements often occur without any admission of guilt.

"Once you lose a case in federal court, no longer denying the allegations," said Lande. "All that remains to be clarified is, 'harms our customers and in what amounts ?'''.

Intel Moniopolistic practice

Advanced Micro Devices Inc., a rival firm, whose lobbying regulators gave way to his allegations, said a manager at Toshiba Corp. likened to "cocaine" payments granted by Intel in exchange for not using AMD microprocessors.

In his 2005 lawsuit, AMD also said that another executive of Gateway complained that threats of retaliation from Intel to work with AMD were left as "pasta guacamole."

AMD last year reached an agreement with Intel whereby Intel AMD agreed to pay $ 1,250 million and both companies reached a five-year agreement on licensing its products.

The AP's financial editor Deborah Yao in Philadelphia contributed to this report.

Apple sells three million iPads

Apple said Tuesday it has sold three million iPads, when they have spent less than three months that the new tablet-type device was released.

The computer with touchscreen was launched on April 3 in the U.S. and went on sale last month in Asia and Europe. The company has not revealed sales by region.

Apple Inc. plans to market the device in nine other countries in July.

San Francisco Board approves law on cellular radiation

The supervisory board of the city on Tuesday approved a new law, which mandates that retailers who sell cellular disclose the amount of radiation emitted by every phone they offer.

The board voted 10-1 to pass the first ordinance of its kind that requires stores to disclose the specific absorption rate (SAR, for its acronym in English) of their phones.
The measure is supported by Mayor Gavin Newsom, who enacted his signature within 10 days.

However, opponents say the city is reacting to an unfounded concern about the radiation cell. The question of whether the radiation generated by cell phones can cause cancer or other health problems remains a matter of debate among scientists.

Proponents of the measure are confident that labels with the radiation levels will deter consumers from buying devices that emit much of it, while science clarifies the doubts.

Dell in talks with Google Chrome using operating system

The American technology company Dell is in talks with Google about using the operating system Chrome on their laptops, said on Monday a senior executive of the company.

"We must have a view of industry and technology leadership to two or three years, and we continually work with Google on this," he told Reuters Amit Midha, president of Dell China and South Asia, in an interview.

"There will be innovations in the market only two or three years, with a new form of computing, we want to be in that first row (...) So with Chrome or Android or any thing we want to be a leader" , Midha said, adding that no firm would have ads, but that discussions were ongoing.
Google has said it plans to launch a "late autumn" Chrome boreal your operating system, a rival of Microsoft Windows.

Midha said Dell would launch a new smartphone for the Chinese market in coming months which would work with TD-SCDMA, the third generation mobile network in China.

The new phone will be sold to China Mobile and have all kinds of features, including a TV tuner, said.

Dell entered the smart phone market late last year with the launch of the Mini 3 in China.
Midha said he expected Dell tablet, Streak, due in U.S. in July, was launched in China at the end of the year, but said a date had not closed.

Barnes & Noble launches a version without 3G Nook

The U.S. bookstore chain Barnes & Noble on Monday introduced a new version of its electronic reader "Nook" which only has WiFi connection, and lowered the price of its 3G model, amid growing competition in the booming sector electronic readers.

Barnes & Noble, the largest U.S. bookstore sales, put the price of WiFi version at $ 149 and reduced the price of its 3G model at $ 199.

The decision comes after many clients have been attracted to the online store of books from the IPAD, Apple, Borders Group and while preparing to launch its own digital library.

Nook, launched last October, also competes with Kindle, from Amazon.com.

Earth in the third dimension

The German satellite TanDEM-X was launched into orbit on a mission to map more accurately to be made available on the surface of the Earth.

The satellite will fly with radar technology with the same platform, called TerraSAR-X launched in 2007.

Both measured variations in the height of the globe with an accuracy of better than two meters.

Its digital elevation model will have several uses, from helping military aircraft to fly in ultra low height to show where rescue workers were worse the damage caused by an earthquake.

"Our goal is to generate a model to a resolution and quality as there is today," he told the BBC Dr Varka Helfritz, the company's processing of satellite images Infoterra GmbH.

"It will be a truly global product, not a patchwork of data sets that have been put together," he adds.

The Tandem-X was placed in a polar orbit a bit steeper than that occupied by the TerraSAR-X, about 514 kilometers above the planet.

"It's the first time that two satellites have been placed in a formation so close," said Brigadier General Thomas Reiter, a former astronaut and now a member of the executive board of the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

"Their orbits closer to the minimum distance of about 200 meters, which, as one imagines, will be a huge challenge for mission controllers."

Earth Changes

The pair of radar works constantly bouncing microwave pulses on the surface of the planet.

Because we keep track of how long it takes the signal to make the journey back, the instruments can measure variations in height.

The compact "ball" orbit satellites will provide a "stereo vision" allowing them to operate in interferometric mode, which acts as a satellite transmitter / receiver and the other as a second receiver.

To draw the level of detail-X TanDEM all 150 million square kilometers of Earth's land surface, will require three years.

Radar observations already have very extensive applications in military camps, civil and scientific.

Recent examples include Eyjafjallajoekull eruption in Iceland and the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. In the first event, the vision of microwave TerraSAR-X was able to look through the plume of ash, which allowed scientists to analyze the status of the volcano.

And on the stroke of the Gulf of Mexico, the satellite has to follow the progression of the layer of oil day and night by the way the radar signals are reflected in the contaminated water.

This is possible because the spread of oil tends to flatten the sea surface and this effect can be detected from space.

More Apps

Now, the improved data that will emerge from the mission TanDEM may extend the range of applications of radar technology.

For example, mobile operators can use the elevation model to identify the best places where they can locate their antennas.

The German Space Agency owns the hardware, services and consortium of European space projects, EADS Astrium, the company built and GbmH Infoterra has exclusive rights to market data.

Latin America needs "more and better broadband

In Latin America need more than 20 million broadband lines to keep pace with economic growth rates, says a study on information technology.
Furthermore, research from the University of Columbia, United States, says that giving more attention to information technologies and communication technologies (ICTs) could become a factor giving impetus to the progress of the region.
"There is a structural link between economic growth and the adoption of ICT, as they meet the challenges posed by the increasing complexity of production processes," said Raul Katz, author of "The role of ICT in development. Proposal Latin America's current economic challenges. "
In presenting their research in Washington, Katz, professor at the School of Business at Columbia University, said the gap between broadband penetration and economic expansion is "alarming."

The digital divide

According to the study, the largest gap is in Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela, where it requires double the current deployment of infrastructure to keep pace of growth of economies.

However, the biggest obstacle to improve the situation is the cost of accessibility in the region.

Late last year, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) demanded access to broadband internet for the whole region to fairer prices.
ECLAC noted that, while in rich countries the service costs about $ 19 a month, in developing countries exceeds $ 35.

Taxes "go fast"

Another of the obstacles to the full integration of broadband is the tax levied in Latin America.

In Brazil, the study notes, the charge may be up to 25%.In Mexico, the attempt by Congress to increase the tax internet access considered a "luxury service" sparked a protest earlier this year through the Twitter social network that prevented the tax hike.

The ICT study claims that in 2008 the broadband penetration in Latin America (4.5%) was well behind other regions and only surpassed Africa (1.15%).

Solutions

For Katz, Latin America requires governments to promote public policies and incentive programs to encourage investment in information technology and communication.

In addition, the study recommends increasing the supply of goods and services related to these sectors.

In practice, investment should be directed to "build" the network, deploy broadband, improve the quality of provision and access speed.

Finally, Katz urged to follow the example of South Korea, Malaysia and India, where public policies arise in the medium term to meet future demand.

Flickr photos will be sold at Getty Images

Starting this week, the 40 million Flickr users may choose to sell their photos through the agency Getty Images, in an alliance that can become amateur photographers to professional lens.

The new system works like this: if a user decides to enter the scheme will appear in your photos a link pointing out that the image is for sale, and if anyone wants to buy will click on the link and will contact a representative of Getty.

The company did not disclose how much to charge for each picture, but taking into account the sales prices can be deduced that an image of 170 by 113 pixels can be sold for $ 7 and a 5616 by 3744 pixels would produce an income of up to $ 590.

Whoever decides to participate in this scheme have to click on the question "Would you like to license your photos via Getty Images?, That since Thursday next to their images.

After doing that you must choose one of three options: not to participate, participate or allow Getty to contact them if any image is of interest, but not publicly display your photos are for sale.

Flickr already had a partnership with Getty Images to sell photos, but it was a closed system. In it only a few photos were preselected by the site and then, after obtaining the consent of the authors - were sold to the agency. Now any user of the site can participate.

"The eyes of the world"

"Flickr users are the eyes of the world," said Douglas Alexander, Flickr's general manager told the BBC.

"We have people who contribute in more than 100 countries and the images coming from all over the world. The agreement expands the horizons and the global market of commercial photography and gives our users the chance to win money," said Alexander.

Some users of the network of photos that have participated in the scheme, have mixed feelings about its benefits.

"I work on my own and get a lot of work orders. I would say the third of my income comes from this deal which is good if you consider that I have about 200 photos on Getty and 2,500 elsewhere," shared Hal Bergman the BBC.

But others are not so happy. In the Flickr discussion forums, Aaron Reed said that the treatment is not always good.

"At first I was happy. I went and sold images. Since then I have 60 images in total for sale on your site. But then I noticed something new in its place (Getty) ... digital downloads. Here were my pictures being offered low resolution for $ 5 or $ 35. Want to know what my profit? Between $ 1 and $ 7. Am I happy that sell low-resolution images for $ 35 and give me $ 7? Absolutely not, "wrote Reed.

The announcement also caused no pleasure in the free software community has long called for "Creative Commons" license that allows free sharing photos from Flickr.

If a picture has this license means that anyone can use the image provided you cite the author of the picture and play under the same terms and conditions.

The IPAD reach the altars of Catholic churches

An Italian priest developed a computer program that will allow the priests celebrating Mass with IPAD on the altar instead of the normal liturgical book.
Padrini Paolo's father, an adviser to the Pontifical Council for Social Communications Vatican said Friday it will launch the free application in July in English, Spanish, French, Italian and Latin.

Two years ago, Padrini iBreviary developed an iPhone application that led to the missal used by the priests. To date, approximately 200,000 people have downloaded the application, he said.
The application of IPAD is similar, but also contains the complete Roman Missal: everything that is said and sung during the Mass for the liturgical year. Updates are expected to include audio as well as comments and suggestions for the homilies, and music accompanying Padrini added.
"The paper books will never disappear," he said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press from his parish in Tortona, in the Piedmont region of northern Italy. But at the same time "should not shock us that there are altars in these instruments in support of the prayer," he said.
Padrini, 36, said he hoped that priests who have to travel a lot for work are more useful applications, noting that recently had to celebrate Mass in a small parish where the Missal was "a small book, a little dirty, old .

"If I had my IPAD me, I would have had this little old book," he said.

Pope Benedict XVI, a classical music lover who is said gave him an iPod in 2006, has sought to engage young people through new media: the Vatican has regularly updated presence on YouTube and Facebook. Based on the success of iBreviary.

One expert estimates that China censors 95 percent of the "blogs"

An expert on internet and famous blogger estimated that the Chinese communist regime eliminates daily 95 percent of the content published in the 220 million blogs exist in China.
Was quoted today by the newspaper "South China Morning Post, Xianghui Isaac Mao, a member of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University (USA) estimates that the percentage that is eliminated by the Chinese censors every day.

Mao builds on the data that was released last Tuesday by the Chinese State Council itself (executive body), which states that 66 percent of the 400 million Chinese netizens left three million daily messages on blogs "and other internet forums.
According to studies by Mao, a blogger 0.5 active often leave comments daily, so the real figure should be 72.6 million, not 3 million as the government says.
"The difference between the two data reveals that 95.9 percent of the comments are removed in the process of censorship," Mao said, referring to the Chinese regime's efforts to curb freedom of expression in the largest Internet market planet.

The contents in the network have grown 124 times since Mao began work on the Internet in 2002, and until 2008.

"Customers are like rats and the mechanism of censorship is a cat. There are too many mice and the cat does not know how to hunt," said the expert at a forum on Internet in Asia Pacific.

The Chinese network is one of the most censored in the world, since it prevents access to video servers like YouTube or social networking sites like Facebook or Twitter, some examples from a long list of prohibitions that expands daily.

Agreement with ambitious plans for broadband network in Australia

The government of Australia and one of the largest telecommunications companies in the country announced Sunday an agreement that clears final hurdle in the plans of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to give Australia a national network with super fast broadband.

In announcing the agreement, Rudd said the installation of the new network will make broadband Internet service is faster, cheaper and more efficient.

The government last year announced a plan to offer broadband speeds up to 100 megabytes per second to 90% of Australian households, schools and shops in a period of eight years through fiber optic cables that are connected directly buildings.

The new agreement by 11,000 million Australian dollars (9,600 million) will give the state enterprise, Co. National Broadband Network (NBN), the task of erecting the new network and give access to existing infrastructure and belonged to Telstra Corp., which controls the only nationwide telecommunications network in the country.

The deal means that NBN will not have to build their own infrastructure, considered one of the most extensive and most expensive government plan, which will cost 43,000 million Australian dollars.

Telstra may also pass on to customers current network of copper wire and cable to the fiber optic network. Telstra was privatized but remains a highly regulated business, in order to promote competition with other phone companies that rent access to their existing copper wire network.

The government wants Telstra to further dilute its market dominance by dividing its business and goats, and has submitted bills to promote this measure.

The company is resisting this, saying it has a duty to their shareholders to keep the company intact.

The agreement announced on Sunday it still needs the approval of the shareholders of Telstra and the approval of the regulator of competition in Australia.

U.S. Government to evaluate changes broadband standards

The U.S. government will review the rules that control the broadband connections to the Internet, which will get into a bitter dispute that could stall in the courts for years.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote on Thursday to receive input from the public on three different paths it could take to regulate broadband. One proposal is that of the FCC chairman, Democrat Julius Genachowski, which defines access to broadband as a telecommunications service required to treat the same way to all traffic data it receives.

Genachowski The proposal is a response to a ruling by a federal appeals court raised questions about the authority of the FCC on broadband.

The plan has the support of many leading Internet companies, who say that the FCC ensure that prevent cable and phone companies decide what users can do on the Internet.

"There is an urgent need to do this because now there are no rules to protect consumers in the most blatant discriminatory behavior of the cable and telephone companies," said Markham Erickson, executive director of the Coalition for an Open Internet. This group includes Google, eBay, Amazon.com and the Internet calling service Skype.

But the plan faces strong opposition Genachowski of broadband providers such as AT & T and Verizon Communications, which will ensure that outdated regulations that would take away the incentive to upgrade their networks.

"This proposal by the FCC would put into question the assumptions of the companies that are the basis for investment in broadband multi-billions of dollars," said Howard Waltzman, a lawyer for the telephone companies.

Develop new program for reporting internet fraud

A Microsoft-led initiative seeks to provide a reliable way to report the theft of credit card numbers and other data on the Internet.

Creating such a possibility is important because when a researcher finds stolen data, it is difficult to convince a bank or other institution to which the information is legitimate. The time lost can mean the difference between the fraudulent use of identity of a person and effective action to stop it before it happens.

The initiative would help researchers to manage the data they find on the internet and which inform the affected companies, said Dan Clements, former president of CardCops (Card Cops), which seeks stolen card numbers on the web.When a researcher finds stolen data, "send them all at once. The ship companies, government, consumer ... That way, you have complete information and can act accordingly," he said.

"It may seem at close range, but is the only way we can make sure our work. However, we have no way of knowing if it is effective," he added.The speed of transmitting information is creating new program that Microsoft will be the key to its success, said Clements.

The program is managed by the National Alliance Ciberforenses and Training, a nonprofit group, and includes the American Bankers Association and eBay, among others.Other similar programs the past failed because companies in internet sales and gambling sites could not find a way to cooperate without an intermediary, said Clements.

Increasingly, banks, businesses selling over the Internet and web security will be added to the program, once to register and pass a security check.

Internet offers to rent per hour friends

Jennifer Morrison worked as a receptionist at a restaurant in Las Vegas, but it also has a parallel life: accepts cash to take a visitor to know the Hall of Fame Pinball and dancing water fountains of the Bellagio casino.

Morrison, 31, also led to the cinema to a grandmother who was bored during a visit to her family and her company to a housewife who just moved to the city while arming a scrapbook.

The woman is a face to a new fashion, for rent all over the Internet, including friends, usually available on the site Rentafriend.com.

"You see a place like this and think: 'Ah, to be companions or is a dating site or something," said Morrison, mother of a toddler, who enrolled after talking with her husband. "When I first saw it, I had mixed feelings, I thought it was a bit sad that people had to do something."

Morrison thinks differently now. Cobra 20 to $ 30 per hour and also meet people. The site is inspired by other similar and highly successful in Japan and other Asian countries.

In a world where many people never meet their "friends" on Facebook and where loneliness can cause chronic health problems and even suicide, observers do not know if this is a solution or just a temporary fix.

"The question is: do you solve the problems anyone? My first reaction was to her eyes, but I think it actually can help to meet people and put back into service, but if used as replacement of deep relationships face to face, not going to work, "said researcher John T. neurological Cacioppo, who is investigating the solitude.

Rentafriend has 100,000 unique visitors per month and about 2,000 members who pay $ 24.95 monthly or annual 69.95 to see the profiles and photos of some 167,000 "friends" potential.

Christopher Barton, 31, a resident of Boulder City, Nevada, first tested the service about six months ago during a business trip. Barton spends more than a week away from home for months and he hates to eat alone in restaurants, and not to use their free time.

"I'm in different cities all the time," he said. With the service, "one has in a way a tourist guide."

Fujitsu and Toshiba merge their mobile units in Japan

Japan's Fujitsu and Toshiba presented on Thursday its plans to merge its mobile phone business in October with the aim of creating the second largest manufacturer of this sector in Japan, a move that dramatically strengthens the market.

The merger will help the two electronics companies to share development costs, but the combined entity is likely poses no immediate threat to global leaders like Nokia and Samsung.

Analysts expect more consolidation in the industry in Japan, where too many mobile phone makers are competing for a declining market.

Following the planned merger, there will be six groups that make mobile phones in Japan, up from 10 just three years ago.

Fujitsu will have a majority stake in the company of between 70-80 percent, the Nikkei business daily, which one analyst said could add pressure to short-term profits but will benefit in the long run.

"For the mobile phone unit (...) Fujitsu enter into a business with approximately 10,000 million yen in losses, although the loss should be reduced this year will be negative from the standpoint of earnings," said analyst Mizuho Investors Securities Yuichi Ishida.

"But this would be a plus for both Fujitsu and the entire industry, because Fujitsu has no smart phones and the industry needs consolidation," he added.

Deutsche Securities has previously said it expected sales of mobile phones from Toshiba and Fujitsu amounted to more than 300,000 billion yen in the year to March 2011.

The merged company will be second in Japan after Sharp.

A different alliance that combines the operations of NEC, Hitachi and Casio Computer also began operating this month.

Thursday's announcement is no surprise then that two sources said last week that the two companies were negotiating to merge its mobile phone business.

Smartphones and foreign market

Fujitsu has maintained its mobile business benefits focusing on its strength in water-resistant devices, mobile phones with fingerprint readers and mobile homes.

But it offers a growing segment of mobile smartphones and is betting on Toshiba's expertise in this field.

Smart phones like Apple's iPhone and Research In Motion BlackBerry blend the personal computer and mobile phone and are gaining popularity around the world.

Toshiba has been selling smartphones based on Microsoft Windows in Japan, Europe and parts of Asia.

Despite its dominance in the local market, Japanese manufacturers have only a combined share of about 3 percent globally, where they are overtaken by larger, more efficient rivals.

Cibercupido couples will between supporters of Apple products

 Announcements of Apple Inc. 's used to challenge consumers to "think differently" and now a new Web site wants users of iPhone and Mac computers and make known partner differently.

, Aims to connect to Apple users with the "Machearts." The idea is that if you really love the iPhone and other Mac products, chances are that in the romantic spot to find your partner in the world of Apple.

The personal data that users hang on this website contain details such as their first purchases of Apple products and a list of your favorite features on the iPhone.Cupidtino was created by Mel Sampat, a former Microsoft employee who came up with the idea during an argument with his girlfriend about whether you should use the IPAD during dinner.

Sampat said that if he ever came to break their relations, would come out with another woman whom he liked Apple products. This encouraged him to create a page to connect to computer users with similar tastes.

The page is clearly inspired by Apple, with a clean and straightforward format, with plenty of black, white and gray and text with outstanding lyrics.So far, Apple has not complained about the design similarities. Sampat said he received an email from Apple corporate team in San Francisco, which basically said he was aware of Cupidtino and asked if she needed any help. Apple spokeswoman Kristin Shuguet said the company would make no statements.

U.S. has no power to protect computer networks

 The federal agency charged with ensuring the security of government computer systems are unable to monitor and analyze network threats in real time, and lacks the authority and staff necessary for its role according to an internal report.
Federal Team Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT, for its acronym in English) should share information, more speed and greater detail on threats and trends with other federal departments to better protect themselves, according to the document.

The report issued Wednesday by the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security described the criticisms long voiced by authorities and outside experts that the U.S. government computer systems are vulnerable to attack, are consistently observed and lack of administration and rules necessary security.
The document highlights many of the shortcomings that the Congress has tried to correct by a number of initiatives to create a more effective governance structure to improve and reinforce safety rules.

Cyber security has become a top priority for the government, following the impulse that gave the president Barack Obama in 2009 when he described it as "one of the economic and national security that we face more serious."
Authorities say federal networks are scrutinized and discussed a million times a day and in some cases penetrated by hackers and cyber criminals as well as other nations.
According to the 35-page report, the CERT, part of the Department of Homeland Security has made progress in assisting agencies to protect themselves against cyber threats, including the creation of a cyber center.
According to the text, the team lacks the authority it needs to force other federal agencies take the necessary measures to ensure the security of their computer systems.

School of the Future created by Microsoft has first graduation

When the School of the Future designed by Microsoft was opened, the facility was a paragon of contemporary architecture, with a roof "green" corridors full of light and the latest technology for the classrooms, all in a modern building radiantly white.

The educators and the media throughout the world was very attentive to see if Microsoft could reform public education through innovation and technology.

Although the creative ambitions of high school have been frustrated in part by frequent changes of director, stresses in the curriculum and students unfamiliar with the culture of the laptops, the school graduated its first students Tuesday and all have been accepted at several universities.

"The first three years were definitely a challenge," said Mary Cullinane, Microsoft link with the school. "They are making their way now. I'm excited to see what comes next."

Built with $ 63 million of municipal funds, the school collaborated with Microsoft on new approaches to curriculum, instruction and recruitment. Attracted reform-minded teachers and students determined to avoid the traditional schools.

The vision was of a school without papers or textbooks that embody the theme "Continuing, relevant, adaptable." Each student would receive a laptop to take notes, homework and take exams.

However, students are chosen through a lottery among students from public schools. Most come from low-income households without computers at home and come to a place where they must manage their studies in a laptop.

"I felt something strange," said Kenneth Bolds, 17. "I was used to pencils and notebooks."

Educators also assumed that students come to school by paying the appropriate level, but half of the students in the impoverished district has trouble reading and mathematics.

Cullinane noted that the school can not control the education of students before receiving them, but warns that no test results say it all.

"The trip is long term and we have to put aside short-term measurements," he says.

Orders stagnate new iPhone Web

Some buyers reported problems on Tuesday to process your orders the latest model of the iPhone on the Internet.
Tuesday was the first day that Apple and AT & T began to receive these requests, but the buyers said they were met with error messages on Web sites of the company. They formed lines in stores, while the clerks were trying to process their orders through their computers.

The computer systems at Apple Inc., maker of phone and AT & T Inc., the operator offering the device exclusively, have had more trouble meeting demand for the iPhone every year since 2007, when it launched the first model .

Neither Apple nor AT & T issued comments on the most recent. The iPhone goes on sale April 24 June at a starting price of $ 199.

Congress and the Administration discusses possible cyber attacks

The U.S. government should take "extraordinary measures" in response to a computer attack that could affect critical computer networks, both public and private, said a senior official of the Department of Homeland Security.

The director of the National Cyber Security Center Phil Reitinger told Congress that working with government to determine if they need new presidential emergency powers to determine whether key industries such as power plants, electrical power and financial systems life might respond if a computer crisis.

A major Senate committee is proposing that the president has a more specific authority over how they might react these important industries.

For its part, independent Senator Joe Lieberman, who chairs the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate, said that these powers should include the ability to require companies to install a security filter on their computers or block certain types traffic on the Internet.

U.S. officials are struggling to strengthen the security of the Internet, and federal computer networks are being reviewed and attacked million times a day by hackers and cyber terrorists, as well as criminals looking to steal sensitive information or destroying or at least affect vital operations of the industry.

Although there are few who doubt the seriousness of the threat, lawmakers are divided over the extent of the role government should play in these cases and what federal organizations should be responsible for addressing these risks.

In the midst of this debate are the leaders of some industries, who argue that companies can often do a better job than the federal government to protect their systems and ensure that their staff are well trained to confront the threats.

In prepared testimony before a hearing held Tuesday before the Committee on National Security, Reitinger said the president already has some emergency powers, so any adjustment should not exceed the existing law. The testimony was obtained by The Associated Press.

The law, Reitinger said, "recognizes that Americans expect their federal government provides, prevent and respond to cyber threats," adding that the clauses concerning presidential powers "recognize that the government could require the adoption of extraordinary measures to meet these responsibilities "

Apple and AT & T faced problems with the new iPhone

Apple and AT & T face two major problems in accepting orders for the new model of iPhone a week before it hits stores in the U.S.: some buyers reported having trouble registering their orders and an apparent flaw in the Web site AT & T introduced a some customers in the accounts of others.

The trouble meeting demand for iPhone are not new, but the latest failure and earlier by AT & T could facilitate identity theft, which would have implications for both companies.

AT & T has exclusivity for the use of iPhones in the U.S.. Critics and customers have asked Apple to allow other companies to operate the iPhone in the country and the most recent issues give new arguments.

The Apple online store, maker of the iPhone and AT & T Inc., the exclusive U.S. operator, has struggled since the launch of the first iPhone in 2007, apparently related to the saturation of users.

Some customers who tried to buy an iPhone 4 on Tuesday said they were met with error messages on the websites of the company and formed queues in shops where employees were trying to take orders on their systems.

The Japanese company Softbank, which began taking orders early, was also surpassed its capacity. Katsuhide Furuya spokesman said the higher than expected demand caused problems on reservations, both online and in stores.

In Gizmodo.com, a website dedicated to technology issues, some users reported that when trying to access your accounts from AT & T to upgrade their iPhones, did enter the accounts of others. This could lead to identity theft and fraud such as ordering products under a name of another.

AT & T said it received reports of clients receiving account information of others, but could not replicate the problem and was investigating. The company said, however, that information did not include social security numbers or credit card.

The surreal social network ChatRoulette honored at the Webby delivery

The surreal ChatRoulette social network, which in just a few months has attracted the attention of millions of people around the world, was honored today at the Webby Awards, considered the Oscars of the Internet.

Andrey Ternovskiy, a Russian teenager who created this site to your friends, attended this gala event, held in New York, which were granted awards that the winners were already known since May, and among them were the actor Jim Carrey, film critic Roger Ebert and filmmaker David Lynch.
Born in November 2009, ChatRoulette completely random matches and by videoconference to the tens of thousands of users connected at all times to this website, which promotes contacts among strangers surreal, sometimes end up with dye pornographic.

The New York Times reported recently that the network was "one of those gloriously simple ideas that manages to harness the power of the Internet craze in a potentially revolutionary."
"The success of ChatRoulette offers a refreshing reminder that the Internet still offers a level playing field where anyone with a great idea or product to succeed," said David-Michel Davies, executive director of the awards, in a press release before the gala.

Was also given special recognition for the choir composed of students 10 years of PS 22, the New York borough of Staten Island, who jumped to fame thanks to YouTube video portal, where his performances have been more than 17 million people.Children in this choir has among its fans with such familiar characters as the actor Ashton Kutcher, who said on Twitter that "loves these children" - an Oscar winner Marcia Gay or the star of "Knight Rider", David Hasselhoff.

The young singers rose to fame when his teacher, Gregg Breinberg, hung up on YouTube videos in which students interpreted the known numbers such as "Viva la Vida" by Coldplay.
Since then his fame has led them to sing at the legendary Madison Square Garden in New York and act together with the Australian group Crowded House.

During the gala today also presented the Person of the Year award from the renowned online film critic and Pulitzer winner, Roger Ebert, and the Webby Lifetime Achievement was awarded to Vinton Cerf, one of the "fathers "Internet.

Best Actress in the network was the comedian Amy Poehler, well known in the U.S. for his impressions on "Saturday Night Life", but on this occasion was honored for its "Smart Girls in the Party", dedicated to interviewing and assessing young girls with big ambitions.

The highest number of awards it got the humor site College Humor and The New York Times, both with five awards.

The famous Muppets (Muppets) won four, including the most viral video of his rendition of "Bohemian Rhapsody."

They also got four awards National Geographic, CBS, Sundance and HBO, while Twitter, Next New Networks, TED.com, VBS.tv, AOL and Mashable were made with three.

Other winners were the political and humorous montages "Auto-Tune the News", the humorously informative Colbert Nation and the project of film director David Lynch to conduct interviews with people he finds while traveling on U.S.

Among the most famous faces, highlights of Jim Carrey, who took a prize for its website; Lisa Kudrow in "Web Therapy", Isabella Rosselini in "Green Porno" Brad Pitt with his "Make It Right", Daryl Hall and his "Live from Daryl''s House" and Jaime Pressley in Axe ad "Clean Your Balls."

Starbucks offers free Wi-Fi local U.S. 6700

Starbucks Corp. will offer its unlimited wireless Internet network to all customers of its branches in the United States starting next month, part of an effort to attract more customers, the company said Monday.

The Free Wi-Fi will be available from 1 July at 6700 local.

The coffee chain, which this year had its first quarterly increase in referrals after 13 quarters without success, had offered two hours of free internet per day for registered users.

After this period customers of the chain, founded in Seattle, had to pay a small fee.

Access will be offered through AT & T, but to use it not necessary to have a Starbucks loyalty card, according to an announcement made by the CEO Howard Schultz at a conference in New York.

The move comes six months after the rival of Starbucks, McDonald's Corp., to offer free Wi-Fi in 11 500 U.S. stores.

Second complaint against Google in Spain to capture Internet data

The Spanish consumer organization Facua today filed a complaint against Google to investigate if it violates the Criminal Code to capture information from users of wi-fi for data collection service "Street View".

Facua brought her complaint to the Prosecutor of the Spanish National Court, two days after the Association for the Prevention and Study of Crime, Abuse and Neglect Advanced Computing and Communications (Apedanica) also denounced Google for this reason before a court of Madrid.

Although the Spanish Agency for Data Protection and last May opened an investigation to determine whether Google infringed data protection and rights of citizens, Facua spokesman, Ruben Sanchez, warned today that the maximum penalty that could apply this body at the company would be a fine of 600,000 euros ($ 732,000).

"Something ridiculous for a multinational multi-billion," said Sanchez in a press conference, which held that such sanctions for companies the size of Google does not prevent these practices continue to incur.

Facua spokesman said the data collected by the Internet search engine through its fleet of cars "Street View", the multinational may eventually identify a particular network, the user's name and address it, and access your browsing history.

It is "a very interesting data on a commercial level," said Sanchez, stating that the complaint before the Prosecutor is only a "first step" to investigate the alleged violation of Penal Code.

In addition, the spokesman left open the possibility that the organization presents itself in the case against the Internet giant.

Article 197 of the Spanish Penal Code states as an offender against the privacy to which "to discover the secrets or violate the privacy of another without his consent, takes possession of papers, letters, emails or other documents or effects telecommunications intercept personal use technical devices for listening, transmitting, recording or reproduction. "

For violations of this article, the Code provides a penalty of one to four years in prison, and 12 to 24 months' fine.

The company had already acknowledged in its corporate blog that the fleet of cars that used to take pictures of the streets around the world to develop its mapping service "Street Views" had collected information from users wireless networks for several years, something the Internet search engine blamed a "mistake."

Although Sanchez acknowledged that the percentage of users with open wi-fi is a minority, said Google could provide data on millions of people around the world, taking into account that "Street View" operates in some thirty countries.

Last month, Austria and Greece banned as a precautionary measure the movement of cars "Street View" for violating privacy, while the Privacy Guarantor Authority of Italy has opened an investigation into that service.

Salvadoran asked not to disclose confidential information on the Web

The Salvadoran police warned not to disclose information "confidential" on social networking sites after three subjects obtained data that allowed to kidnap a woman, who was released later in the capital.

"This young woman was kidnapped and her information was obtained through social networking, specifically Facebook," he said at a press conference the deputy director of research at the National Civil Police Commissioner Howard Cotto.
The commissioner did not identify the victim for his safety, said that "information was used by the criminals she placed both on the network, as part of their profile, and one that could have been viewed in these networks called social barrier, which is where the person communicates with the rest of his touch. "

Cotto urged Salvadorans "not to place in public social networking or confidential information of interest which can then be used for the commission of crimes, and especially parents, to be vigilant about minors on the information providing through these networks. "

Subjects women kidnapped early on May 15 in Beijing. Negotiated the amount of ransom to the family of the victim, "was released without payment," a police statement.

Those arrested were identified as Jonathan Rivas Alfredo Calderon, Felix Bonilla and Javier Alejandro Enrique Melendez, aged between 20 and 23.

"All three participants were arrested and the victim is out of danger," said Cotto, who gave no details.

Google returns to its home page blank

The Google homepage regained his austere face of complaints from consumers about advertising appeal of the most popular search engine on the Internet.

Complaints are multiplied when users found a page of sand dunes, flowers and other images instead of the usual white wallpaper.

The idea was that the images call attention to a new tool introduced last week, which allows the user to customize the Google home page with your own photos. The appeal was helpful to Microsoft, whose search engine is presented Bing a different photo every day.

But in the case of Google, sparked protests from many users, so the page quickly regained his austere wallpaper.

Argentina Province aims to ensure free access to internet

The Argentina's San Luis province intends to become the first state in the world to ensure the population's right to free access to broadband Internet, according to a draft sent to the Legislature.

The bill proposed by the governor of San Luis, Alberto Rodriguez Saa, aims to "safeguard the rights and guarantees" in the provincial constitution for the whole population "and maintain, promote and ensure digital inclusion," the text the initiative.
"Spending that requires recognizing the right (...) be assigned to the agency's annual budget that has charge of the operation, management and maintenance of the Information Highway," he says.

The project was released by the University of La Punta, a town near San Luis, capital of the province, where it carries out an ambitious plan for "digital inclusion" for the 420,000 inhabitants of that state.
When the Legislature, the government majority, enacted the law that guarantees free access to the internet "we can say that the Digital Inclusion is a right become a reality in San Luis", said in a statement.

He noted that San Luis is a pioneer in the world in view of far Finland has declared access to broadband Internet a "fundamental right" since July, but not under free condition.

U.S. Apple investigate practices

The Federal Trade Commission opened an investigation to determine whether the practices of Apple in the mobile telephony business are unduly affect competition, according to a report.

The Wall Street Journal newspaper reported that the Commission (FTC, for its acronym in English), has worked with the Justice Department for weeks, to decide which agency will review the allegations of some companies, which complain that they are marginalized mobile platform based on the iPhone and the IPAD, the successful aircraft of the U.S. company.

The latest version of Apple's mobile operating system, iOS4, will be released later this month. A new iPhone would be available around the same time.
Google, Apple's rival, is among the companies unhappy with the manufacturer of the iPhone. The new restrictions are part of iOS4 could affect Google's ability to sell and place advertisements in devices that use the software.
On Wednesday, Omar Hamoui, head of AdMob, a mobile advertising service recently acquired by Google, criticized the restrictions, as a threat to competition.

Before Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News had reported on the investigation.

Apple spokesman Steve Dowling declined to comment. We were unable to locate a spokesman for the FTC.

EU says Microsoft programs "trap" governments

The leading European authority on Microsoft Internet attacked, warning that a government can be trapped for decades in a business program to use as a pattern for its technological systems.
Internet commissioner Neelie Kroes said in his previous post as chief antitrust imposed on Microsoft hundreds of millions of dollars in fines because the company's refusal to disclose certain information to their rivals and by tying its Internet Explorer browser Windows, your operating system.

Now, Kroes said that intends to establish detailed rules to encourage European governments to use other programs, especially those based on open sources that circulate freely among its creators.
"Many authorities are caught unintentionally and for decades in technology and property rights after a while the original choice is so ingrained that nobody pays attention to alternatives," she said.

"It's a waste of public money, a luxury that most public bodies can not be taken," he told a conference organized by Open Forum Europe, a group of companies promoting the programms based on open source, ie specialized user modifiable.Sometimes, but not always, the end of open source programs are delivered to users for unrestricted use. For example, IBM and Oracle charge their customers for some of its programs based on open source codes.

Kroes trying to influence the guidelines applied by governments, which may require all state vendors who use certain types of technology. The effect of this can be huge, to promote programs of a company over others.

This is the case in the departments of Treasury to require the use of a particular browser to submit tax returns via the internet.

The advantage of the Japanese electronics to extend the 3D World

Japanese electronics manufacturers will test the pull of three-dimensional imaging technology in the World Cup, you can open a new era for television broadcast images 3D Sony.The Japanese Sony, Panasonic or Sharp plpanearon its launch of next-generation TV to coincide with the World Cup, the first mass sporting event to be broadcast live in three dimensions.

It's time to prove whether the three-dimensional television with glasses at prices in excess of 2,000 euros per appliance convinces millions of homes and makes the blockbuster "Avatar" from James Cameron to move to the small screen.
Market analysts believe that 2010 will mark the beginning of 3D in the home with a planned sale of 6.5 million units worldwide, albeit small proportion for a market of 200 million sets a year, according to consultancy DisplaySearch .
Japan's Panasonic and Samsung of South Korea were the first to plunge into the race for the 3D in a market that could offer little more, having already achieved great advances in high definition and minimum thickness of the screens.

But Sony, which filed its own 3D version of its Bravia 40 and 46 inches (2,600 and 3,200 euros, respectively), the one that has chosen this first "3D World."

The Japanese giant, sponsor of the World stereoscopic technology will broadcast 25 games of the tournament, including the expected releases of Mexico, Argentina and Spain, so they can be seen in homes and public spaces.Seven pairs of cameras capture an image simulating human vision, which allow them to be viewed by users with a sense of depth, which is achieved through glasses that will select which images to each of the two retinas.

"We will be the first live broadcast major sporting event and have secured the support of television channels in Japan, the United States, South Korea and Spain," explained a spokesman for Sony.The satellite channel Sky PerfecTV Japan is one of the pioneers include in its World Cup matches with a technology on which there is doubt.

Yuji Hayashi, a Japanese amateur football, says what many others around the world: "I do not put me glasses to watch a game at home, although to play video games or watching a movie."
For those who share many goals in 3D, Sony pavilions with giant screens installed in seven countries, although an accompanying glasses will be as important as the famous South African vuvuzela.

The Japanese company expects to sell 2.5 million 3D TVs this fiscal year ending March 2011, 10 percent of total sales of screens.

Panasonic, world leader in plasma displays, plans to sell this first year a million of those TVs with three-dimensional vision, while Samsung has offered to sell two million of its 3D model this year.Data from the Japanese consultancy BCN show that 3 percent of flat panel displays sold in the first week of June in China were 3D, just before the expected start of World Cup.
In Japan, the boom of 3D transcend this summer cinema and football to get video games and mobile phone screens.Nintendo, the first video game maker in the world, intends to present this year a version of its popular DS handheld game console with 3D technology without glasses, something similar to what Sharp wants to do with a mobile phone.

Sony also has already adapted its PlayStation 3 so that they can play their first game in 3D, a novelty that could help recover its sagging sales, while in Japan and adult content are prepared in an industry in the country accounts for 30 percent of the video market.

Notices in the most revenue IPAD

Good news for news organizations: U.S. firms are paying to newspapers and magazines for ads in their applications IPAD up to five times what they pay for ads on other sites.

This does not mean that the Apple tablet is the salvation of the newspaper industry, as some expect. Online advertising continues to generate a lower percentage of advertising revenues of the media and remains to be seen whether the advertisements in the printed press rebuild that generated earnings before the recession.

It seems, however, that the IPAD gives the media a new way to get more money from advertisers.
"I think this will revolutionize the industry and redefine the way advertisers communicate with our audience," said Lou Cona, executive vice president of Conde Nast Media Group, which publishes magazines such as Vogue, GQ and Wired.

Anyway, it would have to combine many factors for the IPAD and their imitators become an important source of income.
For starters, the news media applications would have to find ways to make the reader stay longer. Especially if a company wants to charge for an application in journalism, because enough a few taps on the screen to get that article in the IPAD. It is expected that news organizations refrain from publishing some of their material on their websites and offer only free applications tablets.

There are many reasons why the media did not earn much money from online advertising. While newspapers and magazines offer limited advertising space, the digital portals have virtually no limit. Firms that do not want to pay too much you can run ads on digital networks that offer lower prices for the spaces that have not sold.
This dynamic of supply and demand has not reached the IPAD. In applications of IPAD as USA Today, there are a limited amount of advertising space and no advertising networks. The reader can click on a warning from the Courtyard by Marriott in USA Today, with simple movements of a finger reviewing images in the hotel lobby. Another tap on the screen and displays a high-definition video, full of happy guests.

Jason fulminate, director of mobile products Gannett, the parent company of USA Today, said that the newspaper charges the Marriott about $ 50 per thousand samples of the notice. The average cost of a notice of the general portal of USA Today is less than ten dollars, he added. In daily newspapers, the cost of equivalent advertising is $ 103.

Phuc Truong, Mobext U.S. managing director, said the media ask for online advertising from two to four times the normal charge for advertising.

In addition to paying higher rates for ads in IPAD, companies have expressed willingness to increase its investments in certain publications, but is not guaranteed to continue doing so.

One of the reasons for which JPMorgan Chase & Co. decided to sponsor the new application of the New York Times for the first 60 days was the opportunity to promote their credit card Sapphire among the first buyers of the IPAD. Card is aimed at high-income people and it is assumed that users of the IPAD are.

Conde Nast says that an average reader spends 60 minutes per month with IPAD applications. In contrast, the average reader spends 2.1 minutes online per month and 3.8 minutes Vanityfair.com GQ.com, according to comScore. "We want to stay hours, not minutes," said Scott Dadich, creative director of Wired magazine.

Wired magazine is probably the most intensely seeks to exploit the potential of IPAD. Its application allows the reader to enjoy the same advantages of the printed version and also see videos and computer graphics that can be rotated with a slight movement of a finger.

Wired Applying costs $ 4.99 per issue.

On the Web, most of the content is free and the idea is to attract the widest possible audience for advertisers. The publishers do not want to follow the same model with the tablets, but charge for applications can be risky. Many readers may not be willing to pay and reduce the hearing and offered to advertisers.