New allegations of abuse in Faxconn

A report based on interviews with more than 1,700 workers, developed by 20 universities in Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, Hon Hai criticized by days of long hours work culture "militaristic" and a massive use of college students and vocational trainees in production lines to reduce costs in faxconn.

Hon Hai and Foxconn unit, based in Hong Kong for the New abuses in Faxconn, which manufactures, amongst others, the iPhone and Apple  iPad and articles for Dell and Hewlett-Packard, dismissed as "unsubstantiated allegations" and said reports that tried and paid their workers well.

New allegations of abuse in Faxconn

"Foxconn Technology Group firmly and categorically rejected reports in international media and Chinese that are attributed to research by academics and students for alleged abuse of employees, illegal labor practices and unsanitary conditions in our operations in China," said the in a statement. Hon Hai, the largest electronics manufacturer in the world, and Foxconn were criticized in the past after the suicide of several workers at its plants in China for the New abuses in Faxconn.

Labor activists said was due to harsh working conditions of the Taiwanese company and a gloomy corporate culture and the Foxconn Technology Group. However, in recent years, multinationals such as Honda Motor Co. have been aggressively recruited students from Chinese universities and technical work by paying them lower wages and benefits curtailed.

New abuses in Faxconn

"It is common now throughout the Pearl River delta in any manufacturing sector," said Geoffrey Crothall in China Labour Bulletin in Hong Kong, adding that such fellows often sign contracts without work and without insurance guarantees in place work for the New abuses in Faxconn. "In terms of legal protection, are in no man's land," he added and the Foxconn Technology Group. Since the suicides, Hon Hai is committed to improving the lives of its 937,000 workers in China to raise wages, reduce overtime and build new factories inside China to allow migrant workers to be closer to their homes .
However, the report, based on interviews with employees from June to August, said the pace of work remained implacable. Hon Hai said that only about 7.6% of its workforce were trainees and those who worked overtime did so voluntarily in the Foxconn Technology Group.

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New FIFA installment of the game lets you create your own league

The eleventh version of the FIFA game, which will be released next September in the United States, will offer tools that allow the player to customize the most of the items given the opportunity to create their own football league, announced today the company EA Sports.

One of the creative producers of the game, Colombian Santiago Jaramillo explained that this customization will be possible thanks to the "Center building" a new game feature that will provide the opportunity for users to design their players, their ideal football team and even the kit and shield.

So far the game only allowed to create a player with similar features to the user.

The "Center building" will modify the content of FIFA 11 on Xbox 360 and PlayStation3 connecting to the internet and choose different templates to create their kits, so you can well "have the league who have always wanted," said Jamarillo.

He explained that an additional meeting aims primarily to the Latino community, especially the Argentine users, who have always wanted to see represented their own leagues or teams of South America.
In previous versions of the game had only represented the Brazilian league and teams like River Plate and Boca Juniors of Argentina League in the category that includes clubs from around the world.

Jaramillo told Efe that the problem is that "there are a limited number of teams and the game always needs a context to gain value for the user."
In contrast, the "Center building" the first opportunity for the user to create their own context and reproduce, for example, all Colombian League, said.

In addition, users can download through internet leagues and teams set up by other players.
Also new this year is the custom audio allow fans to assign the edges to the teams and leagues in play or even hear the sound of their names in the stands of stadiums as well known as Old Trafford or the British San Siro Italian.

According to Jaramillo, in this new edition has been given priority to the game's authenticity and personality of the players, through a component called "personality plus", which can provide more realistic behavior of the players.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Launch new video game "Back to the Future" and "Jurassic Park"

The company Telltale Games decided to travel to the past to a new series of video games: episodic titles based on franchises "Back to the Future" and "Jurassic Park."

The popular Universal Studios film trilogy spawned several games during its heyday in the 1980s and 1990s but have been absent from the interactive world. The untitled game for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, PC and Mac go on sale later this year.

"I think it is a perfect time to reintroduce these properties in the digital world," said Dan Connors, CEO of Telltale Games.

"Telltale Games has always wanted to be a great company of narrative. We have been refining our tools over the past six years, and we're ready to take on these two iconic properties and further mainstream narrative games," he added.

Telltale Games episodic previously created games based on the Oscar-winning animated series "Wallace and Gromit, Aardman Animations, the comic series of Steve Purcell's" Sam and Max "and his story on the Internet by Matt Chapman" Homestar Runner. " The company, based in San Rafael, California, went to Universal Studios while looking for inspiration for their next game.

"'Jurassic Park' and 'Back to the Future' are two of our larger properties and dear," said Bill Kispert, vice president of Universal Interactive Studios. "We were very interested in bringing them to the interactive space, but not exactly the type of properties that lend themselves to the stereotypical style of gaming."

Connors said the games, in the early stages of development, would tell new stories derived from "Back to the Future" and "Jurassic Park." He joked that the games of "Back to the Future" DeLorean include a trip to the 1970s, while those in "Jurassic Park" would be intense and would incorporate new parallel stories of the mythology of man against the dinosaur in the series.

Google widens its multilingual search maps

Google announced the launch in 11 countries in its "Navigation Maps," which includes the voice guidance and allows users to speak Spanish, French, German and Italian advantage of the help in the search for directions.
According to the announcement, users in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland can copy the version 4.2 of Google Maps Navigation, already available in the U.S. and the UK.

In so doing, provide instructions for guidance "to each change of direction" as long as they have a smart phone with Android 1.6 or higher.Google initially said guidance instructions to its operating system for smart mobile phone last October and the decision has had some lasting impact on the field of guided navigation.

For example, in January followed in the footsteps of Nokia and Google announced its own set of guidance instructions Ovi Maps.According to Google, voice communication has always been the natural way to interact with Google Search phone and voice users can say what they want, instead of typing a text.

This facility was initially developed for English and then to Mandarin Chinese and Japanese. The goal, Google said, is to bring "Search" (search) voice users in all languages.

In addition to work with Android phones, "Search" voice phones can run on iPhone, BlackBerry and Nokia S60, the firm added.

Moreover, the firm announced a new indexing system, called "Caffeine", according to Google search substantially accelerates data over the network.

Matt Cutts, head of Google's webspam team explained that before the firm explored a fraction of the network every night, indexed and added content to its results, and now, thanks to "Caffeine", the search engine scans the network, find new information and the index immediately.

"We process the information immediately so that we can offer it seconds later," said Cutts.

When Google started its work updating its index once every four months. Around 2000 he began to index every month in a process that took a week to ten days.

Now is "Caffeine" is used in all schools and, according to Cutts, "greatly increased" the ability to "enhance the indexing of documents in the order of 100 petabytes."

A computer attack from China blocks South Korean government site

One of the main sites of South Korea's government on Wednesday suffered a cyber attack from China which forced to suspend some services for hours, reported the South Korean Ministry of Interior.
Http://korea.go.kr site that offers information on services and public policy failures and delays suffered for about four hours by an attack known as distributed denial-of-Service (DDoS).

This type of computer sabotage against a server is performed through automatic orders executed en masse from multiple computers simultaneously, with the aim of the website is blocked.
According to South Korean agency Yonhap, the search was conducted after the attack has led to the conclusion that came from 120 servers in China.
Although no damage because the computer center of the South Korean government blocked access to the servers involved, the National Intelligence Agency is still investigating details of the origin and consequences of the attack.
The cyber assault has led the South Korean public to take extraordinary measures to prevent attacks, "cyber-terrorists," according to Yonhap.
In July last year, South Korea suffered a similar attack against several government websites, including the Office of the Presidency and the Ministry of Defence as well as against private Internet portals.

That attack coincided with others that were aimed at different websites U.S. state agencies, including the White House and the Pentagon, and sites like the New York Stock Exchange.

The National Intelligence Agency of South Korea said then that computer attacks were launched from 16 countries, with the possible involvement of North Korea.