Google says that China is a market 'only' Internet

Google China is a market for "single" Internet in the world, explained at a technology conference in Beijing vice-president of sales, John Liu. Liu declined to comment on the controversy that had the U.S. search engine with the Chinese government earlier this year on account of censorship of content and 'piracy' computer and said that Google is going to go for collaboration with Chinese firms.

"We're trying to offer our best services to businesses," explained Liu, who stressed the importance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the technology sector of China. "Everyone can be a customer, supplier, competitor or even a partner," said Google vice president of sales Google and China. In this sense, the manager predicted a "new competitive landscape" in an Internet that will expand in quantity, the exponential increase of users, and quality, by improving the content.

Google in China
Liu predicted that in 10 years will multiply the number of Internet users, current 1,800 million to 5,000 million people, many of them from emerging powers. China and actually exceeds the 400 million users, but the rate of penetration of the Net in just less than 25%, while in developed countries is around 70%. Similarly, he said, in 2020 there will be 10,000 million mobile phones worldwide, more than double the 4,600 million today. On the other hand, Liu defended the future of computing 'cloud' (cloud computing), as their characteristics of adaptability, individuality and its growth potential is much larger than traditional applications Google and China.

The Google vice president of sales said the company is now seeking "efficiency" of the user, ie to complete their experience in providing network and offers individualized options to your taste, your preferences and hit upon their interests. Google and China have since early this year a conflict since the California company accused hackers' Chinese 'Pirates' email accounts to Gmail or other services and threatened to leave their businesses in China, which he did, at least partially, for several months.

China partially blocks the Google search service

A Google search feature was blocked in China on Thursday said the company while waiting for Beijing's decision on whether to renew its operating license amid tensions over censorship.

The mainland Chinese users were unable to use the feature "suggestions" of the online search giant, which offers possible results as you begin typing a question, the company said.

"It seems the search requests produced by Tips Google are being blocked for users in mainland China," Google spokeswoman Jessica Powell in an email. "Searches that do not use normal query suggestions are not affected."

Google's relations with Beijing have been strained since the search giant based in the United States said in January that it no longer wanted to cooperate with the Chinese Internet filtering after it was discovered that several hacker attacks came from China.

Google Inc. closed its search engine based in China on March 22 and began to prosecute users to your site in Hong Kong unfiltered, but the company said this week it would suspend the automatic change because Beijing objected and threatened to withdraw its license.

The deadline expired on Wednesday, Powell said that Google did not receive any notice from the Chinese regulators. She said that the license is valid until 2012, but must be renewed annually. He refused to say what is the status of Google while you wait for a response.

A Foreign Ministry spokesman, Qin Gang, did not answer directly when asked if Google would be allowed to operate in China.

"Companies operating on the internet, while doing business in China must comply with Chinese laws and regulations," Qin said. "We hope that all foreign companies, including Internet companies, obey the laws and regulations of China."

Finland declares access to broadband as a fundamental right

Entry into force of the new Law on Communications Market as of today has made Finland the first country in the world that recognizes the internet access via broadband as a fundamental right of all citizens.

The new rules, adopted eight months ago, forcing the 26 telephone operators in Finland to provide an Internet connection "high quality and reasonably priced, with a download speed of at least 1 megabyte per second (Mbps).

Thus, the new legislation includes access to broadband in the list of basic communication services must reach all corners of the country, with others such as telephone or postal mail.

"From now on, broadband connection at a reasonable price is a fundamental right in Finland. This is undoubtedly one of the greatest achievements of the Government in terms of regional policy, and I'm proud of it," he told a statement, the Finnish Minister of Transport and Communications, Suvi Lindén.

"I hope people take this opportunity and contact with telecom operators in the area in which they live," she added.The Finnish Government's objective is to increase the minimum speed internet access through fiber optic cables up to one hundred megabytes per second (Mbps) by the end of 2015.

At the same time, aiming at the same time increase the percentage of Finns have access to the network, from 95 percent today to over 99 percent.

A chance to laugh? Private photos of reaching the net 80

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.