New PlayStation 3 control will be released later this year

Sony Corporation announced Wednesday it decided to delay until the fourth quarter of this year the launch of its new motion-sensing control for the PlayStation 3.

The device will launch in North America, Europe, Japan and other Asian countries. Sony did not say how much it will cost.

The driver was planned for the second quarter, when Sony announced the first details in September. In the end, the company decided to wait several months until new games that accompany the launch, said spokeswoman Makiko Noda, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. in Tokyo.

"We continue to have a comprehensive range of attractive and innovative games for the move handle," he said in a statement from Sony Computer Entertainment president Kazuo Hirai. Both the company and independent developers are creating games, he added.

Sony said it will introduce software offering date to be determined.

In conjunction with the PlayStation Eye camera, the controller can detect the voices, faces and body movements of players. It also has a light area that the camera can recognize.

The announcement comes as Sony and Microsoft, which makes the Xbox 360, Nintendo looking to dethrone his chair dominant in the field of gaming.

Since Nintendo's successful Wii console launched in 2006, has managed to outperform their rivals in sales consistently. The company was the first to introduce drivers to detect the movements, which allows users to physically interact with games.

Microsoft also developed its own control, under the so-called Natal Project, "which includes a camera, depth detector, a microphone and a processor, which eliminates the need to push buttons.

Expected to be released for the sales season for next Christmas, but there is still no fixed date.

The European Commission approves acquisition by Oracle, Sun Microsystems

The European Commission (EC) has given the green light to the acquisition of U.S. computer group Sun Microsystems to Oracle, one of the world's largest manufacturers of computer software, noting that the operation would not lead significant competition in the EU.

This was announced by the EU executive said in a statement, after having conducted a thorough investigation of the proposed transaction, which began last September.

The EC then assessed whether the acquisition by Oracle, the leading database vendor proprietary, leading system management database MySQL open source, belonging to Sun, could lead to competition concerns in the European Economic Area (ESA).
'Revitalizing assets'

The EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes, said in the note that Sun's acquisition by Oracle "has the potential to revitalize important assets and create new and innovative products."

Oracle is working on developing, manufacturing and distribution enterprise software, including middleware (software for databases) and software for enterprise applications and related services.

For its part, Sun, which acquired MySQL in 2008, manufactures standard-based computing infrastructure, including enterprise systems, software and storage.

The Commission notes that the database market is highly concentrated, as the three largest companies-Oracle, IBM and Microsoft, dominate 85% of the sector.
Competition

The research we conducted showed that although MySQL and Oracle compete in certain parts of the market for databases, they are not close competitors "in other, as in the high-end segment.

The investigation showed that Brussels also another database open source, PostgreSQL, is considered by many users as a "credible alternative" to MySQL, which could be expected to replace to some extent the competitive force exerted by MySQL currently on the market of databases.

Furthermore, the EC indicated that, given the "specifics" of the industry's open-source software took into account the "promises" announced last December by Oracle customers and developers of MySQL, as to the continued future releases of the database under the General Public License (open source license).

The Commission also examined the possible impact of Oracle's acquisition of intellectual property rights related to the Java programming platform.

In that sense, found that Oracle's ability to deny competitors access to important intellectual property rights would be limited by what is called the Java Community Process, established to develop and revise Java technology, which are involved many other players in the computer industry, including Oracle's competitors.

The EC's investigation also found that Oracle would have no incentive to restrain its competitors access to intellectual property rights of Java.

The two U.S. companies reached an agreement in April, which Oracle acquired by Sun Microsystems for a total of 5,700 million euros.

The New York Times charged for access to its website in 2011

The New York Times announced Wednesday that starting next year began to charge readers for full access to its Web site, a risky decision with which they seek to get more income online without scaring away advertisers.

The potential dangers of this tactic has slowed to other newspapers. But after months of analysis, the Times announced it will use a measured, which give free access to a number of articles and charge the user for additional content.

The Times did not say how many items will be available free or how much to charge for more reading. Subscribers to the print version of the Times will continue to have free access to its Web pages.

Not the first time the newspaper has tried to charge for their online content.

In 1996, began charging for access to their Web pages but managed only about 4,000 subscribers. Another experiment called Times Select, which required a $ 50 annual subscription to read Times columnists, has attracted 221,000 customers but was eliminated in 2007 hurt sales by advertising. In general, advertisers pay more for a rush of readers.

The new approach resembles that used by the financial newspaper The Financial Times. The idea is to attract casual readers with free items while charging a fee to people who wish to deepen their reading and knowledge.

The plan will not prevent the search engines catalog the newspaper website, so that their articles will continue to receive traffic generated by search results.

The Times said in 2010 mounted a new web infrastructure to charge readers on different platforms, not only on personal computers. For example, the diary can be read using the free Apple iPhone. But the Times did not elaborate on its plans regarding wireless issues.

Chinese video portal launched a system to identify the copyright

The video portal Youku (youku.com), one of the most popular in China, will launch a management tool to identify the copyright, which will be the first of its kind in China, today reported on its Web site web.

"Youku is increasing content acquisition and cooperation with partners abroad, so it is increasing the need for a strict copyright control with latest technology," announced on its Web site web.

Furthermore, with the launch of the new system, Youku will dramatically improve the ability to identify and prevent the rise of video content by consumers. "

Youku said that this year will embark on an unprecedented acquisition of content, and plans to invest in research and development, and improve speed to enhance user navigation.

The website added that the introduction of this pioneering system of identification of copyright to try to lead the industry toward legitimate content, and serve as an important safeguard for the Internet video sector.

As noted Yao Jian, manager Youku technology, "proof of the identification system of copyright is already underway for the European and U.S. media rights. After this initial phase of operations, we continue to improve and refine the system to be efficient and convenient to use.

China has the largest Internet user population in the world, with nearly 384 million users, but also one of the countries with the network censors, according to systematically denounce human rights organizations.

Manual Twitter for those who still do not understand

This year, Twitter has become the online social network of more rapid growth and technological theme that everyone talks about. However, there are still many who do not know what it is and how much albotoro. If you're one of them, here we give a brief introduction to "twittosfera.

Twitter is basically a site microblogs. By registering, the user purchases a home page where you can post short messages - 140 characters maximum, only text and links to other websites.

Sounds too simple to be so popular. It is the simplicity which emphasizes a social network. The site promotes itself as a service easy to use.

The first thing a user sees upon entering is a common question as simple as: What are you doing? The user posts a response and its contacts can learn in real time.

Twitter recently announced that prepares versions of its site in German, French and Spanish. Perhaps when that happens, there is an "explosion" of Twitter in Latin America, as with Facebook. Meanwhile, Here's the main steps for using the service.

How to use?

Signing up is easy. Enter Twitter.com, click "sing up now". After filling the registration form and create the account, you can immediately begin to "twitter". Just simply type a message of 140 characters or less in the space that says "What are you doing" (What are you doing?).

But that does not end the process. To have someone read a post you must enter your microblog either through the address of your microblog (Example: http://twitter.com/usuario) or when one of his followers.

For fans, the first thing to do is start to follow other people. Just enter your microblogs and click on the "follow". If you want to stop following someone, simply look for the button that has a nut icon and click "unfollowed".

If among his followers there someone you do not want to read your messages, find the button on the nut and click "block". Now, if what you want is that their messages are read only by followers authorized by you, go to "Settings" (Settings), check "Protect my tweets" and ready.

To find your friends on Twitter, click on "Find People". There you can find "twittered" for user name, searching through your contacts from Gmail, Yahoo and AOL e-mail to invite others to join and find suggested by Twitter users.

Over time, your network of supporters and grow straight and you will be heard by more people. In the dynamics of Twitter there are several actions that will be useful to mention another "twittered" (@), citing a "tweet" from another user (RT), add a label (#), include a short link to another page, photo or video, and follow the most Tweeting the moment.

- Mention: If in your message you mention another Twitter user and want their fans to access the microblog of that person, just put an at sign "@" after the username. The tweet will show that name published as a link, a click on it will open your microblog. Facebook implemented this tool in September, clearly modeled on Twitter.

- Quote: When a user of Twitter and want to publish on your microblog a "tweet" without stealing someone else's credit, there is a convention usuada frequently by users. RT Write letters, meaning Re tweet (forward) at the beginning of the message, followed by the name of the user (Example: RT @ user) is used for their fans see this message and know who is its author.

- Tags: pound sign "#" is used to create Twitter "hashtags" tags that allow users to see all the "tweets" on a specific topic in real time. For example, if you post a message about cancer, writing # cancer the term appears as a link. By clicking on it, their fans can see all the messages of Twitter users who have included that tag.

- Short Links: Twitter allows you to include links to other websites. The problem is that there are many directions that are too long to fit in the 140-character limit. For this there are several sites that "shrink" the url (tinyurl.com, bit.ly, etc.). In fact, the same box of "What are you doing" addresses automatically shortened if the entire message does not exceed the character limit.

- Photos / videos: You can also post pictures and videos via external applications of Twitter. For example, the site lets twitpic.com sign in with your username and password for Twitter, you upload a photo, adds a comment and the service is responsible for issuing that message on Twitter with a link to the photo.

- Trending Topics: On the right side of the Twitter home page is a list of "Trending topics, which are the terms most used by twittered. It is a kind of barometer of the issues of most interest to users. By clicking on them, you can view all messages containing those terms.

Making Affordable Europe studying digital readers

The European Commission said that it could revise the copyright law to facilitate companies like Google Inc. to digitize books already published and distributed their copies over the Internet.

Those changes could include easier ways to compensate authors and publishers, possibly through a legal license with the company could get the rights to create digital copies and pay royalties into a common fund would be divided later among the different holders of copyright of the work.

Currently the copyright is handled differently in each of the 27 European Union countries, making it difficult to obtain permission to publish digitized material, especially when you can not find the owner of rights.

The European Commission, the executive authority of the union, said he would begin work on the case next year in order to promote large-scale digitization and suggested ways to compensate owners.

Any suggested changes to European law must be approved by EU governments and lawmakers.

The commissioner of the Media of the European Union, Viviane Reding welcomed the resolution.

"Europe can offer more and earn more with the digitization of books," said the commissioner, but said it still must be reviewed various legal matters.

The measure was prompted in part by a hearing committee in September with European authors, publishers, libraries and technology companies that exposed the ways in which they affect an agreement that Google is negotiating in the U.S..

In fact Google has begun to digitize millions of books following the law of copyright in the United States.

The company has proceeded according to a tentative agreement with U.S. authors and publishers that cover all books, unless there is an objection by the holders of rights.

A judge must approve the agreement after the parties involved will make modifications to meet the comments of the Justice Department. The U.S. antitrust authorities are not considering the case.

Chinese make backpack with solar charger for mobile

A team from Shenzhen Enon Dynamic Technology Co. Ltd unveiled this week in Hong Kong developed its newest release from Chinese solar technology.

A backpack that has embedded a panel of solar energy capture allows users Mantana charged the battery of your mobile phone. The new "eco-friendly" enables the cell to be loaded anywhere.

The technology fair in Hong Kong Electronics Fair this week was the participation of 2.8 thousand exhibitors.

Social networks, "fuel" for smartphones

The so-called smart phones that allow, among other things, Internet access, will be of massive use thanks to the "insatiable appetite" of the public for social networks, analysts say the mobile phone market in Britain.

Researchers predict for next year an explosion in sales along with falling prices.

The prediction takes place the same week the launch of the latest Blackberry model, called "Storm 2.

While the "Palm Pre", dubbed the "iPhone murderer," finally makes its entry into the UK market.

Fuel

"The Internet on cell phones is on the same stage where the Internet was in 1998," says Ian Fogg, analyst at Forrester.

Ben Wood, a researcher at CCS Insight, agrees: "We are on the cusp of an explosion of devices that seem computers in the hands of consumers, where previously it was only a privilege of the first who could afford them.

"Social networks are the fuel that is encouraging the moment," said Wood.

Increasingly, mobile operators and handset manufacturers are delivering phones that are "an assortment for social messages, alerts are Twitter, IM or the latest pictures on Facebook," said the analyst.

For Eric Schmidt, Google's director, could be the time to leave the label of "smart phone".

"The smart phone is not really a smartphone. It's actually a GPS device is a camera and a camcorder and a place where you can play games and browse the Internet, and, oh by the way, you can make calls.

CCS Insight report predicted that by the end of 2009, 44% of cell phone users will access information through their phones, while it is expected that smart phones accounted for 17% of the over one billion equipment produced in 2009.

Chargers can get rid of wireless cable

Headache is a watch for shippers to go with cell phones, media players and other small electronic devices. It is even more annoying cables and adapters to put in a suitcase when traveling.
Can you imagine loading equipment without having to connect them?

I've started doing just that. I tried two pills that charge small devices like the iPod to only put on them. Only the tablet is connected to a socket instead of every gadget. However, these tablets are far from perfect. Special covers are needed for certain devices and adapters. But there is something thrilling about getting rid of almost all the cables.
The first product I tested came from Powermat, which began selling two models of tablet for $ 100 U.S..
One is a rectangular table designed for home and office use, which impressed me since I took it out of the box because it is easy to install and compatible with many popular gadgets. Powermat also sells a rectangle that folds into three parts to travel.

Both are available in retail stores in the U.S. A Latin American stores has not arrived but can be purchased online at sites like Amazon.com.
Powermat Each comes with a white cube that has a miniUSB port - the kind that goes on BlackBerrys and other phones - and eight different ports that fit the charging port on an iPhone, iPod, Sony PSP and other small electronic devices. Once you plug the gadget into the bucket, the bucket should be placed on the tablet to begin charging.

You can omit the step of using the bucket, but it will cost more money. Powermat sells plastic holders for devices like the iPhone, iPod Touch and Nintendo DSi, with special covers for some BlackBerry. All these devices allow you to recharge by simply placing them on the charger. There is also a small charging port that fits the iPod or iPhone.
These supplements can cost between 30 and 40 dollars. But it is much easier to maintain the special sheath placed on the iPhone and then just put it on the shelf when you need more energy.

Each Powermat can charge three gadgets at once; magnets hold them in place. When you put a phone in the Powermat, it emits a soft white light and a buzz to let you know that you are properly connected. A different sound alerts you when the connection is broken.
Powermat uses induction to charge devices. Basically, when a device gets enabled on the table, the two are given a "handshake" using RFID technology, or technology of radio frequency identification. The table identifies the device, determines how much power you need and initiates the transfer of energy to it. Once the battery is fully charged, Powermat stop the flow of electricity.

More important than the process for me was the speed, and bore my gadgets Powermat fairly quickly. It took about an hour and half recharge an iPod Nano, an iPhone and a HTC smartphone myTouch. That was the time it took when I plugged the iPhone in myTouch and the traditional wall adapters. The iPod Nano still needs more time in a wall outlet, a little over two hours.

Table of others who tried, myGrid Duracell ($ 80) was less impressive. It had slow loading times and ease of use is more limited.

Initially launched in 2007 by a company called WildCharge Inc. and recently authorized by Duracell, myGrid is primarily a plastic box covered with steel rods.

The table will come with some ports that connect to the bottom of cell phones. The ports have to be connected to a "power clip and a magnetic disk is placed in the back of the phone helps keep the clip in place during charging. This is cumbersome. If all goes well, the equipment shall be connected and a blue light shining on the side of the platform lets you know that the gadgets are being recharged.
Of course this is assuming you have a gadget that is compatible with the board. MyGrid website says the product works with several phones from Nokia, Motorola and BlackBerry, and as the port that fits the last two marks is miniUSB, should also work with other devices that have this port of loading. I was able to load the myTouch HTC phone with her, although its slightly curved back made it a bit difficult to maintain the connection.

If you have a BlackBerry Pearl or Curve or an iPod Touch, you can buy a rubber sleeve $ 35, which can also load the gadget when you place it in the myGrid platform. I tasted one that fits the iPhone (which goes on sale in March) and found it quite simple.

MyGrid works differently than Powermat, and requires that the contact points of metal clips and rubber sleeves are touching the platform to transmit electricity.

I also took longer to load devices with Powermat myGrid: a little over 2 ½ hours for an iPhone, and about four hours in a myTouch. I could not charge an iPod Nano, because Duracell platform compatible ports or no sleeves.
The advantage of this charger is to charge up to four devices at once instead of three, and no matter where they are placed.

But in general, because of its greater compatibility with gadgets and faster loading times, Powermat offers a better option, although more expensive.

Technical Failure erases data from 150 thousand users of Facebook

About 150 thousand users of Facebook, the most popular social networking Internet, they lost their account data, photos and contacts after lel website suffered technical problems last week that prevented access to these Internet services. The company has already ruled that the cause of the problem have been pirates.
According to the newspaper El Pais, the change of the home pages of the profiles caused technical problems that occurred around day 3 October, which prevented access to the Internet to their profiles on the website.
As reported by Cnet site, Facebook on Tuesday hoped that the situation is normalized for all users affected by the problems and lost some information in the process. The exact number of people affected was not defined, but could reach the 150 thousand Internet users, a small percentage compared to the 300 million social network members.In an official statement sent to users hit by the problems, the company apologizes for the inconvenience and the Internet warns that "some data may not be recovered" and recommended that they review their profiles. Facebook also admitted that some data can not be updated. The problem affected excluded or recently added photos and content, such as messages and profile updates, or additions sent in recent days.

Microsoft fixes 34 flaws in Windows security key

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday issued a record number of security patches for its software as part of its monthly update.
The maker of computer programs arranged 34 flaws as "critical", the most severe level. These include fixes for Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000 and even Windows 7, which goes on sale until 22 October but has been in use by developers and some people who did initial tests.
Security patches are for a range of Microsoft programs, including Internet Explorer, Media Player, Outlook and Silverlight technology, which is on the basis of many media portals.

Disclaimer board member of Google for conflict

Google Inc. announced the resignation of a board member who also serves as a director at Apple Inc. in a move that eliminates a potential conflict of interest at a time when both companies are competing more directly.
Arthur Levinson, chairman of the biotechnology company Genentech Inc. and board member of Google since April 2004, resigned immediately. Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said Levinson has been a key part of Google's success in the past five years, "but gave no specific reasons for his resignation.
The announcement comes at a time when federal regulators carefully examine the ties between the two companies.
Schmidt resigned from his post on the board of Apple weeks ago, shortly after Google announced plans to give developing an operating system for computers that would compete with Apple's operating system, Mac OS. Google also produces software for mobile phones based in direct competition with the iPhone.

The increasing overlap of products of the two firms had made the Federal Trade Commission consider the dual role of Schmidt, concerned about the potential for cooperation that would reduce competition in the sector. After Schmidt resigned his seat on the board of Apple, the FTC said it would continue reviewing Levinson's ties with companies.
Google shares rose $ 8.03 to $ 524.28 by midday in the Stock Exchange in New York. Shares of Apple rose 29 cents to $ 190.76.

Experts believe that nobody knows the future of internet

Nobody knows for what the future of the internet, but as all experts agree on is that it must remain an open platform, free and democratic.
This was revealed Thursday at a debate within the World Telecommunications Forum 2009, the largest industry event in the world.
"I do not think anyone knows what the future of the internet, all I know is that you must follow democratically available," said one speaker, Ziga Turk, professor of Construction Informatics, University of Ljubljana.A lack of detail, Turk said it takes the Internet of the future are the "five i"."Innovation, investment, establishment of a specific IP protocol, inclusion, so that everyone can participate, and imagination to make it even more interesting and creative."
"The network must be accessible, free, open, globally connected, and the possibility of sharing technology," said Lynn turn St Amour, President of ISOC, Internet Society, an NGO dedicated to Internet policy.Another aspect that was mentioned in the debate was the fact the need for the future Internet is "green."
"We must achieve maximum speed and connectivity to the lower consumption," said Helmut Schink, director of Siemens."The optical network is much greener because it gets more bits per watt per hour, we must implement it globally," said Schink.

Activists reject U.S. arrest a Twitter user

The arrest of a New Yorker, who used Twitter to alert police protesters movements in a G20 meeting in Pittsburgh last month, would be considered a violation of their rights if it had happened in Iran or China, according to activists said.
Pittsburgh police arrested on September 24, Elliot Madison, 41, at a time when hundreds of people-some of whom threw stones and broke windows of shops-protesters on the first day of a G20 summit of rich countries and developing nations.
The protesters, with a large anti-capitalist agenda, they were kept away from the convention site where world leaders maintained their two-day meeting. Police used pepper spray to disperse sporadically.
The criminal indictment against Madison argues that violated the law by using Twitter to give instructions to the demonstrators and others involved in criminal acts to avoid arrest and inform them of the movements and actions of the police.Twitter allows its subscribers to post text messages of 140 characters.
Madison, who was released on bail, is accused of hindering the apprehension, prosecution and criminal use of communication elements and possessing instruments for committing crimes, defined as telecommunications equipment.
"The same conduct (the authorities) in Iran or China during recent protests would be seen as violations of human rights, whereas here it is considered necessary to control crime," Reuters said Vic Walczak, legal director of the American Union Civil Liberties in Pennsylvania.
Twitter was used by demonstrators in Iran amid protests and government repression that occurred after the disputed June elections in the country.
At one point, the State Department urged even Twitter to delay a planned upgrade that would temporarily cut the service in Iran.
China has repeatedly blocked access to sites like Twitter, as in May, facing the twentieth anniversary of the massacre in Tiananmen Square, and again in July after the unrest in the northwestern region of Xinjiang.
Pittsburgh police, who were asked about illegal actions of Madison, noted Madison's accusation that was hindering the apprehension or law enforcement. "All law enforcement agencies should keep abreast of continuing developments in technology, both to determine how technology can help police to better serve the public and to find ways and can be used to commit crimes," said the spokesman Myra Taylor.
"The criminal indictment contends that Mr. Madison legal devices used to commit illegal acts," he said. Laura DeNardis, executive director of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, said the arrest of Madison could be used "by repressive countries that might be looking restrict the use of technology."
"They could cite this as a justification for freedom of expression even more direct and repressive measures in cases like those we saw in the protests by the Iranian elections," said DeNardis.

Dell plans to release a smartphone in the U.S.

Dell plans to launch a smart phone with Android software from Google via AT & T operator, according to a source, which would be the first PC maker's foray into the arena of mobile telephony in the U.S..
Dell will be the last manufacturer of technology in trying to settle in the rapidly growing market led by Apple and Research In Motion. The phone also plans to give a boost to the fledgling mobile platform from Google, which competes with Apple and Microsoft.
A source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters that Dell plans to introduce a U.S. version of its "oPhone" for China - powered by Android - and the device is certified by AT & T for your home network.The Wall Street Journal, which broke the news on Wednesday, citing people briefed on the matter saying that the phone could be launched Dell in early 2010.
Smart phones - mobiles with complex functions ranging from email to media - have exploded in the corporate and consumer market as more and more users access information and entertainment outside the home.
Dell spokesman Andrew Bowins declined to comment on a deal with AT & T but said: "We are deeply committed to our operator partners around the world to offer computing devices that work with mobile broadband.
He added: "We have not announced anything about Android although we continue to explore opportunities in these areas with operators around the world."
Google declined to comment, as did AT & T. But the spokesman for the telecommunications giant, Michael Coe, said: "We expect to sell phones with Android in the future."

More than half of U.S. companies social networking bans

More than half of U.S. companies forbid their employees to enter social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace or Twitter during working hours, according to a study released last week.
"The addiction to socialize" takes over internet.
About 54% of those responsible for the information of the companies decided a "total ban" of visits to social networking sites.
According to 19% of those responsible, employees are entitled to visit social networking sites, but "only in the context of their work", and 16% warrants the occupation "for limited personal use". Only 10% had no objection to such access.
The study was conducted in 1,400 companies from at least 100 employees by the firm Robert Half Technology. "Using social networking sites can divert attention from the employees of more pressing priorities and it is therefore understandable that some companies restrict access," said executive director of Robert Half Technology, Dave Miller.

Judge sets deadline for agreement on Google Book

A federal judge on Wednesday set a month's deadline for the parties in the battle over Google Inc. 'efforts to obtain the digital reproduction rights of millions of books out of circulation in the United States submitted a revised agreement.
Judge Denny Chin set a deadline for the Nov. 9, after a lawyer representing the owners tell him that Google's lawyers authors and publishers who were working hard to reach a new agreement in early November. An agreement of $ 125 million was being renegotiated after the U.S. government say that it seemed that the existing agreement would violate antitrust laws.
The original agreement was announced last October by Google and the publishing industry to settle two lawsuits that challenged publishing rights plans for digital broadcasting.
Michael Boni, a lawyer for authors, told the judge that the new agreement would contain amendments to make it more acceptable to the Department of Justice, which questioned the legality of the original version.
William F. Cavanaugh, a deputy assistant secretary of Justice, told the judge that the department has been in continuous testing with both sides. However, said the government was not aware yet of how the final agreement.
He said he expected "meetings in the near future to discuss the proposal."
Cavanaugh asked the judge to give the government 10 days after any deadline for filing objections, so that the Justice Department prepare its analysis of a new agreement.
At one point, Chin wondered what would happen if the talks fail and no agreement is reached.

Google's lawyer Daralyn Durie told the judge: "The expectation is we will get both sides to reach an agreement."
Chin did not set a deadline for when they should be submitted objections but said he expected objections to authorize only new provisions, it is hoped that the basic points of agreement remained intact.
The judge received almost 400 views on the new agreement, many of them expressing disapproval.

The Wii and PSP triple its sales in Japan after rebates

Sales of Nintendo's Wii console and Sony's PlayStation Portable tripled in Japan last week, thanks to price cuts and the launch game titles, according to a research firm.
Desiring to encourage demand asleep before the crucial holiday shopping season, Nintendo cut the price of the Wii at 20 percent and Sony cut the price of the PSP by 15 percent last Oct. 1.
Sales also were encouraged by last week's launch of the PSP version of the popular game "Great Tourism" and "Wii Fit Plus", the second installment of the popular home exercise game "Wii Fit".
Sony sold 49,000 units of its PSP in the week ended Sunday, compared with 15,000 the previous week, while Wii sales were around 32,000, compared with the 10,500 machines that were sold last week, said Ascii Media Works.

Facebook knows if we are happy

Facebook has become indispensable for our social care and keep abreast of what happens in our circle of friends, but now aspires to much more: whether or not we are happy.
The popular social network has developed an index to measure the degree of happiness and ensures that it can determine on which days the Americans were when they were happier and more miserable.
The system is simple and uses the personal information that millions of users share every day with the rest of the world: Facebook has analyzed the words used by members of the network in its status bar and answers the question "What are you thinking ?.
"Cluster, these updates are indicative of how we feel collectively," he writes in a blog post on Facebook Adam Kramer, a psychology student at the University of Oregon and one of the leaders of the project.

So Facebook finds good days when words like "happy" or "great" abound in the status bar of the users of social network and negative ones in which many members use terms such as "dramatic" in the description of moods.The result is an indicator that, to paraphrase the GDP, Facebook called "Gross National Happiness" and demonstrates that, like most people, Americans tend to be happier in the holidays.
"Some of the happiest days included U.S. national holidays such as Thanksgiving Day, July 4 and Halloween or religious holidays like Christmas or Easter," says Kramer.
One exception was the November 5, 2008, the day after the election of Barack Obama as U.S. president, in which, according to the study, Facebook members were twice as happy as anyone on a Wednesday.
But there were other moments of very low morale. On Facebook more pessimistic since the survey began two years ago was on 22 January 2008, date of death of U.S. actor Heath Ledger and the collapse of Asian stock markets.He was followed on 25 June this year, when the world was startled by the news of the death of the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, and Facebook status bar is filled with terms like "tragic," "sad" or "doubt .
The study is limited to users in the United States and to English, but Facebook has plans to expand into other languages and countries, says Kramer, who, according to the blog, is a 72 percent happier than the average user of social network .
Facebook has become an indispensable tool for millions of people around the world and many do not know and start the day without updating their status or check the news published by its contacts.
The pace of Facebook, which already has nearly 300 million users, is frantic: each user has an average of 120 friends and 20 million people update their status at least once a day.

Many companies even begin to be concerned about the business impact of excessive use of the network among its employees and has decided to impose limits.
According to a recent poll, 54 percent of all U.S. companies prohibit their employees to visit social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter or MySpace during work hours.

"The use of social networking can distract attention from the employees of other higher priority tasks, so it is understandable that some companies restrict access," said Dave Willmer, director of Robert Half Technology, Study.
However, one in five employers can use for work, showing that Facebook is also used to do business ... or that some have managed to convince the boss.

Microsoft rules out further purchases in the search business

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, do not expect more acquisitions to help the business to challenge Google's dominance in Web search market, said Monday.
"Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's strongman
"No, wait," he replied when asked if the acquisition is part of the strategy.
Microsoft recently reached an agreement with Yahoo search, after a long and fruitless attempt to buy the Internet media company.
"We will keep working hard and investing in marketing and the like, and of course we are trying to make the Yahoo deal achieves regulatory approval," he said after giving a lecture at the meeting with British businessmen.Ballmer also reiterated what was said on other occasions, he believes growth will return gradually to the world economy.
"Things have gone down. I see them staying there and growing slowly," he said in response to a question from the audience.
Ballmer added that Microsoft is going to freeze its budget for research and development, which is the largest sector of 9,500 billion dollars, partly to keep resources in reserve for fight with Google.
"We must ensure we have the money we need to continue to build new businesses," he said. "We're trying to give some competition to Google in the search market," he added.
In late June, Microsoft had short-term investments and cash of 31,400 million dollars.
Under the agreement signed with Yahoo for the next 10 years, the new browser from Microsoft, Bing, will be used in searches in the pages of Yahoo. In return, Microsoft will pay Yahoo for 88 percent of the revenue generated from advertising on those sites.
In theory, this means that Microsoft gets more traffic to refine its search technology and advertising base increases, while Yahoo gets revenue from search ads without having the expense of managing their own engine.