Microsoft says the technology will be key to recovery

Despite a limited job market in the world, the field of Information Technology (IT) is key to economic recovery in Latin America, considered a study of Microsoft and the global research firm International Data Corporation (IDC) released monday.
The booming IT market will create nearly 6,000 new businesses and 697,000 new jobs in Latin America between late 2009 and late 2013, according to the study.
He said most of the new companies will include local businesses and small, while jobs are specialized, high quality work.
In the region highlights the impact of technology, "helping to reduce unemployment rates and serving as a stimulant for economic growth with the creation of 6,000 new companies," said Hernán Rincón, president at Microsoft, said in a statement press.
According to a breakdown of the figures for Latin America, Microsoft said that three million jobs in IT in the region, 53% are related to that company, are part of the "Microsoft ecosystem of partners" or are professionals working with programs Microsoft or products and services based on their platforms.
The "Microsoft partner ecosystem" defines local companies that develop and / or sell products that work with Microsoft or programs that distribute Microsoft software.
"Over the past 20 years we have seen a power transformer in the way that investments in IT innovations foster economic growth," said turn Dr. Robert D. Atkinson, founder and president of the Foundation for Information Technology and Innovation, based in Washington, DC, quoted in the text.
"Innovation and continued investment in information technology help start the recovery from the current recession and contribute significantly to employment generation and the establishment of new companies," he added.

The Flash comes to smartphones, but not the iPhone

One of the technologies used to watch videos on computers will be available very soon for most so-called smartphones and smart phones.Flash software is used in the playback of about 75% of the videos projected on the Internet and has become the key to the operation of websites such as YouTube and Google Video.
Until now, many smartphones and notebook computers use a version of "light" from the program due to limited processing power of these devices.
It is envisaged that the new program work for both smart phones to personal computers.
Adobe, the creator of Flash, said that in 2010, the software should be available in most phones, though the Apple iPhone continue to bypassing it."The range of applications for personal processors we've seen, we will now phones," ,Ben Wood, director of mobile research company CCS Insight.
"We will be able to access very interesting material that has been designed and developed by Web designers.
According to Adobe, Flash is one of the programs that are typically installed on computers. Is around 98% of personal processors and almost 75% of Internet videos played through Flash.

This program is behind the BBC iPlayer and some 70% of Internet gaming.
However, until now, the full version of program has not been available on smartphones.
Flash 10.1, known as the new version, developed by the boom produced by the cell phone, said Wood.
In addition, he said, software developers and users have joined their voices to hold over the experience of accessing the Internet on a personal computer to a smartphone.
"We are giving a response to that need," said Anup Muraka Adobe.
"Years ago, finding information on cellphones was almost nonexistent, no one cared to have the same tools they enjoyed in the desktop computer in their phones," said Muraka.
"But in recent years, a high level of development has extended to these devices."
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 devices produced in 2009.
"Cell phones have gone from being a hearing aid to a visual artifact that you put in front of you," Wood said.

The new software ensures the reproduction of high definition video and Tabi can be used in touch screens.

This is the main product of an initiative called "Open Screen Project (Open Screen Project), which promotes the creation of a flexible media platform, that can play movies and games on both computers and phones.The intention of the project is to develop flexible software that allows developers to make the encodings only once and not several times for various formats.

The Open Screen Project is supported by about 50 companies, including Google and Nokia.
The new software will be available for Windows Mobile, Palm webOS and operating systems that include at the end of this year, Windows, Macintosh and Linux.
Trial Software for Google Android and the popular Symbian operating systems will be available early 2010.
"We need cooperation from Apple. For now Safari (Apple's web browser) does not support the use of any extension (on iPhone)."But we would like to see him there." For Wood, the time is coming.

U.S. says that the Internet is its weak spot in security

Barack Obama's administration wants to take clear and concise advice to the population on one of the biggest threats to national security in homes and offices of the United States: the computer.
The government wants Americans to think about before you click the mouse and know who's on the other side of your instant messages, since what one does or says in cyberspace will remain there for many can see it, steal it or use it, whether against people or its government.
Internet today is the weakness of the U.S., said former National Intelligence Director Michael McConnell.
Speaking at a new exhibition on cybersecurity in the International Spy Museum in Washington, McConnell said the network "introduced a level of vulnerability that is unprecedented."

The Pentagon's computer systems are 360 million netizens by polling day and a major energy company has admitted that their networks are scanned up to 70,000 times daily, said cyber-security expert James Lewis.Mostly, these polls are benign infrastructure networks. Many are a nuisance but some are crimes, "said McConnell. The most dangerous are the surveys of espionage or sabotage of data.

The attackers might be terrorists who seek to attack the culture and the U.S. economy or foreign states that seek to insert malicious code into the grid to activate weeks or years later.
"We are the fat kid in the race," Lewis said. "We're the biggest target we have much to steal things and everyone wants to hurt us," he said.
The experts recommend steps to increase security at home include:

Use antivirus software, filter spam, adult material controls and firewalls.
Make frequent backups of important files on external drives.
Think twice before sending information over the Internet, especially when using wireless networks or public.

Space tourism continues to be subdued, at 5 years of 1st flight

When a private spacecraft that flew over California for its designers won a prize of 10 million, Alan Walton, investors in new projects, was 68 and thought he could soon make himself a rocket ride.
Walton paid $ 200,000 to be among the first space tourists who would make a suborbital journey above the Earth aboard a spacecraft for Virgin Galactic.
Now, Walton intends to ask for his money back if there is no definite date for a launch next April, when he met 74 years.
"This would be the highlight of my age," he said.

It has been five years since SpaceShipOne, the first manned space with private funding, won the Ansari X Prize, on October 4, 2004, to demonstrate that a reusable rocket with a passenger could fly over 100km (62 miles), once a week, so its use for tourism would be reliable, safe and viable in the commercial.
The enthusiasm for that year, SpaceShipOne was so even before the flight that won the award, British tycoon Richard Branson announced a deal to use technology in a second-generation design, SpaceShipTwo, for the purpose of carrying passengers into space flights under the name Virgin Galactic in 2007.

It seemed that anyone with enough money could soon experience what Brian Binnie, pilot of SpaceShipOne, it was "literally the ecstasy".
"When you turn off the engine, the world is revealed before your eyes," he said. Passengers could see the planet from a great height and would experience the sensation of weightlessness.

But turning that dream into reality has taken longer than expected time, and space flight remain exclusive for government-trained astronauts and a handful of tycoons who have paid millions of dollars for trips aboard Russian rockets to the International Space Station.

Still, Peter Diamandis, X Prize founder, denies that the project is stalled.
It has invested over 1,000 million dollars in the industry, we have overcome regulatory obstacles and even three different passenger ships will be ready within 18 to 24 months, to start the flights, he said.

"We will have another strong emotion that will draw the public's attention once they begin to operate vehicles and people start to fly," he said.