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London, the largest WiFi city

2008-03-19T21:25:00.000-07:00

Not my words, but a study by iPass shows that London is the best equipped city with WiFi technology. And that, apparently, Londoners are the people who spend more time connected to the wireless network reaching an average of 72 hours a week. Surely this growth was affected in part by offering free WiFi network last year. And that's not all. Even being in the lead, the other regions are not left behind. According to the data, Europe has grown by 9% over last year, while Latin America has reached 130% in the use of this technology. The United States is the only one that has dropped their numbers by 8%. Finally, who would have thought of what would happen with communications 10 years ago ....

Alibaba is seeking buyers for its 39% which owns Yahoo

2008-03-19T12:45:00.000-07:00

Chinese Web trading company Alibaba is looking for investors interested in buying the 39 percent that Yahoo owns in the firm, on Tuesday said a source with direct knowledge of the subject, that the company wants to prevent Microsoft's entry to its capital. The operation indicates that the Chinese company consider that the software giant will succeed in its bid to 42,400 million dollars by Internet media company Yahoo, in which case Alibaba may prefer greater independence, said the source, who asked not be identified. Both companies signed an agreement in 2005 that Yahoo would merge its operations in China with Alibaba in exchange for a share of 39 per cent in the Asian group, which still retains Yahoo. The Chinese company believes that the agreement gives it a "right of first offer" to buy the participation of Yahoo, a right that invoked if Microsoft bought the company in California. Meanwhile, the three top executives of Yahoo, its chief executive Jerry Yang, its president and its chairman Susan Decker financial Blake Jorgensen-began a tour to gather support among its large institutional investors in the United States and demonstrate that the offer by Microsoft is too low said another source close to the plan.

Dixau, a mouse that digitizes reading

2008-03-19T12:38:00.000-07:00

The Korean manufacturer Unichal has created a mouse scanner-OCR named Dixau , which will be completely useless for most mortals but it can save the lives of students, especially advanced levels and in a language they do not dominate. More than one can even come good with Spanish. Dixau is a small scanner that creates an image with the text, convert them into digital text and sends them to Wikipedia, Google or any dictionary you configure previously.

Intel develops long-ranged and low-costed Wi-Fi technology

2008-03-19T12:27:00.000-07:00

Intel is developing a Wi-Fi technology which has a range of nearly 100 kilometers at a speed of 6.5Mb per second. The Rural Connectivity Platform (RCP), or "rural platform connectivity" is designed to connect cities with rural areas at a lower price. A system consisting of two antennas, radios, processors and specialized software is priced at less than $ 1,000, making it easy to connect rural schools or medical centers to the Internet at a cost far more desirable than that of a connection or satellite WiMAX, for example. Each antenna has an additional cost of $ 500 for their low power consumption and can even be supplied with solar energy. Despite the great distance that can be achieved under ideal conditions, to ensure the quality of the signal is recommended a stations location less than 50 kilometers away. The PRC is already being tested in Panama, South Africa, Vietnam and India.

microsoft and yahoo??

2008-03-18T20:39:00.000-07:00

Yahoo, Microsoft Dance is all about Google

2008-03-18T12:55:00.000-07:00

Yahoo to disclose financial plan, reaffirms targets

2008-03-18T12:41:00.000-07:00

The American media company Yahoo Inc. Announced on Tuesday the details of a financial plan for 2009 and 2010, while trying to convince investors that deserves an higher offer from Microsoft Corp..

The titles of Microsoft advanced 2.9 per cent to 29.1 dollars. Microsoft has given no public sign of improving its offer, valued at 42,000 million. A recent Reuters poll showed that many analysts expect the software manufacturer will prevail in their interest to acquire Yahoo, without the need to raise the offer. "Yahoo is in a position financially to grow quickly, we have a strong brand among consumers, a huge global audience and a model of highly profitable operation," he said in a press release the co-founder and chief executive of Yahoo, Jerry Yang.

The key areas for growth of the company include advertising on the Internet and videos, which expects to add 1,900 million in revenues over the next three years, excluding payments to its affiliates. Yahoo also expects other 1,400 billion of revenues searches, a growth rate that would keep in line with the market. These and other factors would provide immediate benefits to Microsoft if agreement is reached, the company said.

Light Switch, the wireless switch

2008-03-18T12:27:00.000-07:00

If you have installed a Jesurruptor this will save you a Light Switch dislikes. This is a switch wireless able to extinguish any electronic device 30 metres away. Apparently, one must first "present", as they say, the switch device with which to interact (we, that we will not be able to go around turning out the lights people). The cost is not get up to turn off the light is 149 US dollars (95 euros), plus $ 100 (65 euros) if the special edition gold 14 carats.

Panasonic FX500: Touchscreen and HD Video

2008-03-18T12:19:00.000-07:00

Presented at WFP, this new compact camera from Panasonic has it all. Beginning with its 10.1-megapixel sensor and an optical 25mm wide-angle optical zoom with increases of 5, captures photos with great detail. His display of 3-inch, touch is very intuitive and offers menus with which to configure the machine. The other highlight is its ability to capture video. Reach recordings of 1.280x720 pixel resolution at a rate of 30 frames. In order to store these
clips, supports SD cards and SDHC besides having an internal memory of 50 Mb. Another highlight features include image stabilizer, correctness of red eyes, facial detector and auto focus. It will be available for 399 US dollars (256 euros) in the colors silver and black.

The X-ITE MP28 of Soundstream.

2008-03-17T16:30:00.000-07:00

Portable Audio, Video Portable It seems that the only way to draw attention in the ocean of digital players is by offering new features, and one of the most important is the support of many, many codecs. The X-ITE MP28 can play MP3 audio files, WMA, ASF, WAV, FLAC, OGG and APE, and MP4 video files, DIVX, XVIDV, AVI and MTV. It has a 2.8-inch touch screen, FM radio, voice recorder and miniSD slot. It will come in 2 and 4GB sizes, but we know nothing of the price or launch date.

Samsung Miniskirt Season 2 : the return of the "miniskirt"

2008-03-17T16:20:00.000-07:00

It seems that the idea of calling a telephone by the commercial name of "Miniskirt", should have worked for Samsung, and again have returned to the show with a new range, presented by a beautiful model, marketing things, that reaches more prominence than the phones. The Miniskirt Season 2 consists of three models-phones SCH-C225, SPH-C2205 and C2255-SPH-type controller with only 10.9 mm. Thick. They also haptic technology, which will make us feel a little vibration when pressing keys on the terminal. They are available in three spring and attractive colors-orange, violet and seawater, at least for now, is unknown whether its price as when we can see them on stores.

Gecko: Portable with Linux for less than $ 300

2008-03-17T14:21:00.000-07:00

The Thai company Norhtec would be preparing kills-ASUS. The laptop will debut soon under the name Gecko, have 7-inch screen, 1.0 GHz processor VIA C7-M, 40GB hard drive, up to 1GB of RAM, used Linpus Linux Lite and would be sold at an price of less than $ 300 dollars. The design is the work of Quanta, the same OLPC.

Microsoft acquires license of Flash Lite

2008-03-17T14:14:00.000-07:00

Despite the fact that Microsoft is strongly developing and publicizing its own Silverlight multimedia technology, the company has just announced that it has licensed Flash Lite for mobile devices. This will enable users of phones with Windows Mobile view Flash content on the Internet Explorer Mobile. It has also licensed the Adobe Reader LE to view PDF documents. This announcement on the one hand gives the impression that Microsoft is aware that Flash is the dominant technology in the business, and phones with Windows Mobile bear much flash as Silverlight. Microsoft recently announced that Nokia Silverlight used at the end of the year. Both Nokia and Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and LG come today with Flash devices.

Researchers developed a "brain" that controls nanobots

2008-03-16T15:45:00.000-07:00

All these advances in nanotechnology are interesting, but the addition of this paper is rather strange. It is a "brain" that can control nanomachines, developed in Japan. According to explain this brain consists of 17 molecules of a chemical called duroquinona. Each molecule can rotate four different positions, as they are controlled by the central molecule. In tests, researchers monitored eight nanomachines with instructions to be fit for takeoff of the brain. The structure of the same offer the use of up to 4,000 billion combinations, which can be changed with just manipulate a molecule. In the future it is hoped to use this technology with computing applications, but for now we are happy to know that nobody is controlling robotitos in our veins.

Minority Report in CeBit.

2008-03-16T15:38:00.000-07:00

The sci-fi movie Minority Report showed a PC interface that left many with their mouths open. Something similar, if not identical, we saw in the CeBit and thanks to an assistant who was there we see in the video that accompanies this article. Increasing the size of the windows, turn them, displacing ... Only with a simple gesture.

Microsoft’s 2010: real-time collaboration concept

2008-03-14T19:43:00.000-07:00

Video: Microsoft's Vision of 2010.

Zune 3G for Europe in 2009

2008-03-13T21:01:00.000-07:00

Being the last sometimes has its advantages, such as when receiving the Zune. Recall that Europe does not know the existence of the player that Microsoft competes directly with the iPod, and when you know, will appear in a new version: The 3 rd generation. According to the director of Microsoft France, the player would see the light at the other side of the pond in late 2009, and some rumours suggest that it might be compatible with Windows Mobile devices 7. Who knows, as we surprised directly with a Zune Phone.

LucidTouch, evolution of the Tablet PC

2008-03-13T20:51:00.000-07:00

LucidTouch is presented as a kind of evolution of the Tablet PC. This is a touch-screen by the two sides, semitransparent, which allows us to manage your fingers in front and behind.

It is still a prototype, but LucidTouch already has a PA. While images of the model in its current state still allow the device improves significantly, jumping from the first video launched in October last year has been very high.

Microsoft NEW Technology Microsoft Surface

2008-03-12T20:05:00.001-07:00

Xbox 360 opens a price war in response to Wii

2008-03-10T19:13:00.000-07:00

Microsoft yesterday gave a blow to the effect of competition among next-generation consoles. The company announced a reduction of 80 euros for the three models of its Xbox 360 console for European consumers. As from Friday, its simplest version, the Xbox 360 Arcade, will cost 199.99 euros, significantly less than its two competitors. The Wii Nintendo, it costs 279 euros, and the PlayStation 3, Sony, 399 euros (after successive sales, as it was launched by 600 euros). "Xbox 360 has reached the price necessary to become a console masses," said

yesterday an enthusiastic Chris Lewis, vice president of interactive entertainment unit of Microsoft. Miguel Postigo, director of the consumer division of the company in Spain, also are promised: "We know that when the price of a console lower than 200 euros it acquires speed market. And this generation are the first to reach That price magic. " Several readings behind this news. It is no secret that Microsoft is losing the war with Nintendo sales, and in some countries, such as Spain, also with Sony.

iPhone Vs BlackBerry

2008-03-09T19:53:00.000-07:00

The head of Apple, Steve Jobs, has the goal of selling 10 million phones iPhone this year. To this end, in the company of the apple business functions have added to the programmes of the device, in order to steal customers to BlackBerry. I will leave that party developers creating software for mobile device fashion. Next June, Apple will offer a commercial service push by the iPhone (a system that forwards mail to mobile devices via conventional mail account), will support the messaging system of Microsoft Exchange and will offer new features security. Apple introduced a few days ago details of a computer product that will allow developers prepare applications for funds provided by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers for new businesses based on the iPhone. The measures will facilitate attract commercial users, most of whom had avoided until now iPhone because it was not compatible with using the mail and could not update messages automatically. The incorporation of popular systems such as Exchange could strengthen efforts to compete with the BlackBerry from the Canadian firm Research In Motion (RIM). "The iPhone fits far better in the company and can effectively compete against RIM and Nokia," said Simon Yates, an analyst at Forrester Research, based in Cambridge firm, in the American state of Massachusetts. Apple, in search of a third business to expand sales beyond Macintosh computers and the music player and video iPod, the iPhone launched in June last year. On January 15 had left stores 4 million units, which stood fast in third place in the market for mobile phones with e-mail and Internet access. The Apple executive Steve Jobs criticized in an act of your company in Canada RIM by questioning the safety of the company. "Every e-mail message that is sent to a device from RIM or he goes through a CER (Network Operation Center) up there in Canada," he said. "This creates a single point of failure but also creates a very interesting situation in terms of security," he questioned. In the case of North America, all cibermensajes to pass through BlackBerry computers RIM in its RECs from Waterloo, Ontario. An ruled there a few weeks ago caused the interruption of service on the continent. The security system Apple includes a link between the employer and users. They allow technology managers to delete emails from a distance in devices that have been lost in places like a taxi. Apple aims to achieve a 1% of the mobile market, which may add about 1,000 million units this year, according to Jobs. The company is on the right track: at the end of 2007 was 6.5% of the world market for so-called smartphones.

Save the Planet Earth With gasoline

2008-03-09T19:37:00.000-07:00

If two scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, in the USA, are right, in 50 years we will continue to drive cars and throwing gasoline into the atmosphere large amounts of carbon dioxide, the gas that traps heat, but dioxide Carbon would not heat the planet.

Scientists, F. Jeffrey Martin and William L. Kubic Jr. Propose a concept, which has very patriotically called Freedom Green, to remove carbon dioxide from the air and convert it back into gasoline. The idea is simple. It pumps the air on a liquid solution of potassium carbonate, which absorbs carbon dioxide. Then you extract the carbon dioxide and undergoes chemical reactions that make it fuel methanol, gasoline or aviation fuel. This procedure could transform carbon dioxide, a pollutant that contributes to unwanted climate change, a source of immense renewable fuels. The closed-loop-the same amount of carbon dioxide released and eliminated, would make cars, trucks and aircraft that use the synthetic fuels no longer contribute to global warming. Although they have not yet built a factory synthetic fuel, and even a small prototype, the scientists say that everything is based on existing technology. "Everything is in the concept has already been built, is operating or has a close relative in operation," says Martin. The proposed Los Alamos does not trigger a law of physics, and other scientists, such as George A. Olah, a chemist from the Southern California winner of the Nobel Prize for chemistry, and Klaus Lackner, a professor of geophysics at Columbia University, have raised similar ideas on their own. Martin says that he and Kubic have developed their concept in greater detail than other previous proposals. However, there is an important glue that explains why no one has built a plant to convert dioxide in petrol requires a lot of energy. To solve this problem, scientists at Los Alamos have developed a number of innovations, including a new electrochemical procedure for recovering carbon dioxide absorbed by the solution of potassium carbonate. The procedure has been tested in the garage of Kubic, a simple device with aspect tartera somewhat rare. According to scientists, even with these improvements, providing energy to produce gasoline on a commercial scale-about three million litres per day. It would require only a power plant for it, preferably nuclear. From the technological point of view, it does not require a nuclear reactor. The same chemical processes could be achieved also with energy obtained by solar panels, for example, but it would not be as beneficial financially. Martin and Kubic intend to make a simple demonstration within one year and have a larger prototype two years later. They believe that his idea is the alternative most convincing at our disposal.

The EU gives Pemission to Google to acquire DoubleClick

2008-03-06T17:34:00.000-08:00

The European Union next week will authorize the purchase of the advertising company DoubleClick by the Google company, as reported by the Reuters news agency.

The approval was expected for some time ago, since the European Commission decided in January not to object formally to the transaction. The Commission, the highest body monitoring European competitiveness, has not rejected an agreement without ever submitting formal objections. Advocates of privacy have protested, indicating that they would give the two companies unprecedented access to information about consumers. The Commission responded that privacy considerations are outside its field of competence on mergers. The agreement, valued at approximately 2,040 million euros, would combine the hegemony of Google in the advertising field fee-for-click with the leading position in DoubleClick ads "graphics", a more traditional Web advertising. This acquisition in December received permission from the Federal Trade Commission of the United States. Over the past six years, the European Union has never rejected a merger approved by the American authorities.

Yahoo Makes Gates Lose The Title Of The Richest Man In The World

2008-03-06T17:15:00.000-08:00

The bold offer to purchase Yahoo launched by Microsoft has led the president and founder of the giant company, Bill Gates, to lost the top spot on the list of wealthiest men in the world, made by Forbes magazine, which has led during 13 consecutive years. "Gates worthed more than 65,000 million dollars last November, but then came titles about Yahoo and Microsoft lost 15% after its hostile takeover bid on the Internet search engine,"

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Gates "is worth two million dollars more than last year (to 58,000 million)," but not enough to keep the top of the list, since This year happens to occupy his friend and also a great philanthropist Warren Buffett. In fact, Yahoo has announced that it will extend the deadline to nominate new candidates to its board, a measure that, in practice, gives the signature of the Internet more time to find an alternative to the offer launched on 1 February by Microsoft, which amounts to 44,600 million dollars. Gates, owner of the operating system that is used nine out of ten computers in the world, trying to convince the shareholders of Yahoo to promote a change in the board of directors to put people who do support a merger between the two, which allow Microsoft to shift its revolutionary business model.

YouTube Plans to Launch Their Own Direct Channels

2008-03-05T19:21:00.000-08:00

YouTube gives new blow effect and change its business model. The largest online video platform in the world (and the second most visited page on the Internet) reinvents itself to turn on the direct. YouTube, which achieved its enormous fame by offering Internet users the opportunity to watch videos when they want, will try to bring the model of conventional television to the Internet through a new system of live broadcast content. Thanks to the technical support from Google intends to deliver audiovisual content in real time (as a traditional chain). The idea, which was around the head of the creators long passes by turning every Internet user into a television channel: all YouTube users may issue from your computer in a position similar to the big media companies. "It is something we have always wanted to do, but we had the necessary resources," has assured Steve Chen, founder of YouTube, which hosts more than 70 million videos that Internet users can watch whenever they want. It opens the door to broadcasts of concerts, political acts, the daily life of a citizen anonymous or sporting events.