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2012-05-03T20:23:00.000-07:00

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2012-05-03T17:17:00.000-07:00

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Bande Annonce - The Matrix.

2012-05-03T12:45:00.000-07:00

Dans un avenir proche, un pirate informatique du nom de Neo, découvre par Morpheus que la réalité n'est qu'une immense simulation créée par la Matrice, réduisant l'espèce humaine en esclavage. Pour Morpheus le doute n'est plus permis : Neo est (l'élu), ce libérateur mythique capable de mettre en échec la Matrice et ses féroces agents. la prophétie est sur le point de se réaliser, la lutte va pouvoir commencer...
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كلية العلوم ابن زهر بأكادير و البرامج الحرة 2012 Agadir

2012-05-03T08:42:00.000-07:00

Le Département d'informatique de la Faculté des Sciences d'Agadir organise, les 24 et 25 avril2012, la 2ème édition des journées Open Source & logiciels libres sous le thème : « L\'open source, Une Intelligence au service de l'entreprise ».
Rappelons que, selon Wikipédia, « La désignation open source (au Québec, au Nouveau-Brunswick et au Manitoba : « code source libre ») s\'applique aux logiciels dont la licence respecte des critères précisément établis par l\'Open Source Initiative, c\'est-à-dire la possibilité de libre redistribution, d\'accès au code source et aux travaux dérivés ». Et toujours selon cette encyclopédie libre, « un logiciel libre est un logiciel dont l\'utilisation, l\'étude, la modification et la duplication en vue de sa diffusion sont permises, techniquement et légalement, afin de garantir certaines libertés induites, dont le contrôle du programme par l\'utilisateur, et la possibilité de partage entre individus ». Ces journées, qui se dérouleront à la Faculté des Sciences, seront marquées par des conférences, des tables rondes, des ateliers interactifs de formation et la projection d'un documentaire, La Guerre Invisible, qui parle en partie du virus Stuxnet, le premier ver découvert qui espionnait et reprogrammait des systèmes industriels. Cette manifestation culturelle se veut donc un espace d'échange de connaissances et d'expériences entre les enseignants, les étudiants mais aussi les professionnels. En effet, si la dernière décennie a été marquée par une percée considérable des logiciels libres dans les administrations marocaines, avec un taux d'utilisation de 40% en 2007, les entreprises marocaines, surtout les PME, ne suivent pas cette tendance et restent enfermées dans un environnement propriétaire, et dans la « majorité » des cas illégal, quand on sait que le taux des logiciels piratés utilisés dans les entreprises au Maroc serait de 60%

Between The Idea And Work - Course Of Musical Data Processing

2012-05-03T04:58:00.000-07:00

If musical data processing is essential us so much today, it is that it gradually created tools which are radically modifying the manner of thinking the music. However, its history is short. It merges with the development of numerical technologies: computers, initially, accompanied by creation by the languages symbolic intended for the programming, then with a whole troop of inventions in numerical technology. Enough early in its history, data processing will be shown sufficiently ripe to accommodate concerns of all kinds, energy of accountancy to scientific research, while passing naturally by what interests us, artistic creation.

And it is undoubtedly there that it is necessary to distinguish what arises from data processing itself, and what belongs rather to the broader world of numerical technology. The music amply draws from these two fields its new resources. However, since the field of the sound is converted today into audio numerical, the distinction is essential. Musical data processing is born from the meeting of the musical concerns and the environment resulting from numerical technologies and the specificity of the computer, on the one hand, and of the scientific fields which clarify its research topics. If the musical composition appears there in good place, practically all the other activities of the music are found there. And musical research partly covers the ground cleared by data processing, acoustics, the treatment of the signal, even cognitive psychology: thus musical data processing is at the center of several musical, scientific and technical fields.

But it is the recourse to the specific contributions of the data processing which characterizes its step. New conceptual tools are unceasingly provided by the artificial intelligence, which are concretized by languages such as Lisp or Prolog. They are put at once at the musicologist assistance or abstracting service to the composition. Research in systems real time and on the interfaces interactive makes it possible to conceive new connections between the instrumentalist and the electronic universe.

Great stages of musical data processing

With the origin of musical data processing, one finds two types of activities, independent one of the other. If these activities prudent today, it is in another manner that the original vision which caused their birth could enable to foresee. These two types of activities are: the musical composition, and production of the sound. In both cases, the manufacture of the desired result is ensured by the computer. These two types of activities are appreciably contemporary. The first serious tests of musical composition per computer go back to 1956: it is on this date that Lejaren Hiller calculated a partition using rules encodes in the form of algorithms on the computer Illiac I of the university of Illinois. It is about Illiac Suite for String Quartet, whose three movements are carried out this year by the string quartet WQXR. In a famous structure, published in 1959 and which supports the title of "Experimental Music-Composition with year Electronic Computer", Lejaren Hiller explains in detail the procedures that it applied to the Illiac computer in order to produce the partition of his string quartet.

To locate this period, it is as into 1956 as John McCarthy forged the term of artificial intelligence. One year later, max Mathews, researcher at the laboratories of the Bell Telephone, in the New Jersey, a first numerical programmer of synthesis of the sound for the computer IBM 704 writes. Known today under the name of Music I, it is the first of a great family of acoustic compilers; a psychologist, Newman Guttman, generates first a one 15 seconds duration study, In the Silver Scale. It is as into 1957 as the four movements of the Continuation Illiac for String Quartet of Lejaren Hiller are published; the same year is born the primitive version from the famous language of FORTRAN program (FORmula TRANslator). Let us note that during the creation of the work of Hiller by the string quartet WQXR, it is max Mathews which organized a recording, which gave place, thereafter, with the publication of this recording in a disc carried out in 1960 by the Bell Laboratories, and entitled Music from Mathematics: even if the ways traced by these two inventors are independent, it is not known as that they did not cross...

From these two almost contemporary events, the development will continue, gradually, in the traced directions: the composition and production of the sound. We will see low the courses of them. But a third way is not long in appearing: it is born from the same observation that had made Hiller: the computer is above all, at that time, a formidable calculating machine. Moreover, the English term of selected computer indicated, before the appearance of these machines, the employees charged to operate calculations. But at the same time, with a bit of fear, one spoke readily at the time of electronic brains. An artist could not approach the computer not without a certain emotion, which explains without any doubt the attraction sometimes terrifying that data processing will exert on the artists of the following decades. But they are two scientists who are at the origin of these experiments: Hiller practiced chemistry, while Mathews was an already famous researcher. It is undoubtedly what explains remarkable methodologies that they reflect in place, each one on their side, and with completely independent aims.

With the Bell laboratories, max Mathews, on his side, written in 1957 a first numerical programmed of synthesis of the sound for the computer IBM 704, equipped with 4096 words of memory. Known today under the name of Music I, it is the first of a great family. The program Music III (1960) introduced the concept of instrument modular. The model imagined by max Mathews is inspired more than one equipment of laboratory or an electronic studio of music that by an acoustic stringed-instrument trade. The program offers a range of independent modules (Unit Generators), in charge each one of an elementary function: oscillator with form of programmable wave, adder of signals, multiplier, generator of envelopes and random signals, etc... The musician builds a "instrument" by connecting a selection of modules between them. The signals produced by the oscillators or the generators are led towards other modules there to be modified or mixed. Several instruments can be joined together within a "orchestra", each instrument having its own identity. Contrary to what occurs in the material universe, it there not of limit to the number of modules usable simultaneously, except perhaps the memory of the computer. The result of the placement of the instrument is the progressive calculation of the sound in the form of a sequence of numbers which, put end to end, represent a complex sound wave. These numbers are called "samples". Today, the number of samples representing one second of its was established to 44 100 per channel for the applications general public, and to 48 000 for the professional field.

Because of relative slowness of the machines and design weight to be carried out, time put to generate the sound wave is quite higher than the duration of the sounds; the operation of these programs is known as "in differed time". With the origin, the sound waves calculated in numerical form were stored on a numerical tape progressively proceeding end of an arithmetic unit of samples. This mode of production of the sound is called "direct synthesis". Thus creates for itself a "file of sound"; once completed, the musician calls upon a second program, charged reading the file of sound in real time and with sending the samples towards a digital-to-analog converter, which is connected to an amplifier and loudspeakers.

To activate the orchestra, the musician must write a "partition", in which all the parameters claimed by the modules of the instrument are specified. This partition is presented in the form of a list of numbers or telegraphy codes, each "note" or a each event being the subject of a particular list. These lists are ordered in time.

But to specify each parameter is a difficult task, more especially as the musicians are not trained to give values measured to sound dimensions which they handle. To fight against this obstacle, of the languages of assistance to the writing of partitions were conceived; most known is the Score program of Leland Smith (1972). Score is not an automatic program of composition: it makes it possible to specify the parameters using terms resulting from the musical practice (heights, nuances, durations), automatically to calculate changes of tempo or nuances, and even to supplement sections with notes corresponding to a trajectory given by the type-setter.
The model instrument-partition was firmly established with the arrival of Music IV (1962). This program were born from many alternatives, of which some exist indeed still today. Among these misadventures, let us quote Music 4BF (1966-67), there is nowadays a version for Macintosh (Music 4C, 1989), and especially Music 360 of Barry Vercoe (1968); this descendant of Music IV has as a characteristic to be presented in the form of a true programming language, which undoubtedly explains why it became today with C-Music the acoustic compiler more used. It was initially adapted to minicomputer PDP-11 from DIGITAL in 1973, then, entirely rewritten in language C in 1985, it took the name of C-Sound, and was quickly adapted to all kinds of data-processing platforms, including the micro-computers like Atari, Macintosh and IBM. In 1969 Music V appears, a program which is conceived to facilitate the musical programming of the instruments and the partitions; nowadays, Music V is still largely employed, generally in the form of the adaptation that in made Richard Moore, C-Music (1980).

The computer was also an unquestionable success in a strongly speculative field, the musicologists analysis. With the eyes of the public interested at the beginning of the Sixties, data processing, still rather mysterious and inaccessible, showed the possibility for strange musical work; in composition, in musicology and finally, limited to the laboratories Bell, production of sound. A great musical upheaval of this decade was to come from the world of electronics, with the appearance into 1964 of the synthesizers modular, known as "analogical" since they do not contain numerical electronics. Conceived independently by Paolo Ketoff (Rome), Robert Moog and Donald Buchla (the United States), the synthesizers bring the response to the technological aspirations of many musicians, especially after the popular success of the disc Switched one Bach of Walter Carlos who truly made know these instruments near a large audience. During this time, the program of Mathews knows adaptations on other sites, such as the universities of New York, Princeton or Stanford.

Another application of the computer appears with the piloting of analogical instruments. The machine generates signals with slow variation which modify the adjustments of devices of studio: frequency of oscillators, profit of amplifiers, cut-off frequencies of filters. The first example of this system which one names "hybrid synthesis" was established in 1970 in Elektron Musik Studio of Stockholm, foundation independent since 1969, financed by the Royal Academy of Music, and placed under the direction of Knut Wiggen. A computer PDP 15/40 controlled twenty-four generators of frequency there, a generator of white vibration, two third filters of octave, modulators: out of ring, of amplitude and reverberations. The originality of the system of Stockholm lay in an extremely ergonomic operator console, with which the type-setter could specify the parameters of synthesis by sweeping a panel of figures using a metal brochette. Another studio is to be quoted: that of Peter Zinovieff in London (1969), placed under the control of a minicomputer DIGITAL PDP 8 for which Peter Grogono wrote the language of Musys piloting.

Another remarkable realization is the system Groove (Generated Realtime Operations One Equipment Voltage-controlled, Ca 1969) conceived at the Bell laboratories by max Mathews and Richard Moore. Groove is an instrument intended for the control of parameters of interpretation of a device of synthesis. In this direction, it places the musician more close to the position of a leader that to a type-setter or an instrumentalist, although one can consider that the electronic type-setter of music must often place himself in position of chief, by directly interpreting the music which is made up.

It is the middle of the Seventies which marks the transition towards an inexorable widening from now on from the life of musical data processing, with the appearance of the microprocessor. A data-processing stringed-instrument trade will become gradually possible with the design of complete computers on an integrated circuit: microprocessors. It will also be necessary that the interface with the user improves, and that the punch cards by a more interactive mode of inputs are replaced: it will be the keyboard and the cathode ray tube which will carry it.

The principle of the hybrid synthesis continued to be applied throughout the Seventies, before being supplanted definitively by the numerical synthesizers at the dawn of the Eighties. The American company Intel markets since 1971 the first microprocessor, the circuit 4004, which allow the design of genuine miniature computers, the microcomputers: Intellec 8 (conceived starting from microprocessor 8008 of 1972), Apple I, Altair (1975), gathered soon under the name of micro-computers.

The experiment musical of the Art Group and Data processing of Vincennes (GAIV) illustrate this time of transition well. This team, founded to the university of Paris 8 by Patrick Greussay and a team of artists and architects, known for the publication of a bulletin diffusing the research tasks in most recent art and data processing, entrusted to the type-setter Giuseppe Englert the musical coordination of her activities. It is Intellec 8, microcomputer with words of eight bits, ordered by a paper tape and a keyboard, which was used with the compositionally activities and as research on musical formalization; English synthesizers EMS-VCS3 were controlled by the microcomputer, via digital-to-analog converters charged to provide power of order in exchange of the binary data calculated by interactive programs.

The second effect of the arrival of the microcomputer was the design of the "mixed synthesis", synthesizers numerical, genuine computers adapted to the calculation of the sound wave in real times, placed under the control of a computer. From second half of the Seventies appear several achievements of this type; we will retain work of James Beauchamp, Jean-François Allouis, William Buxton, inter alia, like those of Peter Samson (synthesizer of Systems Concept, conceived for the research center -- CCRMA -- university of Stanford), Synclavier de New England DIGITAL Corporation, conceived by Syd Alonso and Cameron Jones under the impulse of the type-setter Jon Appleton, design, under the impulse of Luciano Berio, of a bench of oscillators in Naples by Giuseppe di Giugno, who continued his work in Ircam (series 4A, 4B, 4C and 4X) under the direction of Pierre Boulez; more recently, Fly 30 of the Center of recherché musical of Rome. Let us note that with the 4X of Ircam (1980), the term of synthesizer disappears, replaced by that of numerical processor of signal, which undoubtedly moves the accent on the general information of the machine.

The industry of the electronic instrument does not take a long time to adapt to these new developments. The first stage consisted in introducing microprocessors inside analogical synthesizers (Prophet synthesizers of the firm Sequential Circuits), charged to control the modules ordered in tension; it is still of the "hybrid synthesis". The second stage follows soon: it consists in designing genuine entirely numerical musical instruments. It is the noticed arrival of Synclavier II, then of Fairlight.

The industrial field is today initially made up by the market of the synthesizers and the processors of the sound, and by the software which makes it possible to exploit them. Today, all the synthesizers are numerical, and necessarily meet the Midi standard. The field of the synthesizers is double: on the one hand apparatuses, often provided with a keyboard, which propose a choice of preprogrammed sounds which one can vary certain parameters by an elementary process of programming; in addition, the machines which are intended to reproduce sounds beforehand recorded and memorized, or stored on mass memory: samplers, or "samplers".

It should be noted that all these technologies become accessible to the private musician, within the framework of what is called commonly the "personal studio" (home studio).

But these machines, and a fortiori the personal studio do not function without adapted software: the sequencers control the execution of a piece directly starting from a computer, the editors of sound are intended for the treatment, the assembly and the mixing of sound sequences. Programs make it possible to write a partition, which from now on is usually employed by the musical edition. Lastly, the machines can also be placed under the control of supplementary programmes to the composition.

The most original character of the contemporary data-processing stringed-instrument trade is the "workstation". To conceive a workstation consists in gathering programs of various nature, intended for the analysis or the synthesis of the sound, the control of the sound or the composition. These programs are integrated within data-processing a "environment" organized around a computer and of its peripherals, intended for the treatment of the sound on line. It is the case of the plug-in charts which, coupled to a software, make it possible to read "files of sound" stored on a disc, in exchange of an order, coming for example from a Midi source. This system, if new that it did not find yet a name true, is generally indicated like "hard" or "direct-to-disk" disk.

The musical representation

Since the computer, unlike the electronic music of studio, claims a specification of the data, and thus a writing, the question of the musical representation is a constant concern of the field. We will see two answers. The first illustrates a step a priori compositionnelle: that of Xenakis. The second, more general, is the Midi standard.

Iannis Xenakis innovates with the design of the UPIC (Unit Polyagogique Informatique of CEMAMu). Conceived in the middle of the Seventies, this system rises naturally from the approach of the synthesis of the sound by this type-setter: within the team which it had joined together, baptized initially Emamu (Team of Mathematics and Musical Automatic, 1966), and with the financing of the Foundation Gulbenkian, Xenakis had made build a digital-to-analog converter of high quality. The UPIC represents a complete environment of composition with, in result, the sound synthesis of the page of made up music. Become in 1971 CEMAMu (Center of Mathematics and Musical Automatic) because of the creation of a place intended to shelter its research, the team joined together around Xenakis conceives a system making it possible to the type-setter to draw on a broad table of architect of the "arcs time-height", by choosing for each arc a temporal trajectory, a form of wave, a nuance. The music thus is initially represented in graphic form. The programs of the first UPIC are written for a minicomputer Solar 16/65, connected to two bodies of magnetic tapes to store the programs and the samples, a digital-to-analog converter, a cathode ray tube making it possible to post the forms of waves, but also to draw these waves using a graphic pencil. To hear the page which it has just drawn, the type-setter must wait until the computer finished to calculate all the samples; the generation of the sound is ensured by a digital-to-analog converter of high quality. More recently, the UPIC was redrawn for microcomputer, and functions without delay.

To represent the sound in the form of a modifiable image, it is the goal of the Phonograms program, designed at the university Paris 8 per Vincent Lesbros. With the manner of a sonograms, the program posts the spectral analysis like a drawing, which can be modified; the new representation can then be synthesized, either by Midi, or in the shape of a file of sound, or even transformed into Midi file.

The reproach often today is heard that the generation of young musicians who approach technology through the environment created around the Midi standard are not a satisfactory aware of not passed of musical data processing and its problems. But is to forget that, in a direction, the birth of the Midi standard was done without true filiation with the preceding stages of the field which one will name musical data processing. The phenomenon which represents Midi is not at all a misadventure of this field.

The Midi standard was developed in 1983 to allow the piloting of several synthesizers starting from one only keyboard; the messages are transmitted in numerical format, according to a well defined protocol. With the origin, Midi is thus well based on instrumental gesturer control: it is a method to represent not the sound, but the gesture of the musician who plays of a Midi instrument. In 1983 leaves the first synthesizer to have an interface Midi, Prophet 600 of Sequential Circuits. What had not been defined, on the other hand, it is the success which this standard was going quickly to gain, which today is used to inter-connect all the machines of a studio of electronic music, and even the sets of lights of a scene.

Musical research

The work undertaken since 1956 by Lejaren Hiller for the composition of Illiac Suite for String Quartet marks at the same time the true birth of musical data processing and the anchoring of this field in the research, applied in this case to the automatic composition. The computer appeared then as a machine making it possible to treat the complex continuations of operations which characterize the composition of ambitious musical works. This way was going to be reinforced since 1958 by the French type-setter Pierre Barbaud, who melts in Paris the Algorithmic Group in connection with the company Bull-General Electric and begins his research of automatic composition; as of the following year, the first algorithmic work of Barbaud was made up:

Unforeseeable innovations (Algorithm 1), with the collaboration of Pierre Blanchard. The program Musicomp de Lejaren Hiller and Robert Baker, of the same time, conceived for the Illiac computer after the composition of the Illiac Continuation, making university of Illinois one of the centers of musical data processing at that time. And when in 1962, Iannis Xenakis creates ST/10, 080262, work written thanks to the stochastic program ST developed since 1958 on a computer IBM 7090, the composition using the computer enters its golden age. In the Netherlands, Gottfried Michael Koenig writes in 1964 the program of composition Project I (1964), followed soon of Project II (1970). The composition computer-assisted rests on mathematics and the stochastic one, drawing largely from the resources of the processes of Markov (Hiller, Barbaud, Xenakis, Chadabe, Manoury).

With the arrival of the micro-computers a new tendency develops: assistance with the composition, then computer-aided design of composition (CAD). The program demiurge, able to generate a whole composition the model of an environment of data-processing tools charged succeeds to deal with precise musical problems. Let us quote among the principal ones: HMSL (Hierarchical Music Language Specification, 1985) with Mills College in California, Forms, created by Xavier Rodet, Draft and Patchwork, developed in Ircam under the impulse of Jean-baptiste Barrier, Experiment in Musical Intelligence of David Cope, at the university of Santa Cruz in California. These programs are open: they dialogue with the type-setter in an interactive way, and are connected to the universe of the Midi devices. Except for M and Jam Factory of Joel Chadabe and David Zicarelli, they are structured by the use of languages nonnumerical, resulting from the field of the artificial intelligence, such as Forth, and especially Lisp, which explains why they rest not on mathematics, as it was the case for the first generation of composition computer-assisted, but on the formal languages and the generative grammars.

Real time: computer and instrumental universe

The Eighties see developing the use of the computer in situation in concert; thanks to the arrival of the numerical synthesizers in real time, or, more generally, numerical processors of sound, and languages of control real time, the conditions are ripe to revisit this old surface of the music of the XXe century: electronic music on line (live electronic music). In the majority of the cases, it is initially a question of imagining a means of connecting the computer and its computing power to devices of synthesis or treatment of sound, with, if, possible, the interaction of musicians. Répons (1981), of Pierre Swell, by the integration of the procedures of treatment the writing itself, showed in what the computer became an instrument, integrated perfectly into the orchestra. Following this work work appears on the follow-up, by the computer, of the play of the instrumentalist, operation known under the name of "follow-up of partition". Let us quote the contributions of Roger Dannenberg in the automatic accompaniment and the languages offering the conditions of the communication computer-instrument, those of max Mathews, initially with the Groove system, then more recently with its work on "Radio operator Drum" and the simulation of the rod of the chief orchestrates itself, Miller Puckette with the Max. program.

This is why one was in addition interested to give to instruments of orchestra this capacity, by providing them with sensors, allowing the computer to follow the execution (flute, vibraphone, etc...). All musical industry is concerned with this tendency, although the process to be used is not decided yet: it will be electromechanical (material sensors placed at strategic places of the instrument, conducting membranes, etc...), or will it be necessary to have recourse to the analysis for stolen of the sounds themselves to know of it the height, the spectral structure and the mode of play?

The community organizes itself

The ripening of musical data processing was accompanied by an assumption of responsibility by the community by the musicians and researchers by themselves. Gradually, the conscience of membership of a field is done day. The international congresses appear, followed later local conferences. The communications which are marked there are published in collections available for all the community. These meetings also give place to the presentation in concerts, which tends more strongly to weld between them the conscience of a new field, with the scientific and artistic components. It is the beginning of the "International Computer Music Conferences" (ICMC). In 1978 is born an organization intended to facilitate the communication and to help the behavior of the congresses, the "Computer Music Association", which becomes in 1991 "International Computer Music Association" (ICMA). The organizers seek to hold the congress one year in North America, and the following year on another continent. These congresses see the ICMA taking a role growing in the assistance brought to the local organizers, like in the diffusion of the publications resulting from these meetings, going until placing from the orders of works which will be carried out during ICMC (ICMA Commission Awards, 1991).

Another vehicle which welds the conscience of membership of a common field is the Computer Music Journal. Appeared in California in 1977, it is taken again by MIT Press starting from volume 4 (1980). The newspaper is essential like the reference as regards scientific publications of the field. Association ICMA publishes a bulletin, Array, which became a body very appreciated of information and discussion on the current topics of musical data processing. The review Interface Dutchwoman, which becomes since 1994 Newspaper of New Music Research, regularly publishes articles on musical data processing. Canada, Musicworks, guided by Gayle Young, ensures information on a broad range of concerns of the new musics. In France, publications of Ircam, InHarmonique, then the books of Ircam open their columns with the aesthetic, theoretical and critical considerations which accompany sudden appearance by new technologies in arts.
In 1991 the Leonardo newspaper, published by the international association for arts, science and technology, founded in 1968 by Frank Malina, lance, under the direction of Roger Malina, Leonardo Music Journal, who bring a full vision of the musical practice related to new technologies, thanks also to the publication, with each number, of a compact disk. More theoretical, the review [http://www.linereview.com] Languages of Design, under the direction of Raymond Lauzzana, is interested in formalization in the artistic procedures, and grants a broad place to musical data processing. With these traditional supports of information the direct communication between musicians and researchers by the means of the data-processing networks is added, allowing the instantaneous email. Lastly, the need to increase the speed of communication gave birth to the electronic newspapers, diffused by the networks such as Internet; released from the structure of manufacture, impression and routing, they allow the same type of access to information as the data banks which, they also, multiply in musical data processing.

ERP Products For The Linux Operating System

2012-05-03T00:04:00.000-07:00

The Linux operating system is growing in popularity by the day. This is because the system is very stable and very well suited for enterprise level tasks. A number of products are now being ported to the Linux platform. You can easily find ERP products for the Linux operating system as a number of popular products of this variety are now available. Moreover most of these solutions are free software and you can modify them to suite your requirements.

Most of the ERP products that have been designed for the Linux operating system are based on the same free and open source software philosophy on which the system is itself based. All of us know that the requirements of every company are not same and that with the change of time, the requirements of every company also tend to change. As you have access to the source code of the products for Linux, you can easily tweak it to act in the way you want.

The most common of all the ERP products available for the Linux platform is ERP5. This is also one of the most comprehensive solutions that is available in the market at this point of time. Informatique Professional magazine has awarded the award for best ERP solution to ERP5. It is powered by another very popular open source product called My SQL. The solution is available for download in the binary and source code forms. You also get the option to go for paid software as a service subscription.

Another very popular name in the list of ERP software solutions that are available in the market at this point of time is Compiere. The solution is available under the terms of GNU General Public License. The solution takes pride in being one of the most secure Linux based ERP products. The solution draws its security from the fact that it is based on the Active Data Directory concept. On the flip side, Compiere is based on Oracle Database for which you have to shell out money.

A number community members are making attempts to make Compiere run with a free database system . The target is to make the solution compatible with different database solutions so that it becomes a choice for the consumer to run it on any database system he wants. Beta testing of this interoperability is currently in progress.

Another name in the list of Linux ERP products is Adempiere. This solution is a fork of the Compiere ERP products for Linux operating system. The solution is powered by JBoss and its based on the almost ubiquitous Java 2 Enterprise Edition. You can use Oracle or Postgre SQL as the back end of this solution.

Apart from this a number of ERP products for the Linux operating system are still in the Pre Alpha, Alpha and the Beta test phases.

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Cincom ChannelStream Wins Xplor Award - Technology

2012-05-02T20:58:00.000-07:00

Document output solution for Caisse d'Epargne receives premier prize of Palmarès Xplor France 2012

Paris, France - March 26, 2012 - Cincom® ChannelStream™ has won the premier prize of the Palmarès Xplor France 2012 award. The award ceremony, which was attended by 140 document specialists across all industries, took place on March 21 in Paris.

The 1er Prix de l'Editique, the premier prize for document management and document production, has been awarded to Informatique & Technologies Caisse d'Epargne (IT-CE), the computing centre of the renowned French banking group, and the document output management solution they use, ChannelStream, from international software provider Cincom Systems. The jury was particularly impressed by the handling of all outgoing document streams in one unique process. The flexibility and agility of the solution as well as the cost reductions involved were also praised as particularly strong highlights.

Managing document output is one of the most complex steps in customer communications

Monsieur Patrice Blondeau, Directeur Délégué Editique et Archivage ECM of IT-CE, explains: "While we were basically happy with our existing output tool - that we are still using - ChannelStream allows us to integrate new flows that we couldn't manage before. With the integration of these flows, we are able to diversify and enrich our offering. We can now easily control all the jobs we run and ensure that we're managing them entirely. Last but not least, our internal team administers the tool themselves, without any programming."

Cincom had submitted three cases to Xplor, two of which were accepted. Alongside Cincom ChannelStream, Cincom's web-based enterprise content management solution, Cincom ECM, was awarded the Prize of the Jury.

Xplor is a worldwide, non-profit association whose members engage in the design, production and distribution of variable data documents, ranging from high volumes of statements, bills, insurance policies and personalised direct mail to very customised marketing materials. Xplor surveys the progress within the industry and identifies those participants who have made notable and significant contributions.

About Cincom ChannelStream
Cincom ChannelStream is a document output tool for business users that integrates varied streams coming from existing document composition and/or enterprise systems. It allows the management of document output through any desired channel (including e-mail, SMS text messages, social media and archival systems). With ChannelStream, mail-intensive businesses can cut their document output costs by consolidating written communications, avoiding costly pre-prints and misprints, optimising postage and using more cost-effective delivery channels while providing excellent and convenient customer service.

About Cincom
Cincom Systems delivers and supports innovative software and services to simplify complex business processes. For more than 40 years, Cincom has enabled thousands of clients worldwide to increase revenue, control cost, minimise risk and achieve rapid ROI.

Nero Wolfe Was Big in the Annuls of Detective Stories

2012-05-02T16:13:00.000-07:00

There have been literally hundreds of fictional detectives or private eye (PI) characters written about, televised, and made into movies over the years. Nero Wolfe first showed up in print back in 1934 when author Rex Stout created him. A luxurious upper west side apartment in New York City was home base for Wolfe and he seldom left his home. An immigrant from the Balkans, Wolfe stated he was quite an adventurous youth who later became a gourmet with expensive taste who could afford luxury and became a recluse. An assistant, Archie Goodwin narrated cases as well as did most of the "leg work" solving cases.

The sloth-like Nero Wolfe used his brain not his brawn

Apparently Wolfe was obese as described by his assistant and narrator Archie Goodwin. He weighed in at "one seventh of a ton" or 130 kilograms (around 300 pounds). Insisting on remaining house bound, Wolfe spreads order and justice within his society from the enclosed walls of his three story brownstone apartment, complete with his own private elevator. It seems to be a rather strange way to live but if you're rich enough anything is possible.

One story line finds Nero Wolfe visiting his homeland, the Balkans, to seek out the murderer of an old dear friend known as Marko Vukcic. This story has Wolfe undergoing rigorous physical activity while climbing in mountainous terrain. Amazingly he left his cherished domain and abandoned daily routines to avenge his friend's death. But that was the exception to the rule as Wolfe mostly stayed home and let his assistant do the leg work. In spite of his limited lifestyle he remains a highly paid private investigator.

An eccentric with gourmet tastes Nero Wolfe loves to eat and it shows!

Acting as chef and butler, Fritz also helps Wolfe pot and plant some of the many thousands of orchids in the brownstone apartment. Mealtime is an important part of Wolfe's days and he insists on several courses including an appetizer, main course, a salad mixed with dressing and served tableside, followed by dessert and coffee. There was actually a cookbook printed containing many of the recipes mentioned in the Rex Stout books and published in 1973, with brief excerpts from the story that referenced the dish. Usually Fritz served meals to Wolfe on a rigorous schedule three times per day and among his favorites were Shad roe, cooked in various ways. Reportedly Wolfe burned up a cookbook at one point because it requested the cook remove the rind or hide from ham before placing it into a pot of lima beans.

Which did Wolfe love best - food or words?

It was a tossup but most likely Nero Wolfe preferred good meals over conversation and it showed. He also took a dim view of TV and music. There was a television at one point down in Fritz's quarters in the basement and it proved handy in an episode titled The Doorbell Rang because eavesdroppers could not near conversation when the TV's volume was up. Most likely Archie had a TV in his own personal quarters as well. One of Wolfe's most interesting idiosyncrasies may have been his obvious dislike for women. He was never outright considered to be gay but he did seem to prefer the company of men.

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Unresponsive Windows Media Player When Using Nero

2012-05-02T13:01:00.000-07:00

You are currently using Nero as well as playing a music or video with your Windows Media Player when suddenly the Player stops. The common scenario is that, the use of Nero while Windows Player is running, the latter application hangs and becomes unresponsive that you can use the task manager to close the Media Player.

Symptoms

Each time you use the Nero burning plug-in, the windows player has high risk of freezing. This problem occurs after the upgrades made for the Windows Media player. The reason is that Nero is not compatible with the Media Player 11.

Resolution

Microsoft has made it available all the relevant hotfix. Note that in some cases, the technical support division of the Microsoft automatically cancels all negotiations for troubleshooting when the computer starts to resolve the issue.

When downloading the hotfix, it is necessary that you provide your computer with the latest security software that can protect your PC from any type of malware such as the viruses and malicious programs. Also, you need to start cleaning the registry to get rid of the unnecessary system and data files so as not to cause any conflicts between applications.

This will help you eliminate the DLLs that are no longer necessary in the files. When DLL files get lost, your computer will give you error messages each time you try to run a particular program or application. The PC will then give an error message stating that it cannot locate the exact address of the particular file that is missing.

It is highly suggested that you install the latest anti-virus and anti-spyware in order to ensure that the registry is maintained and will cause more protection against virus infection.

Best Workflow For AVCHD Video Footage - Convert With Nero Vision - Editing With Sony Vegas

2012-05-02T08:52:00.000-07:00

I'm the "Web guy" at a small business, so, basically, anything transportable via the Internet becomes an entry on my to-do list. Earlier this year, the owner came to me, requesting testimonials for the website--video testimonials. And not just regular, old standard videos, but high-definition ones; and he wanted them "eh-sap." So off I marched to Best Buy with the boss's business card to pick up one of those newfangled, high-def shooting camcorders, the type that'll show sweat dripping over pimples on people's faces in tantalizing detail. "So this top-of-the-line Sony shoots in HD? And it picks up sweat drops and skin imperfections? Okay, I'll take it."

Little did I know that Sony's high-definition format is AVCHD, its m2ts files nearly impossible to work with natively, including in Sony's own professional editing software, Vegas. Makes perfect sense, right? What I figured out over the next couple weeks of fervent, headache-inducing search engine research and personal experimentation was a workflow for editing AVCHD, while maintaining the HD resolution. Let me help you avoid the pain: the following is my workflow in three easy-to-digest steps, including how I converted the footage with Nero 8 software, specifically with its Vision video editing tool.

Step 1: Shooting with Camcorder

I capture video with a Sony HDR-XR500V camcorder, the one I purchased from Best Buy on the boss man's black card--listed for $1300, but over $1400 at the register (thank you very much, 10.25% Chicago sales tax). Resolution is 1920x1080, shooting in 60i. Its 120GB hard disk drive allows for extended recording sessions and a completely digital workflow, which I wanted after dealing with a Canon HV20 and the mess of its MiniDV tapes. I transfer the footage through the provided Mini Plug to USB 2.0 cable, importing it with the also bundled PMB software.

Step 2: Converting with Nero

With the m2ts files stored on my 1TB Western Digital external hard drive--the files quickly ate up all the internal storage on my gimpy, two year-old laptop--I open up Nero 8 for the conversion. In Vision, Nero's editing application, I create a new movie project and import the files there. I make some very basic, obvious trims, so as not to unnecessarily lengthen the conversion process, and then click to export. Using the drop-down menus, I select MPEG-2 as the format and custom as the profile, clicking on the configure button to customize the settings: NTSC; 16:9 ratio; 1920x1088; 2-Pass VBR encoding. Lastly, I press export, after having selected the appropriate file folder on my external drive.

Step 3: Editing with Sony Vegas

I import the footage, now usable mpg files, into Sony Vegas Pro (version 8.0a, for me). As I learned from my search engine research, the template needs to be modified to produce high-definition, through the File, Properties menu selection: my default template is now HD 1080-60i (1920x1080, 29.970 fps). With the template set, I get right to editing my testimonial footage, making sure the client's mild case of adult acne is artfully framed and transitioned to and from. Once finished, I output: Render As from the menu, selecting from the drop-down Windows Media Video V9 (*.wmv)/8 mbps HD 1080-30p Video. About an hour and a half later (thank you very much, outdated laptop), my three-minute testimonial is ready for prime time on the website.

Well, almost ready. I upload the finished wmv file to my YouTube account; after it's initially processed, the HD version takes a little longer. Once available, I grab the embed code (after clicking the Play in HD option through the customize drop-down) and add it to the website, so visitors can see not a nice-sounding quotation, but a high-definition talking head--warts and all.

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Comment désinstaller Nero 10 depuis votre PC

2012-05-01T20:30:00.000-07:00

Nero Burning Rom 10 est un programme très populaire conçu pour vous aider à brûler des films, des données et des chansons sur des disques DVD et CD. Dans un passé récent, ce programme a été largement reconnu comme le leader incontesté de sa catégorie. Récemment cependant, plus en plus de gens sont plaignent de ses performances incompatible et beaucoup choisissent maintenant désinstaller de leur PC. Retirer Nero10 votre PC doit être rempli soigneusement et complètement pour qu'elle soit réussie et s'arrêter à cause des problèmes. Non seulement si vous désinstallez le programme, mais vous devez aussi supprimer ses fichiers associés et ainsi les paramètres.

Comment désinstaller Nero Burning Rom 10

Actuellement, il y a deux façons de supprimer ce programme depuis votre PC. manuellement ou à l'aide d'un programme automatisé. La méthode manuelle implique une série d'étapes. N'oubliez pas que le retrait complet du programme n'implique pas seulement le programme lui-même mais de tous les autres fichiers connexes et paramètres Nero10 peut avoir laissé dans votre système. Ce didacticiel vous marcheront à travers les étapes de suppression Nero10 manuellement.

Extraction manuelle

Le processus de suppression Nero dépend de quelle version de Windows que vous exécutez. Si vous utilisez Windows XP, tout d'abord cliquez sur Démarrer puis sélectionnez Panneau de configuration. Une fois le panneau de contrôle se charge sur votre écran, vous devez cliquer sur l'option Ajouter & suppression de programmes. En revanche, si vous utilisez Windows Vista ou Windows 7, tout d'abord cliquez sur Démarrer puis choisissez panneau de configuration, puis sélectionnez la désinstallation d'un onglet de programme. Après avoir terminé ces étapes, vous pouvez maintenant procéder à localiser Nero10 de la liste des programmes qui sera affiché sur votre écran. Une fois trouvé, cliquez sur le désinstaller ou supprimer l'onglet supprimer Nero10 de votre système.Contrairement à d'autres programmes, le travail n'est pas complète car il y a encore de nombreux fichiers restants dans votre PC qui vous devrez également supprimer. Pour se débarrasser de ces, tout d'abord cliquez sur Démarrer, puis sélectionnez mon ordinateur.

Ensuite, recherchez le chemin d'accès C:/Program Files / et puis recherchez les fichiers restants de Nero10 (tout avec Nero dans le nom). Après que vous avez localisé les, appuyez sur les touches Maj et SUPPR simultanément pour supprimer les fichiers de votre PC. Enfin, actualiser les paramètres de votre PC en redémarrant votre ordinateur. La dernière étape dans le processus de suppression manuelle consiste à nettoyer le registre. Si vous n'êtes pas compétents avec des ordinateurs, ou avez un quelconque problème avec le programme à l'intérieur de votre PC.

Renvoi automatique

Si vous n'êtes pas trop compétent avec des ordinateurs, ou un quelconque problème avec Nero, il est recommandé que vous regardez à utiliser un processus de suppression « automatique » pour se débarrasser de l'application. Tels que « Final Uninstaller » permet de rapidement et facilement se débarrasser complètement des parties du logiciel de votre système. La bonne nouvelle est que si vous voulez être en mesure de se débarrasser de Nero Burning Rom 10, vous pouvez télécharger le programme de désinstallation finale, laisser courir et ensuite se débarrasser de l'une des parties de gauche du logiciel sur votre système.

Ceci est recommandé si vous encore avez Nero de votre ordinateur, ou sont incapables de bien supprimer l'application de votre système. Pour utiliser l'outil, vous pouvez le télécharger - installer et laisser ensuite « scan » pour tous les fichiers susceptibles d'avoir Nero. Après qu'il a identifié tous les fichiers de votre PC, il puis supprime les depuis votre PC, se débarrasser de Nero pour de bon.

Vous pouvez Désinstaller Nero Burning Rom 10 en utilisant les outils et le tutoriel sur notre site Web. Vous pouvez Cliquez ici pour désinstaller Nero Burning Rom 10 de votre système.

Basic Information about Nero Burn DVD

2012-05-01T17:18:00.000-07:00

Nero est un ROM gravure populaire conçu pour graver de DVD. La façon dont ce produit a obtenu son nom est très intéressante. Il a été effectivement nommée d'après des empereurs romains qui a été nommé Nero. Il est enregistré qu'il jouait un instrument de musique à cordes alors que Rome était située. Puisque vous graver des films sur DVD et musique sur CD s il a été nommé Nero graver DVD.

Certaines des premières versions du produit pourraient seulement graver de données qui utilisaient le système de fichiers ISO. Les versions les plus récentes en charge Blu - ray disc et capacités d'enregistrement LightScribe qui est une grande amélioration. Un de la ROM Nero graver DVD 6 est appelé Nero StartSmart. Ce logiciel vous envoie plusieurs opérations différentes qui sont associées à des ordinateurs. Un qui a à voir avec le CD est inséré dans le PC.

Windows 2000 et Windows XP n'autorisent pas les utilisateurs qui n'ont pas de droits administratifs pour avoir accès à des pilotes de niveau faibles. Donc, normalement vous ne pouvez pas utiliser Nero Burn DVD sur votre système. Cependant, si vous tombez dans cette catégorie tout ce que vous devez faire est aller en ligne et obtenir Nero BurnRights. Cela vous permettra d'utiliser Nero pour graver des CD et de DVD. Pour utiliser ce programme tout que vous devez faire est Télécharger le fichier d'installation qui est un processus très simple. Tout ce que vous devez faire est double, cliquez sur Démarrer et vous êtes prêt à commencer.

Ce produit est très populaire et il y a plusieurs versions sur le marché. Faire un peu de recherche pour voir quelle version serait préférable pour vous. Il y a quelques inconvénients à la Nero Burn DVD qui affecte de nombreux utilisateurs. Par exemple, c'est un très gros fichier qui contient 150 Mo. Non seulement cela prend beaucoup d'espace, mais il faut beaucoup de temps pour lui permettre de télécharger, en particulier pour les personnes qui utilisent des connexions dial-up.

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The Easiest and the Simplest Way to Copy Dvd Games Using Nero

2012-05-01T09:45:00.000-07:00

You are one of those gaming enthusiasts who keep continuously for long periods of time? If yes, then are very good chances of your original game disc to get damaged due to extensive usage. And this is one of the last things you would want to happen. Hence, to protect your investment you can copy DVD games using Nero.

For you to be able to copy DVD games, you will first have to find out if the game you are going to burn has any kind of copy security. You can lookup websites to know what kind of protection the game is using.

Create a disc-image or ISO of the game using Nero. This is nothing but a copy of all the data present in the disc. Nero uses a NRG file extension. Next, to copy DVD games insert in the driver the game's disc and choose the Make Image option provided in Nero. Its location would depend on the version. It will take a while for the information on the disc to be read.

Now, ensure that you create the kind of picture you want, NRG or ISO. You can choose the Game Backup or the Game option if you are crafting it into a music or movie file. The output file is set to a site that can be remembered and the marking of the image is started.

The image is burnt using the option Burn Image in main menu of Nero. The speed of the burn is set low once you have found the image that was just created through Nero's browser. You can make sure that the copy of the DVD games is not bad by making the burn settings rather slow. Ensure that only a DVD of good quality is used.

The copied game is labeled and inserted in the disc drive. There may be the need for a specific patch to be downloaded for you to be able to use the backup DVD and not the original.

It is this simple to create a copy of your DVD games using Nero. And, you will no longer have to invest any of your money in buying a brand new game disc in case your gets damaged.

Disclaimer: Copying games should ONLY be done for backup purposes

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How to Create a CD Using Nero

2012-05-01T04:47:00.000-07:00

To publish a CD via the internet you may be required to upload directly from your CD into the distant CD creator. You must first create a CD. This could be a document or an audio CD.

First, the type of CD to use is a CD-R or CD+R. Don't use RW. These are Read/Write, which means you can read from them and write to them. You only want a Read for this project.

Step One: Place a blank CD-R or CD+R in you computer port.

Step Two: A box will open asking what you want to do. Click on "Burn a file to a disk."

Step Three: In the next window, place a dot for the correct type of disk, in this case a CD. Click on "Okay."

Step Four: You will get two boxes, one over the other. The top box allows you to select the file. Find the PDF you have created under documents and in red, labeled PDF. Click and drag it into the lower box. (To click and drag, place the cursor over the document you want and hold the cursor down while moving it to the desired location.) Click on the burn icon at the top, a picture of a disk with fire coming out of it. Couple more clicks and a wait while the program does its work and you are done.

TIP: You may wonder what to do if your program doesn't work exactly like mine. Here is where persistence, trial and error, and asking for help all come into play. Don't give up. Look your program over to find the buttons you need. If that doesn't solve it, use the help button on your program. Read over the help options and click on the one that corresponds to your question. When all your own efforts still don't solve the problem, contact the source of the program you are using or contact the maker of your computer. Contact information is usually included in the Help options.

Now you are ready to publish your work as a CD.

Article by Patricia Lapidus, author of the memoir SWEET POTATO SUPPERS: A Yankee Woman Finds Salvation in a Hippie Village. Patricia is a writer, editor, teacher, and an encourager. Up coming books include SWAMP WALKING WOMAN, a mythic fairy tale about women's strength, and GIDEON'S RIVER, a novel dedicated to all who live with a temper, their own or someone else's. Note: SWEET POTATO SUPPERS is due out soon in a second edition. This memoir is for those interested in communities, in spiritual hippies, and in the personal journey of discovery.

A new internet writer, Patricia is eager to help other writers become comfortable with simple web tech.

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Comment désinstaller Nero 8 complètement - les méthodes manuelles et automatisées pour supprimer ce programme

2012-05-01T00:23:00.000-07:00

Nero 8 est un logiciel qui permet de graver les médias sur les CD et les DVD. C'est un programme très populaire avec beaucoup de personnes, idéal pour toute personne qui est très créatif et a un fort intérêt pour le multimédia. Néanmoins, en dépit de la fonctionnalité du programme et de son importance dans de nombreuses activités de production multimédia, elle peut aussi causer beaucoup de problèmes pour le système de l'ordinateur si elle subit des dommages. Il a la capacité d'installer des paramètres inutiles et les fichiers qui peuvent obstruer le système et ralentir le processus de votre ordinateur. Lorsque le programme devient défectueux, il est nécessaire pour y répondre immédiatement.

Comment désinstaller Nero 8

Étant donné que le programme a déjà chargé des composants beaucoup ensemble profondément dans le système, des problèmes se produiront continuellement jusqu'à ce que le programme est pris hors du système. Il y a plusieurs façons de supprimer ou désinstaller le programme Nero. Vous devez suivre les procédures détaillées avec soin pour s'assurer que rien ne va pas.

Manuel de désinstaller pour Nero8

Pour le programme de désinstallation manuellement, toutes ses composantes devraient être supprimé du système. Pour ce faire, procédez comme suit :

Cliquez sur Démarrer, choisissez panneau de configuration et sélectionnez Ajout/suppression de programmes de l'option.
Dans la liste des programmes offerts, choisissez Nero 8.
Il y aura des options fournies. Il sera soit supprimer ou désinstaller.
Choisir selon que vous consultez et suivez les instructions sur la façon de supprimer Nero. Cela devrait supprimer les composants de l'application. La plupart du temps, il sera nécessaire de redémarrer l'ordinateur pour terminer le processus.

Ce que beaucoup de gens ne réalise qu'utilise l'option Ajout/suppression de programmes dans l'ordinateur ne suffit pas de supprimer complètement tous les composants de Nero 8. Programmes installés souvent, l'ordinateur congé de fichiers et des dossiers derrière même si elles ont déjà été désinstallés. Ces composants doivent être enlevés aussi. Pour terminer la procédure de suppression totale, allez dans Démarrer de nouveau, puis sélectionnez mon ordinateur. Une fois à l'intérieur de la page de mon ordinateur, sélectionnez l'emplacement suivant : C:/Program Files. À cet endroit, trouver les fichiers correspondants et les dossiers concernant Nero. Assurez-vous de trouver tous les composants. Une fois que tous les fichiers ont été localisés, sélectionnez-les et puis appuyez sur Maj et SUPPR ensemble. Cela supprimera définitivement le programme du système. L'ordinateur doit être redémarré pour terminer le processus une fois de plus.

Méthode de suppression automatique

Si vous voulez vous débarrasser complètement du programme, le plus efficace est aucunement se débarrasser automatiquement de toutes les parties du programme avec un morceau de logiciel. Nous avons constaté qu'il existe un outil appelé «Final Uninstaller", qui est capable de parcourir votre PC et de se débarrasser de toutes les parties du virus de votre système automatiquement. Vous pouvez utiliser ce programme en téléchargement sur votre ordinateur, installer et ensuite laisser enlever toutes les parties de 8 de Nero que vous avez sur votre système.

Vous pouvez Désinstaller Nero 8 de votre PC en utilisant le tutoriel et les outils sur notre site Web. Vous pouvez Cliquez ici pour désinstaller Nero 8 de votre système pour de bon.

AdvrCntr4.dll Errors Fix - How to Fix AdvrCntr4 Errors Caused by Nero on Your Computer

2012-04-30T20:56:00.000-07:00

Advrcntr4.dll is a file used by the "Nero" (CD / DVD authoring software) to help it control various features & components inside this complicated piece of software. Unfortunately, the file is used so much that it's often being damaged, corrupted and saved in the wrong way - leading Nero to show errors for it. If you're seeing errors caused by Advrcntr4.dll, then you need to be able to fix the various problems which are causing the errors to show - which is exactly what this tutorial is going to show you...

The errors you likely see caused by this file include:

"This program requires the file advrcntr4.dll, which was not found on this system."

The errors you're seeing are basically caused by this file either being corrupted, damaged or missing from your PC. The problem is that because Nero requires the use of this file continually on your system, if it cannot find it, it's going to either show you the error or just not work. The way to fix this problem is to first repair / replace the file on your computer and then use a registry cleaner program to fix any of the system issues which may be affecting it.

The first step to resolving this issue is to reinstall the Nero software on your PC. When you reinstall Nero, you basically allow the software of your computer to replace all the files which may be damaged or causing a problem. This can be achieved very easily by clicking Start > Control Panel > Add / Remove Programs, and then removing Nero from your PC. After that, install Nero again - which should allow it to run without any errors. If you do this and find that Nero is still showing errors, you should replace the advrcntr4.dll file on your computer with a new copy from the Internet.

The second step to fixing this error is to use a "registry cleaner" to resolve any potential issues on your system. Registry cleaners are popular software tools which are designed to scan through your PC and fix a number of common errors which often form inside the "registry" database of your system. The registry is a central storage facility for all the files & settings for your computer, and is a crucial part of every Windows system. Unfortunately, this database is continually being corrupted & damaged, leading to many different errors appearing. DLL errors often appear when a large "list" of all the DLL files & their locations on your computer are damaged. This is a pretty common error and can be fixed by downloading a registry cleaner program and letting it scan through your PC.

You can fix advrcntr4.dll errors on your computer by using the tutorial on our website. Click Here to fix the advrcntr4.dll error on your PC.

Perro come perro como tabloide británico desnudo todos

2012-04-30T16:06:00.000-07:00

Por Michael Stott

LONDRES | Jueves, 06 de octubre de 2011 en 1:57 pm EDT

(6 Oct Reuters Londres)-Fleet Street mejor corrió furiosamente al comienzo el jueves de una investigación gubernamental, intenta llamar la atención del público con historias de horror y conmoción.

Pero esta vez en su propia industria.

Primer Ministro David Cameron ha solicitado a un juez, Lord Brian Leveson, para investigar la prensa británica a menudo temida y formular recomendaciones para un nuevo régimen regulador.

Este seguimiento a las denuncias que el News of the World, un periódico más vendido propiedad de Rupert Murdoch News Corporation, había atacado a los teléfonos móviles de una cadena de personalidades en la prensa, incluyendo una colegiala asesinado y pagado dinero a la policía para las historias.

Uno de los predecesores de Cameron, Tony Blair, famoso atacó a los medios británicos como una "bestia salvaje personas lagrimeo y bits de reputación" y algunos contrición al debate de la apertura de la investigación.

"Hemos sido suficiente mala conducta a lo largo de la historia". "Fue divertido," dijo Roy Greenslade, un ex editor en jefe del Daily Mirror que ahora conferencias sobre periodismo en la Universidad de la ciudad de Londres.

Pero menos de una hora en el procedimiento, es Richard Peppiatt, ex pelo tously de periodista con una de sus secciones inferiores del mercado de Gran Bretaña, el Daily Star, que se robó el show con un mordaz denuncia del periodismo sensacionalista.

Además de 900 historias de papel popular británico, dijo el debate acerca de las presiones de la competencia a los periodistas: "Probablemente puedo contar el número de veces en los dedos y dedos de los pies donde realmente dije la verdad".

Dramáticas acusaciones de Peppiatt, que rápidamente fueron twitteé a través de Internet, sido robado shattered image cuidadosamente mejorada normas de prensa pintado por el anterior orador Phil Hall, quien editó el news of the world desde 1995 a 2000.

"Actitud de publicar-y-ser-malditos ha mucho se limita a los libros de historia de Fleet Street," Hall dice tranquilizador, como algunos marmonné participantes tranquilamente incrédulo.

Peppiatt había tenido ninguno de ellos.

Historias de tabloide, dijo, ordenó a couards periodistas por la intimidación de los editores para ajustar los prejuicios preconcebidos del registro, independientemente de los hechos, en virtud de base mejor descrito como "decirnos lo que queremos escuchar y hacemos la pregunta demasiado tus fuentes."

Editores de periódicos más vendidos de Gran Bretaña, que temen que Leveson encuesta anuncia el nuevo Reglamento de la prensa que será de marketing sus formas espontáneas, golpeó atrás.

"Diatriba florido" Peppiatt fue "una grotesca caricatura del mundo diario," Bong el ex redactor jefe político del periódico más vendido de Sun, Trevor Kavanagh. Un abogado para el Daily Express dijo el ambiente descrito por Peppiatt no es "una cultura de la prensa que reconozco".

Anteriormente, Kavanagh admitió el popular presione a veces mencionadas pero añadido: "debería ver las historias imprimimos no.".

"MEA CULPA".

En un enfrentamiento dramático entre editores que parece reforzar la preocupación por los estándares de tabloide, Greenslade cuestionado ex noticias del editor mundial Hall para contar la investigación por Rupert Murdoch le había despedido papel.

"Quizás Roy puede decirnos primero cómo fija el lugar la competición de bola cuando editó el Daily Mirror," respondió Hall, abucheos del público.

"Es un episodio de periodismo, siento absolutamente terriblemente... mea culpa, mea culpa," deploraron Greenslade, admitiendo el lapso, dijo que las críticas hizo imposible para cualquier persona en ganar el Premio de 1 millón de libros en oferta. "".

El debate tocó en varias ocasiones en la calle de flota creciente obsesión con la vida de las celebridades, que van desde los finales futbolistas adúlteras de la Princesa Diana. La tendencia es criticada por algunos observadores de la prensa por una disminución en las normas pero vista por algunos editores como una forma de aumentar las ventas.

"La muerte de Michael Jackson, movimiento del sol ha aumentado de 326.000 copias en un solo día," dijo el editor Sun Dominic Mohan, quien es un ex periodista de chismes del periódico. "Hay un apetito público por periodismo de celebridad".

El ruidoso debate sobre la ética del tabloide casi ahogó unas voces más sobrias para un debate serio sobre los riesgos que plantea la regulación más intrusivo o duras cifras financieras mostrando los periódicos son una industria de rápido - mueren por la libertad de prensa.

Alan Rusbridger, editor de Gran Bretaña, llevando al Liberal diario The Guardian, hizo un llamamiento elocuente en un discurso cargado de referencias a los grandes pensadores políticos del pasado, como Locke y Wilkes para no olvidar la libertad de expresión, los líderes de Gran Bretaña.

"Una prensa libre es parte de un mayor derecho de libertad de expresión," dijo Rusbridger, que expone registro de teléfono escándalo de hacking, ""-alguna cosa para preservar celosamente y mantienen, independientemente del uso indebido de esas libertades por o en nombre de un pequeño número de personas autodenominados periodistas. ""

Tipos de veterano, tabloide, quien creció en Fleet Street mantras como "que nunca viene mal tiempo" o "esta historia es demasiado bien comprobar" murmuró que todo este alboroto es acerca de los tabloides no era nueva.

Probar el sitio gentlemenranters.com, un orador sugerido, y verá que no ha cambiado mucho desde la década de 1950.

Cuentos de la difícil pasado bebida de características de sitio del periódico británico, incluyendo un cuento de comercio de un fotógrafo fallecido - horror de choque - caen mientras está en un pub.

(Edición por Jon Boyle)

Rambus asked about shredded records in Nvidia case

2012-04-30T11:41:00.000-07:00

* Rambus says relevant documents were all produced

* Appeals judge says Rambus doesn't know what was shredded

* Other judge: ITC may use wrong standard to take cases

By Diane Bartz

WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Chip technology company Rambus Inc (RMBS.O) was quizzed in court about destroyed documents and its own use of its patents as graphics chip maker Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) sought relief from expensive licensing fees.

The two sides squared off on Thursday before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit over whether Nvidia infringed Rambus patents for controlling and managing the flow of computer data to and from a chip's memory.

The U.S. International Trade Commission, which hears patent cases involving imports, had previously found Nvidia infringed Rambus chip patents and issued an order barring the importation of any chip made with the infringing technology.

Nvidia licensed the Rambus technology at royalty rates of between 1 percent and 2 percent depending on the type of memory controller involved, to allow its chips to enter the country, but the legal battle has continued.

The ITC had found that Nvidia infringed three patents but did not infringe two others. Both sides appealed to the circuit court and the arguments were consolidated.

Part of the battle has centered on whether Rambus destroyed documents to avoid having them used against it in litigation.

Rambus has acknowledged document destruction but said it was part of ordinary business practices.

Judge Kathleen O'Malley, part of a three-judge panel that heard the case, took issue with an attorney for Rambus who said the company produced the documents that were requested and that all relevant documents were preserved.

"You admit you have no idea what was destroyed! You have no record of what was destroyed!" she said.

"Remember, you saved the ones that helped you and destroyed the ones that hurt you," O'Malley said at another point.

The appeals court previously ruled in cases between Rambus and Micron Technology (MU.O) and Hynix Semiconductor (000660.KS) that Rambus destroyed documents inappropriately. The cases have been remanded back to lower courts for further consideration.

The battle is a key one for Nvidia, whose core business relies on the sale of specialized graphics cards.

Judge Raymond Clevenger on Thursday repeatedly asked whether Rambus had proved that it used the patents that it was seeking to defend.

Companies may not sue at the International Trade Commission unless they show that they are using the patent domestically. Rambus licensed the patents, and used that to proceed with the lawsuit.

Clevenger said district courts cannot order production or importation of infringing products to cease since the Supreme Court said in a 2006 decision that an injunction should not necessarily follow a finding of infringement. "It's a factor we should think about," he said.

Rambus and others go to the ITC to file patent complaints because the trade commission, unlike U.S. district courts, can bar the importation of devices made with infringing technology.

The case against Nvidia and others that was before the International Trade Commission is number 337-661. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit case numbers are 2010-1483 and 2010-1556. (Reporting by Diane Bartz; Editing by Tim Dobbyn)

WRAPUP 3-World mourns Steve Jobs; Apple shares edge higher

2012-04-30T07:03:00.000-07:00

* Presidents, CEOs, fans pay tribute to Jobs

* Apple co-founder transformed lives of millions

* Jobs praised as "a dreamer and a doer"

* Apple shares up 1 percent (Updates links to stories, graphics, Breakingviews; updates shares)

By Jennifer Saba

NEW YORK, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Outpourings of public grief and appreciation swept the globe on Thursday after the death of Apple (AAPL.O) co-founder Steve Jobs.

Jobs, who touched the daily lives of countless millions of people through the Macintosh computer, iPod, iPhone and iPad, died on Wednesday at age 56 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He stepped down as Apple chief executive in August.

Reaction in the stock market was muted as Apple shares quickly recovered from an initial 1.5 percent decline. The shares were up 1 percent to $382.15 at midday.

In New York City, an impromptu memorial made from flowers, candles and a dozen green and red apples was erected outside a 24-hour Apple store on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, with fans snapping photos of it on their iPhones.

"It was really sad news for us," said Daiichiro Tashiro, 25, visiting from Tokyo. "A lot of Japanese use the iPhone. We're here to thank him."

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Tributes poured in both from ordinary people and from the pinnacles of the business and political worlds.

"He's the hero to everybody of this generation because he did something that I think is very hard, which is be both a dreamer and a doer," General Electric Co (GE.N) CEO Jeff Immelt told reporters in Columbus, Ohio, on Thursday.

"I wouldn't be able to run my business without Apple, without its software," said David Chiverton, who was leaving Apple's flagship Regent Street store in London. "I run a video production company. It's allowed me to have my dream business."

News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch said, "Steve Jobs was simply the greatest CEO of his generation."

At an Apple store in Sydney, lawyer George Raptis, who was five years old when he first used a Macintosh computer, spoke for almost everyone who has come into contact with Apple. "He's changed the face of computing," he said. "There will only ever be one Steve Jobs."

U.S. President Barack Obama remembered Jobs as a visionary. "Steve was among the greatest of American innovators -- brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it," Obama said in a statement.

Microsoft's (MSFT.O) Bill Gates, who once triumphed over Jobs but saw his legendary status overtaken by the Apple co-founder in recent years, said, "For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it's been an insanely great honor."

Nokia (NOK1V.HE) CEO Stephen Elop, whose company competes with Apple's iPhone in the handset market, said, "The world lost a true visionary today. Steve's passion for simplicity and elegance leaves us all a legacy that will endure for generations."

When he stepped down as CEO in August, Jobs handed the reins to long-time operations chief Tim Cook. With a passion for minimalist design and a genius for marketing, Jobs laid the groundwork for the company to continue to flourish after his death, most analysts and investors say.

But Apple still faces challenges in the absence of the man who was its chief product designer, marketing guru and salesman nonpareil. Phones running Google's (GOOG.O) Android software are gaining share in the smartphone market, and there are questions about what Apple's next big product will be.

LEGENDARY ENTREPRENEUR

A college drop-out and the son of adoptive parents, Jobs changed the technology world in the late 1970s, when the Apple II became the first personal computer to gain a wide following. He did it again in 1984 with the Macintosh, which built on breakthrough technologies developed at Xerox Parc and elsewhere to create the personal computing experience as we know it today.

The rebel streak that was central to his persona got him tossed out of Apple in 1985, but he returned in 1997 and after a few years began the roll-out of a troika of products -- the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad -- that again upended the established order in major industries.

A diagnosis of a rare form of pancreatic cancer in 2004 initially cast only a mild shadow over Jobs and Apple, with the CEO asserting that the disease was treatable. But his health deteriorated rapidly over the past several years, and after two temporary leaves of absence he stepped down as CEO and became Apple's chairman in August.

Jobs's death came just one day after Cook presented a new iPhone at the kind of gala event that became Jobs's trademark. Perhaps coincidentally, the new device got lukewarm reviews, with many saying it wasn't a big enough improvement over the existing version of one of the most successful consumer products in history.

Apple paid homage to its visionary leader by changing its website to a big black-and-white photograph of him with the caption "Steve Jobs: 1955-2011."

On Google's home page, the same line appeared just below its search box. It was a link to the Apple site. (For related stories, see TAKE A LOOK at [ID:nN1E79421F].) (Reporting by Jennifer Saba; additional reporting by Sinead Carew and Liana Baker in New York; Scott Malone in Columbus, Ohio; Sarah McBride in Cupertino, California; Poornima Gupta in San Francisco; Edwin Chan in Los Angeles; Matt Cowan in London; and Amy Pyett in Sydney; editing by John Wallace)

Ex-reporter claims hacking at Trinity Mirror paper-Sky

2012-04-30T02:31:00.000-07:00

LONDON | Thu Oct 6, 2011 1:41pm EDT

LONDON Oct 6 (Reuters) - A former reporter on a tabloid owned by Trinity Mirror has claimed the newspaper hacked into the phones of celebrities, Sky News reported on Thursday, potentially broadening a scandal that has so far largely affected Rupert Murdoch's News Corp .

David Brown, who worked for The People before being sacked, was reported by Sky News as having claimed the mobile phones of celebrities were targeted by The People in the years up to 2006.

Trinity Mirror has said the allegation is incorrect.

Brown's comments came in a written witness statement prepared for an employment tribunal claim for unfair dismissal against Trinity Mirror, but the statement was never used.

Sky is part owned by Murdoch's News Corp media empire.

"A number of the methods used to pry into individuals' lives were illegal and I have little doubt that if these people knew they had been spied upon, they would take legal action for breach of their right to privacy," Brown was reported to have written.

The people whose phones were hacked by the Sunday newspaper, Sky said, included David Beckham's children's nanny and TV presenter Ulrika Jonsson.

Trinity Mirror, which also owns the Mirror newspaper, denied the accusations.

"All our journalists work within the criminal law and the PCC (Press Complaints Commission) Code of Conduct and we have seen no evidence to suggest otherwise," it said in a statement.

It added that the "unsubstantiated allegations" taken from a draft statement had never been tested under cross examination.

Brown declined to comment when contacted by Reuters.

He was reported to have written that information had been gleaned by others from Jonsson's mobile phone.

"This was done by 'screwing' or tapping Ms Jonsson's phone's message bank," he is said to have written.

He said in the statement that Trinity Mirror had quickly paid substantial damages to Beckham after running a front-page story wrongly alleging the soccer star had left angry messages on his nanny's mobile.

"It took the company less than a month to pay David Beckham substantial damages because it knew it could not produce the evidence of tapped mobile phones in any litigation," the statement reportedly said.

Brown was fired from the Sunday tabloid in April 2006 for gross misconduct, Sky said on its website.

The statement, written in 2007, was not used because the company settled out of court with Brown and he signed a confidential settlement agreement, Sky said.

When a News of the World reporter was arrested for hacking in August 2006, a senior human resources figure "contacted executives on Trinity's national titles to tell them that if they were asked by other newspapers or trade publications whether they had used information from 'screwed' mobile phones they should deny it," Brown was said to have written.

"(The) advice indicates that a major media plc was not only allowing its staff to carry out illegal activity by, at best, turning a blind eye to it, but also taking part in an organised cover-up of that activity."

Trinity launched a review of is editorial controls and procedures last August, and had obtained written confirmation from its current senior editorial executives that they had not engaged in phone-hacking since the introduction of an Act of law in 2000.

Allegations of hacking at its rival Sunday tabloid the News of the World led to the closure of the 168-year publication. Trinity Mirror soon afterwards said its circulation revenues had risen. (Reporting by Avril Ormsby; Editing by Jon Hemming)

UPDATE 1-Oracle to pay $199.5 mln to resolve false claims case

2012-04-29T23:30:00.000-07:00

* Case involves contract dating back to 1998

* Oracle denied engaging in fraud, but agreed to settle (Adds details of case, Oracle comment)

WASHINGTON Oct 6 (Reuters) - Oracle Corp (ORCL.O) has agreed to pay $199.5 million plus interest to settle allegations that the software giant failed to give promised discounts to the federal government, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday.

The world's No. 3 software company was also accused of making false statements about its sales practices and discounts and failing to meet its contract obligations to provide complete information about its sales practices.

Additionally, Oracle did not disclose higher discounts given to other customers and as a result the federal government paid more for its products than it should have, according to the Justice Department.

The settlement over false claims allegations is the largest involving the General Services Administration, which handles procurement for the federal government.

"Resolutions like this one - the largest GSA false claims settlement in history - demonstrate our commitment to ensure taxpayers are not overpaying for the products and services they receive," Tony West, head of the Justice Department's Civil Division, said in a statement.

Oracle denied any wrongdoing or that it engaged in fraud as part of the contract, which dates back to 1998, and argued that many of the witnesses were no longer available or did not remember the events.

Nevertheless, company spokeswoman Deborah Hellinger said "Oracle has therefore decided to avoid the distraction and high cost of litigating this case by settling."

The settlement represents about 11 percent of the $1.84 billion in net income Oracle had in the quarter that ended Aug. 31.

The case involved a former Oracle employee who became a whistleblower, Paul Frascella, and he will receive $40 million as his share, according to the Justice Department.

Oracle shares closed up 56 cents, or 1.9 percent, at $30.07 in regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange. (Reporting by Jeremy Pelofsky in Washington and Jim Finkle in Boston, editing by Carol Bishopric, Gary Hill)

UPDATE 2-Sony near buying Ericsson out of phone venture-WSJ

2012-04-29T18:57:00.000-07:00

* Sony talking to Ericsson about 50:50 joint venture-WSJ

* Sony and Ericsson decline to comment on reported talks

* Deal would be positive for both companies - analysts (Adds details in paragraphs 2, 8-11, byline)

By Tarmo Virki, European Technology Correspondent

Oct 6 (Reuters) - Sony Corp (6758.T) is nearing a deal to buy Telefon AB LM Ericsson's (ERICb.ST) stake in their 50:50 smartphone joint venture, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.

Sony and Ericsson have been talking for weeks about the future of the venture because the companies' 10-year-old pact is up for renewal this month, two industry sources told Reuters.

The Wall Street Journal said the talks were ongoing and could break apart at any time.

Ericsson and Sony declined to comment on the reported talks. "We have a long-term commitment to our joint ventures," said an Ericsson spokesman.

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The joint venture, formed in 2001, thrived after its breakthrough with Walkman music phones and Cybershot cameraphones, both of which leveraged Sony's brands.

But it lost out to bigger rivals Nokia (NOK1V.HE) and Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) at the cheaper end of the market, and was late to react to Apple's (AAPL.O) entrance into the high-end of the market.

It has refocused its business to make smartphones using Google's (GOOG.O) Android platform, but it has dropped to No. 9 in global cellphone rankings from No. 4 just a few years ago.

It is making some progress and turned a net profit of 90 million euros last year after booking a loss of 836 million in 2009. But it reported another loss for the April-June quarter.

The venture is due to report its September quarter results on Oct 14.

DIVORCE GOOD FOR BOTH PARTNERS?

"A buyout would make a lot of sense for Ericsson as I believe their share in the joint venture is worth to them between zero and minus 1 billion euros," said Bernstein analyst Pierre Ferragu.

"Whatever price they agree on, it would be a positive for Ericsson," he said.

Shares in Sweden's Ericsson gained on the report and closed 6 percent higher at 69.20 crowns on Thursday.

A full takeover of the venture would boost Sony's overall offering, which includes content, gaming devices, consumer electronics and even tablet computers. But the company still lacks its own smartphones.

"The buyout allows Sony to move development in-house and better integrate other products like gaming into newer phones," said Steven Nathasingh from U.S. technology research firm Vaxa Inc.

Last month at the IFA trade fair in Berlin, Sony Ericsson's phones were presented inside the Sony hall, mixed with Sony's TV sets and new tablets. [ID:nN1E77U0KO] (Additional reporting by Yinka Adegoke, Anna Ringstrom, Sven Nordenstam and Liana Balinsky-Baker; Editing by Erica Billingham and John Wallace)

UPDATE 1-US regulator unveils plan for universal broadband

2012-04-29T15:21:00.000-07:00

* Genachowski offers plan for modernizing USF

* Cable group says gives phone companies unfair advantage

* Proposal set for agency vote on Oct. 27 (Adds comments from industry and analyst)

By Jasmin Melvin

WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - The U.S. communications regulator unveiled on Thursday a proposal for achieving universal broadband coverage by the end of the decade.

Some 18 million Americans do not have access to broadband where they live and work despite some $4.5 billion in public money spent each year to subsidize telephone service for rural families.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski proposed a strategy for revamping that government subsidy program to help deploy high-speed Internet service to millions of Americans living in rural and costly-to-serve areas.

"The costs of this broadband gap are measured in jobs not created, existing job openings not filled and our nation's competitiveness not advanced," Genachowski said in a speech on Thursday, acknowledging that the current program is broken.

The FCC earlier in the year proposed modernizing the $8 billion universal service fund -- paid for through fees added to consumers' telephone bills -- to spur infrastructure investment while removing inefficiencies in the program.

Genachowski's proposal would gradually move the largest program within the universal service fund, the program that subsidizes telephone service, to directly support fixed and mobile broadband.

His plan would also phase out funding for duplicating services offered by several phone companies serving the same area.

Broadband buildout to unserved areas could begin in early 2012 under the plan, bringing high-speed Internet to hundreds of thousands of homes in the near-term.

"It will help cut the number of Americans bypassed by broadband by up to one half over the following five years, and it will put us on the path to universal broadband by the end of the decade," Genachowski added.

The comprehensive set of reforms will be circulated to the other commissioners on Thursday, and are set for a vote at the FCC's Oct. 27 meeting.

CABLE INDUSTRY NOT HAPPY

Genachowski outlined a new competitive bidding process for securing funds from the program, but the American Cable Association said it bent heavily to incumbent phone companies.

The proposal would quickly move to this bidding process in some areas, but others would not shift until later years.

ACA said this would give incumbent phone carriers first dibs at monies from the fund while other broadband providers, like cable, wait years for the option to competitively bid to receive support in those areas.

"The chairman's plan locks in a sole-source contract worth billions of dollars for over ten years to a handful of incumbent large telecom companies," ACA Chief Executive Matthew Polka said in a statement.

ACA represents independent companies providing broadband service to 7.6 million subscribers.

But Genachowski argued in his speech that "a flash-cut to competitive bidding in some parts of the decades-old program risks consumer disruption, build-out delays, and other unintended consequences."

In order to push reform through, certain policy and political trade-offs must be made, and that may limit cable companies' prospects for receiving federal broadband support, said Medley Global Advisors analyst Jeffrey Silva.

"The political sensitivities almost demand that in order to get any sort of consensus that's politically viable, you have to get buy-in by rural telephone companies," Silva said.

"That may be the best this chairman or any chairman is going to be able to do because it's not just about policy, it's about politics," he added. (Reporting by Jasmin Melvin, editing by Bernard Orr)

Carlos Slim increases stake in NY Times

2012-04-29T11:46:00.000-07:00

n" readability="45">Oct 6 (Reuters) - Carlos Slim, the Mexican billionaire who loaned the New York Times Co (NYT.N) $250 million, has upped his stake in the company for the third time in two months.

Slim now holds 8.1 percent of Class A shares of the New York Times, up from 7.5 percent in August. [ID:nN1E77N0GL]

Through the fund Inmobiliaria Carso S A, Slim purchased about 850,000 shares at prices ranging from $5.84 to $6.00 per share on Oct. 3 and Oct. 4, according to a U.S. regulatory filing.

Shares of the New York Times closed up 12.7 percent at $6.75 on Thursday. This year to date, the shares are down 38.8 percent.

The stocks of newspaper companies McClatchy (MNI.N) and Media General (MEG.N) closed up 8.8 percent and 14.2 percent, respectively.

The New York Times repaid a $250 million to Slim on Aug. 15, about five months earlier than expected.

Slim holds warrants to buy 15.9 million Class A shares of the company that expire on Jan. 15, 2015. (Reporting by Jennifer Saba; Editing by Gary Hill)

Actualización 2-BBC para encoger como comparte el Reino Unido recortes del gasto

2012-04-29T07:36:00.000-07:00

** Después de que la reducción del 20% en el presupuesto

** 2 000 puestos de trabajo a ser eliminadas, Senior Manager funciones para cortar

** Sindicatos advierten programación, sufrirá el periodismo (detalle agrega, fondo)

Por Kate Holton y Georgina Prodhan

(Londres, 6 de octubre, Reuters) - la BBC se establece en hacha más 10 por ciento del personal en sus divisiones de gestión, programación y noticias después atado de efectivo gasto profundo del gobierno impuesto recortes de Gran Bretaña en el mundialmente conocido locutor, financiada por el Estado.

La empresa establece cambios el jueves en respuesta a una reducción del 20% de su presupuesto anual de 3.500 millones de libras (5,4 millones de dólares) impuestos por el Gobierno como parte de una más profundas recortes en décadas el gasto público.

Sindicatos, dijo que los cambios dañaría el periodismo independiente en el momento donde un teléfono hacking escándalo revelada vergonzosamente cerca entre el primer ministro David Cameron y derecho vincula News Corp Rupert Murdoch, un antiguo crítico de la BBC.

El presupuesto de la BBC ha sido impuesto por el Gobierno con muy poca negociación. Unos 600 puestos de BBC News serán ahora.

"En 2016, la BBC será considerablemente menor que es hoy en día," dijo.

Con ocho canales de televisión nacionales, 50 estaciones de radio y un sitio de gran tamaño y los recursos de la BBC ya atrajo envidia y críticas de sus rivales, encabezada por James Murdoch para la televisión dominante grupo BSkyB.

Como la recesión reunieron vapor en 2008, se intensificó en grupos financiados por la publicidad como ITV está luchando para hacer frente a personal y presupuestos de corte.

En virtud de nuevos planes, la empresa se reducirán de 2.000 puestos de trabajo, reduce el presupuesto para la compra de deportes y otros derechos, reduce el número de directivos y comparte contenido más.

Más de ensayos serán transmitido por televisión y también se vende propiedad en el oeste de Londres. Los cambios dará como resultado ahorros de unos 670 millones de libras al año en 2016/17.

"La realidad de lo que el país parece en 2011 y que los hogares y en todo el país vivirá, por que las otras instituciones públicas, (medio), sería un poco extraño que la televisión nacional no sentir algunas de las mismas presiones", dijo el Director General Mark Thompson.

ACUERDO DE ÚLTIMO MINUTO

El año pasado, la BBC ha decidido congelar la cuota de licencia anual, pagadero por cada hogar británico propietario de TV, libros 145.50. También tiene costes adicionales del Gobierno incluyendo la financiación de la BBC World Service, que se emite en ultramar.

El acuerdo fue martillado en pocos días, desnudando los meses de negociación normalmente involucrado en la creación de un derecho de licencia, que el Gobierno de coalición revuelto para recortar el gasto tras la Asunción del poder.

La Unión Nacional de periodistas condenó el movimiento y pidió nuevamente la licencia ser renegotiatied "especialmente dado lo que ha surgido desde la relación estrecha entre el Gobierno y Rupert Murdoch en el momento que se realizó la transacción".

Unión de medios y entretenimiento BECTU dijo que los cortes fueron una consecuencia directa de la "tratar impactante 11th hour" en las tarifas que "será la causa de arrepentimiento por los años por venir".

La BBC Torres sobre el paisaje de medios de comunicación de Gran Bretaña con una rica oferta de drama, comedia y programación infantil, una operación enorme recopilación de noticias y algunos de los sitios más populares del Reino Unido.

En una Conferencia de hace más de dos años, News Corporation y invectivas de Presidente Ejecutivo de BSkyB James Murdoch en la BBC, acusándolos de hacer una apropiación de tierras de poder y pide una reforma radical de la regulación de la televisión británica.

Dado que el péndulo ha oscilado atrás a rivales más favorables a su comercial más regulación flexible y gasto menos público, especialmente desde la recesión y la instalación de un Gobierno de coalición de centro-derecha en 2010.

Alex DeGroote, analista de medios en corretaje Londres Panmure Gordon, dijo que lean por la BBC ayudaría a igualar en Gran Bretaña, donde las empresas de medios de comunicación comerciales fueron contra un rival público mucho más fuerte que sus homólogos en el extranjero.

"Siempre ha sido una reducción en la BBC para medios comerciales en este país". Es particularmente alta en 2002-2005. "Que un cuando tienes una expansión masiva del inventario BBC - más radio digital, BBC3 y BBC4, lotes de sitios Web," dijo.

BSkyB debe colocarse bien para beneficiarse. Aumenta el presupuesto que ocurre en la programación y ha firmado recientemente un acuerdo para compartir la difusión de la Fórmula 1 con la BBC. Además, ya es muy agresivo en la adquisición de los derechos deportivos y el teatro de los Estados Unidos. (Edición por voluntad Waterman y David Cowell)