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Google NEXUS of Revolution

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 12:49:00 +0000

It will be the news. It will be the attractive price of $ 199. It will be that Google is becoming incredibly cool. The fact is that the Nexus 7, the tablet of Mountain View presented at the annual I / O Conference last June and produced in collaboration with Asus, has done a bang. The preorders are left Friday and major retail stores have run out of stock within hours.

The Galaxy 7 and Galaxy Nexus presented by Google during the I / O conference in San Francisco on June 27 last year.

Erich Schmidt had predicted a few days ago: "There has been a huge demand for the Nexus 7 in the days immediately after submission." Given the initial data it seems that expectations have been repaid.

Eric Schmidt, Google Executive Chairman

Truth be told. The Nexus is a great tablet. With some limitations, of course. But do not forget that at a very appetizing one takes home a lot more high-end gadgets with respect to the placement of the market price. Google is selling it almost at a loss. The minimum margin. Some analysts have estimated that the cost to the manufacturer to be about 160-180 dollars for the basic version. Vic Gundotra, Senior Vice President of Engineering at Google summed up the concept very simply: "there's no margin, it just basically gets sold through".

That Google is not a choice made as much for philanthropy. Beyond the physical, Google wants to make it even more popular at the heart of the Nexus. Software. Android Jelly Bean. The new mobile operating system from Google. A huge step forward compared to the past but had to leave the sign more secure than did his predecessors.

In Italy is now available for smartphones Galaxy Nexus. Updated yesterday, a bomb. Fluency and response increbile. IOS has features that even if the dreams. Google Now, a small masterpiece of engineering. The voice dictation off-line revolution. You talk, he wrote word for word what you say. Do not miss a shot. With the advantage that you do not need a 3G connection to make it work because the software that translates words into text is enclosed in the heart of the Jelly Bean. Other than in Italian that the Syrians are waiting for months and still nothing. And then there are cool widgets such as Google Ears. The answer to Shazam Google. He hears a song and tells you the name and artist.

All this in anticipation of October, when there are rumors it will introduce the new Galaxy Nexus Sempra and the background remains the most appetizing dish. The Glass Warehouse. Arrive no earlier than 2014 and could change everything.

Like google is humiliating facebook

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 11:18:00 +0000

When in June of last year launched Google Mountain View + the reception was very positive. After many attempts to load Google finally proposed something interesting in the social scene is dominated exclusively by Facebook. As often happens, however, the largest fireworks show of novelty did not last long. After a couple of months have seemed that the interest of users towards the new arrival had come to an end. The voices of a new mega-flop, such as Google Wave, increasingly frequent.

Larry Page, co-founder and CEO of Google.

Instead, Larry Page has done it. He ferried the transition from the time of Eric Schmidt - who are largely of the merits of the enormous success of Google - toward a new vision. Exclusive focus on its core business. Google Labs sacrificed in the name of a solid long-term strategy. Search and social networks the key points of the new course.

A year later, Google + scary to Facebook. The social network, Zuckerberg remained nailed to the pole basking reached the one billion users and focusing its energies on landing in handbag. Evil, when the business do not just numbers but the speed of responding to market demands constant innovation. And while Google has made giant strides in the social segment, Facebook has moved a step in the segment of the research.

To all of this uniteci consideration easier. Facebook has completely overshadowed the audience coming from mobile devices. The application for the iPhone, iPad, and ii for various Android devices is simply scandalous. At times unusable. And while Zuckerberg burns one billion dollars to acquire Instagram and launch a few days later, with an incomprehensible strategy, a home-made clone of the popular social photo sharing, Google yesterday presented a new app for mobile devices to Google +. A real slap in the face of Facebook.

The new app for iPad is fantastic. Fluid, tremendously cool and technically perfect. A small masterpiece of simplicity and style that severely humiliates the alternative of Zuckerberg. At times reminiscent Flipboard from which perhaps the engineers in Mountain View have a minimum stroke of inspiration. Navigate to your profile and the stream of users in their own circles is a pleasure. The possibility of a hangout directly from iPad plus considerable.

What's more the new version for iPhone and Android greatly improves the user experience on smartphones. The Galaxy Nexus, Google has the experience exhilarating. Ditto on the giant screen of the Galaxy Notes.

All this while the share of Facebook is puzzled to find a way monetizzi the use of social networks on mobile devices omitting the most important substance. The user experience. Why Facebook will still have a competitive advantage in terms of user base but it is also true that the Web is moving increasingly towards a direction aimed at mobile devices. Neglecting this aspect means repeating the same mistake committed at the time when a boy MySpace Harvard freckled knees in the space of a year. It means losing a huge opportunity. It seems that Facebook is putting all succeed.

Egomnia and the failure of the mentality of the Italian startupper

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 10:31:00 +0000

I like the youth entrepreneurship. I like strong characters of those who firmly believe in their ideas and throw themselves headlong into their designs. I especially like the ones worn-exaltation of the press often portray an exaggerated emphasis on these phenomena. And only do damage. Why not Faceskin enough to paint the picture of desolation which connotes certain "startup" Italian. At worst, you know, there is no end. It is called Egomnia.

Matthew Achilli, founder of Egomnia.

He is Matthew Achilli, 20, a student Bocconian. Any obvious joke in the comments referred to the attendance of the same Tommasi, please spare you. In March, Matthew launched Egomnia, a sort of Facebook that connects graduates and employers. In other words, a kind of petty to Linkedin but much less cool and totally devoid of any appeal. I exaggerate? See the home page and then tell me.

Matthew has gone to great. Cover of Panorama Economy in May, complete with coronation by acclamation as the "Italian Zuckerberg." Dozens of articles incensatori Once you emerge in every corner of our home network. Indeed, the President of the Province of Milan has believed so much in the project - carried verbatim from an interview that appeared in Linki esta - "My company has entrusted the task of expanding the target of the labor market also helping to make the institution itself match demand and supply of placement. " Amen. Institution that blesses you, here in Italy is always in fashion.

The BBC has devoted a long interview with the usual ceremonial and celebratory in tone smielati Soferino28. The usual story reground as an introduction: "They call him Zuckerberg Italian ...". What if he ends up believing one should not blame him so much, what with who makes us believe.

And we believe that Matthew when you get it instead of saying "thanks for the estimate, but go slowly," seized by an uncontrollable frenzy egocentric excess launches into dangerous gamble "in the first 24 hours, Facebook had 350 users, Egomnia 1000". Go ahead a minute of silence and resume only after reading. Maybe it was a joke, come on.

I will not go into the usual problems that plague some homegrown startups because, indeed, are always the same. We come to serious matters. Forgive the unconventional tone than before. Put us well all my sincere esteem turned to Matthew and those like him who has the courage to embark on such businesses. I am convinced that in principle are good at all. But let's face it, it takes a minimum of care. Why dear Matthew, when the press will shoot up so high does not make you almost never a big favor. And one, then, if you expect a bang beautiful strong. But if you limit yourself to remain a distant echo, which is lost in the noise of everything else, you are beautiful to burn.

Egomnia is embarrassing. Do not even need to register to see this. Just browse the links in the footer to realize this. I want to give him all possible mitigating and believe the limit on the project. But the mentality of a true startupper should be quite different. Before comparisons bandied unsustainable should look to the substance. Otherwise, the rest is just an empty box to outline and certainly do not make a good impression.

Especially because, one must acknowledge the honor of the others. Zuckerberg is some Italian. And I'm sorry Matthew, but the fierce sting of some, at least for now, does not live by the parties to Egomnia.

Logitech launched Ultra Thin Keyboard for iPad.

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 10:17:00 +0000

THE TABLET THAT WOULD LIKE TO.

The tablet we would like. Something that comes close to the model of the notebook but with the convenience and ease of use iPad. The touch screen, of course, standard. Steve Jobs said that tablet PCs, and they were two different worlds. In an interview in 2011, shortly after the launch of the second version of the iPad, justified in part the success of the Apple tablet over other competitors in this way: "The iPad is not a computer, and competitors who approach it like the PC market will fail."

Perhaps the time Jobs was right. Or simply his was just a commercial move to convince us that there was something new on the market that was worth buying. In many we gave him a straight. But by realizing that, after all, the magic iPad lacked the freedom to create their own content such as a PC.

From parts of Microsoft's Redmond lords, that in the tablet market stood by for too long, have tried to reconcile the two with the new tablet Surface and Windows 8. The success to be demonstrated. But certainly a step they did.

The evolution of App for iPhone OS has undoubtedly encouraged the use iPad for purposes that go well beyond the simple use of content. Nevertheless, there is a physical limit to the use of the tablet that is bothersome at times.

For some days I use the new Thin Keyboard by Logitech. A thin keyboard for the new iPad (also works with iPad 2) that attaches magnetically to the tablet and it is also to cover for the screen.

Compared to the Apple keyboard, Wi-Fi (which costs only 68 euros) has the advantage of hooking the iPad becoming a single body and supporting the tablet upright. Very useful especially if you're on the move and you're used to taking the tablet to write on your legs.

The mix of physical keyboard and touch screen makes the interaction with the various immediate and very nice app. The design quite nice, the response satisfactory, discrete materials. If the iPad mainly used to write long texts is definitely a gadget to have.

The sore point of this Thin Keyboard is the price: 99 euros. Too many. Get two accounts is 599 euros for the 16GB model with integrated 3G-$ 100 added up the keyboard, you find yourself spending 700 euros for a replacement for a computer. Also to be good. But a 11-inch MacBook Air, thin, powerful, and with which you can do pretty much everything, it costs little more than making the necessary comparisons.

It 'true that alternatives to this keyboard on the market there are dozens. But at the height of convenience are not seen that turn your iPad into a kind of brick.

At the showdown if you want a tool to be sent in writing and replicate the comfort of a physical keyboard to your tablet, the Thin Keyboard Logitech certainly deserves. Pending the arrival Siri writing in Italian and replace your fingers with that voice.

Why not just an app to be true startupper

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:20:00 +0000

I've written about in other ways. Returning to the theme with a twist. I always turn to Startupper. We pull it out a constructive conversation. No wars of religion or screaming out of place. We censor. You know I'm not kidding.

Myths: Corrado Guzzanti in the role of Thor in a mock show Aniene.

We set well. We do like you do when you've just finished forget with your girlfriend. Get out the problem. The real one. Be careful though. Because usually ends with one of two suitcases out the door.

Many startupper take it the wrong way. Create an application and there are over dream of glory. It 'a spiritual exercise that can help in some ways. If you do not believe in God, believe in yourself can be a useful surrogate.

Often these entrepreneurs strive only to one thing. Users. Wrong. Damn wrong.

Users no longer enough. Make of what is right. The sparkling fresh-baked application you just smoke and mirrors. The market moves in another direction.

Investors do not care about your technical virtuosity. Of codes and programs do not understand a bat. Investors will not even affect certain numbers end in themselves.

Investors interested in one thing. Only one. The business model behind your idea. And not just any business model. But one that works and monetize disgustingly good. Because at the end of the ride is reduced more and that's all. For the money.

Now, you can think in two ways. In a speculative or a long-term. The first case is that you always care. The devil tempts and then fucks you. He makes you believe you need is a million registered users to make a difference. Tickles your distorted perception of self-esteem with the ability to sell your creature to one of the giants of the web and doing a bang. A billion dollars and on. Of Instagram there is only one, stampatevelo in the brain.

This hit and run approach is insidious and dangerous. You do the simple and I explain why. Take the IPO. They are nothing more than short-term speculation. They start with a placement of shares overvalued. Everyone buys. The hope is that once the price splash at the top. So you sell and double the investment within two hours. Easy. Too bad that no longer works very well. We have also tried Facebook. It 's over in tears and blood. The optical sound would be to place a fair price and point the dividends with a long-term strategy. But the perverse finance follows rules from which it is best to avoid.

Forget the speculative approach. Consider now the medium and long term. Think about how your idea can survive over time. Not only enough bits and updates on the iTunes Store. Serve customers who pay for what you offer. You should pile up and sell currency. The imperative is to monetize and monetize.

Think twice before you expose yourself. Or else make the end of Volunia.

The fable that in Silicon Valley must have at least three failures to make you consider to be an investor is more beautiful to tell sentirsela not believe it. Because in real life just a flop of those sounds and you've already played the bulk. The rumors circulating in some circles. You boil immediately as an unreliable. A risk rather than an investment. They look at you sideways, you hear so condescending and you settle in the best way. We'll let you know. Now do not give you even more of her. The world of startups is informal. For better or for worse.

Not just an app to be true startupper. If you believe you have the wrong job.

The unbearable frustration startupper Italian

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:02:00 +0000

If Mark Zuckerberg was born in Naples. If Jack Dorsey was born in Syracuse. If Larry Page was born in Casal Palocco.

Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter.

The argument is always the same. The identical conclusion: they would remain anonymous in the life they could never exploit their genius.

The problem? It's all for Italy. In the system of the country, among investors, making culture, spaghetti and mandolin. As if being born in our country was an original sin that indelible tarperebbe wings to all those who would like startupper rampant, however, fly high and see your name carved in the annals of the history of the Web

Someone will say, "but I've tried in every way! In Italy my startup did not work. Maybe, if I were in America, in San Francisco, Silicon Valley ... who knows. "

Of course. Why not.

Forgive sincerity. Do not want to seem obnoxious or completely tactless to you offending your sensibilities. It's just that if your startup has not worked here in Italy, maybe it would not work even in the rest of the world.

I give you a hint. If your problem is Italy and Italian, you do so. If you try really brilliant idea to throw it in English on the Web, as though living in Silicon Valley. Because the Web is universal and where you live is irrelevant.

Mind you, I say "throw". I intend to implement it, implement it and launch it online. Because we are all good ideas come to mind to get past them, but you should know, since when it has been confined at the level of synapses does not do much there.

Once your startup is online, then try to reach a critical mass of users from scratch. Now it is in English you have no excuses. The various Zuckerberg did the same. Is it difficult? Come on, you have a whole planet available. Someone to love, maybe you find it. Otherwise, an examination of conscience, if I were you, I would.

Do not stand there whining if you do not find investors willing to invest now on you. I am not speaking of the few Italian investors in circulation. But I mean even the ones in Silicon Valley. Because only in your distorted view of reality the money is the first demonstration of what your idea functions or not. If the money was yours, before giving them to someone, I imagine that some insurance on your investment, perhaps, would like grudge.

At the end of the story if your startup will not be the fault of who? Of Italy? Maybe not. Maybe it's just due to a combination of untoward circumstances and a bit of bad luck. But let us a favor: stop it to take it with Italy as if failure is all due to that only.

At best, if I were you, and I had to try at all costs a scapegoat, I would take it on my own.

Writing on the Web in style and content

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:45:00 +0000

Writing on the Web is an exercise in style. It takes practice and dedication. It is not an innate gift but a complex process, constantly evolving, made of successive refinements.

The style in many there have never noticed. Many do not even think. The content of crude as it is. The quick and dirty rule of Italian declined. Do not be too much to attract this kind of very superficial slogans. Function. But not always.

Refined language. Start with small things. Such as simplifying the speech. Take away the inessential. Avoid long sentences full of coordinates. Punctuation, use only one serving. Too many commas they never order. They are only the manifestation of your mental confusion that manifests itself in a sentence from the convoluted way that you can no longer manage.

Use the points. They are the most elegant way to fix the concepts inherent simplicity. Smash the speech. Give it rhythm. Do not always use the usual words abused. Do not you get into dangerous ventures abroad. Avoid the poetic impulse. The dreamers have been extinct long ago. The simplicity and brevity on the Web works pretty darn well. Be verbose bored and annoyed. Seventeenth century than enough words to describe everything in full.

Read as much as possible. Similar shades from other authors and reinterpret according to your taste.

Write. It is the only way to learn to do better. At some point you will find the right balance between style and content. And if you are the successful not just so unique, at least one feature that will make you recognizable among the masses.

Because in the era of bulimia news in which we live and where all have their say, the readers' attention now has shifted. It is not enough for you to notice what you write. Matters much more as you do.

The death of Italian publishing on the Web

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:37:00 +0000

Let's face it. We never had a glorious tradition of publishing on the Web We've always been a bit 'and approximate lots province. But what strikes me most is that, after so many years, we can not yet compete with dignity and scafarci in quality and style with the best overseas.

Own mind, take the most widely read newspapers on-line in Italy. Compare that with some armored international information such as CNN, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, The Washington Post, to name a few. Take a ride on these sites. And then on our return. A cry. A tragedy that the design, totally devoid of originality, to get to the content.

Except for rare pearls, investigative journalism turned to pure gossip. The photo galleries of our local television starlets who flock to the beaches of the beautiful country is the best offer. The video section, copy and paste the video published on YouTube. All strictly "(C) The reproduction".

Do not make it too easy. Forget the numbers for once. Are not the only qualities that make the visits. And for those of you who are beyond the fence, you're not there to justify you pull that certain topics because the question is what it is. If this offers the convent there is little to be done.

What's more, the little good that is around we have the bad habit of perdercelo the street. Get Wired Italy. The initial effort was appreciated. Months have passed since then. One scatafascio in free fall. "Against the crisis? A nice sandwich. " What at first glance one thinks is the slogan of some of the McDonald's promotion. Or "How to Survive the Zombie." Read the title and you make these kinds of questions from the embarrassed and amazed that a magazine in front of a certain thickness would not want you. And articles like "100 buffaloes believe that all" or "How to become health conscious on Facebook" complete desolation.

There is a need for innovation in this field. Dear investors, pay your money and have the courage to try it with the right view. Do not be seduced only by App and myths such as Instagram. The opportunities there are in publishing online. Look what they did in a couple of months the guys of The Verge. You, rather, where are you?

Twitter: the big lie

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 17:25:00 +0000

The popularity. If you do not have it you can buy the. Or rather, it can get a vague substitute.

It works well, is simple, it is affordable for almost everyone. Also if you are so packed in grain and so ardently desirous of throwing your money in stupid hedonistic hankering that nobody will ever weight after soaking your five minutes of fame.

Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter.

The difference until recently made her jewelry. The million-carat diamonds that glittered on the finger of a woman, Giuseppe Zanotti shoes or handbags by Jimmy Choo. For men, the difference in the eyes of a woman made her a Panda 750 CL or a Maserati.

Then came the crisis. Things started to throw some not so good 'for everyone. Certain utterances have been resized. We threw ourselves on Apple. Wearing an iPhone in 2008 in Italy was considered the sign par excellence of the new social status symbol. At the time was cool. A lot. Rimorchiavo be afraid just rubbing your fingers on the screen to unlock the device.

But then came the boom and now you see the iPhone in hand as well to kids, paid in installments with the savings of Dad. I had noticed for some time. I did not have the same charm when he was agitated under the eyes of some miss I bet. So I decided to change it with a Samsung Galaxy Notes.

Like it or not, tell you that size does not matter. But that's another story.

Arrival at the point. Now there's Twitter. The popularity is weighed in terms of followers. If you have so many cool six. If you have a few accounts is not a club. Common perception. Fact.

The VIP opening an account and splash on a day to 50,000 followers. In two days to 100,000. Then they grow to multiples of 20,000 according to their economic availability.

I tell you how it works. Many profiles are real. Most fake. Purchased in blocks of a few tens of thousands from specialized agencies who do only that. Pompano your account followers. Do not do it for free. And yet they charge a lot '.

If you want to be followed by 50,000 followers sit well. 100,000 if you want you're welcome. Just your credit card. But then do not complain if you like chatting to a ghost town. Check out the followers of the VIP. Tens of thousands of profiles that have at most three or four tweets. Follow thousands of users and are followed by barely a dozen.

I looked just now account Cucciari Geppi. 50,107 followers. Following 4. 0 Tweets. When you say, I will follow you on trust.

Yeah I know the evil they are thinking. We immediately struck down because I did not want to quarrel. I'm not VIP. I only have a blog that has earned 53 million visits and an account Twitter starts in September of 2007. It took me 3 ½ years of late nights in front of the laptop's screen to get to 44,000 followers. I also spent a lot of time to ammorbarvi with 30.200 tweets. If I had invested my time better now maybe I have a dozen bestsellers published by Mondadori. But I'll settle for small things. I prefer going out to dinner with the girls I know on Twitter. So do not even try, you censor the comments. I swear.

I'm not the only case. We are many. Grown parallel to the growth of this social network. Many came after, and they poisoned with what is pure spam.

One last thing. People are not so gullible. I tell you a couple of formulaic for the sgamare inghippi. 100,000 followers, thousands of tweets and a dozen Following is no good. 100,000 followers, 100,000 Following is no good. Make your proportions for regolarvi of when an account is real or pumped.

But if you really want your five minutes of fame, relying on the shallowness of people just based on the number of your followers, well, well throw your money buying followers.

I did not say a thing. It is a dangerous strategy. Because if Jack Dorsey and his notice it, although they are somewhat tolerant, you risk that you close the account. Forever.

At that point there will be little to do. You start over with a brand new account. 10 followers per day for the next 10 years.

After not come whining to me.

I warned you in time that the bottom is all a big lie.

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Steve Ballmer Launched Microsoft's first ever Tablet "Surface"

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 21:42:00 +0000

Microsoft would surprise everyone was in the air. Advances in the market for video games presented at E3 in Los Angeles have left your mouth watering. The real novelty to be enjoyed all over again.

Last night Steve Ballmer has presented Surface, Microsoft's new tablet whole weblog. The reception has been positive. A tablet that goes beyond the limitations of the iPad. Who knows how the market will react.

Yesterday Ballmer took the stage and presented "the tablet of Redmond". They called the Surface, recycling - honestly with a little imagination - the name of a gadget that many of you will never have heard before.

I toyed with the first Surface studies dell'MSNBC of New York in 2008. A touch of a forty-inch wedged into a small table to be displayed on display in the living room of the house. Unable to carry around without the help of a moving company. The innovative interface and incredibly organized. Light years ahead of any other product available touch then and still today.

The idea for Surface was great. The marketability of consumer difficult to apply. The prohibitive cost. A flop, commercially speaking. But the project, now sold to Samsung and rebranded PixelSense with the name, was a testing ground for what would come next.

In Redmond are not idiots. Some have taken the corner in time. Him to Not all the blame. Everyone makes mistakes. But if in thirty years of history have managed to maintain its monopoly in operating system market and consumption in the Office automation, surely significant.

Do not argue with the brain typical of hackers obtuse. Do not take out to argue that Linux is not so. When we find the penguin installed in a billion computers will then talk about it.

Since the launch of the iPad, Ballmer and his performances have been good if it studying the moves of others. They refined the idea behind the first Surface. They focused on a single operating system that converged on all platforms. Same user experience for PCs and tablet. For better or worse, Windows 8 will mark the development of computer consumables for the next five years.

The accusation was predictable and expected to Surface. Type a tablet is a tablet and not a PC. And if one needs a PC you buy a PC and a tablet. As an ontological principle makes sense. Philosophical purism, to honor the late lamented Steve Jobs. But he said made sense. Coming from anyone else is obvious. Also because the market has not remained static.

Surface lures all users who want a tablet is more of a tablet. Because the iPad is no longer enough. Might as well buy a laptop, you say. It is not the same thing. Because it lacks the touch experience that is a feature that many do not want to miss.

The mix of touch and physical keyboard is a plus not a small. A full screen available. Without software keyboard which occupies half. And then think to business customers. Surface runs on the full Office suite. Word, Excel, Powerpoint and family. There seems little? Any idea of the impact of Microsoft Office on the budget? No? Have fun reading the numbers just to get an idea.

The only real unknown is the price. Not yet arrived. As well as dates of availability in various countries. If Microsoft really wants to impose itself has to follow an aggressive policy on the cheap. 600 euros were already so many for such an object. I have a vague feeling that if it cost twice as far off. In any case the market will decide its future.

When the technology is the ultimate grip on life and human dignity

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 20:54:00 +0000

This is the story of Tony Nicklinson, 58 years, seven years, suffering from what in English is called "Locked-in Syndrome". It 'a syndrome that paralyzes all voluntary muscles of the body except those that coordinate the movement of the eye and eyelid closure. Individuals who suffer from it can only express itself in the blink of an eye.

Tony Nick Linson.

Tony's nightmare began in Athens in 2005. After an accident that damaged the trunk-brain, his body became a prison. His story is having tremendous resonance across the ocean. In short, Tony has asked a court to terminate its existence and ensure legal immunity to the doctor who will help him end his condition.

Tony can not commit suicide because technically unable to move. Anyone help him achieve his purpose would be accused of murder. The details of the story can light veils in this BBC article.

In these seven years' imprisonment, "Tony was able to converse with the world with a device that captures the movements of his eyes, and converts the text into synthetic speech. Two days ago he sent his first tweet: "Hello world. I am tony nicklinson, I have locked-in syndrome and this is my first ever tweet. #tony ".

The technology in these cases is the ultimate grip on life and what is left of the dignity of a man. The Twitter account of Tony http://twitter.com/TonyNicklinson here. This is the video.

Italy is a country of shit: A public apology by Roberto Maroni.

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 20:25:00 +0000

The slogan appeared on the morning of the Forum of Assam tribune of Milan. The occasion was a must for those die-hard improbable "people" Po. The long-awaited conference of the Northern League started with great fanfare at the cry of "secession", Umberto Bossi, and saluted crowned the new historic Roberto Maroni to guide the party secretariat.

Roberto Maroni, appointed by the congress of the Northern League, the new secretary of the Northern League, which has taken the place of Umberto Bossi.

The phrase stood out in dark letters on a white banner unfurled in plain sight in the stands. Some sympathized with the Northern League will not have slept the night to give birth to a concept of that level. With the same vehemence they had already expressed in the past Umberto Bossi and his colleague Borghezio.

"I-talia of shit".

A dash between the "I" and "talia" just to mask the name of our country and avoid legal hassles. As if anything mattered semantics in this case. Or worse, proving that you are missing even attributes to consistently support some bizarre ideas without rhyme or reason.

Roberto Maroni was there. Maybe in the general confusion will not have noticed the unfortunate outburst of some sympathizer. Maybe, to think the worst of any of the organizers. But the justification, whatever it is, it matters little.

The news in the last hour has gone around the network. Could not anyone have the ear of former sibilata hidden interior minister of the Italian Republic. Not a breath on his part. The worst way to implicitly endorse a distorted thought that offends all of us.

We demand a public apology to Roberto Maroni. Why can not spit on the plate where one ate until yesterday doing now pretend that the food did suck. Nobody believes. Especially because those skates over the matter, that Italy should just thank you. For so many reasons. Not least, that of giving him a living without much effort.

BlackBerry crisis: staff reductions, actions overlooking and loss records, But the CEO Heins says..

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 19:30:00 +0000

He is Thorsten Heins, Chief Executive Office of Research In Motion, the Canadian company that manufactures the BlackBerry. Yesterday was the star of a curious fact. A preposterous statement that he left a bit shocked 'all.

Thorsten Heins, President and CEO of Research In Motion.

The story of RIM is traced from the beginning to understand something. Let's say since 2008. When the BlackBerry was a status symbol for Hollywood starsystem. At that time things were going well. In June 2008 the share price had touched $ 148. Then in the subsequent months something began to break down. The success of the iPhone and the consolidation in the market of Android devices have marked the beginning of the agony for the Canadian company.

In March of this year, Mike Lazaridis and James Balsillie, the two co-founders at the head of RIM, have been invited to give way to Heins. Mismanagement. Goodbye and thank you.

The transition to the new historical course seems to be more difficult than expected. The bad news on the agenda. On June 2, RIM has confirmed a further fall in profits. 33% less than the previous quarter, rising from $ 4.8 million in revenues in the quarter from January to March to 2.8 million in the next quarter.

The losses are around 518 million dollars. Over the next nine months, staff cuts expected to send home 5,000 people of 16,500 current employees globally. The liquidity virtually dried up in the coffers. There are more than adequate resources to launch the new BlackBerry operating system and 10 new smartphone models before 2013.

In recent days has circulated the rumor that someone had lost a top-secret document with future plans of RIM. New smartphones and tablet incoming and two mysterious device by code names they do not say anything. The evil ones have whispered that it was a move a small table designed to communicate the message of confidence, "We are definitely not dead." But the market thinks otherwise. Money first, then the glory. The effect, whatever was on the way, did not lead to anything good. Investor confidence to a minimum. Trading in stock market for ever red. This morning, the shares have continued to decline up to $ 7.44. If you do the math, compared to the peak of 2008, recorded an overall loss of 94.56%.

Now that you have some idea to the point. In an interview to a local radio station in Toronto, Thorsten Heins has denied that RIM was a verse from "death spiral". And to those who rattled off the recent embarrassing results candidly replied: "nothing wrong with company".

Silence and sheer embarrassment. The international press has literally shot at him. The Huffington Post headlined "In you DRIMS" playing sull'assonanza English language between dreams (dreams) and the symbol and stock quotes (RIMS).

Thorsten Heins seemed to truly believe. Who knows how many in the Toronto headquarters of like-minded. While sales continue to languish, and the shares plunged.

Faceskin: The new social flop all-Italian.

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 19:14:00 +0000

Let's be honest. We been taking everybody with Volunia when the worst was yet to come. We shot in cold blood on that good-natured Marchiori, while behind us the fox by Claudio Cecchetto was playing with a nice trick called Faceskin. The "social search engine" as they like to call it home. That whenever someone has the recklessness of label in this way an entire team of Google engineers does harakiri for pure vanity.

Claudio Cecchetto Faceskin launches: "So I will change the internet". And the flop is just around the corner.

Launched with full honors at the cry of "research, organize, share," Faceskin Volunia makes a small masterpiece of style and computer engineering. An article appeared in the newspaper The Day, dating back to March 2012, ventured: "In the Seventies [Cecchetto] has changed our way of doing radio, now wants to change the way you surf the Internet with Faceskin."

Why do we Italians first proclamations and then the facts, ignoring how things run in the real world. Faceskin, in short, it works well. Find a site you like, add it to your weblist and share it with others.

You probably remember something already seen. An idea so revolutionary and innovative that in 2003 a certain Joshua Schachter was launched under the name of delicious. The success was dramatic at the time. From parts of the Yahoo! strizzarono eye and acquired in 2005.

Nine years ago he did what he does Faceskin delicious, better than he does Faceskin. Why intentions are not enough to make revolutions.

Faceskin is nothing more than window-dressing. The substance does not exist. The name worthy of the utter lack of originality. If they realized it later and have to repair Memoring proposed as an alternative. A horrible graphics that would make even talk in 1998. The attention to detail totally neglected. You'll also notice the little things. As the number of VAT repeated at the bottom of each page with the final gem: "Cecchetto Project".

There are enough familiar faces of the show, from Fiorello to Jovanotti, springing up in unlikely and not credible glorifications decree addressed to the platform for success in advance.

And not even enough incensatori articles have appeared in every newspaper, La Repubblica Il Sole 24 Ore, meticulously reported in a separate section of the site, to convince us of the goodness of Faceskin. We all know how things work. Just a hook, and the newspapers write whatever you want.

I suggest you take a look at So.cl (the project of social search) from Microsoft, then Faceskin and make the appropriate comparisons. Have the intellectual honesty to admit that we come away from the comparison massacred. And there is also good. Because the web is not radio. That you come out with Jouer play and everyone dancing in the villages during the summer evenings. It is much more complex here. And often we Italians we're doing this work, we always make the same mistakes. From Volunia to Faceskin. Never learning.

The lost decade of Microsoft...

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:55:00 +0000

The article appeared on the last release of Vanity Fair. The fierce and explanatory title. The lost decade of Microsoft. Ferocious indictment signed by Kurt Eichenwald, writer and reporter for The New York Times weight, which fires to zero against Steve Ballmer and the last ten years of reckless management of the software giant.

Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO.

Beneath the surface, through the testimonies of some insiders, Eichenwald sketches the outlines of a company unable to look ahead and victim of its own internal bureaucracy. The competitive advantage gained with the Windows CE smartphones, literally pulverized the competition. The disinterest shown towards the mobile device market over the years has accumulated a delay embarrassing to Microsoft, hard to fill. Windows 8, today, will not make the hoped for a miracle.

Someone revealed that Microsoft had a prototype ready for revolutionary e-reader in 1998. At the time, Bill Gates filed the project with the most trivial reasons. The interface was not to his liking because it did not resemble that of Windows. The development team pointed out to him that this sort of device needed user interaction different from the classic point and click desktop. There was no way. The project died buried in that place. Would otherwise be ahead of the times if they only had a little 'more courage.

When Gates left Microsoft, Ballmer's arrival did not help things. Was introduced a system of "stack ranking" interior which requires each unit to classify their employees according to a scale that goes from top to poor performers. With devastating effect, stressed several times by some executives that employees are busy competing with each other than to find brilliant solutions to compete with external market.

And not just the popularity of Windows, Office and Xbox success to soften the indictment to Ballmer. Why, Eichenwald noted, "Today, Apple has a product, the iPhone, which generates more revenue for all Microsoft products and services put together." The decade is now lost. Who knows after.

Google Glass: How Google is wasting an opportunity. While Apple....

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:29:00 +0000

Maybe the scene will be lost if the many. Others have enjoyed the live start to finish. It dates back to just two weeks ago. Sergey Brin pussy that makes her entrance on stage showing off the prototype of the futuristic Glass at the annual Google I / O Conference in Mountain View giant.

Sergey Brin, Google co-founder of Google with Glass during the last I / O Conference in San Francisco on June 27 last year.

Behind him a giant screen with the guys that jump from an airplane wearing glasses Google and transmit the flight live on Google +. Applause and standing ovation from the stadium from the room full of developers fomented by the infinite possibilities of technology.

Sergey finished the show to shoot. These glasses are a experimental stuff. You lucky this evening in this room will be the first to try them. We propose them to the friend price of $ 1500 dollars. Delivery expected in 2013. No reaction. Part of the claque. Applause weak and several looks perplexed.

The Glass Warehouse is undoubtedly one of the most exciting and revolutionary products that will enter the market in the coming years. If you have the success hoped completely revolutionize our habits as has happened in the era of the smartphone revolution ushered in by the iPhone.

And I want you here. Why Google Glass not worth going on the market before the end of 2014. And with this presentation space Google has just burned them. Presenting a product so immature so far in advance a just a dangerous gamble. Especially because some gentlemen of Cupertino are certainly not looking to burn that competitors market shares in advance of a certain weight. Them if they sense the scent of money, you turn out the breakthrough product in no time at all and do a bang. And saw how things turned out, Apple may now be proactive.

The story dates back to 2006. The patent in suit, filed in the same year, belongs to a certain Tony Fadell. The guy does not mean anything if it is one of the fathers of the iPod. The contraption is something rude. A system of projection of images on a small screen positioned in front of the human eye. The paperwork of the project have been stacked for years in some kind of record without the final approval for registazione of the patent. In recent days, however, someone in the corridors of Cupertino was reminded. That someone has moved a little 'water on the upper floors and authorizing the recording came two days ago. Coincidence you say perfect. Not so.

Because the 2014 is still missing a lot of time. If he plays well if Apple could do a lot of nice trick Google. Sergey Brin while she goes out with his beautiful occhiletti to sign autographs and dispensing smiles left and right, I guess Tim Cook have already closed in the laboratory of Jonathan Ive super armor while trying stilosissimi a pair of glasses with one who knows which version of Integrated IOS. Cook's face in the mirror. And an evil grin as if to say to our colleagues in Mountain View, "we have cheated."

If Mark Zuckerberg becomes the scapegoat for the failure of the financial system in Silicon Valley?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 20:27:00 +0000

They first high Olympus of the Gods of Silicon Valley. Immortalized the myth on a par with giants like Steve Jobs. They seduced and smooth for forging the ultimate aim of this unfortunate financial transaction recorded in two weeks, a loss of -32% on the price of the initial distribution of shares.

Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook.

He, Mark, who has always twisted my mouth every time she appointed stock exchange and finance. That has always been opposed to relinquish control of his creation to the perverse global financial system. Its last resistance brought down under the weight of the banks and big investors. The sealed off in a corner with no way out unless they, as required.

The speech I can imagine. You have created us. The money was ours. Without them you would not go anywhere. Would you be born and died anonymously. If you can not stand the smell of money, hold your nose and do what we say. Tony Soprano would not be able to make the concept clearer.

Mark has capitulated under the weight of responsibility. The vultures of Wall Street was looking forward to pluck the goose that lays golden eggs. But something in the usual speculative mechanism did not work. The shareholder we are putting to the bone, every penny invested.

Now brandishing pitchforks and cry out for vengeance to the boy until three weeks ago had brought them hope for one of the largest in the history of financial speculation. Mark is armored headquarters in Palo Alto. The press is doing it in pieces, incensed by the pressures of those who must find a scapegoat for this huge failure.

By now you have pointed out. It has become the bone to be thrown to hungry dogs to appease their discontent. The financial system and the political turned against him. No one who will face each other, however, an examination of conscience. No one taking responsibility for an IPO beyond any logic.

They create. They destroy.

Better to break down a lot and come out to save his face as clean as possible. Save even appearances. But Zuckerberg is not condemned this lynching.

The war between Apple and Samsung is too cold.

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 20:09:00 +0000

Samsung recently that if he was going just fine in the smartphone market is a fact known to everybody. In the corridors of Cupertino, the Apple boss began to look with some concern the success of South Korean giant, malignant rumors circulating among the experts.

What in the quarter between January and March 2012 Samsung had sold 44.5 million smartphones, an indisputable fact. Approximately 21,000 units per hour. 30.6% of the global market. At the same time Apple has sold "only" 35 million iPhones, reaching 24% market share. There are few, you say. But still 9 million less than its fiercest rival. A difference not quite negligible.

And now comes the Galaxy S III. Less cool iPhone but able to attract the same attention and curiosity of the most "sophisticated" - in terms of style - gadgets from Cupertino. Even from the audience of "applecentrici".

Nine million pre-orders in record time. Sales are expected sensational. In the headquarters of Samsung has a whole party. The teasing is wasted on the iPhone.

At the other end of the world does not Tim Cook talks. I imagine him sitting on a chair, with a grin frozen on his face while fiddling with the prototype of the new iPhone. And he thinks.

"Wait until October. Then let's see who laughs. "

Facebook, Washington and secret operations: the dark side of social networks

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 19:35:00 +0000

The argument is a tricky one. Least sensitive and controversial. The thesis to be proved, creeping circulating for some time in international counter. Those who, for comparison, are the conspiracies plotted by the "system" the only acceptable historical truth. Worth talking about, but with the right foot of lead.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

The history. Syria, in March 2011. During the Arab riots of Spring that inflame the Middle East, bloody riots broke out in the country against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Opponents claim democratic rights. The regime responds with force against the rebels who organize themselves into armed groups. According to the UN, the beginning of the revolt, the dead, almost all civilians, have more than eleven thousand.

We come to the conspiracy. Facebook would be directly involved in Washington's plans to overthrow the Syrian government. The collaborative arrangements simple and discreet. Tolerance to the presence on the social network of groups called "terrorist" who share the platform Zuckerberg names, photos, addresses and details about the habits of some people uncomfortable endorsing the Assad regime. Often translate into real sentences to death, physically carried out using the kind of information.

The Syrian government have repeatedly claimed the cancellation of these groups that would put at risk the lives of hundreds of people. The international requests for removal of data from sever Palo Alto are complex and unsuccessful. From Damascus accuse, no response from Facebook. The CIA and NSA that constantly monitor the social network to turn a blind eye and let run for a mere utilitarian calculation of national interest. The relations between the U.S. and Syria, of course, do not shine. The result is that these groups continue to remain active with all the consequences.

I said at the beginning, let's go with leaden feet. The story remains to be shown. To avoid creating misunderstandings, at least for those not familiar with the matter, it should be emphasized that the Syrian government is no joke. Is repressing in a bloodbath the exasperation of a people. Democracy swept away with their arms folded, and the logic of the regime.

I will not go into this discourse. But try to apply the same logic as above to any other context. Imagine if all this were true, what would be the impacts of global distorted by the use of Facebook.

The consideration is simple. All data shared on social networks are owned by Palo Alto. For the transitive property, are of direct access by the sovereign state, the United States.

If indeed there was an unreported connivance with government agencies like the CIA, NSA, FBI in the management of some arbitrary information for purposes of national interest (not necessarily in line with those of other countries) the United States would have in our hands the most precious archive that history has ever given.

Maybe it's just the plot is not too successful of a novel inspired by the bestseller by Robert Ludlum. But Zuckerberg and company should think about. Still though, the thing, it has not already got out of hand.