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Microsoft has Window publicly defendeds in the face of different news published claiming that Google is rejecting your operating system, Windows, due to security concerns.

So far Google has not confirmed the information and has only been limited to say do not comment on its operational decisions. However, the news, originally published in the Financial Times, spread like wildfire on the Internet and Microsoft has said that this requires a quick and firm rebuttal.

Google unnamed sources told the Times that the new hires have had the option of using Apple computers or Linux machines.

The operating system Windows was the origin of an attack by Chinese hackers late last year that ended taking Google to close its search engine in China. On the other hand must take into account the interest of Google’s own operating system, Android, on which is working to challenge Windows.

Through a Brandon LeBlanc Blog, Microsoft, wrote that there has been some coverage “on the security of Windows and whether a particular company is reducing its use of Windows or not.”

“We think it is a good opportunity to clarify things,” says LeBlanc then added that security concerns also affect the software created by Google and Apple and that “when it comes to security, including Hackers admit that we are doing better job of making our products more secure than any other “.

“And it’s not just hackers, industry leaders like Cisco regularly tell us that our focus and investment in security remain higher than those of others,” LeBlanc also stated in his blog.

Steve Jobs has been involved in a long talk in the D8 conference held in California. The Apple boss has assured that we are in the era of the end of the traditional PC. An omen, as formulated, which detailed above. According Jobs, When the U.S. was an agrarian nation trucks because cars were needed on farms. As cities grew began arriving cars with power steering and automatic transmission. “The PC will be like the trucks, there will be but only a small proportion of the population in need.” Jobs argues that advances in processors and chips allow devices like the IPAD do the tasks normally assigned to the desktop. The beginning of the post-PC era is uncomfortable but inevitable. With tablets, for example, “you have a direct and intimate relationship with the Internet, media, applications and contended,” he said. Jobs explained that he conceived the IPAD before the iPhone, but stopped the project because it saw the opportunity to break the phone market, much larger, in number of units, that of computers.

About image filtering Gizmodo’s iPhone, Jobs has said it is not clear that a company engineer in a brewery let him and points out the hypothesis of a robbery. “It’sa great story,” which does not mean sex, which can become a movie. Jobs says that many people advised him not to conflict with Gizmodo and journalist, but has argued that can not afford to buy a property is stolen and that they try to extort money.

Google and Flash

In the dialogue, has treated the competition with Google. Jobs has been for Google who has decided to compete with Apple, referring to its entry into the mobile phone market because the operating system announced Chrome is not yet a reality. “It is they who decided to compete with us because Apple has not entered into the search market.” Jobs rejects talk of war but admits that even in his day looked at the competition from Microsoft as a platform war and perhaps thereby lost. “We are dedicated to building the best product.” Jobs prefers the particular to the corporate market because the consumer decides what he likes and business buying decisions are made by people in departments that at times, “are confusing.”

Jobs has returned to justify its opposition to Flash. Apple says, is successful because he knows choose to be riding horses and recalled that the company, iMac, was the first to leave discs floppy. “If you can choose you save an enormous amount of work.”

Labour exploitation

With respect to the string of suicides in the Chinese factory Foxconn, which assembles the IPAD and other products from Apple and other multinationals, Jobs has expressed concern, said they are investigating the situation but did not think it is a sweatshop . Following these suicides anunicado Foxconn has a 20% wage increase for all workers in their plants. The company maintains that behind the suicides are personal reasons, but several labor lawyers attribute it to pressure aisalmiento productive and social workers. The average monthly wage of an employee of the company is around 112 euros a month, but accumulated overtime can reach 236. Chinese activists have attempt, investigating the employment status of these plants. One of them, who got hired, has been arrested by police and had to sign a confidentiality agreement.

The dialogue has also appeared on the subject of App Store and Apple its control over the contents of the same where, for example, it excludes the erotic type. Jobs reiterated that Apple supports open platforms such as HTML5 and in the case of the Apple Store is a set of rules designed to ensure smooth operation.

Apart from this meeting in California, Jobs used other platforms to explain their positions. One of them, very popular recently by the boss of Apple, is e electronic blackboards. A recent controversy has been open about pornography and censorship of erotic content in Apple applications. In site which, coincidentally, is owned by the same company that Gizmodo, an enraged surfer refused a couple of weeks ago that Apple represent the revolution because the revolution is liberty. And Jobs will respondióque freedom consists in being freed from programs that steal personal Datran, released software that drain the battery “free from pornography. The message concludes with the same idea in California, “times change and some representatives of the traditional PC world feel that their world is in the process of disappearing and they are right.” The porn industry to the evidence that it is impossible enter the business applications Apple is adapting its website, without Flash, so they can be accessible from the browser of an iPhone or an IPAD.

Information is a resource that has no value, especially when it is free and independent. 82% of the population reads the news on the Internet, but often considered unreliable. That’s why the Journalists want to apply an assessment of professionalism.

According to a recent survey carried out on a Campone of internet users aged 15 to 55 yearsAbout l ‘82% of respondents claim to use the Web as a primary source of information, followed by television (63%)Then radio and SMS via mobile phone (48%) and finally printed paper, newspapers and magazines, in 36% cases. The survey then revealed that those who can use a computer and has an Internet connection preferred information online.

These figures were presented at a conference “The Future of Journalism” presented by the Order of Journalists of Lombardy at Milan State University. During the presentation showed that the 63% of respondentsWhile consulting the news on the Net, considers unreliable and untrustworthy. The proposal advanced by analysts is the introduction of a “certificate of guarantee” or “certificate of proficiency”Which distinguishes the members of the Chamber of Journalists.

In the same conference, was also raised during the possibility of charging for online news and, surprisingly, the 21% of Internet users surveyed were considered concordant With this initiative, launched for the first time Murdoch few months ago. What future, then, for information on the Internet?

The idea may seem crazy, but it has substance and is perfectly feasible. This is slowing the advance of the desert … using the desert. And to build, with its own sand,a huge concrete wall that physically separates the southern edge of the Sahara green areas of central Africa. The enormous work, in addition, it would be done by humans, but by a very particular kind of bacteria …

The Sahara, like other deserts of the world, is continuously increasing. Its dunes, animated by the wind and the waves, move, move forward and conquer more territory and more with each passing year. The UN itself, in a 2007 report, warned that about one third of the planet’s population (about two billion people) are potential victims of desertification.
The problem, which is already causing massive outflows in many areas of the globe, from Central Asia, China or the sub-Saharan Africa, directly affects nearly one hundred and fifty nations. And the situation has become particularly dramatic precisely in the black.

Bacteria as obrera
To stop the advance of the great African desert, the Swedish architectMagnus Larsson has proposed a revolutionary idea at theTED Global ConferenceOxford, an international meeting in which they put on the table the best global initiatives. One idea is to build a solid wall of concrete that hold back the sand dunes.

Larsson for this huge work can also be carried out effectively “freezing” the dunes and converting the solid rock.The grains of sand can be glued to each other using a bacterium called Bacillus pasteurii, which is very common in humid and swamp environments. “This explains architect microorganism is capable of producing chemically calcite, which is a type of natural cement.

Larsson Imagine, then, an entire army of billions of these bacteria, carried to the edges of the southern Sahara and “injected” there by a large fleet of balloons, working tirelessly to the very sand of the desert to create a natural barrier capable to halt its relentless advance.

“Green Great Wall”
The architect, who is known for another similar project (the “Green Great Wall”, a line of 7,000 km of trees to stop the advance of the Sahara to the south), believes his idea could be present from the first. In addition, he says, the bacteria could undertake the task in a very short time, and once completed, although the trees away the wall to successfully fulfill its mission.

Toshiba has just launched two new portable DVD players, models SDP73 and SDP93, which the company seeks to differentiate in this market by offering better design and ergonomics, longer battery life and a full compatibility and support of formats. “We are offering different teams within the current supply of this market, characterized by colorful little equipment. So we are offering a differential externally with an attractive design also identifies a difference also in terms of performance, greater conecitividad, supports more formats and more autonomy, “says Javier Morago, head of Toshiba’s audio-visual product in Spain.

In the new SDP73 and SDP93 Toshiba makes use of the combination between white exterior with black interior and control panel with the aim of providing a sense of high-end audio / video device. Moreover, the different keys and LED lighting are also meant to reinforce this idea of cutting edge technology. One point differential in terms of design is the rotating screen SDP93’s, giving it more ergonomic and flexible in use in different environments.

Other fundamental differences of these teams are the benefits and improvements in key aspects that drive the current demand in this market: autonomy and compliance. Thus. The SDP73 and SDP93 offer greater autonomy that exists in the market (5 hours) and read all types of DVDs and CDs and formats such as DivX 6, MMC, MP3 or JPEG.

Have also been improved connections and sound. These teams include SD card readers, coaxial audio output and 2 headphone outputs, for two simultaneous users. It also supports Dolby Digital, allowing you to deliver a virtual surround sound, high-quality speakers through its power of 1W.

The team is SDP73 LCD 7 “widescreen with aspect 16, 9 and a resolution of 480 x 234 pixels, is less than 800 grams of weight. For his part, SDP93 weighs just over 1 kg and is a swivel screen portable DVD with 9 “widescreen (16:9) and a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels.

Talk of an Apple netbook isn’t new, but the details from the story in today’s InfoTimes fit the vision that analysts like Technology Business Research’s Ezra Gottheil have had for nearly a year. (A translation of the original Chinese was posted by a commenter on MacRumors.)

“The screen size, the fact that it will be a touch screen, is pretty much along the route I think Apple should take,” said Gottheil. “The price point, though, is pretty high if Apple wants to do with [a netbook] what I think it wants to do.

“But then, Apple has never been above squeezing early adopters,” Gottheil added.

If you have a television that is not digital-capable, you will need to either buy a new television that is capable of receiving the digital signal, or, buying a set-top converter.

By early 2008, set-top converter boxes will be available for purchase at electronics retailers. The cost of the box is expected to range from $50 to $70.

Your household may be able to obtain up to two coupons worth $40 each toward the purchase of converter boxes. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has responsibility for administering the coupon program, and will issue rules regarding the coupons in the future. Additional information can be found at dtv2009.gov.

Consumers who wish to retain their analog television sets may also switch to a cable, satellite or telecommunications service provider.

“We are already broadcasting all the signals in digital. What it comes down to is if there is someone one who is receiving local broadcast channels by an analog antenna, such as rabbit ears, if they don’t obtain a digital antenna or cable service, then they would lose those signals” after June 12, said Lee Beck, Southern region marketing manager for Metrocast.

The bandwidth needed for a digital television station versus analog is that the digital station takes a lot less bandwidth than the analog, Beck said. It frees up bandwidth for a multitude of new programs and services, he said.
“The overall picture and sound quality through digital television will be improved,” Beck said.

“If you are already a customer of Metrocast or any other cable provider, the signals received through cable providers are already converted to digital,” he said.
In a statement issued Thursday, President Barack Obama said: “The transition to digital will free up airwaves for broadband and enhanced emergency communications for our police officers, firefighters, and other first responders.”

In his statement, Obama said he worked with Congress in February to postpone the deadline for the conversion ” … because it was clear that millions of Americans would have been left in the dark if the conversion had gone on as planned. I directed key members of my Administration to reach out and help Americans, especially those in our most vulnerable communities, to make the switch to digital television.”

Obama says the number of people not prepared for the switch has been cut in half.
“Still, some people are not ready. I want to be clear: there will not be another delay. I urge everyone who is not yet prepared to act today, so you don’t lose important news and emergency information,” Obama said. “… I encourage all Americans who are prepared, to talk to their friends, family, and neighbors to make sure they get ready before it’s too late.”

For those wishing to choose to obtain a converter box, a number of retailers offer these devices and the federal government has a program in place which allows consumers to apply for and obtain a coupon to offset the cost of a converter box.

A set of new small and cheaper Netbooks are about to emerge the IT market in this year. The new netbooks will not use any traditionally used accessories such as Intel Processor and Windows OS.

The small netbooks will consume only little energy and that will be using a ARM processor platform. The chip is being licensed by the UK company ARM Holdings. Today 90% of the newly introduced mobiles are using the ARM technology.

In this year 2009 around 10 models of ARM netbooks are about to be launced. The ARM company refused to give any information about the manufacturers.

Facebook developers set up a campaign to find out a new ad platform that will allow marketers to track wherever the 50 million members of Facebook surf online and what they are interested to buy. The aim of tracking all this action is to help out advertisers reach the most “relevant” advertisement to customers-and eventually to market more products and services.

The Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg “For the last hundred years, media has been pushed out to people, but now marketers are going to be part of the conversation”. Facebook stated that the new ad platform, named as Facebook Ads, in the AdTech conference held at New York.

Caught in those millions of pages of information on Facebook is precisely the type of data that makes many brands dribble. Along with the top 10 questions Facebook inquire when do you make a profile and where do you shop and what do you buy.

At present the Facebook Ads will allow companies to obtain a part of all that allotment. The center of each member’s experience on Facebook is their own page and that’s the place to start the business, Zuckerberg added.

Facebook’s ad platform has three parts: The first one is “Social Ads,” the second one is “Targeting” and last one is “Insights.” Social Ads are small ads that will be enclosed to news feeds. It will be displayed on the news feeds which are subscribed by users and their friend circle. Advertisers will be able to bid for the authority to display their ads on the news feeds subscribed by the users with the exact preference that they target.