Tech News Buzz: 02/08/11

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Government Commissioner to Arcep: Government persists

The Government confirmed and signed. Mid-January, he imposed a surprise in a draft law on "various provisions of adapting legislation to EU law on health, labor and electronic communications, an amendment to appoint a representative of the State Arcep, the French regulator of the telecommunications market.

The text, championed by the Minister in charge of the Digital Economy Eric Besson, and voted in the National Assembly on January 14, has moved much in the Independent, and worried the telecom professionals. They fear the "tutelage" of an institution's reputation for independence established.

It offers a violinist, agreed price

"Hi, I offer violin and viola individuals and residence. I own a motorcycle to move around with ease." Signed, Celia. With the idea of social networking, Twitter blue bunting, plus the classic lists of classified advertisements and the power of a search engine created two Nockin Girona. com, a social search engine to find services between people.

Behind the project are Tony Campos and Sergio Moreno, 38 and 30 years respectively. They studied the Masters MBA from the University of Girona in Girona and won the award for best business plan of the Class of 2008 with "Ejobs", a kind of embryo Nokin. The award helped make office in Technology Park at this university, which has materialized his idea of business.

40% of companies block access to social networks

About 40% of companies block access to social networks in the workplace, according to a Cisco world. In those companies that are allowed access to social networks, employees spend an average of 24 minutes to navigation. Spain is a country where more time is devoted to social networking sites during work hours.

Spanish employees spend an average of 30 minutes a day. United Kingdom and France, 25 and in Germany, 20 minutes. However, compared to the concern that social networks are a distraction at work, the tool is increasingly used by companies, particularly large ones, for internal use and improving communication among employees, as a form of information sharing and learning.

D-Link expands its family of devices to 500Mbps powerline

D-Link already had a wide range of Powerline devices to take our home network through the mains. Now the company a little more wide range with the launch of the Home Plug AV500 series. The main difference with previous models is that the transfer rate is extended to the theoretical 500Mbps (Ethernet 10/100/1000) to service video transfer services and heavy game.

The range consists of the DHP-500AV and DHP-500AV1. The second, in fact, is a two-adapter kit DHP-500AV. The new device has a button to encrypt the signal under 128-bit AES, is compatible with other brand products, and also has the technology D-Link Green to enter Standby (1 watt of consumption) when not used.

HTC wants a piece of OnLive, games in the cloud to your phones and tablets?

I guess the most or the least heard of OnLive, an online game service in which we have the terminals and peripherals, while the processing power and games found on servers. On this day we found out that HTC wants to invest $ 40 million in the company. This investment comes after meeting a few days ago that the Taiwanese had also got shares in the English Saffron Digital, a company specializing in serving multimedia content in the cloud and mobile devices.

A former Swedish prosecutor's key witness in defense of Julian Assange

On the second day of the hearing to decide whether to extradite Julian Assange of Great Britain to Sweden, where he is suspected of rape and sexual assault, defense co-founder of Wikileaks has involved a witness Key: former prosecutor Sven-Erik Stockholm Alhem. Mr. Alhem, summoned as an expert for the defense, has defended one of the main arguments of the lawyers for Mr.

Assange, who believe that, before starting a European extradition proceedings, the prosecutor in charge of the Swedish folder should have sought to question Mr. Assange to the Swedish Embassy or by teleconference. "In my opinion, [the Attorney Ny] should have ensured that Mr Assange had the opportunity to give its detailed version of the facts" before launching extradition proceedings, said the former prosecutor.

Starmax HD ready television prepaid Spain

Although there is little detail and summon us in a few weeks to learn all we can expect from the new platform, StarMax HD we can say that virtual has started its journey in Spain. If anything does not sound calm, it is normal. This new company will seek to settle in our country as best pay TV with movie channels, sports, movies and documentaries, some of them in high definition.

The most innovative StarMax HD is its payment system, which is not based on subscriptions or stays but we will go buy a prepaid card as if it were mobile. Wait until the announcement of a reality channel to explore the scope of this adventure in the time of the content on the Internet.

Olympus SZ-10 renews the idea of long-zoom bridge for small pockets

New long-zoom compact camera for the catalog of Olympus. The format and design even sure you recognize, but this model has the peculiarity of being a little smaller than the usual long-zoom bridge. The Olympus SZ-10 will boast a 18x zoom, not the longest in the market but it does present an ideal value to carry in her pocket.

The 14-megapixel sensor (size 1/2.3) does not include any new technology or special, but looking to be different because of the possibility of 3D photos by combining two images taken by pseudopanorámico assisted mode that results in a image. MPO In the back are the basic controls (a button dedicated exclusively to video recording can be up to 720p) and 3-inch, 460,000 pixel resolution.

Kyocera Echo: The phone with the double-touch

Is twice as much twice as good? This question will have been resolved, the electronics company Kyocera: On Monday night the company presented in New York before the first smartphone that is equipped with two touch screen displays. "We challenge you to a dual," sounds of U.S. mobile provider Sprint on its website.

The wit is to point out the outstanding feature of the new phones, the Group offers exclusive now: it has two screens. By so doing, the Kyocera echo, like the phone is unusual, the largest screen in its class. On a total of 4.7 inches measured the copywriter the base of the double displays.

Samsung PL20 and ES80, compact almost throwaway

Samsung has presented its new compact cameras in the basic range. If they were made of cardboard we could consider them as single use cameras, but in this case are lower-priced models that seek only to get into your pocket. Both the Samsung and the Samsung ES80 PL20 are point and shoot cameras ready.

If the shooting situation is not complicated, the pictures we will acceptable, such as your exact specifications. The compact Samsung SL20 umbrella inside a 14-megapixel sensor with optical zoom 5 increases and starts at about 27 mm. It is also capable of recording 720p HD video. A couple of megapixels but it gives us the Samsung ES80, although the zoom is also 5 increases.

Arcep: Brussels threatens Paris to launch an infringement procedure

The European Commission has threatened, Tuesday, February 8, France proceedings for infringement of EU law if it persists in wanting to appoint a government commissioner in the national telecoms regulator (Arcep). The French project poses two problems for the Commission. She believes that regulators in the telecommunications sector in Europe should be completely independent and impartial, which is contradictory to his eyes with an appointment under a government commissioner in Arcep.

Luca Etxebarra achieved the closure of its fake Twitter profile

The writer Lucia Etxebarria has managed, with the filing of a complaint with the police, a young man who had supplanted their Twitter profile close it after two years in which, according to the author, the network had ignored their complaints. Etxebarria has indicated that this had been two years younger supplanting their Twitter profile with your name and picture, which often spilled homophobic comments, racist and sexist as well as "insulting" the followers of the writer.

Eric Besson, Net Neutrality and the information superhighway

Relieve the "information superhighway" by establishing "priority lanes" is one of the key measures of the project has unveiled the Minister of the digital economy, Eric Besson, Tuesday, Feb. 8, during a speech to the parliamentary meetings on digital. "The traffic exchanged over the Internet is growing globally at 50% per year.

(...) Faced with the risk of saturation, the question of traffic regulation," said the minister, who spins the metaphor of "superhighways information ". "The associations representing truckers, that is to say, those who occupy a dominant and growing highways, advocating full neutrality vis-à-vis traffic.

Unplug the Internet: the Egyptian crisis revives debate in the U.S.

The almost total shutdown of the Internet for five days in Egypt, reopened the debate in the United States on the extent of power which must have the White House on the Network, in case of a major crisis. To his opponents, the bill seeking to place the hands of U.S. President a "switch" ("kill switch") endangers freedom of expression and other fundamental rights.

But to his supporters, this text, which makes its way through Congress would not allow Washington to suspend the Internet with one click. Hosni Mubarak when he disconnected the Internet throughout the country, the U.S. lawmakers behind the bill has cybersecurity immediately criticized the Egyptian president, saying he was "totally wrong".

Powermat provides wireless charger

Continue to emerge new ways to recharge your devices, more interesting and comfortable. Some seek to save energy and contribute to the environment, while others just want the convenience of those using them. This time we introduce a new charging system, nothing less than a wireless system that allows you to charge your mobile without having to connect anywhere.

The new system has been created by the company Powermat, and its launch will take place at Barcelona's Mobile Fair, which will run from February 14. This is not a portable device that connects via Bluetooth or Wi Fi, this is nothing less than seats for airports. The system is useful not only mobile but also for tablets and notebooks, and recharging is done by induction.

3D Optimus LG also wants to come out on video before submission

Within hours it is starting to filter important multimedia devices Mobile World Congress, curiously a couple of news has to do with the Korean LG: first you show it a few minutes ago, with the tablet Honeycomb as an actor, and now it is the turn of the mysterious phone 3D. LG 3D Optimus is the first phone to use Android 3D screen led to the global market, it sounds a bit more of a technological proof to a real terminal, but the question is going to hit the market earlier than expected.

Social networks have overtaken the United States mails

Among American adolescents and the mail is falling out of love. A study by Comscore, attendance electronic messaging fell from 59% among Americans aged 12-17 years between December 2009 and December 2010, when it rose 28% in those over 65 on the same period. The statement last November by Mark Zuckerberg - the creator of Facebook - that "the students no longer use email, but SMS and instant messages", seems to confirm the figures.

LightRadio, future and tiny Alcatel phone antennas

Their buckets LightRadio are turning the world so it could make to achieve broad connectivity in rural areas. This small cube try to forget and banish stations and mobile masts we know today. Obviously you're wondering if one of these cubes with LightRadio be able to offer the same coverage as a mammoth existing antenna.

No, at least for now will be configured sets of these cubes to get to the same extent, but nevertheless involves a reduction in visual impact and above all, consumption and CO2 emissions to the atmosphere. Operators such as Orange, Verizon and China Mobile are already working with them and offer 2 and 3G connectivity, moving to 4G in the future.

Complaint against companies Gestin by digital canon to the Attorney Anticorrupcin

Three organizations have presented this morning a complaint with the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office for possible criminal fraud to the Treasury, forgery and misappropriation against different societies copyright. The Internet Users Association, the Association of Internet and the Spanish Association of Small and Medium Business Informatics and New Technologies (APEMIT) are directed against the boards of these institutions and officials "who have endorsed or covert previous practices pertaining to the Directorate General of Intellectual Property, Ministry of Culture.

Honeycomb The LG tablet for the first time on video

In fact it is its twin U.S. T-Mobile G-Slate, a device that we know will be virtually the same product as the LG Optimus Pad that must be present at the next Mobile World Congress, but by operators . Fortunately the video quality is quite what we're used to and has been found on YouTube. Although not very long, he can see the tablet in place, and gives a complete overview of the design of the device, stereo speakers, HDMI output, capable of recording 3D video with two cameras, etc.

FinePix X100, ready for you if you have $ 1,000

One of the cameras ever enters the market view is the FinePix X100 model we already knew all the details but returns to the fray with its imminent exit the market at a price of 1,000 euros in Spain before the end of the March. The FinePix X100 puts its full potential in the combination of technology and retro design that love at first sight.

The strengths of this camera FujiFilm FinePix X100 is its 12-megapixel APS sensor combined with the fixed target of 23 mm and brightness f2, and of course the hybrid display. The camera combines optical viewfinder window type bright frame of medium format cameras or 35 mm, but also have a viewfinder typical of recent cameras without a mirror.

Domain names: a "veto" on the extensions?

A State can he block the creation of an extension of domain names. xxx or. Gay? According to a Cnet's website, dated Monday, February 7, the Obama administration comes to new proposals that, in essence, result in creating a "veto" for validation of new extensions, the same level that. com or. net. For the Department of Telecommunications and Information American who answered the specific site, this new procedure would have the merit of "reducing the potential for blocking domains considered unacceptable by the government." An already complex process before being officially integrated extension requests are subject to a complex process, overseen by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), a private law association nonprofit , based in California.

Skype wand Vodafone for blocking VoIP

Vodafone has removed from their Mobile Internet offers the possibility of using VoIP calls through services like Skype, but still can activate this service via mobile Internet Plus option, much more expensive.

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Hotmail account gives five aliases

Holders of a Hotmail email account have the possibility to create alias accounts to manage the publicity that comes from a particular activity. For example, support and accreditation to a show, or an interest in buying an apartment. From there begins a barrage of advertising related to that interest, which continues even though the show floor or the purchase is completed.

To avoid that are born "alias account" Hotmail. This initiative, according to official company blog, allows each user the registration of five counts per year to a maximum of fifteen at a time. The accounts are true and complete, and fully managed from the main Hotmail account. This means that although the spam companies sell those addresses can not access the Hotmail home.

Gift ideas for Valentine's Day: Five gadgets for music lovers

In all events imported synthetic machinery of U.S. consumption, Valentine is probably the most shrill and the most up passions, both pro and con. Although we do not particularly like the invasion of items with roses and hearts, we do not want to create a marital problem, so we've compiled a selection of gadgets designed for music lovers.

Our first proposal is the music player Logitech Squeezebox Streaming Touch. This is a small device with touchscreen and tablet appearance that serves to centralize all house music via WiFi network. The system is able to synchronize Squeezebox with all kinds of multimedia libraries such as iTunes or Spotify.

Google is seeking a friendly agreement with the EU

Eric Schmidt, the executive director and former CEO of Google, confirmed to The Sunday Telegraph that the search was seeking an amicable agreement with the European Commission in the investigation into possible abuse of dominant position in Google search Online. "I think it's in our interest, and in the interest of our competitors, quickly analyze the points they raised.

These accusations are unfounded and likely require minor corrections, we check and we will ensure that we operate within the scope and spirit of the law, "Mr. Schmidt detailed. Last year, three sites had said they were unfairly demoted in Google results, pushing the European Commission to open a preliminary investigation.

Microsoft Windows Home Server 2011 RC

Microsoft has released Windows Home Server 2011 RC (Release Candidate), dedicated to those who want to create a small home network to better manage backups and file sharing.

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YB with Sony Vaio AMD Fusion

Sony has unveiled a new notebook based on the new AMD Fusion, more precisely with APU Zacate E-350 at 1.6 GHz, 4 GB of memory and a 500 GB hard drive.

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OMAP 5, four hearts beating inside your future phone

If manufacturers, assemblers phones have a bitter struggle to convince consumers that their phones are the best, not quitéis eye to the cruel battle star producers pumping muscle of bits of these phones. Capping by the thrust of the Nvidia Tegra 2, Texas Instruments will bring breast at the MWC 2011 in Barcelona with its new quad-core OMAP SoC 5.

The two largest are ARM Cortex A15 2 GHz each, and will accompany him on routine dedicated to image processing, sound and video two Cortex M4 ready for those less demanding tasks dominated moderate power consumption of future phones. The main chips promise a return of up to 50% higher than the current Cortex A9, with improved consumption by 60%.

Obama wants the government to veto the creation of Internet domains

United States President Barack Obama wants to give more power to governments to decide which new Internet domains should be introduced. The administration proposal would give veto power. The initiative would alter the functioning of the agency that regulates this issue, ICANN. This is a non-profit organization, governed by the law of California and whose activities are overseen by the Commerce Department.

After cessation of sales: Intel margins chip delivers again

The customers can not wait. Probably why Intel wants to deliver some chips but now that the company has only a week ago as a designated potentially error-prone. PC makers can use the block but only under certain conditions. Santa Clara - Just a week has taken the sales stop. Now Intel announces to a particular type of potentially problematic microchips but want to serve again.

The mishap of a chip of the so-Series 6-chip set that supports the brand new Sandy Bridge processors had the PC industry vigorously whirled, attended by providers and buyers of uncertainty. A repaired, perfect chipset for the new generation of processors will now be delivered in mid-February.

NoteSlate, the missing link of the tablets

Although not yet exist, in June should be the month in which the concept of tablet for designers and clerks see the light. Seriously doubt that it will do so and already I think I will aim virtually on the list of gadgets ghosts. But let us be the best and imagine that this NoteSlate gets out in June and well below the $ 99 (if they had to put a price on anything better than this imaginary) which promise to sell this product that the images do not appear more than a recreation that is sure to change much in the final design of the actual product.

IronKey, a steel pendrive

With complete security, Secomdata has launched in Spain a new USB product with a view to the information it has, has no danger of being lost. This is the new "IronKey", a device that uses encrypted data technology and software made by military certification. With this technology we are facing one of the data storage devices safest in the world, as well as physically tough it is in their internal system.

Kyocera Echo, two screens with a lot of sense

As expected, the dual-screen phone signed by the Japanese company Kyocera has been presented, and although not directly influence us to be a model for the American market you're going to submit for the originality of its approach. The Kyocera device name is Echo. As you see in the images we are faced with the first phone with dual touch screen, leaving aside the Samsung Continuum in which the second screen was virtually SuperAMOLED testimonial, given its size and scope of operation.

Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo looks this good

At this rate, few details superphone Sony Ericsson will not be known before its introduction in Barcelona. He who walks without any complex in front of the camera today is the Sony Ericsson Neo, the most conservative in its design no doubt. Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo The model will be less innovative in design and features a safe bet for those who like the design of equipment like the X10 last year and that makes us think that is one step below the ladder on the Arc and Play the Xperia.