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¿Un E-Reader puede promover la lectura en México?

¿Qué opinan?

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El Ipad ya esta en problemas...

Además de las críticas al nuevo dispositivo de Steve Jobs, ahora el Ipad al parecer enfrentará una acusación de plagio.

De itnews.com

A Chinese company that sells a tablet PC like Apple's newly announced iPad may sue the U.S. company over the similar design between the devices, it said Monday.

Shenzhen Great Loong Brother Industrial started selling its P88 tablet last year and is not ruling out a lawsuit against Apple, a company representative surnamed Wu said by phone.

The company is based in a southern Chinese city known for producing knock-off phones, which are called "shanzhai," or "bandit" phones, and sometimes take the form of counterfeit iPhones or other popular handsets.

"For this thing we are not shanzhai, because we were first," said Wu.

The P88 weighs more than the iPad and has much shorter battery life at just over one hour during active use, compared to Apple's stated battery life of 10 hours for the iPad. But both devices use touchscreens that have a black border and a similar size, at 10.2 inches for the P88 and 9.7 inches for the iPad. Wu said his company's tablet is sold in the U.S., but declined to say at which outlets.

An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment.

China's gray market for electronic devices also reacted quickly to Apple's announcement of the iPad last week. Some users on Taobao.com, a Chinese auction and retail site, are taking pre-orders for iPads they will first obtain in Hong Kong or elsewhere. Popular devices such as the iPhone or the Hero from Taiwan's High Tech Computer (HTC) are often brought into China informally and sold there online or at electronics bazaars.

Apple has not said if the iPad will be sold in China. Local carrier China Unicom started selling the iPhone last year, but gray-market versions of the device were already widely sold in China.

Japanese electronics company Fujitsu has also said it owns the rights to the name "iPad," raising another possible legal challenge for the Apple device.

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Industry in 'death throes' seeks online salvation

De aquí.

The New York Times' announcement yesterday that it plans to start charging readers some time next year for unlimited access to its Web site has industry insiders closely watching whether smaller newspaper publishers follow suit.

Times officials offered few specifics of its plan, reporting that users will be able to access a still-unspecified number of articles every month for free, but once that limit is passed, users will be charged for access. Executives said they're hoping the new Web publishing model will boost the company's online advertising coffers.

The company did not disclose a specific starting date for the pay wall, saying only that it would be launched in 2011.

The publishing giant has reportedly has been mulling a move to a partially paid online access model for at least a year. Media analysts say the move is risky, even for a newspaper with the reputation, national reach and clout of The New York Times , while the vast majority of online content is accessible without charge. Will readers lay down money, especially in a struggling economy, for news stories that are freely available on other news sites?

"For media companies that rely on print advertising for a large share of revenue, the Web has taken a wrecking ball to their business model," said Dan Olds, an analyst with The Gabriel Consulting Group. "Over time, more and more free content has been made available on the Web, which has siphoned off eyeballs and subscribers from traditional newspapers. Traditional media companies are between a rock and a hard place."

Desperation can make corporate executives do crazy things like trying to force readers to pay for things that have long been free, media experts said. What traditional media outlets should be thinking about instead is how to repackage and rethink their content so it can be sold onto devices like smart phones and tablets.

"Traditional media as we know them are in their death throes and it's fairly well along at this point," said Dan Kennedy, an assistant professor of journalism at Northeastern University in Boston. "The whole notion behind paid content is not aimed at reversing the slide, because it's not reversible, but at least in slowing it down. The future probably belongs to the small and the swift, not these legacy organizations. I think the Times will find a way to survive just because it's still so popular, but the future belongs to small specialized fast-moving projects."

Kennedy pointed out that the Times tried a paid model -- charging for opinion columns -- between 2005 and 2007 but quit when it didn't work as hoped. The Wall Street Journal is one of the few media outlets that successfully charges for content, but critics note that it is a specialized business newspaper.

In recent years, declining print circulation has forced most general interest newspapers and magazines to shift some of their business online. Few have been successful in offsetting the loss of display advertising due to fewer readers and profitable classified advertising to online companies like Craigslist along.

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Users still make hacking easy with weak passwords

De aquí.

In a report likely to make IT administrators tear out their hair, most users still rely on easy passwords, some as simple as "123456," to access their accounts.

A report released today by database security vendor Imperva Inc. serves as another reminder of why IT administrators need to enforce strong password policies on enterprise applications and systems.

Imperva's report is based on an analysis of 32 million passwords that were exposed in a recent database intrusion at RockYou Inc. a developer of several popular Facebook applications. The passwords belonged to users who had registered with RockYou and had been stored by the company in clear text on the compromised database. The hacker responsible for the intrusion later posted the entire list of 32 million passwords on the Internet.

An analysis of that list provides the latest confirmation that a majority of users still don't care about the strength of their passwords if they are left to choose on their own.

According to Imperva, about 30% of the passwords in the hacked list were six characters or smaller, while 60% were passwords created from a limited set of alpha-numeric characters. Nearly 50% of the users had used easily guessable names, common slang words, adjacent keyboard keys and consecutive digits as their passwords.

In fact the most common password among RockYou users was "123456" followed by "12345" and "123456789." The other passwords rounding out the top five were "password" and "iloveyou."

Many of the top 5,000 passwords in the list were identical to those found in password dictionaries, which are used by hackers to brute force their way into accounts, said Amichai Shulman, chief technology officer at Imperva. On average, a malicious attacker using such a password dictionary would have been able to break into a RockYou account at the rate of roughly one every second using an automated password guessing tool, he said.

Imperva's report is by far not the first to highlight the tendency by many to use easily hackable passwords for online accounts. What sets it apart, however, is the sheer size of the sample that was analyzed for the report. Though the passwords in this case only controlled access to a relatively low-value user account, previous studies have shown that users tend to use the same password for multiple accounts, including corporate and financial accounts.

The Imperva report comes at a time when malicious attackers are increasingly going after user credentials to break into enterprise networks.

Last November, for instance, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center noted that cybercrooks had attempted to steal approximately $100 million from U.S. banks using stolen log-in credentials. On average, the FBI is seeing several new cases opened each week, the complaint center said. In most instances, the crooks used sophisticated keystroke-logging Trojan horse programs to steal login credentials from company employees authorized to initiate funds transfers on behalf of the business, the FBI noted.

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Gates frets over aid, sees R&D as vital to energy in letter

De aquí.

Bill Gates marked his first-full year at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with his second annual letter, fretting over possible cuts in foreign aid by rich governments and noting that research into renewable energy will be critical to resolving the global climate debate.

The purpose of the annual letter, and most of its 14 pages, is to explain what the foundation has been up to over the past year and what's in store for the future. A portion of the letter is dedicated to Gates' views on topics important to the foundation, such as whether to fund green energy projects or how government aid might slow or reverse due to the global recession.

"I am surprised that the climate debate hasn't focused more on encouraging R&D since it is critical to getting to zero emissions," he writes in the letter. He offers a tough goal for people researching green energies: "The most important innovation required to avoid climate change will be a way of producing electricity that is cheaper than coal and that emits no greenhouse gases."

The Gates Foundation won't fund such projects, he says, because the foundation is focused on work that does not attract investment from companies or individuals, such as medicine for children in poor nations and improved seeds for poor farmers. There would be a huge market for a cheap source of energy, Gates says. He is personally investing in several ideas related to green energy, though he does not name them in the letter.

"I think it is likely that out of the many possible approaches, at least one scalable innovation [in green energy] will emerge in the next 20 years and be installed widely in the 20 years after that," he said.

A major concern Gates highlights in the letter is that rich governments around the world might reduce foreign aid due to heavier debts caused by the global recession, or that commitments to initiatives such as reducing global emissions might take money away from other vital areas, such as health aid.

"The final communiqué of the Copenhagen Summit, held last December, talks about mobilizing US$10 billion per year in the next three years and $100 billion per year by 2020 for developing countries, which is over three quarters of all foreign aid now given by the richest countries," he writes.

"I am concerned that some of this money will come from reducing other categories of foreign aid, especially health. If just 1 percent of the $100 billion goal came from vaccine funding, then 700,000 more children could die from preventable diseases. In the long run, not spending on health is a bad deal for the environment because improvements in health, including voluntary family planning, lead people to have smaller families, which in turn reduces the strain on the environment," he added.

Since its founding in 1994, the foundation has committed to more than $21 billion [B] in grants on a range of activities, a statement from the foundation said. The foundation's endowment was valued at $34.17 billion as of Sep. 30, 2009.

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Chinese human rights sites hit by DDoS attack

De aquí.

Five Web sites run by Chinese human rights activists were attacked by hackers over the weekend, as a separate row continued between Google and China over political cyberattacks.

The Web site of Chinese Human Rights Defenders, an advocacy group, was hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that lasted 16 hours starting Saturday afternoon, the group said in an e-mailed statement on Monday. A DDoS attack involves the attacker ordering a legion of compromised computers all to visit a certain Web site at once, overwhelming its server with requests for communication and leaving the site inaccessible to normal visitors. The group said it could not confirm the origin of the attackers but called the Chinese government the most likely suspect.

Google this month said it had been hit by cyberattacks from China partly aimed at accessing the Gmail accounts of human rights activists. The company cited the attacks, which also resulted in the theft of Google intellectual property, as one reason it plans to stop censoring its Chinese search engine, even if that means closing down its China offices.

The latest hacking attack also targeted another Chinese rights group named Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch; two news sites run by Chinese activists, Canyu and New Century News; and the Independent Chinese Pen Center, which posts essays by dissident writers, according to the e-mailed statement. Public records show the Web sites all share two neighboring IP (Internet Protocol) addresses, suggesting the sites were all affected by the DDoS attack.

The bandwidth consumed by the attack hit 2GB per second at its peak, the statement said, citing the Internet service provider for the Web sites.

The targeted IP addresses belong to The Planet, a server hosting provider based in Texas. No one at The Planet was immediately available to comment.

Hackers also placed malware on two of the Web sites before the attack, but that is now being removed, the statement said. The group that sent out the statement has often been hit by cyberattacks, sometimes leaving its Web site down for days, it said.

An advocacy group for foreign journalists in China last week said the Gmail accounts of at least two reporters there had been recently hijacked

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Firm Claims Proof of 50 Apple Test Tablets

De aquí.

Web analytic firm Flurry claims it has proof an Apple tablet is in the works. Based on Internet traffic analysis from third-party software developers, Flurry says Apple's Cupertino campus has been testing mobile hundreds of apps on what it believes are 50 prototype Apple tablets.

Flurry says that testers of the early iterations of Apple's tablet have downloaded around 200 apps from clients that use its traffic analytic software. By tracking where download are originating from Flurry says it identified dozens of tablet-like devices that did not leave the Apple campus and run a yet to be released operating system (version 3.2).

The current iPhones and iPod touch devices run on the 3.1.2 version of the OS, so this could indicate that a rumour that the Apple tablet will be a giant iPod touch, rather than running on a different OS. However, Flurry also explained that it has noticed iPhones running 4.0 software in the wild, pointing out the device running on the 3.2 version software is a different one.

The Flurry report studied what sort of apps were downloaded on the so-called Apple tablet and says that the use for the device will be user-oriented, with a limited business applications. According to the report, games were the most downloaded category by the testers, followed by entertainment, news, books, and music (click table to enlarge).

"We can surmise that the device will be thin and light, designed for portability," Flurry claims. However, the analytics firm does not detail on the characteristics of the tablet, invoking confidentiality agreements with its customers.

The most interesting clue from the Flurry report is the OS version the Apple tablet is running (3.2), which doesn't particularly match with the recent speculation that the tablet will run on a more powerful OS that would allow multitasking. As for the iPhone 4.0 software, we might not see it live until this summer, when a new iPhone is expected.

Apple has announced an event on January 27 with the "Come see our latest creation" tag line, where Steve Jobs, who is reportedly excited about the launch, is expected to unveil a tablet device.

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Si, es en serio.

Tomado de Wired.com

If you use a Macintosh and spend a lot of time surfing the Net with one hand, the Matias Corporation may have the ideal product for you -– a one-handed keyboard.

At next week's Macworld Expo in San Francisco, Matias will unveil the Mac version of its Half Keyboard.

Actually, the $99 Half Keyboard is intended for graphic artists, publishers, CAD designers and anyone else who constantly juggles a keyboard and an input device such as a graphics tablet or trackball.

After a little practice, the Half Keyboard is almost as efficient as a full keyboard for inputting text, and users can get a lot more work done if they aren't constantly shifting between input devices, the company claims.

"It makes you a lot more efficient if you aren't constantly alternating between the keyboard and the mouse or pen," said Edgar Matias, the Half Keyboard's inventor and president and CEO of Matias.

The Half Keyboard looks like the left half of a standard keyboard. It has the same full-size keys and letter layout, but each key also doubles for its opposite right-hand key, which is activated when the space bar is held down.

Thus, the "G" key doubles for "H," the "R" key for "U," and so on.

It appears complicated, but Matias claims touch typists quickly learn to type with one hand instead of two.

The keyboard is based on the theory that the brain figures out which key to hit based on the finger used, rather than the spatial position of the key.

Because the right-hand keys are laid out in the mirror image of a standard keyboard, the same finger movements are made to type the appropriate keys. So instead of hitting the "P" key with the right-hand little finger, it is hit with the left-hand little finger.

Matias invented the keyboard in the early 1990s as an undergraduate at the University of Toronto and tested it under the auspices of the school's Input Research Group.

In a series of academic papers, Matias describes how -- after an hour of practice -- most touch-typists can get up to about 13 words a minute with 84 percent accuracy. With 20 to 40 hours of practice, most typists are within 75 percent to 80 percent of their two-hand typing speeds.

Matias has spent the last four years bringing the one-hand keyboard to market. His company sells a software version of the Half Keyboard for people who have lost the use of a hand through a repetitive stress injury or other disability. It converts a standard keyboard into a one-handed one.

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Pues sí, la solución obvia.

http://www.voddler.com/

Un sitio donde puedes ver películas en línea de manera legal.

Si lo haces gratis, te aparecen comerciales. Si pagas por el servicio, sin comerciales. El dinero recaudado va en pago, obviamente, a los dueños de los derechos y un porcentaje al sitio web.

Y ya. Simple, bonito y elegante.

Está en beta. Por lo pronto varias grandes productoras ya le dieron el visto bueno y le han pasado su catálogo.
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Sigue la pelea en la corte Apple vs. Nokia

Debido a una demanda de robo de patentes de Apple vs. Nokia, a la fabricante de celulares podría prohibírsele importar celulares a USA.

Todo comenzó hace algunos mesas, con demandas y contrademandas entre ambos fabricantes debido a un supuesto traspaso ilegal de tecnología patentada entre el Iphone y algunos teléfonos inteligentes de Nokia.

Con la llegada de nuevas versiones de ambos dispositivos, este asunto no tiene para cuando acabar.

Mas información aquí.

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