Presentaron smartphones y tabletas en tres dimensiones

Presentaron smartphones y tabletas en tres dimensiones

La tableta Xoom se empezará a vender mañana en la Argentina

La tableta Xoom se empezará a vender mañana en la Argentina

Chrome OS

It's been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser. Already, over 30 million people use it regularly. We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends. However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web. So today, we're announcing a new project that's a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It's our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.

Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we're already talking to partners about the project, and we'll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.

Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We're designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don't have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work.

Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips and we are working with multiple OEMs to bring a number of netbooks to market next year. The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies. And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform.

Google Chrome OS is a new project, separate from Android. Android was designed from the beginning to work across a variety of devices from phones to set-top boxes to netbooks. Google Chrome OS is being created for people who spend most of their time on the web, and is being designed to power computers ranging from small netbooks to full-size desktop systems. While there are areas where Google Chrome OS and Android overlap, we believe choice will drive innovation for the benefit of everyone, including Google.

We hear a lot from our users and their message is clear — computers need to get better. People want to get to their email instantly, without wasting time waiting for their computers to boot and browsers to start up. They want their computers to always run as fast as when they first bought them. They want their data to be accessible to them wherever they are and not have to worry about losing their computer or forgetting to back up files. Even more importantly, they don't want to spend hours configuring their computers to work with every new piece of hardware, or have to worry about constant software updates. And any time our users have a better computing experience, Google benefits as well by having happier users who are more likely to spend time on the Internet.

We have a lot of work to do, and we're definitely going to need a lot of help from the open source community to accomplish this vision. We're excited for what's to come and we hope you are too. Stay tuned for more updates in the fall and have a great summer.

Difícilmente, allá por septiembre de 1998, en Microsoft hayan imaginado que ese buscador de sitios webs que fundaban Larry Page y Sergey Brin, dos estudiantes de la Universidad de Stanford, iba a pelearle palmo a palmo el control de Internet poco más de una década después. Se trata, claro, de Google, que hoy confirmó los rumores que circularon en las últimas horas al anunciar que tiene "emocionantes noticias" para compartir. Se descuenta que se debe a la presentación en sociedad de su primer sistema operativo: el Chrome OS.

El anuncio, anticipado por el sitio especializado Engadget.com, se hará el próximo martes en una conferencia de prensa en San Francisco. De esta manera, Google cumplirá con el gran anhelo de lanzar un competidor a Microsoft Windows, que desde 1981 mantiene su hegemonía.

En principio, se estima que Google pondría en el mercado una versión beta de Chrome OS y cerca de 65 mil unidades, gratuitas, destinadas a un círculo exclusivo de personas especialmente seleccionadas. Y, además, sería solamente utilizado en Netbooks y Smartbooks bajo la marca Google. Al menos inicialmente, no estará disponible para PC. Mientras que a los celulares y las tablets, Google los seguirá asistiendo con el Android.

Si bien, tal como suelen hacer la mayoría de empresas ante el lanzamiento de productos importantes, no hay demasiadas certezas sobre las características del sistema operativo, trascendió que Chrome Os privilegiará la rapidez a la seguridad, aunque sin descuidarla, claro. Acaso advertido por la experiencia –y el dolor de cabeza- que le trajo a Microsoft el Windows Vista.

Al menos eso se desprende de lo que Daniel Helft, gerente de Google, le explicó a Clarín allá por 2009, cuando la empresa anunció que se iba a encomendar al proyecto Chrome OS: "Velocidad, simplicidad y seguridad son los aspectos destacados del sistema operativo. La idea es estar conectado en pocos pasos y que se pueda iniciar en unos pocos segundos".

Como característica principal, Chrome OS será de código abierto, con kernel Linux y base en Debian, con un gestor de ventanas de Google.

Una nueva batalla virtual, entonces, se acerca. Más atrás quedó el intento de Microsoft de mermar la penetración de Google con el lanzamiento del buscador Bing. También el golpe que buscó dar Google para debilitar el liderazgo de Explorer entre los navegadores lanzando el Chrome. Hubo más, por supuesto. La lucha se dio –y da- en todos los frentes. Es que estos dos gigantes del mundo informático parecen estar dispuestos a no darse tregua.

UNA HERRAMIENTA PARA CUIDAR EL MEDIOAMBIENTE
Entre tanta incertidumbre por la confirmación de la salida del Chrome Os, ayer se anunció el lanzamiento del Google Earth Engine, un buscador que permite consultar imágenes vía satélite y bancos de datos históricos obtenidos en los últimos 25 años para monitorear y medir los cambios climáticos.
“Muchas de las imágenes jamás han sido vistas, mucho menos analizadas”, destacó mediante un comunicado Rebecca Moore, ingeniera jefe del proyecto.

Fuente: clarin.com - http://googleblog.blogspot.com

Call of duty: Black ops

Call of Duty: Black Ops has sold a humongous 5 million units during its first 24-hours on sale, beating lasts year’s Modern Warfare 2 record breaking day-one sales figure of 4.7m units in 24-hours. Infinity Ward’s title also went on to make publishers Activision over a Billion Dollars, breaking a number of industry sales records in the process, so chances are that Black Ops will go on to make another mountain of cash for Bobby Koticks firm.

Shares in Activision grew more than five per cent on Monday ahead of the release. Although analysts doubt Black Ops can top the overall performance of its predecessor, if day-one sales are anything to go by, it may well happen.

Cinco millones de copias en apenas un día: esa cifra habría vendido el videjuego Call of duty: Black ops. Así se asegura en el blog oficial del producto.

Ambientado en la Guerra Fría, la nueva edición del videojuego propone en una polémica primera misión: asesinar a Fidel Castro. Cuba, Vietnam y la ex Unión Soviética son los escenarios para los agentes especiales de los Estados Unidos que manejan armas y vehículos de guerra en la nueva parte del videojuego, que puede jugarse en 3D.

Hay más novedades: en el modo multijugador existe una manera de jugar con las “versiones” zombie de reconocidos líderes mundiales. Entre otros, John Kennedy y Richard Nixon.

Activision ha destacado que su nueva versión de Call of Duty permite jugar en internet hasta a 18 personas simultáneamente, lo que garantiza violentos enfrentamientos bélicos virtuales.

Fuente: rosario3 - http://www.codblackopsblog.com

FanSwarm

La red social Facebook estrenará este fin de semana "FanSwarm", un juego que permitirá a los usuarios elegir un equipo de famosos y competir con sus amigos en una liga de popularidad, informó hoy la web CNET.

La idea es similar al de portales de Internet como Fafarazzi.com y se basa en trasladar al mundo del espectáculo la fórmula de las ligas deportivas virtuales, en las que los participantes diseñan la alineación de un equipo deportivo y ganan puntos en función de los resultados de sus seleccionados en la vida real.
f your media diet consists mostly of celebrity gossip blogs and magazines -- you'll be happy to know that you can put all of that knowledge to work in a new Facebook game called FanSwarm.

The game, created by Ayeah Games, is a celeb-focused fantasy sports- game, but instead of a team of athletes, you choose a team of celebs and earn points based on what's being said about them in blogs and on Twitter.

"We use an algorithm that reads the heat of the social graph to figure out if a celebrity is hot or not," says Doug Levin, Ayeah Games president and CEO. "You can gain points by betting on Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan's crazy careers."

The game will launch with 2,000 celebrities to choose from -- including popular political candidates -- and you will be able to select your celebs and then predict how their career will fare. If you're correct, you'll earn extra points and level up in the game to become the Queen or King of FanSwarm.
As if this whole concept isn't kooky enough already -- FanSwarm will also contain mini-games that will help you boost your overall score. One example is choosing a group of celebs and putting them into "scenes" which will increase or decrease points, says this Reuters article. "Putting Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in the "beach" scene is a wise move, for example, but not if Jennifer Aniston also is there."

Levin says he brainstormed the idea for FanSwarm when George Clooney didn't win an Oscar for ''Up in the Air,' and didn't have anywhere to vent about it online.

"The environment is a highly structured way for people to express themselves, and we encourage user-generated content," Levin says. "Leave a comment, get points, play with friends, map out your predictions about celebrities. Our research says people are interested in these ideas."

We'll see just how interested people are in when this game launches on October 31.

En "FanSwarm", sin embargo, la puntuación dependerá de la cantidad de veces que el nombre de una personalidad aparezca mencionado en Twitter o en blogs, por lo que más que la actividad profesional, el juego medirá el interés que genere la vida de los famosos.

La aplicación estará disponible el domingo e incluirá de inicio una base de datos de 2.000 personalidades, entre las que estarán no solo estrellas del cine o la música sino figuras relevantes como Sarah Palin o Barack Obama.

El nacimiento de "FanSwarm" llegará poco después de la creación del portal JustSpotted.com, una red para la localización de gente conocida en todo el mundo en función de la última vez que han sido vistos en público, en medio de un creciente interés en Internet por desarrollar productos relativos al mundo del famoso.

Fuente: EFE - rosario3 -

Windows Phone 7

Microsoft is getting ready to introduce Windows Phone 7 in the next few months. This will be a new operating system for smartphones, as it will have very little in common with its forbearers, Windows Mobile and Pocket PC.



A partir de noviembre, en Estados Unidos estarán a la venta ocho versiones de “smartphones” con el nuevo sistema operativo de Microsoft, que promete una interfaz divertida, rápida y personal.

Steve Ballmer, CEO de la compañía líder mundial de software para computadoras, fue el encargado de presentar el Windows Phone 7 y anunció que fue diseñado para “ser siempre delicioso y maravillosamente personal”.

El desafío fue crear una apariencia más agradable para el cliente, que logre integrar aplicaciones relacionadas con la personalización y la comunicación. Tal es así, que hasta se podría caracterizar a un “avatar” para que se parezca al usuario.

El nuevo sistema operativo para móviles no se enfrenta a una tarea sencilla. Tendrá que competir y ganar a grandes vedettes de este mercado clave: Symbian de Nokia, iOS del iPhone desarrollado por Apple, Research In Motion de Blackberry y Android de Google.

El mercado de la telefonía celular es señalado como uno de los más lucrativos en la actualidad, con una gran proyección para el futuro, y Microsoft juega una última carta para no quedar afuera.

Fuente: Rosario 3 - microsoft.com

Google celebrates birthday with cake

Twelve years ago, Larry Page and Sergey Brin registered the domain for Google.com, a site which they hoped would revolutionize the very way information is organized on the Web. It's fair to say they succeeded. And today, Google, a multi-billion dollar company based in Mountain View, Calif., is celebrating its 12th birthday with a big, digitized birthday cake logo, courtesy of the American painter Wayne Thiebaud.
Thiebaud is best known for his Pop Art renderings of sweets and candies, making him the perfect candidate to contribute artwork for the Google bash. The cake logo will be displayed for the rest of the day on the Google homepage and on search results pages.

"As far as Google's birthday is concerned, today's logo change solidifies the notion that Google's birthday is, indeed, September 27," notes Stan Schroeder of Mashable, a popular tech blog. "Google had previously been unclear about the exact date, sometimes celebrating on September 7, although the Google.com domain was registered on September 15, 1997."

A través de un cambio en su imagen principal, el mayor buscador de internet se auto-homenajea y recuerda que llegó a los 12 años de existencia.

La imagen tradicional de Google fue modificada una vez más y está vez para un un festejo del propio buscador.

Es que el que se convirtió en el buscador por excelencia de la gran red de redes llegó a los 12 años de vida y no podía dejar pasar semejante aniversario.

A raíz de eso, y como siempre ante hechos importantes, Google decidió cambiar su imagen principal.

Por eso, cuando uno entra no se encuentra con su logo tradicional sino con una torta de cumpleaños en donde la L es reemplazada por la vela.

Además, puede leerse inscripto en la torta el nombre del buscador bien grande.



Fuente: csmonitor.com - rosario3.com

#newtwitter

www.youtube.com.ar

The video portal YouTube has everything ready for the official launch of the domain in our country. com.ar, to be held today in Buenos Aires.

According to a statement released by the company, the new website will provide mainly local artists dissemination, social organizations, for advertisers, producers, businesses and educational organizations in Argentina.

In fact, there are versions that indicate that before the launch of Google representatives (owners of the site) had reached an agreement with the Argentina Society of Authors and Composers (Sadaic), which would charge fees for the videos whose works are within the regime protection.

The landing of the most used website in the world to upload home movies was immediate. The domain had been registered in Argentina's Foreign Ministry website on 30 August 2007. Much water has passed since then until the official presentation, which will be before the press in the City Cultural Kone, although not yet specified the time.

The company did not confirm what will happen to the accounts that already have thousands of Argentines, but under the rule. Com. For now, you can not access. Com.ar with the same data, and even invited to register the system again. This could bring problems, especially to the producers of audiovisual material, it would be a condition to move everything to the new platform.

Desde hoy, YouTube, el gigante mundial de los videos online, tendrá una versión argentina (www.youtube.com.ar). Hasta ahora, el único país latinoamericano de habla hispana con YouTube local era México.
En base a cómo fue la experiencia de regionalización del sitio en otras geografías , Next puede adelantar qué puede esperarse del YouTube argentino.
Además de estar en castellano, claro, el sitio ajustará sus algoritmos para darle prioridad a los videos locales, tanto en la página inicial, como en los resultados de las búsquedas, y en las listas de clips más vistos y mejor calificados.
A su vez, se espera que los usuarios locales que suban contenidos que alcancen altos grados de popularidad podrán aspirar a ganar dinero con ellos, en base a publicidad y a un sistema de ingresos compartidos que propondrá el sitio YouTube.
A su vez, al concentrar público argentino, el sitio aspirará a transformarse en un canal codiciado por empresas con presencia local para la realización de acciones promocionales y publicitarias.
También es de esperar que el YouTube argentino intente seducir a productores audiovisuales profesionales (productoras, canales), ofreciéndoles una nueva plataforma de difusión para sus contenidos.
El desembarco de YouTube en el país se vio facilitado por un acuerdo al que arribaron Google (propietaria del sitio) y la Sociedad Argentina de Autores y Compositores (Sadaic). Aunque hasta ayer ninguna de las partes habían difundido detalles del acuerdo, lo fundamental del trato sería que Google se comprometió a pagar, a través de Sadaic, lo que le correspondiera por la difusión de obras protegidas por derechos de autor.
La dirección www.youtube.com.ar ya está funcionando, pero hasta ayer todavía no mostraba la versión local del sitio, lo que se espera que comience a ocurrir durante el día de hoy. Fundada en febrero de 2005, YouTube fue comprada por Google en noviembre de 2006.

Fuente: © THE GAZETTE - Clarin

Melissa Thompson

Samsung has announced today that Melissa Thompson of Greater Manchester has broken the record for fastest text message, shattering the old record by almost 10 seconds.

Thompson was using a Galaxy S with Swype and texted the phrase: "The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human."

The former Guinness World Record was 35.54 seconds for the phrase, which was shattered when Thompson did it in 25.94 seconds.

Thompson was shopping with her boyfriend when Samsung asked her to take a shot at the record.

Says the texting champ: "I used to send a lot of text messages - 40 or 50-a-day to Chris alone so we both knew I could type fast. But since we moved in together and I started my job I haven't been texting as much and, you could say, my fingers were out of shape. It's a real shock to find out that I'm the fastest texter in the world.

Una empleada de seguros británica de 27 años se ha convertido en la mujer con los dedos más rápidos del planeta cuando se trata de escribir y enviar mensajes de texto con su teléfono móvil.

Melissa Thompson batió la marca que hasta la fecha poseía el estadounidense Franklin Page, un chico de 24 años que había escrito el mismo SMS que la ahora ganadora en 35,54 segundos,

Pero la actual campeona lo superó al tardar en redactar y enviar el mensaje casi 10 segundos menos que el estadounidense, al hacerlo en tan sólo 25,94 segundos.

Esta empleada de una aseguradora utilizó un teléfono de la marca Samsung Galaxy con un teclado táctil, durante un evento de demostración que esta compañía telefónica organizó en Manchester (norte de Inglaterra) y en el que la británica participó por casualidad, cuando se encontraba de compras con su novio.

"Normalmente envío muchísimos mensajes, aproximadamente 40 ó 50 al día, a mi novio Chris cuando está solo", indicó una sorprendida Thompson.

Fuente: EFE - www.afterdawn.com - rosario3.com

Motorola i1

Android desembarcó en un celular push to talk

La llegada del Motorola i1 había sido anunciada en junio y finalmente se concreta hoy, día en que los clientes de Nextel podrán probar definitivamente la plataforma Android.

El equipo, de pantalla táctil, combina Conexión Directa y la modalidad de radio o Push-to-Talk (PTT) con las funcionalidades de modo telefonía avanzadas, como navegación optimizada vía Wi-Fi con un nuevo explorador Opera Mini 5.

El i1 permite acceso al correo corporativo y personal ya que soporta Microsoft Exchange, POP3 e IMAP, y visualización de archivos de Word, Excel y Power Point, a través de Quickoffice. Cuenta también con GPS integrado.

En el terreno del entretenimiento, el i1 ofrece acceso a redes sociales como facebook, cámara integrada de 5 megapíxeles con capacidad de etiquetado geográfico y tomas panorámicas y reproductor MP3.

Su precio es de $1.450 más IVA en la Argentina .

Otras características destacadas incluyen ingreso de texto Swype, acelerómetro incorporado, y 8 GB de memoria expansible para elevar al máximo la experiencia del usuario.

Swype es un innovador método de escritura que permite a los usuarios ingresar texto con un movimiento continuo del dedo sobre el teclado.

Want a 2010 Android phone on a 2005-era network? That's the question with Boost's new Motorola i1, an otherwise powerful, touch screen slab that finally gives Boost subscribers access to the smartphone OS everyone is raving about. The military-spec, rugged Motorola i1 crawls along at early-2G data speeds because of Boost's archaic iDEN network. But the i1's awesome PTT capability and the carrier's all-in, $50/month prepaid service make this phone a good deal nonetheless.

Design and Call Quality
The Motorola i1 measures 4.7 by 2.3 by 0.5 inches (HWD) and weighs 4.6 ounces. The soft-touch rear panel and rubber top and bottom edges make the device comfortable to hold. It's otherwise made of glass and plastic; overall, it feels well built. It could probably withstand a few hard bumps on the edges, assuming you're lucky enough not to hit the glass panel. The 3.1-inch, 320-by-480-pixel, capacitive touch screen looked sharp and bright. But it was surprisingly stubborn; it missed many of my finger taps, even when dialing numbers. You can type on the on-screen keyboard using the Swype method, which I don't like, but many others swear by it. Regular landscape QWERTY and XT9 predictive text pads are also available.

The Motorola i1 is a dual-band iDEN (800/1900 MHz) push-to-talk phone. Voice quality was excellent. Calls sounded loud, full, and clear in the earpiece, with no background hiss and a warm timbre. Transmissions were also clear in both directions. Reception was impressively strong; often I have to travel out of my house and into the center of town to properly test Nextel iDEN handsets, but not this time. The phone supports Nextel's famous, venerable, instant and quite loud push-to-talk system as well.


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Fuente: Infobae.com - Motorola.com - pcmag.com

Wearable Absence

Wearable Absence is an interactive garment that functions as an interface for a database of digital memories.

Through the use of wireless technology and bio-sensors, users of the garment are able to retrieve archived information from an "absent" person's life via a mobile application.

What's interesting about this project is that the user has no real control of when and how they receive these digital memories. The flow of information is unconsciously triggered by bio-sensors that monitor the physical state of the wearer.

You can watch a video of the project at subTela or Wearable Absence site.

The project was a collaboration between Barbara Layne, the Director of Studio subTela at Hexagram-Concordia in Montreal and Janis Jefferies, Artistic Director of the Digital Studios at Goldsmiths College in London.

no pasar frío, al menos, en el alma. Un grupo de científicos ingleses y canadienses desarrollaron ropa inteligente que podría conseguir que las personas revivan recuerdos de sus seres queridos al reproducir fotos, texto, audio, video directamente en una prenda de vestir.

Se trata del Wearable Absence -un proyecto conjunto de la Universidad Concordia , en Canadá, y el Colegio Goldsmiths , en el Reino Unido- creó una indumentaria que puede servir de consuelo emocional para su portador, según publicó la BBC.

El sistema detecta el estado anímico de quien lleva puesta la ropa y reacciona proveyéndolo de recuerdos a fin de que se sienta reconfortado. Pero ¿cómo funcionan estas prendas? Para lograrlo, la prenda monitorea -a través de sensores- la respiración, ritmo cardíaco, piel y temperatura del portador. Al identificar una emoción, se conecta a Internet mediante un smartphone y rastrea una base de datos, creada por el usuario, fotos o audios para que el sistema reproduzca y ayude a la persona a sentirse mejor.

"Hemos visto durante largo tiempo que las personas le asignan recuerdos a la ropa por lo que decidimos llevar ese concepto a otro nivel", dijo Janis Jefferies, de los Estudios Digitales del Colegio Goldsmiths quien, junto con Barbara Layne, de Canadá, desarrolló el proyecto.

"El equipo en Canadá diseñó el vestuario y en Londres realizamos la arquitectura de la base de datos. En este momento tenemos dos prototipos, un modelo para mujeres y otro para hombres", agregó Jefferies.

La ropa cuenta son sensores inalámbricos y altavoces en la capucha de la prenda. Asimismo, cuenta con pantallas pueden desplegar texto o imágenes, mientras que los parlantes pueden reproducir música, sonidos o mensajes pregrabados por seres queridos.

"Digamos que te sientes muy ansioso y que tu respiración se acelera mucho. El sensor lo notaría y quizá tu querrías escuchar una canción o leer una historia para calmarte", explicó la investigadora.

"A nosotros nos interesa que pueda ser útil para la gente que sufre demencia o que tiene que padecer una larga hospitalización. Ellos pueden necesitar sentirse cerca de sus seres queridos para estar mejor", aclaró Jefferies.

En cuanto a la posibilidad de contraindicaciones, advirtió: “"Si llevamos el proyecto a otro nivel, entonces tendríamos que preocuparnos por los riesgos. Al tener un equipo más grande podríamos saber si existen riesgos de depresión. De cualquier modo no creo que lo que estamos sugiriendo reemplace algún tratamiento, más bien es una extensión de una forma de cuidarse a sí mismo", señaló.

Fuente: http://www.fashioningtech.com/ - rosario3.com

Magic Trackpad

Why should notebooks have all the fun?
Desktop users, your time has come. The new Magic Trackpad is the first Multi-Touch trackpad designed to work with your Mac desktop computer. It uses the same Multi-Touch technology you love on the MacBook Pro. And it supports a full set of gestures, giving you a whole new way to control and interact with what’s on your screen. Swiping through pages online feels just like flipping through pages in a book or magazine. And inertial scrolling makes moving up and down a page more natural than ever. Magic Trackpad connects to your Mac via Bluetooth wireless technology. Use it in place of a mouse or in conjunction with one on any Mac computer — even a notebook.

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El gigante tecnológico Apple presentó el nuevo Magic Trackpad, un "trackpad" (dispositivo táctil que sirve de ratón) semejante a los ya existentes en los portátiles Mac pero para computadoras de sobremesa.

Gracias a su superficie de cristal, el Magic Trackpad inalámbrico, que costará en Estados Unidos 69 dólares y en España 69 euros, permite a los usuarios desplazarse arriba y abajo a través de la pantalla, agrandar o reducir la imagen, girar una imagen moviendo los dedos y usar tres dedos para navegar a través de colecciones de páginas web o de fotos.

El Magic Trackpad está diseñado para acoplarse a la línea de ordenadores de sobremesa iMac y es algo más grande que el que ya viene incorporado en los teclados de los ordenadores Mac.

En cuanto a la renovación de la familia iMac, Apple anunció que esta línea de computadoras será la más rápida hasta la fecha, incorporando los últimos procesadores Intel Core i3, Core i5 y Core i7 y nuevos y potentes gráficos.

"Hemos tomado el mejor ordenador compacto del mundo y lo hemos hecho aún mejor", dice Philip Schiller, vicepresidente senior de Marketing de Producto mundial de Apple, en referencia a los últimos procesadores, gráficos de alto rendimiento y su singular diseño de aluminio y cristal.

Fuente: rosario3.com & http://www.apple.com

Google refines image search

Google refines image search

Google is rolling out an update to Google Images. The search engine says it has an index of over 10 billion images.

In its refreshed design of Google Images, the company, according to Nate Smith, product manager, Google Images, will offer following features:

Dense tiled layout designed to make it easy to look at lots of images at once.
Instant scrolling between pages, without letting a user getting lost in the images. One can now get up to 1,000 images, all in one scrolling page. Google will show small, unobtrusive page numbers so that one doesn’t lose track.
Larger thumbnail previews on the results page, designed for modern browsers and high-res screens.

A hover pane that appears when you mouse over a given thumbnail image, giving you a larger preview, more info about the image and other image-specific features such as “Similar images.”

Once you click on an image, you’re taken to a new landing page that displays a large image in context, with the website it’s hosted on visible right behind it. Click anywhere outside the image, and you’re right in the original page where you can learn more about the source and context.
Optimised keyboard navigation for faster scrolling through many pages, taking advantage of standard web keyboard shortcuts such as Page Up / Page Down.

“For advertisers, we’re launching a new ad format called Image Search Ads. These ads appear only on Google Images, and they let you include a thumbnail image alongside your lines of text,” added Smith. “These upgrades are rolling out in most of our local interfaces worldwide over the next few days.”

Desde hoy Google renueva y amplía la búsqueda de imágenes

Al buscar aparece a la izquierda una lista de resultados que se puede recorrer con el mouse para elegir opciones de tamaño, color o el contexto de la web en la que está incluida.


Desde este lunes, Google renovó su búsqueda de imágenes en Internet, según informa la empresa en su blog. Próximamente se lo renovará para su uso a través de los teléfonos móviles.

Al buscar aparece a la izquierda una lista de resultados que se puede recorrer con el mouse para elegir opciones de tamaño, color o el contexto de la web en la que está incluida.

Google señaló que su base de datos cuenta con links a más de 10 mil millones de imágenes.

Según la agencia de noticias dpa, también se amplió el diccionario de búsqueda a más de 25 idiomas, desde el árabe al checo.

Próximamente se lo renovará para su uso a través de los teléfonos móviles, anunció la empresa.

Fuente: rosario3.com - http://www.m-travel.com/news

500

Facebook is expected to say this week that it has reached 500 million users, making it the biggest information network on the Internet in a meteoric rise that has connected the world into an online statehood of status updates, fan pages and picture exchanges.

In its six-year history, the site has become ritualized in our daily lives. It has even attracted the unwilling who join for fear of being cut out of the social fabric. It has connected old friends and family. It has helped make and break political campaigns and careers. It has turned many of us into daily communicators of one-line missives on the profound and mundane. And it has tested the limits of what we care to share and keep private.

The sheer impact and sized of the Facebook universe has captured the attention of federal regulators and lawmakers who are struggling to protect consumers and their privacy as they flock to this and other sites like Twitter. The privately held company that still thinks of itself as a startup is also learning how to handle the new responsibilities that its massive trove of information about its half billion users brings .

“As the amount of personal information shared on social networking sites grows, and the number of third-party companies and advertising networks with access to such information grows, it is important that consumers understand how their data is being shared and what privacy rules apply,” wrote David Vladeck, head of consumer protection at the Federal Trade Commission, in a letter last January to the privacy advocacy group Electronic Privacy and Information Center.

The milestone will be celebrated, according to The Wall Street Journal, by a public relations campaign with users sharing stories of how Facebook has affected their lives. And the half-billion-membership mark has captured the attention of Hollywood, with Sony Pictures set to release "The Social Network," a movie on Facebook's origins in October.

The half-billion-member-mark can’t be understated. To put the number into perspective, the population inhabiting Facebook now equals that of the United States, Japan and Germany combined. Or, two Mexicos and a Brazil. The universe of Facebook membership is less than half the population of India, but in the last year the social networking Internet site has doubled in size.

A Facebook spokesman declined to comment for this post. (Washington Post Co. Chairman Donald E. Graham is a member of Facebook's board.)

The Silicon Valley Web site is now the biggest online trust of our vacation photos, electronic rolodexes, and recordings of how we felt about President Obama’s candidacy for president, the ban on headscarves in France and the Lindsay Lohan’s rollercoaster ride with sobriety. Seventy percent of users are outside the U.S., and one-quarter of all users are checking in and updating their pages from their cell phones.

And now Facebook is grappling with the growing pains that come with its influence. CEO Mark Zuckerberg, 26, created the company out of his dorm room at Harvard University just six years ago. The firm recently moved its headquarters from University Avenue in Palo Alto to a bigger campus on Page Mill Road.

“A big part of the challenge that we’ve had is that we’ve grown from tens of thousands of users to hundreds of millions,” Zuckerberg said in a news conference on privacy policy changes last May. “It’s been a big shift along the way, and it hasn’t always been smooth.”

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Según The Wall Street Journal, la empresa de Silicon Valley prepara una campaña de publicidad para celebrar su meta en la que mostrará 200 historias verdaderas que relatarán cómo usuarios han encontrado el amor de sus vidas, han expresado su dolor o han colaborado en desastres naturales a través de esta red social.

Los 500 millones de personas conectadas a facebook, que en el último año ha doblado su tamaño según The Washington Post, significa una población igual de grande a las de los Estados Unidos, Japón y Alemania juntos.

Ese universo procesa a diario fotografías, comentarios, mensajes, vídeos, noticias y casi todo lo que se puede compartir en la red, una especie de biblioteca virtual donde cabe todo y organizada en torno a los antojos espontáneos de millones de usuarios y sus conexiones de amigos.

Su popularidad ha crecido internacionalmente a pesar de denuncias y polémicas sobre los derechos de privacidad de sus usuarios que han llevado a la compañía a redefinir sus sistemas, sobre todo a partir de unos cambios que introdujo el pasado diciembre y que tuvo que rectificar parcialmente a raíz de las críticas.

Aún así, su impacto ha atraído hasta a las cámaras de Hollywood y en octubre la productora de cine Sony Pictures prepara el estreno de una película de la historia de sus orígenes, The Social Network.

El fundador de la empresa, Mack Zuckerberg, de 26 años, es uno de los protagonistas retratados en el filme como un estudiante en su segundo año en la Universidad de Harvard que pensó en esta web en la habitación de su residencia estudiantil.


Fuente: EFE - http://voices.washingtonpost.com

ClickCEOP

After months of pressure to improve its online safety features, Facebook has reached an agreement to provide an application not dissimilar to the "panic button" critics have called for, which users can add to their homepage and links to the UK's online child protection watchdog.

Facebook has been put on the back foot in recent months and forced at first to defend its safety measures and then announce a raft of new initiatives as criticism mounted.

Founder Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged late last month that the global expansion of Facebook meant privacy controls had become too complex and that "very legitimate questions" had been raised about its failings in this area.

Now Facebook UK is to launch a new initiative with the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, one of its harshest critics, to give all users the potential to access the organisation's advice and reporting centre.

The service, accessible via a ClickCeop button, includes a dedicated facility for reporting instances of suspected grooming or inappropriate sexual behaviour.

Facebook said that it marks the first time in the UK that all users, and especially the target demographic of 13-to-18-year-olds, will be able to have direct access to CEOP's services. However, the new system is opt-in, meaning that Facebook users will have to actively choose to download, add, or bookmark the new button onto their homepage.

"Our dialogue with Facebook about adopting the ClickCeop button is well documented," said Jim Gamble, the chief executive of Ceop. "Today, however, is a good day for child protection."

In April Facebook announced new measures including a £5m education and awareness campaign but declined to add the Ceop button.

Because users will have to be made aware of the existence of the new button and have to pro-actively add it to their homepage, Facebook will be running an online awareness campaign targeting members.
The campaign will include an automatic advert-message appearing on every homepage of users aged between 13 to 18 inviting them to add the application.

The new alert application will be backed by a Ceop Facebook page that, when "liked" by users, aims to help raise the profile of online safety. The page will look at topics that teenagers care about, such as celebrities, music and exams, and will link these subjects to questions about online safety.

"We know from speaking to offenders that a visible deterrent could protect young people online," said Joanna Shields, vice president of Facebook for Europe, Middle East and Africa. "There is no single silver bullet to making the Internet safer but by joining forces with Ceop we have developed a comprehensive solution... and backed this with an awareness campaign to publicise it to young users."

LONDRES (AP).- Facebook lanzó una nueva característica destinada para los usuarios británicos más jóvenes de la plataforma que les permitirá reportar comportamientos inapropiados o preocupantes de otros usuarios a las autoridades de protección infantil del país.

El Centro Digital de Explotación Infantil dijo que el nuevo programa, llamado "ClickCEOP" , permitirá que los usuarios de entre 13 y 18 años, puedan tener la oportunidad de presentar denuncias de conducta sexual o acoso.

Aunque la aplicación se estrena con los niños británicos en mente, la vocera Vicky Gillings dijo que los casos de acoso reportados por jóvenes de otros países serán comunicados a las autoridades en esos lugares.

Esta aplicación aparecerá en la parte superior del perfil del usuario una vez que ha sido incorporada. Al hacer clic en ella, aparecen vínculos de los diversos sitios web de la organización de protección infantil, desde donde se pueden reportar los problemas ocurridos en Facebook.

Asimismo, un anuncio que promueve esta función aparecerá en las páginas principales de los usuarios adolescentes de Facebook en todas partes del mundo.

Jim Gamble, director ejecutivo de la organización, dijo que el programa podría darle más tranquilidad a los padres de niños que usan la red social. "Tras hablar con los delincuentes sabemos que un elemento visual disuasivo podría proteger a la gente joven en Internet".

Fuente: La Nacion - http://www.guardian.co.uk

Finland makes 1Mb broadband access a legal right

Finland has become the first country in the world to make broadband a legal right for every citizen.

From 1 July every Finn will have the right to access to a 1Mbps (megabit per second) broadband connection.

Finland has vowed to connect everyone to a 100Mbps connection by 2015.

In the UK the government has promised a minimum connection of at least 2Mbps to all homes by 2012 but has stopped short of enshrining this as a right in law.

The Finnish deal means that from 1 July all telecommunications companies will be obliged to provide all residents with broadband lines that can run at a minimum 1Mbps speed.

Broadband commitment

Speaking to the BBC, Finland's communication minister Suvi Linden explained the thinking behind the legislation: "We considered the role of the internet in Finns everyday life. Internet services are no longer just for entertainment.

"Finland has worked hard to develop an information society and a couple of years ago we realised not everyone had access," she said.

It is believed up to 96% of the population are already online and that only about 4,000 homes still need connecting to comply with the law.

In the UK internet penetration stands at 73%.

The British government has agreed to provide everyone with a minimum 2Mbps broadband connection by 2012 but it is a commitment rather than a legally binding ruling.

"The UK has a universal service obligation which means virtually all communities will have broadband," said a spokesman for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

Making broadband a legal right could have implications for countries that plan tough action on illegal file-sharing.

Both the UK and France have said they may cut off or limit the internet connections of people who persistently download music or films for free.

The Finnish government has adopted a more gentle approach.

"We will have a policy where operators will send letters to illegal file-sharers but we are not planning on cutting off access," said Ms Linden.

A poll conducted for the BBC World Service earlier this year found that almost four in five people around the world believed that access to the internet is a fundamental right.

La nueva normativa, aprobada hace ocho meses, obliga a los 26 teleoperadores de Finlandia a proporcionar una conexión a internet "de alta calidad y a un precio razonable", con una velocidad de descarga de al menos 1 Mbps.

De este modo, la nueva legislación incluye el acceso a la banda ancha en la lista de servicios básicos de comunicación que deben llegar a todos los rincones del país, junto a otros como el teléfono o el correo postal.

"A partir de ahora, la conexión de banda ancha a un precio razonable es un derecho fundamental en Finlandia. Éste es, sin duda, uno de los mayores logros del Gobierno en cuanto a política regional, y estoy orgullosa de ello", afirmó en un comunicado la ministra finlandesa de Transporte y Comunicaciones, Suvi Lindén.

"Espero que la gente aproveche esta oportunidad y contacte con los operadores de telecomunicaciones de la zona en la que viven" , añadió la ministra.

El objetivo del Gobierno finlandés es ampliar la velocidad mínima de conexión a internet a través de cables de fibra óptica hasta los cien megabytes por segundo (Mbps) antes de finales de 2015.

Al mismo tiempo, aspira a aumentar en el mismo plazo el porcentaje de finlandeses con acceso a la red, desde el 95 por ciento actual hasta más del 99 por ciento.


Fuente: EFE - http://news.bbc.co.uk

Youtube: New Video Editor

YouTube has just released a new video editor that lets you create video mashups and edit down clips from your library of existing video uploads. The feature should be rolled out to all YouTube users by the end of the day.

The new service enables you to edit together separate clips, as well as add or change the background music using YouTube’s commercial AudioSwap library of licensed songs. As of right now, the service and its features are pretty basic, but could prove valuable for users that either want to create longer montages or playlists, or do basic editing jobs.

As CNET notes, services like the YouTube editor showcase Google’s commitment to creating a suite of web-based creative tools. While limited in scope right now, we could actually see a more advanced version of the YouTube video editor being integrated into Chrome OS as a purely-web based video solution.

El portal de internet YouTube lanzó un editor gratuito integrado en su sistema que permite al usuario alterar y combinar videos.

La idea es que el usuario pueda editar sus propios materiales, pero no podrá tocar los que haya subido a la plataforma otro usuario.

Se trata de una herramienta con una funcionalidad básica pero que resultará eficaz para tareas sencillas de edición, que hasta ahora tenían que hacerse empleando software externo a la web.

Los vídeos generados tras el proceso de editado pasan a formar parte de la colección del usuario como una nueva producción con las mismas características que los vídeos que fueron subidos a YouTube directamente.

Fuente: http://mashable.com - www.rosario3.com

rentafriend.com

In a not-so-secret double life, Jennifer Morrison is simply "Jennifer," platonic friend for hire.

The reservation-taker at a popular Las Vegas restaurant has accepted cash to show an introverted, out-of-town computer programmer around the Pinball Hall of Fame and the Bellagio's famous dancing fountains.

A bored grandmother visiting family from the Midwest hired her for an afternoon movie. A stay-at-home mom who was new to the area paid her to come on over to do some scrapbooking. Morrison, 31, met a traveling businessman at the airport with a folder of research he requested on things to do and helped him rent a car.

It's all because of a new arrival to the Web-fueled, rent-an-everything revolution -- Rentafriend.com.

"You look at a site like this and think, 'Oh, they must all be escorts or it's a dating site or something,' " said Morrison, a mother of a 2-year-old who signed on with the blessing of her husband. "When I first saw it I had mixed feelings about it. I thought it was kind of sad that people have to do this."

While Morrison is happy to meet new people and make a little extra money, charging $20 to $30 an hour, she's not the only one to think lonely thoughts about the 7-month-old service modeled on similar, hugely successful sites in Japan and elsewhere in Asia.

In a world where friend is a verb and you may never meet some of yours from Facebook, where research indicates chronic loneliness can lead to depression, suicide, high blood pressure and viral infections, where roughly 20 percent of all people -- 60 million in the U.S. alone -- say they feel lonely at any given moment, is renting a friend a solution or stopgap?

"The real question is, is it solving anyone's problems? My first reaction was to roll my eyes, but it may in fact help people meet others and get back into circulation. If it's used as a substitute for meaningful face-to-face relationships, it's not going to work," said John T. Cacioppo, a social neuroscience researcher and co-author of "Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Interaction."

Rentafriend receives 100,000 unique views every month and has nearly 2,000 members who pay $24.95 a month, or $69.95, a year for a login and password to peruse the photos and profiles of 167,000-plus possible pals.

Christopher Barton, 31, of Boulder City, Nev., first tried Rentafriend about six months ago on a business trip training clients for an online university. Living on the road, he hates to eat alone in restaurants and wants to make the most of his downtime.

"I'm in different cities all the time," he said. "You kind of get a tour guide to a certain extent."

He chooses young, attractive women because "I'd just feel weird paying to go out with a guy." A rent-a-pal in Chicago took him to a fun, hole-in-the-wall restaurant he never would have found himself. In New Orleans, he and another rental hit Cafe du Monde in the French Market and Jackson Square.

Started by Scott Rosenbaum in Stewartsville, N.J., a former marketer for dating Web sites, Rentafriend has some competition from offline services that will make platonic matches for a fee, including Rentalocalfriend.com for travelers. The difference, he said, is Rentafriend allows the renter to make a pick, negotiating the cost and making arrangements through e-mail or phone calls.

"People e-mail me all the time about it. Is it legal? Is it really platonic? There's no 100 percent way to be sure, but we have zero tolerance if a friend says they were solicited. There's no second chance," Rosenbaum said.

Rosenbaum's site, like those in Japan, has people renting for lots of reasons. Two students rented parents to meet with college officials after they were caught drinking on campus. A woman once hired a college girl to visit her mother in a nursing home three days a week after she moved away.

"In Japan and China, they're more cultural because having a full family is so important," he said. "It's common to rent a fill-in family member for a wedding, like a father figure or someone to stand in as an important uncle to give a toast."

Rosenbaum's site is set up for search by ZIP code. His rentals skew young, with most ranging from 20 to 35, though there are plenty in their 40s and 50s. Hourly fees range from $10 to a rare $150, usually between $20 and $50.

"When you look at the profiles, there's tons of things people want to do," said Barton, who's an actor. "You can kind of pick and choose and find a profile of somebody who's into what you're into. It's a better kind of experience than going around by yourself."

Morrison mentions her husband and child in her Rentafriend profile and offers that she dances Tahitian style and hip hop. "If you need someone to work out with or just hang out I am your girl. I'm pretty peppy and bubbly if you just need a smile and I have lived a life of someone twice my age if you need an ear and some advice."

She has a full-time job but Rentafriend has helped her earn a little extra. "I'm trying to save more. We'd like to buy a house and just put money away. I treat it like a business, but it isn't my profession."

Ori Brafman, co-author with brother Rom of the new book "Click: The Magic of Instant Connections," said the concept "seems really tragic, kind of surreally tragic" in ways that sex services don't because it symbolizes the worst kind of social isolation.

"The danger isn't Rentafriend per se, but rather what it symbolizes," he said. "We purchase fleeting replacements because, as a society, we lack those close, meaningful bonds that our so essential. "

Does Barton consider himself lonely? Not really. He has buddies, doesn't have a girlfriend and isn't using Rentafriend to find one.

"If I did have a girlfriend, she'd probably want to know what was going on," he said. "I'd use it a little less probably, or maybe I'd start paying guys."

Al mejor estilo de Roberto Carlos, tal como lo dice la canción que lo consagró –“Un millón de amigos”–, todos aquellos que se encuentren solos, podrán alquilar amigos a través de Internet, haciendo un pago por el encuentro.

La red ofrece un nuevo servicio por medio de la página rentafriend.com, donde especialistas opinan que esta nueva tendencia podría ayudar a las personas que sufren de soledad crónica.

En un mundo en que mucha gente nunca conocerá a sus "amigos" de Facebook y donde la soledad crónica puede causar problemas de salud y hasta suicidios, investigadores no saben si ésta es una solución o sólo un parche temporal.


Lo cierto es que para no pasar más un Día del Amigo en soledad, ahora con un pago que ronda de los 20 a 30 dólares, podrás ser parte de Rentafriend que tiene 100.000 visitantes únicos por mes y cerca de 2.000 integrantes que pagan 24,95 dólares mensuales o 69,95 anuales para poder ver los perfiles y fotos de unos 167.000 "amigos" potenciales.

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Flock 2.6.0

Our Download of the Day today is Flock 2.6.0.

Flock delivers the latest webmail, photos, videos and updates from your favorites sites, so you can stop running around. Take a load off. Enjoy.

Keep In Touch - Keep in tune with your friends and their activities. Flock makes sure you never miss a beat.

It's Cool To Share - Flock hooks it all together so you can drag and drop anything to your friends.

Make the News: Publish Yourself - Flock makes blogging and photo uploading to popular services super easy. Just log in to your favorite service and your instantly ready to publish anything from anywhere on the web with Flock.

Easy Access - Flock automatically connects you with over 20 of your favorite online services. Just log in. Flock does the rest.

Stay Informed and Be Heard - Flock has features you can't find in any other browser, whether you're consuming the news or making the news.


Flock 2.6.0 es la nueva versión del navegador social basado en Firefox. Se trata de un navegador con el que se puede crear y editar blogs, subir fotos a redes sociales como Facebook o publicar mensajes en Twitter, de una manera sencilla.

La herramienta también permite instalar extensiones para mejorar y ampliar sus funcionalidades en Mozilla Firefox. Además, Flock 2.6.0 incorpora la actualización 3.0.19 de Firefox.

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Fuente: www.tweaktown.com - www.rosario3.com