Eight years in prison for posting photos online intimate
Merida A court sentenced to a computer for a crime of discovery and disclosure of secrets.
The criminal court No. 2 of Merida has sentenced to eight years imprisonment to a computer for posting online a series of intimate photos that collected images of sexual content in which they were or acquaintances involved in the life Extremadura's public capital.
Specifically, the court convicted David Crejo Garcia to eight years in prison for a crime of discovery and revelation of secrets. People who intervened or appeared in the images were the attorney Angel Acedo, brother of the mayor, the popular Peter Hearn, the PP Councillor Gloria Constantino and the attorney and local television presenter Maria del Mar Pérez de las Heras.
addition, David Crejo must compensate with 120,000 euros to 100,000 euros last and Gloria Constantino and many other Angel Acedo. This compensation implies a subsidiary of the company Merida Computer Group Ltd., which was Crejo partner and was responsible for maintaining the computer equipment of lawyer's office.
The ruling finds that the offender entered the personal computer Acedo, shot the photos and then spread from your computer with intent undermine the public image of the persons mentioned. In the sentence given that such persons "in some social relevance in town and well known, suffered a serious mental suffering and dire consequences for their personal, family and professional."
The size of screens grows and provides a dictionary in six languages.
XL The new Nintendo DSi, with two screens of 10.7 cm, 93% higher than those installed on the Nintendo DS Lite and an angle larger vision will reach the European market on 5 March. The new console is equipped with preinstalled entertainment programs among which a new version of the game of mental abilities and a dictionary (6 in 1) allows, typing or insert a picture of a word, get the translation of it in English, French, German, English, Italian and Japanese. The console is equipped with the Nintendo DSi web browser that accesses the Internet through wi-fi.
The console is presented in two colors and stylus to navigate is larger to facilitate the use of the touch screen.
France and Germany recommend alternatives to Internet Explorer for security
The browser company, Microsoft, is alarmed by the notice.
France and Germany are wary of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser. The German Government has recommended that Internet users seeking a browser alternative to Internet Explorer (IE), Microsoft, "to ensure their safety," has warned the Federal Office for Information Security germana, after Microsoft acknowledged that the security of your browser failed in recent attacks Google systems.
For its part, Certa, the French center for treatment of computer attacks, has also issued a recommendation to use alternative browsers "waiting for a correction." According Certa, the vulnerability allows a malicious person to execute code remotely.
Microsoft has rejected the advice of the German office, arguing that the risk for its users was low and strengthening security in the Explorer settings will solve the problems. However, the German authorities have said that even that would make IE completely safe for navigation. Microsoft spokesman in Germany, Thomas Baumgaertner, has retorted that Google attacks were carried out by "highly motivated, with a very specific purpose." "There were no attacks against ordinary users or customers of the firm. There is no threat to them, so we do not support this recommendation."
Meanwhile, the spokesman for antivirus firm Sophos, Graham Cluley warned in a statement to the BBC that the German government announcement concerns to versions 6, 7 and 8 of the browser and notes that have appeared on the Internet and explanations on how to exploit vulnerabilities.
The English Tomás Palacios, a professor at MIT, making graphene transistors get 10 times faster than silicon.
The 'chips' of the revolutionary material, one atom thick, could reach speeds of thousand GHz
First was copper. This material allowed to transmit information from one point to another. Then came the original germanium transistor, created at Bell Labs. Began the era of computer technology but, as the material was unstable and was replaced by silicon, the semiconductor chips are manufactured in the last century.
silicon's reign is coming to an end. No suffering, and has no substitute and is called graphene. In 15 or 20 computers, cell phones, sensors and other electronic equipment will be of this new material, a form of pure carbon.
A research team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), led English by Tomas Palacios, is making one of the first devices and electronic circuits based on graphene, discovered in 2004 by scientists and Kostya Novoselov Andre Geim of the University of Manchester. With
between semiconductor and metal properties, this new material one atomic layer thick revolutionize telecommunications and computing to enable the manufacture of microprocessors, sensors and communications systems much faster than today. "One of the paradigms of the electronics is to increase the frequency of electrical signals to produce ever-faster computers or phones capable of transmitting data faster. "If the silicon chips could reach a maximum speed of 100 GHz, using graphene transistors reach the terahertz (1 THz). That is, 10 times," says the 30-year Madrid, professor MIT.El prototype "graphene transistor was presented at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society in March. Also published in Electron Device Letters , the most prestigious magazine of the U.S. electronics in its May issue. If all goes well, in two years will commercial versions of these advanced chips to market .
team Palacios transistors has not only made ten times faster than silicon. It also exploits the properties of graphene to develop electronic devices that could not make any other material. For example, a frequency multiplier "will enhance wireless communications and the current silicon electronics, doubling the transmission capacity of each chip to be added to the multiplier."
Palacios is a telecommunications engineer. With 19 years researching and compound semiconductors such as gallium nitride, at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM). A year after finishing the race, he moved to California for further study. Finished his doctorate, he got the position of Professor in the department of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. In addition, he began to lead a team of 12 people in the microsystems technology laboratories of the technology center. They have managed to produce graphene transistors capable of transmitting data at high speed. They also develop a sensor based on this material, while pointing to a food, determine if it is fresh.
Graphene is pure carbon. Many researchers have studied theoretically for more than 50 years. Nobody believed I could make devices with this material until, in 2004, scientists at the University of Manchester (Great Britain) discovered how to obtain graphene from graphite, the material of the pencil. "If you hit multiple times and take off a piece of tape impregnated with graphite fragments of the mine, just getting graphene: a single layer of carbon atoms," says Palacios.
The procedure was very rudimentary, but opened the door for many scientists began working with the material, whose properties are "amazing and unique. Mechanically, it is the toughest ever discovered. In the future, could allow the manufacture of any structure, such as cars and airplanes, more durable and lightweight. Electronic level, is more mobile, a hundred times that of silicon, which can accelerate electrons to speeds much higher than possible in any other semiconductor, "says Palacios.
Graphene Industries, created by the discoverers of graphene is the only company that sells it. the moment. Several university groups and companies seeking to develop an alternative way to get it, and it is easy to produce industrially, the main stumbling block.
Jing Kong, Palacios colleague at MIT, creates whole wafers of graphene on a nickel surface. "This method is more useful from the point of view, however, the mobility graphene is smaller than that obtained by pasting and taking off pieces of enthusiasm. "researcher, convinced of its possibilities, says:" It's a great material. Not only revolutionized the electronics, computing and communications, but that is changing the way physics is studied.
Mini particle accelerator.
Does it sound the CERN particle accelerator? Complex , which occupies square kilometers near Geneva (Switzerland), used to explore the world of the infinitely small to find the fundamental elements of matter. Physicists are trying to use graphene to build a kind of miniature accelerator. "In a graphene fragment of a single square centimeter can perform many experiments that previously required labs like CERN."
If it becomes reality, scientists could find the Higgs boson, a hypothetical elementary particle that has not been observed, and known as the God particle, in a lab that fits on your fingertip.
Beyond Google, there are many tools on the network data networks to find a person. What are the techniques to find on the Web from work and personal addresses to phones, pictures and backgrounds.
When a person tries to find someone through the Internet, Google is not the only source available. In the past two years, a significant number of pagers came on the scene and offer better ways to track them by name, location or workplace.
explains Gina Trapani, a U.S. Web programmer and editor of Lifehacker.com site dedicated to software applied to personal productivity, more and more ways to find an old lost friend, contact a former teammate working or researching a prospective date or prospective employee.
In this note, some of the techniques covered by this specialist, in an article translated by Fernando Spettoli and adapted and published by Cristian Borghello, editor of Segu-info.com.ar Argentinian site with screenshots of these services applied to the author herself:
Find phone numbers and addresses
can find the address and phone number of anyone in ZabaSearch, a comprehensive people search. Includes numbers and addresses listed and unlisted public (as the founders say that all information is public.)
The depths of the Web
Pipl is a search engine that finds information that Google sometimes can not, allegedly looking for "deep Web" (or invisible web). Pipl
brings an impressive amount of results for those users who use their "real" name online, including personal pages, news collaborations, pages on MySpace and Amazon lists. You can also specialize the search for common names, adding city, state and country.
social sites with one click
Does the person you are looking for has an account on Friendster, Linkedin, MySpace, Twitter, or Xanga? Instead of looking into service by service, you can enter the name and other details of the person and issues, and city and Wink will all work with a single click.
Job Search The job search engine ZoomInfo collects information from individuals and companies in one place to help candidates find the right job, although people search tool also returns information about businesses and especially large.
ZoomInfo
information gathered from the Web, including the employment history of a person and the current job, looking for a new job or not. You can search a person's full name and if there are too many results, filter them by location (U.S. and Canada). Facebook
One of the major utilities Facebook to find people online and no longer just for students. Refining
to Google
For Internet stars can be found excellent results by simply typing its name, but for ordinary people, with names that are repeated or double meaning, there are tips advanced search to refine results:
* Enclose the full name of the person sought in quotation marks when you enter in the search box, for example "John Doe. "
* Include other relevant words in the search, such as occupation, work, nickname, etc. (Example: Manuel Belgrano, political).
* If the person you are looking for can only appear in a particular place (eg a school), look only at that site using the operator: "site: ucla.edu" John Smith ".
To find people by their face, you can search Google Images for a quick glance, especially useful for people with common names or to determine the gender of a name that had never been heard. Firefox
can access a menu to search for people in the search engines with "Who Is This Person? Firefox extension. "
If you are looking for online friends more often, can be traced in a ton of engines for the name of the person using the Who Is This Person? Firefox extension.
For this, simply highlight the name on any Web page and search on Wink, LinkedIn, Wikipedia, Facebook, Google News, Technorati, Yahoo Person Search, Spock, WikiYou, ZoomInfo, IMDB, MySpace and other search engines from Menu Who Is This Person?
more resources to search, should be fixed in the next tutorial on searching public records online.
one To make it easier to find, you have to read Have a Say in What Google says about you.
addition, many of these services can add the name of the person and charge information. You can do a search for the name and click on the link that says "Is this you?".
According to an article published this week in Technology Review, a city being built in Abu Dhabi serve as evidence of large-scale renewable energy.
already begun under the desert climate of Abu Dhabi to build a city that will house 50,000 people and 1,500 businesses, but will have an extremely small power consumption and the little that used to come from renewable energy sources . The first building is a new research institute that the founders hope will become the seed of a new Silicon Valley in the Middle East, but focused on renewable energy sources rather than information technology.
The city, which is expected to cost 22,000 million dollars, will implement a set of technologies, including thin-film solar panels that act as facades and roofing materials of buildings, sensors to monitor energy consumption and drive vehicles powered by batteries that will make cars unnecessary. In fact, its founders hope to serve as a testing ground for a myriad of new technologies proposed to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
The new zero-emission city, which is being built near the city of Abu Dhabi, in the center of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is part of the Masdar Initiative, a program investment of 15,000 million dollars, funded by the state and designed, in part, to ensure that the prosperity of the UAE does not depend solely on oil. According to its leaders, this project will give the country a leader in renewable energy. If successful, said Sultan al Jaber, Masdar CEO, "we will be leading the world."
Designing the city from scratch has several advantages. About half the cost of solar energy for the labor and installation materials. In Masdar, the thin film solar cells can be incorporated directly into the facades buildings to replace other conventional building materials, reducing the cost of solar energy. The energy needed for cooling is reduced by controlling the orientation and design of buildings, streets and parks of the city to strike a balance between sun and shade, and to promote natural air circulation.
The transport energy is also reduced. Effective electric transportation will provide a home service: the user simply enter the destination address and transport will pick up where you are and will automatically take you to your destination. Energy drive will come from renewable energy sources will be stored onboard in batteries.
water consumption kept to a minimum, reducing the energy needed for desalination, and a series of sensors around the city to inform residents about their energy consumption, so you have to pay extra money if they make a binge.
the city's designers predict that improvements in efficiency will result in a 75% reduction in energy consumption compared to a conventional city the same size.
Nokia hopes to succeed in its lawsuit against Apple for patent infringement
Nokia, the world's largest maker of mobile phones, said today that hopes to succeed in its claim for patent violation against Apple, and blamed the multinational American what he called "escalation of the conflict of patents."
The Finnish company hopes that the International Trade Commission (ITC, for its acronym in English) agree within 30 days of the lawsuit it filed yesterday against Apple on the grounds that almost all phones computers and music players violate California-seven of its patents.
According to Nokia, Apple copied without permission on their iPhones, iMacs and iPods seven of its patented technologies relating to the user interface and various management functions for the cameras, antennas and power management.
Mark Durrant, Director of Communications at Nokia, told Reuters today that it is seven patents "nonessential", so that the Finnish manufacturer can use these technologies without being obliged to exclusive licensing.
"Apple is competing against Nokia dirty way, taking advantage Free our technological research, in which Nokia has invested over 40,000 million euros, "Durrant said in a telephone interview.
Nokia spokesman said the Finnish multinational has always given its essential patents to other manufacturers exchange for financial compensation, but said that Apple chose to use several of them without permission.
Nokia demand filed with the ITC is a step in the "patent war" against Apple, one of its main competitors in the market for smartphones (smartphones).
Last October, Nokia U.S. manufacturer sued in U.S. District Court in Delaware (USA), considering that the iPhone violates a number of essential patents for wireless technologies in the second and third generation (GSM and UMTS).
three weeks ago, Apple fired back and in turn brought suit against the Finnish company, accusing it of violating thirteen of its technological innovations in the manufacture of mobile multimedia.
"Apple asked the court to ban U.S. imports of Nokia products, which represented an escalation of the conflict," said Durrant.
Nokia spokesman said that with the new demand, Apple will aim to "stop illegal use" patents, but also to ban U.S. imports of products that infringe.
"We have an obligation to our shareholders to protect our intellectual property, especially non-essential patents, which give us a technological advantage over our competitors," said Durrant.
is not the first time that Nokia is involved in litigation with other companies in the sector by disputes over intellectual property of technological innovations.
In 2006, the U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm sued Nokia in the understanding that the Finnish multinational had infringed three of its patents relating to mobile technology and data GSM / GPRS / Edge, but in 2008 was rejected by the ITC and the British High Court.
Before the court ruling made public, Nokia fought back and in turn sued Qualcomm, one of the largest manufacturers of chips for mobile phones, with the European Commission and the ITC.
Finally, both companies signed a patent sharing agreement in July 2008, effective for fifteen years, ending one of the most serious conflicts between companies in the telecommunications industry complex.
In this technological age when any appliance is integrated into microchips, from appliances to credit cards or traffic lights. Many people are unaware that through these small component, now age 50, life is more comfortable. The first microchip, or integrated circuit, was developed at Texas Instruments (TI), a company that is responsible for developing and commercializing technology semiconductor and computer , by Jack Kilby used the September 12, 1958. The new invention was formed by a strip of germanium with one transistor and other components all glued it on a glass plate.
Kilby has recently joined the company in July of that year and his role was to try to solve problems on how to connect electronic components to make circuits in an efficient and effective. The new employee, who did not leave for a newcomer to the company, he realized that all components could be made with the same semi-conducting material, at the time Germanium, Silicon is currently used, and create a complete circuit causing the integrated circuit or microchip. His invention revolutionized measuring 11.5 millimeters electronic market and in a few years the world. Internet would be unthinkable without this invention. The world of communications, transportation or medicine, which are renewed every so often taking devices or mechanisms that are able to improve their quality, effectiveness and thus make life easier for users, thanks to the extraordinary power of microchips. Jim Tully, head of research group Gartner, consultant in charge of solving complex technology companies, said integrated circuit (or microchip) are "so involved in our lives that would be hard to imagine life without them. The microchip is the engine of the information age", as shown in The Times in remarks by otr / press.
CHEAP, low power consumption and is easy to replace During this year, the semiconductor company will produce more than 267 billion integrated circuits. Gartner expects this number to increase to 330 billion by 2012. Over the years, microchips have become much smaller, but the real revolution has arrived with the significant increase in the number of transistors that now can be integrated on a chip. In the late 60's microchips containing hundreds of transistors contained in the 80 thousands. Intel, the world leader in manufacturing of microchips, has discovered this year, a microprocessor chip that gave the name 'Tukwila' having the ability to integrate more than 2 billion microscopic transistors. The key to the success of this small component is the low cost of manufacture, as the materials that form are printed as a unit. Likewise, these components consume very little power and are easily replaceable.
The new terminal will be developed by Samsung and the aim is, in the words of Isabel Aguilera, CEO of Google in Spain, "access to information and expand the information society the less developed economy. " The company wants the phone to be free, as it aims to subsidize the advertising called geo-referenced, which is nothing else to offer an ad or another depending on the geographic location where the user is located.
This new product is in line with Google's goal of universal information and meet the needs of people worldwide. In this sense Isabel Aguilera pointed out that although "there may be products that may seem strange, all part of our innovation process."
So far we only know that the company is working on the issue, but has not revealed anything about the release date, nor on what the main technological features. What is certain is that the iPhone already has a rival that promises to be at its height.
U.S. giant Google announced on Tuesday the launch of its 'smart phone' ('smartphone') Nexus One, an initiative to expand its powerful brand Internet to the prosperous area of \u200b\u200bmobile telephony. According
specializing in technology blog Gizmodo, citing information leaked, the Nexus One will cost $ 530 "unlocked"-not subject to a specific provider telephony-, and $ 180 with a two-year contract with T-Mobile, subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG. "ecodiario.eleconomista.es/espana/noticias/1810131/01/10/El-Google-phone-sera-lanzado-el-martes."
'An Act Sinde' leaves the door open at the end of blogs linking to P2P sites
Confusion contradictions, uncertainty. Some of the first reactions of lawyers to the Draft Law on Sustainable Economy that the Government has officially released Monday. The document, a priori, despite the initial explanations of the Minister González Sinde, introduces concepts such as "indirect profit" or "claim of harm" that could lead to judicial decisions with a subjective component in the background. According to the lawyer Javier Maestre, an expert on Intellectual Property and New Technologies, the text, in short, is a "mixed bag."
01/11/2010 - Mirentxu MARIÑO - 20 Minutes .- The Commission on Intellectual Property Culture created to "safeguard intellectual property in the Information Society" will act, as has been written, "to interrupt the supply of a service company to remove any information or contents that violate intellectual property by a for-profit provider, directly or indirectly, or who intended to cause financial damage. " The direct profit involve a fee, for example, by a discharge, the indirect, could result from banner ads containing a download page or a blog that links to that page.
latter concept, as Master, is a "vague legal concept" that is not specified and could cause "legal uncertainty" until now, all statements related to P2P spoke simply for profit, with the tagline of "indirect" the Government wants to cover the fronts so far remained empty. The other contentious term is the "claim" that, in the words of Jorge Llevat, the firm Cuatrecasas, involves "intent" or intention of causing harm to others, something difficult to value and, according to Master, is a "fact finding very complex. " An example of this would be an opinion against an entity management rights (eg, SGAE) written in a blog you can include a link to a download page.
Until action is taken against websites happen some time
Two Laws, a Royal Decree and Law will be modified to carry out the approval of the Draft, only in the intellectual property concerned. That is, until they start to take action against websites that allegedly infringe rights in this regard, as the Government contends, will be quite some time. The fundamental problem posed by the text, according to lawyer Carlos Sanchez Almeida, is "a bankruptcy jurisdictions in the system "by moving the scope for judicial proceedings, civil affairs, until now the responsibility of the judges of the commercial. The executive acts and" back door "in his words.
This transfer of competence should be assumed, as said in a press conference Justice Minister Francisco Caamaño, an amendment of the Organic Law of the Judiciary, but the official document of the draft, which according to counsel, "to the extent where you can affect the freedom of expression, should also be processed as organic law "- no mention at this point. To this end, the Government has made public the Draft Law Further Sustainable Economy Act, which adds to the rule a new paragraph 5 of Article 90.
And, to begin with, the text must first go through several advisory bodies, among which are the State Council and the General Council of the Judiciary. He and other important legal weight, predicts the lawyer, will not a few objections to the Draft, who then has to pass the ordeal of Congress and the Senate to amend basic laws necessary absolute majority in Congress, regardless of whether the Senate can, given the majority insufficient socialist veto another of the modifications.
The draft law is a fudge because it promotes urgent precautionary measures
On the other hand, Article 122 of the Law Governing Contentious Administrative Jurisdiction in which the Government supports this bill to expedite a court decision introduces °- to do a 122-bis, "was intended for demonstrations banned, such as those of nationalist groups. Therefore, according to Sánchez Almeida, is to "bring the same level" guaranteeing the right of assembly and intellectual property rights.
This, in his words, is a "legal fudge, because if the aim is to enact measures urgent precautionary not to do anything about it. "When a reporter infiltrated the Miss Spain in 2002, Telecinco recorded images and wanted to issue them, a judge within 24 hours of precautionary measures," he recalls, adding that if you want a faster justice could "dissolve ministries Culture, Housing and Equality to spend all of Justice officials. "
"In theory, against the pages of links"
"It's an outrage," he adds, "is equivalent to Fraga's Press Law, in which reporters were given the possibility of resorting to the contentious and administrative when closing a newspaper, " giving the reason the courts until three years after the implementation of the measure. This could happen again if one affected by the closure of its website decides to go to because, as Master, it is unclear what route should go, if the commercial or administrative litigation. According to Sánchez Almeida should be modified directly, Intellectual Property Law and Justice provide other mechanisms. In addition, reaffirming, "a four-day procedure gives no guarantees."
In any case, the question is in the air right now is, can the above Committee on Intellectual Property, the second section, which is created in Culture close a website or have to wait for a judge to decide? The answer is ambiguous: this body is to decide whether there is a violation or not, but is "forced" to go to the magistrate, in this case the Chamber for Contentious Administrative Court, "if you believe" that the resolution it has taken to close a website can affect the rights and freedoms guaranteed in Article 20 of the Constitution (opinion, information, etc).
And if not you think? "If I were part of the Commission and were to close a website would come to judge, because I may be prosecuted for trespass if my decision to infringe those rights and fundamental freedoms," said Sánchez Almeida. Anyway, he concludes, these measures "in theory go against the pages of links" and in the first place, as they are currently regulated such links do not constitute "a reproduction of content or public communication" and in Second, in these pages there are communities of users who are forums of opinion that might be affected and "censored."
Google, tired of the censorship, China threatens to get FREE SOFTWARE
Google, the world's leading Internet search engine, has launched a órdago the Beijing government to declare that it will censor its search results and other content on its Chinese service. In an official blog , vice president of business development and legal representative of the company, David Drummond, announced that in future Google not bow to censorship demands communist country even if this means leaving the market world's most dynamic Internet.
The announcement was welcomed this morning with optimism on the part of Internet , activists and human rights groups, who had criticized Google and other foreign web operators to link their business objectives to the loss of shares freedom of expression.
How censorship works?
The existence of censorship in China is not new. The Great Wall is known Internet is the firewall of the Chinese Government (known as the Great Firewall or GFW among Internet) and also often talk about how thousands of officers spend their days locked in a dark basement of a ministry in Beijing track to Internet in search of words and images considered sensitive.
But in practice, censorship is applied in a much less sophisticated: the government arbitrariness regulates what is and is not suitable for Chinese Internet content provider and each is responsible if you do not want to censor be cautioned or see that your pages are no longer operational.
addition, social networks like Facebook or Twitter, and video sharing sites like YouTube (a Google service) remain blocked in China, a decision as Some analysts have much to do with controlling the flow of sensitive information, most were censored after the bloody riots last summer in Xinjiang as encourage the emergence of Chinese equivalents (Kaixinwan or Youkoo, for example) that comply to the letter with the law.
Recently, the Beijing government announced the creation of something like a 'white list' of permitted sites . In the future, any website that you want to operate in Chinese territory must register with the Ministry of Information and Technology, which for some analysts is a new strategy to restrict access to Internet information Chinese.
What has been the catalyst for Google?
The results of Google.cn search portal Google or any other country shows very different results when crawling issues that may irritate the Chinese government. Examples of the book are 'slaughter of Tiananmen', 'Dalai Lama' or 'Falun Gong', the group seen as a evil cult by Beijing government.
The straw that broke the camel to Google has been the cyber attacks by hackers Over the past few days, tried to enter the Gmail email accounts from human rights activists Chinese. In his blog titled 'A new approach to China, "Drummond said that although it has not been able to identify the attackers, no doubt from China and were" highly sophisticated ", affecting 20 major U.S. companies.
What does Google in China?
The main form of the world entered commercial operation in the country in 2006. China then had 137 million Internet users today, four years later, almost tripled, to about 360 million . The operations began under an agreement by the company with the Chinese government which undertook Google.cn to self-censor searches, a decision that was widely criticized by human rights groups abroad.
"Google's statements about respecting online privacy are the height of hypocrisy if we look at its strategy in China," Reporters Without Borders said then, adding that China was "increasingly isolated the outside world. "
In its defense, Google has always maintained that the opening to a wealth of information offered its presence in China offset the need to censor some of the results. Although capada, Google claimed that freedom of information and of expression would win with his presence in the Chinese Internet universe.
What about business?
Although Google has never revealed the benefits of operating in China, is believed a marginal part of its annual turnover of 22,000 million . Despite the great opportunities from China, Google has failed to put his lance in Beijing. Since its entry into the country, and after pouring millions into their operations, the search has continued to lose market share to its main competitor, the local search engine Baidu.com.
Today, according to observers of this juicy market, only 29% of searches in China are made through Google. Baidu, more than 60% market share today, it would therefore be the main beneficiary of Google out of the country.
What is the next step?
The company says it will seek an agreement with the Chinese government to provide a service uncensored but within Chinese laws. If not, even threatening to close even google.cn and its operations in China. Many analysts say the company is taking risks. "The consequences of not playing in the Chinese market can be very important for any company, but especially for a site that makes money from advertising, "he told the 'New York Times' David Yoffie, a professor of Business School of Harvard. What
what were the reactions?
Some Chinese netizens responded this morning to the announcement of the company by sending flowers to the office workers in Beijing, according to sources close, today held a meeting informing them of the change company strategy. Meanwhile, the organization Human Rights Watch referred to him as a "unprecedented announcement" will represent a "significant step in the defense of human rights on the Internet."
For human rights groups and analysts, the ball is now in the court of Yahoo! companies like Microsoft or who will have to rethink their approach to the Chinese market and its censorship.
Leire Pajin responds to the mobile Internet for school may have free software .
with young people at an event in Toledo, Organizing Secretary of the PSOE, Leire Pajin, responded to the Internet that computers announced by the Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, for fifth grade in public and private schools will open source as a "step More on free software "and that each autonomous community decides which system you want.
16/05/2009 - The Association of Internet said Wednesday that the Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, had a "golden opportunity" to bet on free software with the delivery of laptops to students fifth grade. The
Association president, Victor Domingo, said in a statement to Servimedia, the chief executive about the "difficulties" have to "explain spending nearly half a million of operating system licenses," when you can get "totally free."
addition, Zapatero said Sunday it has "a very important reference" in the Extremadura, which has opted for free software on the computers of the Administration.
The answer was not long in coming and yesterday, the Organizing Secretary of the PSOE, Leire Pajin, responded to the Internet, without going to finalize the proposal, that computers announced by President Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, for fifth grade in public and private schools will open source as "a step in the free software" and that each autonomous community decides which system you want. Association of Internet
