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
