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Apple and Samsung are showing profits
24
Aug
It was determined that in yesterday a U.S.A. court for 
refusal of a patent lawsuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington reversed a lower court decision that forced both companies to reveal only parts sales and profits.
Because of the patents, the two companies has faced around the globe since 2011, with the apex trial occurred last year in San Jose, California, when the jury had awarded to Apple more than $ 1 billion, but after judge Kucy Koh, backtracked and opened a new trial.
The decision was then Koh against both companies, since the public interest is greater than the rights of companies keep information secret, and the decision of the Court of Appeals was made unanimously.
“We recognize the importance of protecting the public interest in litigation and facilitate the understanding of such procedures,” decided the body of the court, reaffirming: “this interest, however, does not extend to mere curiosity about confidential information between parties, where the information is not definitive decision on the merits. ”
As would be nice if the public interest to private prevalesse always defedendo people.
Eletronic shop grows in Brazil
23
Aug
Commerce grows 24% The e-commerce grew 24% in Brazil in the first
quarter of the year compared to the same period last year, says the study WebShoppers, released yesterday (21/08).
The Brazilians have made over 35 million in the first half, orders via the Internet (20% in value over the previous year) and the price of medical purchases also grew 4, giving the value of R $ 259.49.
The sectors are the record holders “Fashion and Accessories” with 13.7% of the total and appliances with 12.3%, then comes toiletries and cosmetics (12/2%), IT (9%) and books and subscriptions magazines (8.9%).
The semester until June 46.16 million people had already made at least one purchase online, but only 3.98 million were new consumers, against 4.64 million in the same period in the previous year, a decrease of 14% indicating a path market stabilization.
Irregularities in service in March 2012, several companies of electronic commerce (like Submarine, Americanas and Shoptime) had closed the virtual doors, but an injunction allowed them to return to work, but they are also subjected to Procon (Consumer Protection).
Capitalism, Markets and technology
15
Aug
What is certain is that the markets 
are breathing in the midst of a systemic crisis still intense, the London Stock Exchange rose 0.57%, Frankfurt gained 0.68% and Paris advanced 0.51%, closing at the maximum of the session, everyone knows that the end of the tunnel is far, but it’s a relief (Source: Dow Jones Newswires).
The reasoning is not immediate, but it is clear that something within a society whose driving force is the capital and not the welfare of citizens, talking about the stock market and the “health” of society is always the subject, especially in economic discourse, and rarely in technological conversations.
Who has helped large companies are technology, Apple shares rose 4.75% on Tuesday and it is investor Carl Icahn in the area, wrote on his Twitter that the company’s micro-blog “currently has a great position “in stock and believes the company is” extremely undervalued ” he is write.
The chief executive of Apple, Tim Cook, said his company also has good health, and the Dow Jones Hewlett-Packard (+2.09%) led the gains while large companies in other industries such as Alcoa (-1 , 33%) and JC Penney (-3.72%) were the major highlights in the fall.
The pioneer in analyzing specifically the influence of technology was Joseph Schumpeter who lap process innovation at the heart of his theories of development, economic evolution is characterized by disruptions and discontinuities with the present situation should be the introduction of innovations in the way the system work, this is how innovations influence the process.
Disciple of Schumpeter, Clayton M. Christensen wrote “The Dilemma of Innovation” (1997), which speaks of disruptive technologies, those that impact the market.
But since man is man, technology is part of their history, and economists such as Adam Smith knew that technology is key to creating wealth, though that stand out the sources of technological innovation were “men who worked with the machines and discovered ingenious ways to improve them, as well as manufacturers of machinery “(The Wealth of Nations).
Karl Marx wrote a series of books on the history of technology and those who think he despised this aspect of the economy read “Machinery and Modern Industry” present in his major work “Capital”.
Prices will fall ebooks
20
Jul
It was my prediction from the beginning, but with attempts to trusts, with the lobbies
of publishers to push through legislation free access and especially the prices of tablets and e-readers this trend has been delayed, but is a matter of time.
Think the first ebook reader appeared in 2004 and was Sony, the Kingle came only in 2007, the first tablet iPad came only in 2010 (when I started the blog), so technologies are still very young, but the trend is already visible on some data.
According to an article by Jeremy Greenfield at Digital Book Wold, the average 25 bestseller charts in the last six months of last year, fell by an average of $ 11.37 to $ 8.23, according to the graph.
The article states that took control of the discounted titles of some of the largest publishers in both the Amazon with Barnes & Noble (there are others as well) have been lowering the price of bestselling titles, and fell from $ 14.99 to 12 $ 99 until arriving at the lowest points, sometimes below $ 5.
Already there are companies like Zola and Smashwords, which allow communities and platforms organize authors and readers, connecting them with editors, marketing professionals, and librarians.
The crowd, the clouds and institutions
19
Jul
The crowd is so common that people who now have
effective mechanisms for communication and dissemination, not just those driven by the culture of mass communication of traditional media like newspapers, TV and cinema.
The clouds created and create services (apps, or applications) that enable the sharing of facts, photos and short videos of agreement can fall like the crowd the crowd or not, it is as if she were a publisher of information and news.
But these services are still centralized in tools and institutions, this may have privacy issues (there are tools) for this or security when the owners of the databases of the tools resolve to cooperate with the security mechanisms in general almost all states.
Other institutions may promote the privacy and security of your “people” or will be discontent and revolt from the crowd.
The privacity is problem of crowds and the security is problema of institutions.
The network has always been attentive, look up the protest scientific authors with publishers, and the movement of 14 years of free access (open access), see also the revolt of Instagram users when Facebook decided to change the term of use of this app of photos.
It’s a phrase influential book in American thought “Democracy in America”, written almost a century and a half (1835):
“It is evident that the race of american states men of singularly smaller since half a century” (Alexis de Tocqueville, pg. 155, project brazilian edition of daily Folha de São Paulo).
To be, the crowd and class
18
Jul
Crowd is the name of an immanence. The crowd is a set of singularities and not a homogeneous unit of supporters uniformed and carrying the same flag.
It is from this premise that one can outline a conceptualization of ontology that do not hold the human being to ideological schemes or temporal freedom and transcendence.Conceptualization is when the concept is not homogeneous and allows the multiplicity.
In history, it was determined the people and not the crowd, although Spinoza and Leibniz have outlined.
The concept of people has been delineated within the hegemonic tradition of modernity was made by Hobbes, Rousseau and Hegel and produced, each in its own way but all idealists, a concept of people seated in the transcendence of the sovereign: the heads of these authors, the crowd was considered as war and chaos and so they formed the concept of the modern state to which postmodernity drew attention.
On this basis, the thought of modern operates in a manner bipolar abstracting the one hand, the multiplicity of singularities in transcendentalmente the unifying concept of people, and dissolving the other hand, the set of singularities (which is the crowd ) to form a mass of individuals.
The modern theory of natural law is rooted in empirical or ideological, is always thinking of transcendence and dissolution of the plane of immanence.
The theory of the crowd requires, instead, that the subjects speak for themselves: it is much more of singularities non-representable individuals that owners of knowledge and social production.
The crowd is a class concept, the article says Antonio Negri(*), and does not seem uncomfortable this definition since it still time a crowd of people exploited and the logic of power does not seem to reach them.
Indeed, the crowd is always productive and always in motion.
Considered from a temporal perspective, the crowd is exploited for production; a spatial point of view, the crowd is still exploited, as it constitutes a productive society, social cooperation for production.
There are several perspectives that link to this social cooperation.
The classes had a role in history, now is the time the crowd.
Negri (2002), “Pour une multitude de la définition ontologique en Multitudes No. 9, Paris, Exils.
The network society and be
17
Jul
There are several authors, from Husserl and Heidegger claiming
to be a return to the essence of man and also its relationship with all that is around you, in a way also the nature, although this is still neglected. You can delve into this topic referring to Levinas and Ricoeur, these most current, and also somehow Habermas and Morin, but we want to focus only on “networks”.
Castells is one of the main authors to discover this topic, especially if we think that he wrote in 1996, when “social networks” were just sketches and not popular. In one of the threads of its three volumes written that society would each see a more structured bipolarity between the network and be. It is amazing and no doubt a thorough review of the anthropological and ontological being, where man must overcome resistance and barriers to emerging society that would be the “network society”.
Castells(*) captures something essential is that this historical revision or change of being (and being that eludes him) would allow the emergence of a new society, where the sense of isolation and lack of identity, where there is a lack of consistent principles and values that may guide both the behavioral process as set guidelines for a new life of every being.
The author seems to put the company on the horizon of a true humanity, and thus we still can not let disappear the tension between the ideal (which is not virtual, because it has the potential of existence) and the real, which is the life of man as a historical being. The author does not guide the ontological way for a collective society, where models, actors and locations seem to balance the technological revolution mechanically consciences in order to give consistency and objectivity to the social roots of the “revolution.”
Returning to the first principles, with all the technology, it is in society and in man (for this so ontological) that the whole structure of society change and should emerge.
* Manuel Castells write “The Rise of the Network Society”.
The citizenry and the crowd
16
Jul
The essential concept of citizen, went to Hobbes, in the
design of the citizenry (which expresses an opinion or an ideology nowadays) was simplified as a unit, as if it were a single body with one will, so most sociologists will use binary settings (although it is intended to analog), as with the people or against either left or right, but the crowd has multiple nature, although it may converge.
Crowd with a political concept was first used by Machiavelli, but the really important concept was promoted by the philosopher Spinoza, Leibniz and somehow that differed from the notion of people of Hobbes, a notion used by sociology and politics to the present day.
The very concept of multitude is multiple, is the definition of socialist Crowd Hardt and Negri printed in contemporary book of that name, is a conservative view PEE century, Gustave Le Bon, quoted by James Surowiecki in “The Wisdom of Crowds “Editora Record, 2006 or crowdsourcing by Jeff Howe (Wired).
But the crowd practice, which is on the streets and using the various social networking tools (facebook, youtube, twitter and Instagram) which appears to refer to the definitions technological Jeff Howe (“The Power of the crowd, Campus, 2nd. Ed. 2008) or Manuel Castells’ Network Society “(Paz e Terra, brazilian edition, 1999) actually the streets to escape all these concepts because what emerges is a new anthropology, where every citizen expresses himself freely and rejects all munipulação and new media are a tool for this.
The closest thing that can be thought is an brazilian intellectual and geologist “Milton Santos” with a concept he called “trans-individuality” and which has a real answer to globalization that produces only “verticality” states: “The current trend is that the places unite vertically and all is done to it, everywhere. International credits are made available to the poorest countries to allow networks to be established in the service of big capital. But everywhere [and people] also can be joined horizontally rebuilding that base of common life may create local standards, regional standards. “(p. 260) The return of the territory. In Territorio e movimentos. Osal Ano VI # 16 January-April, 2005.
But while the logic of power, we has two options side A or B, both away from the crowd.
Facebook is a monster surveillance
08
Jul
Even taking attitude of privacy, users should take care that we are still subject to security issues
in the tool, the use of states and companies.
Who said this was Richard Stallman, founder and supporter of Free Software in the International Free Software Forum (FISL) in Porto Alegre that ended last Saturday.
Stallman his lecture on Friday at FISL in Porto Alegre (Brasil), insisted that the Web is only useful if it is free.
What Facebook did to Stallman, by allowing the use of the data, it was an eyesore to allow monitoring of the data stores of its users, and added: “And so I strongly suggest you do not use.”
“But as a surveillance system, the web is very dangerous,” said Stallman, and stands against almost every kind of delivery of personal data to institutions, and mentioned the recent scandal of mass surveillance of NSA american agency.
Creator of the vicious circle of free software to create the GPL (GNU Public License), which all use free software to free software maner.
He was the creator of GNU, Unix like operating system that gave rise to Linux, and stated that digital surveillance is a strategy of the government to the citizens stop watching public institutions. “We learn what the government does when someone complains. If the government can track digitally anyone who will (have courage) report?” he concluded.
The enemies of free software claim that it is detrimental to the economic system, but it is actually harmful to private and public companies who want to control public opinion and the economy more broadly.
Brazil is one of the most watched, the data indicate.
Magazine Veja and daily JB cite this blog
30
Jun
Received in the comments of this blog quotes from
sites Veja-Brazil and the Journal of the Brazil, the site presents data on corruption especially on how much would be the average salary of the Brazilian income distribution with and without corruption, the citation Blog was made on the links and see Veja-brasil.com and JornaldoBrasil.info, big magazines here.
Data on the average wage in Brazil were made from the link which is mentioned in our blog and already warning in May, but was made from the data on the site JusBrasil, citing FIESP.
Also in our post are data from Transparency International and Transparency Brazil.
