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New Kindle is announced
Amazon, the giant global online sales, and that generates many conflicts in the publishing market, announced a new device with the highest quality from their devices: the paperwhite, sense of color and light in the printed electronic device.
The advertised price is also inviting, the price of the sixth generation of the Kindle e-reader Paper, the United States will arrive on September 30 to $ 119, according to the website The Verge.
Among the new features of the device include the antireflective of sunlight and the ability to take notes in marl leaves of digital books, the long-awaited features.
Two other big news is a vocabulary list, and being able to make footnotes that appear as a pop-up, it is possible to keep active new words while reading, and is connected to a dictionary with Wikipedia X-Ray built.
Amazon recently acquired Goodreads, which is a social network for shared reading lists and comments on them.
The new Kindle device Paperwhite, weighs 206 grams (less than the iPad mini 312 grams) with battery “lasts for weeks, not hours” as stated by the manufacturer and processor promises to be “25% faster”, we hope to give .
The American version 3G (cost U $ 189) will have a free data plan included, and the unit has 212 ppi resolution and measures 16.9 cm high and 11.7 cm in length, with 9.1 mm thick.
Use of computers in the classroom
The discussion about the good and bad use of computers in the classroom is old but in brazilian city Maceio´s discussion took a new direction in terms of a kind of agreement between teachers and students, as write news portal G1.
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There a group of students from the 2nd year of high school in Maceió, started using mobile phones, tablets and social networks as allies seek to exchange content and information on the topics of the classroom.
According to testimony by Matheus Borges, 16, and Maria Julia, 16 explained their preferences: “When we go to write a text, prefers to use the computer. It is easier to type on the keyboard because it goes faster. Besides which, when we study or do some work, have the ability to use content more interactive, “said students reporting portal.
Already a librarian Jaqueline Silva Verçosa told that the technology part of everyday life of children and adolescents did not alter the motion of the library, which has a project for students to not untie the books and to encourage students to grade 5 read more.
In his statement he said: “The use of books is important for them to continue reading and improving writing. Proof that they like is that students always wanting to participate, but it takes discipline. “
Die F. W. Lancaster
Is much discussion today about the semantics of the data, the Web tries to remake the way to organize your content via the Semantic Web, but these studies are present in Information Science and reference name is JW Lancaster.
His book ” Indexação e Resumos: teoria e prática” (Indexing and Abstracting in Theory and Practice, with Brazilian translation made by Briquet Lemos, now in 2nd. Edition) was the first American edition awarded in 1991 by the American Society for Information Science, as best book of the year in the area.
Frederic Wilfrid Lancaster was born in 1933 in England, studied at the Newcastle School of Librarianship from 1950 to 1954, following his career in the public library system of Newcastle. In 1959, he immigrated to the United States, where he worked in private firms and specialized libraries in the development and evaluation of information retrieval systems.
It was one of the first to work the evaluation of databases and do fundamental work in information retrieval, with the classic work called the Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System (MEDLARS), who performed at the end of the 1960s, to the National Library of Medicine U.S. (Jackson, 2005).
Went to the University of Illinois in 1970, where he was professor ma Graduate School of Library and Information Science from the University, where he continued advising on development of information retrieval in automated systems, having rendered service to the CIA.
In an article published in 1978, Toward paperless information systems, 1978, and in later works, the author argued for the inevitability of change of publications on paper to a paperless society, perhaps the first person to write about this.
He was a teacher and mentor of the first Brazilian Masters course in the area in the 1970s,
A “cloud” of books
An entrepreneur’s of Gol, brazilian air enterprise, Jonas Suassuna, which has books in one of his passions, beloved nephew of popular northest brazilian writer Ariano Suassuna, is responsible for the Cloud Books, a project in partnership with mobile operator Vivo, for providing educational content without downloading.
The entrepreneur who confesses to a “nonconformity” lack of access to books in public schools, especially in remote regions within the country, to seven years proposed to assist a project that came to be implanter after two years of the project started.
The businessman points out that despite the phone numbers and access the internet already impress, there is still a large gap in the Brazilian public school.
Said: “The Brazilian government signed a law that says that by 2020, all
Brazilian schools, public and private, must have a library with at least one book per student (Law School Library). Who knows the reality of the Brazilian public school knows that it will be very difficult, “it takes an effort in the dissemination of books.
The Cloud Books is an online library, totally platform, which offers content without the need to download, but it is charged, costs U.S. $ 2.00 per month per student and private customers pay about £ 8 per month to get unlimited access to contents
The library now has a collection of 10 000 content for free also on tablets and phones, according to the website terra the service had already won 1 million users in Brazil.
Facebook and relevance of news
Facebook and relevance of news Facebook announced on its blog post that had your News Feed´s algorithm modified to highlight the “quality” of the news, your News Feed.
Earlier this month, the “Face” had announced the change in the news feed algorithm, which decides which system should prioritize the publications page of social network users, was promised to improve the way that old posts will reappear in the feed Facebook.
The grade of the post says: “The system uses thousands of different factors such as the frequency with which the content of a particular page is reported as low quality (for example, hiding a publication), how complete the profile page and as the fan base of a page overlaps the base of a page known as a high quality, “says the post explaining the novelty.
The change was made based on users questions, ask where the relevance of content, reliability of supply, the desire to share om friends and complain if he saw that content in your feed.
The login is also undergoing change where the user can decide on its contents and determine whether to publish them.
Common screen now is touch too
With the arrival of Windows 8 and html5 facilities beyond the photos, videos and sounds, touch interactivity also here to stay.
But what to do with the common screens that still use a pen came to turn them into touch screens too.
The device Apen Touch 8, E Fun, is secured with a small device with magnets in the corners of the screen and connected via USB to the computer, which has a pen at the other end “optics”.
So the movement of the pen on the screen makes iterative identical to a touch screen, no need for any software or any device more.
Actually the pen is not optical, but ultrasound, as it uses the technology of motion capture by infrared rays, the play on the monitor attached, it captures the movements of the pen and creating the feeling that the commands are triggered by touch on the screen.
The device is sold in the U.S. since the beginning of the year at a price of R $ 160 (U$ 89), and is present at CES 2013 as one of the news.
First smartphone open-source
The Mozilla enterprise of browser Firefox now no longer sells “open-source” smartphone in Spain, Colombia and some European countries, is the first smartphone with Firefox OS, and the enterprise announced that the phone will come to Brazil this year.
The device had been released to developers and hobbyists, called Geeksphone (Geeks is another slang term for nerd), with the propaganda “one-time, limited promotional price” of € 149 / $ 196 ($ 300 without taxes here), but not reported to be sold to a “standard price” via onlin stores, which would be starting in September.
The initial model was called the Peak, with a more robust version called Peak +, double the RAM (1GB) and the latest version of Firefox OS (v1.1).
Specifications, the same for both versions include dual-core 1.2 GHz Qualcomm 8225 chipset, multitouch screen 4.3 “qHD IPS, 8 megapixel rear camera (with flash), 2 megapixel front camera, and tri -band UMTS / HSPA, and a 1800 mAh battery, say have the best battery management and better graphics performance.
The company’s marketing is Movistar in Colombia, with two models Fire One Touch, Alcatel, and Open, ZTE, for a price of around 200,000 pesos (about U.S. $ 125).
More about security and privacity
The issue is recurrent, since the internet (the middle physical´s initial) and Web (the popular application that started in the 90´s) were expanding it became more frequent, and is now a priority issue on the destination Web.
Now with former hacker official U.S. government announced the spying on American citizens and on other countries, it has become more important on the Web.
But security and privacy should not be treated as a single topic, although it is impossible to separate one from the other, in the privacy the individual knows what information people who allow them to be collected and published, and knows how to treat this information, but this should know how control this privacy.
According to an article from AT & T this information may be collected and would be correct to look at them.
Here comes the aspect of safety, only security should include factors that include physical security and human, ie “only security information” where factors including business, physical integrity of persons and / or disaster recovery may be included these factors, there is an international standard for this to ISO 17799.
Safeguarding customer information, this means that any site or social tool (not just Facebook, but mostly he) must protect the security, confidentiality and integrity of information from a “client”.
Management and Identity and Access Management (IAM, Identity and Access Management walks), which is undoubtedly the most critical factor of privacy, but not always given due attention because of the difficulty and cost of implementation.
Users are often employees, customers, suppliers, or a simple computational access to the environment and engage in corporate services without knowing what they do. The environments themselves are becoming increasingly complex, make offers “knowing” the taste of the client, exploring their consumption capacity and interconnecting applications.
The clouds are a particular danger for this invasion of privacy, SOA (Service oriented Architecture), since his own role as a service is to use the functions or services and not just traditional applications, and this causes the control access more difficult.
Security, coding, testing and application management is another risk factor, as application attacks have a great success due to the ease of vulnerabilities in most program code, programmers are famous for, the risks of programs written in Java, but weaknesses imply how many programs and services have been implemented.
Such findings may be accidental, such systems have recently been discovered in Apple’s iOS and Androids, showing that this is not the privilege of any company, but they are important as they are detected and remedied when companies advise their customers as part of a recall, but this is not done.
The safety aspects are not few, but should also include: protection and data encryption, protection against malware (viruses), managing and monitoring operational risk.
Digital art in Brazilian Winter
In addition to the World Youth Day and the presence of the pope, the Rio de Janeiro has other attractions.
In the mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro is held the Festival SESC Rio Winter 2013 with unpublished works and themes, combining art and technology.
Her artists and researchers transform the traditional look and integrate new technologies in various expressions of art such as photography, sculpture and painting.
The exhibitions are held in Petrópolis and Nova Friburgo, but especially exposition SESC Quitandinha in the imperial city, is the show ‘Exposure FILE – Casino’, making a reference to the casino that worked on site.
The exhibition includes installations / sculptures digital interactive Brazilian and foreign artists that depict the current poetics of the technological arts.
Another is the “Art + Technology | perceptions | meanings” is the SESC Teresopolis, which seeks more interactive aspect with the aim of bringing the innovations of public art.
In Nova Friburgo are works of researchers and teachers UFRJ Guto Nobrega and Malu Fragoso, Wherefore called “Contemporary spectra”.
The exhibition runs until August 25.
Prices will fall ebooks
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.