Arquivo para 2013
New Kindle is announced
05
Sep
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.
Microsoft buys Nokia
04
Sep
A very special smartphones company Nokia , sold his shares and
cellular operations as Microsoft’s own advertising company on 07/02/2013.
The Finnish Nokia will sell its operations with phones and smartphones to the U.S. group Microsoft for $ 7.183 billion dollars (5.440 billion euros, or more than U.S. $ 17 billion), the Finnish company announced.
Nokia was the beginning the most important factory phones and smartphones in the world, but was losing a lot of room for competitors like Apple and Samsung, which have modernized very quickly and fell to the taste of the users.
Recently made an attempt to use the Windows Phone system in an attempt to leverage and modernize equipment.
This was done with the Lumia line, which uses the Nokia and Microsoft, the Windows Phone, but did not reach the desired number of sales.
The sale will include all the patents in the sector, which will now focus on services and networks, “the best way to move forward, both for Nokia as its shareholders,” the group’s president, Risto Siilasmaa.
Ordinance encourages brazilian mobile apps
03
Sep
An ordinance of the Ordinance of the Ministry of Communications of Brazil has
determined the criteria for exemption from tax of smartphones manufactured here in Brazil.
According to this ordinance the Brazilian government, only those devices that come with a minimum of five national applications will be reduced to zero tax rates.
The paper considers application developed in Brazil that was developed by one person or entity resident in the national territory.
The package should include applications in different areas such as education, health, sports, tourism, gaming and productivity.
The electrical and electronics industry Brazilian companies ask for help with tax rates.
Use of computers in the classroom
02
Sep
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. “
Google and Microsof can sue government
31
Aug
The Microsoft’s general counsel, Brad Smith, announced yesterday that the company, 
along with Google, you can sue the government, despite a statement on Thursday that it would make an annual publication on the application of surveillance information.
Google and Microsoft would be asking the question of publishing “aggregate information” about the court orders addressed to the companies should be more transparent to customers, as stated companies.
The news appeared on Microsoft’s corporate blog and stirred the political, the issue of data transparency policies took serious proportions, and shows an irritation of companies with government agencies, as shown in the statement: “on six occasions in recent weeks agree with the Department of Justice to extend our deadline to the government to respond to these demands, “Smith said, but stressed that despite the efforts of government lawyers, the meeting” ended in failure. ”
It is difficult to predict the end of this issue, but the world community wants more transparency.
Mobiles brazilian operators have not reached the goals
30
Aug
Two proposed by the Anatel for at least 95% in this indicator. company that regulates the activity of cellular companies in Brazil, Tim reached 89.51% in the rate of instantaneous transmission (upload speed and download accurate at the time of Internet use by the user) already Vivo got 93.55%.
The goals were related to mobile broadband.
Vivo claimed: ” systemic problems limited the number of measurements [the Anatel], which reduced the statistical validity of the data collected and made two results got too close to the rates set by the regulator. ”
Tim already said in a statement that “as compared to the instantaneous transmission rate, the company achieved the target in all states assessed, except in São Paulo, but clarifies that it is investing constantly focusing on development and optimization of their network.”
And now I can pay only 90% of the amount charged by the service provider?
USP and Unicamp educational-videos
29
Aug
The State University of Campinas-Unicamp was developed 
an educational project e-Unicamp aimed at boosting the use of technologies to “disseminate knowledge to all in a simple and free.”
The contents of the Portal has a Creative Commons license, conditions that are free to use and guarantee of rights is governed authors and conditions established by Brazilian Law 9.610/98 copyright in this country.
The provision, consultation and use of instructional materials available do not generate any kind of contract between the e-Portal Unicamp and who uses it.
This offer is already a global trend (as OpenSourceWare MIT) that aims to raise the profile of public institutions to the community, where their educational content of courses are offered in various formats.
The site launched on April 19 this year libre has access to what is published and made available in the areas of exact materials, human and biological.
The University of São Paulo has a similar project, called e-lessons, but the use is restricted to the “Code of Ethics USP” and “Ethical Principles for the Use of Computers USP” of which the contents can be viewed at eaulas.usp.br.
Die F. W. Lancaster
28
Aug
Is much discussion today about the semantics of the data, the Web tries to remake t
he 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
27
Aug
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
26
Aug
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.
