Arquivo para 2013
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).
Particles, the universe and digital signals
22
Aug
In the early twentieth century, the physics
model that is something we might call today the rigid bodies and low-speed, low compared to the speed of light, which became for quantum physics an important reference because it was she who changed our vision of mass and matter, creating a physical micro-particles that revolutionized even the way of thinking and it is important to understand the ‘information’ outside man.
All we can tell, all the model we have today of the whole universe is connected to this physical and she is about to meet a single model: the micro-particles, including photons particles and electro-magnetic waves in a single model, called Standard Model of Physics, the discovery of the Higgs particles or Particle of God in recent experiment done in the particle accelerator at the borders of France to Swizerland it helps this model.
But we must understand that this model corresponds to only what we understand as matter, that this is most stable part of the universe, and physicists call baryonic matter, even though 22% of this it is a “dark matter” (baryonic and non-baryonic) , and there are still a matter totally unknown, but acting on gravitational attraction, which is called dark energy, which permeates the darkness of space.
This information model profoundly influenced the thought of Claude Shannon, a young student who worked on the influence of Norbert Wiener, father of cybernetics, and Vannevar Bush, both his professors at MIT, and which work very close in the late 30.
Later meet up with Alain Turing and then begin to develop this information model “quantized” who wrote in 1948 “The mathematical theory of communication, prefaces by Warren Weaver, and Wherefore sometimes called theory of Shannon-Weaver.
Shannon’s theory was essential to provide treatment “digital signals” analog for it some times is seen as a theory of digital signals and not information.
Big Data and Libraries
21
Aug
Technology Data Big Data is poised to revolutionize all aspects of human life and culture 
as people collect and analyze large volumes of data to predict behavior, problem solving, safety, and numerous other applications, is what ensures the site Christian Science Monitor.
The generation of large amounts of data is being driven by the increasing digitization of everyday activities and dependence on electronic devices of people who leave “fingerprints” concept that can be extended to trace “information”, since any object in any state conservation may contain “implicit” that is not yet in a suitable format.
The site CSMonitor cites a large data project which is a remarkable effort by the Library of Congress to archive millions of tweets per day, which can cost a lot of money for its historical value.
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One example cited is the work of Richard Rothman, a professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, fundamental save lives.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta predict flu outbreaks, and does so through the reports from hospitals.
But it took weeks, in 2009, appeared a study where researchers could predict outbreaks much faster through the analysis of millions of Web searches, queries made as “My son is sick” and could learn a flu outbreak long before the CDC knew the reports of hospitals.
But the technologies of large volumes of data also has a boundary claim, in which technology is perceived potential distruir privacy, encourage inequality and promote government surveillance of citizens or others in the name of national security, how to reconcile these two trends ?
Google makes internet failure fall 40%
20
Aug
In last Friday between the hours of 20h37 and 20.48 (GMT), all Google services suffered an outage.: Gmail, Drive, Maps and clear the search, the company said in a statement that lasted “between one and five minutes .
Google said on your page that, during the period of interruption, “50% to 70% of requests Google received” error messages, but the service was corrected after four minutes and was restored to most users on a minute.
According to the company GoSquared there was a 40% drop in global internet traffic that
night and studied showed that, after the fall of a few minutes, internet traffic soared logos after restoration.
During the fault, according to the Google page, “50% to 70% of requests Google received error messages”, but did not report the source of the failure.
The failure showed how the internet is still fragile and the possibility of even temporary damage is not a fallacy.
Privacit is violated in NSA
19
Aug
Are the initial findings of an internal audit, and write in Washington Post, last week, 
the National Security Agency of the United States (NSA) “has violated the rules of privacy and exceeded his authority thousands of times a year since 2008, mainly through unauthorized surveillance targeting American and foreign intelligence in the U.S.. ”
Internal audit, dated May 2012, found 2,776 incidents or violations in which many were made without any “court order” american journal of capital guarantees.
The audit is particularly compromising U.S. government claims that post several surveillance actions were made with the consent of the government.
Firms Google, Facebook and Microsoft now deny the claim “unfettered access” to the U.S. government, but clearly cooperated earlier.
Called to give explanations, representatives of the Internet giants participated in a public hearing in the Senate on Thursday and declared: “There has been no large-scale access”, defended the company Bruno Magrani, manager of government relations Facebook , saying they were only 0.00002% of the requested information to Facebook, were requested directly by the U.S. government.
The government can deny, but vigilance happens, especially in Brazil, not because we are considered “special” to the U.S., but because we are a big hub in the global network.
Hacker group attacks newspapers
17
Aug
The Syrian Electronic Army (traduction in english),
group that had attacked the British daily The Guardian and BBC, now attacked the Washington Post, the group is in favor of the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.
By accessing the U.S.A. daily, the reader was directed to the site of the activist group, one of the goals of the group was to attack the journalist Jason Kreid, according to the website Krebs on Security, written by journalist Brian Krebs.
Hackers supporting the regime of Bashar al-Assad, Syrian dictator facing a civil war that has killed more than 100,000 people, and has also attacked twitter profiles.
The Krebs oyn Securit, stated that the attack was made with use of the site Outbrain, a website content recommendation to others, explained the site:
“A few days ago, the Syrian Electronic Army allegedly subjected Post newsroom employees of a sophisticated phishing attack to get the password information.’s Attack on the area where you saw the screen capture above used to attack against phishing resulted in periodic personal Twitter account a staff writer being used to send a message Syrian Electronic Army. for 30 minutes this morning, some items on our web site were redirected to the website of the Syrian Electronic Army . “
Apple would have bought Matcha
16
Aug
According to the site Venture Beat, Apple is acquiring
startup company recommendation videos Matcha.tv and developer of the app, which provides an overview of programs available on cable channels like Comcast, video streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime.
The Videos app also allows the user to record what you’ve watched, see the recommendations of videos and connect to social networks to see what friends are watching and enjoying.
Venture Beat also said that Apple reportedly paid $ 1.5 million for the company, but estimates that the value may have been higher because the Matcha.tv recorded steady growth and is among the top 15 entertainment apps from the Apple Store but the site was just anticipating since other sources suspect this value and immediately countered.
Probably not coincidentally, the app was disabled almost all day.
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”.
What sounds in Wikipedia?
14
Aug
This was a joke made at the launch of South by Southwest, the media conference in 
Austin Texas, which actually was the basis of a new open source project to edits audio and animations to Wikipedia.
Listen to Wikipedia, is the latest transformation of the online encyclopedia for additions and subtractions of sounds, strumming guitars and soothing sounds for you to meditate or listen during a massage or a reading.
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Pitch changes are possible according to the size of the edition, the visual aspect green circles and white circles indicate editions editions of registered users, and also the size of the overlapping circles indicate how many editions.
The announcement was made at The Verge, and its creators Stephen LaPorte and Mahmoud Hashemi said the about L2W (original name): “There is something comforting in knowing that each user makes a noise, each issue has a voice or a roar” they said.
LaPorte Hashemi and built the Listen to Wikipedia using D3 and HowlerJS and say that was the inspiration Listen to Bitcoin, a digital project done by Maximillian Laumeister, floating in the bubbles of Bitcoin transactions.
