lunes, 26 de noviembre de 2007

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miércoles, 7 de noviembre de 2007

Seminario de SEO en Panama

Hola a todos, estamos tratando de organizar un seminario de SEO aqui en Panama y quisiéramos saber cuanta gente está interesada en el tema. Tenemos el conocimiento y quiséramos compartirlo con la gente que se dedica a crear websites, programación, marketing, etc... Realmente vamos a tratar de abarcar todas las áreas y a resolver las dudas que tengamos con respecto al tema. El tema del SEO es muy importante a nivel de mercadeo ya que un website depende totalmente de la optimización para lograr un buen lugar en los buscadores.
Todo dependerá de la respuesta de la gente por el tema ya que si no lo hacemos para fin de este año 2007, quedará para principios del 2008. Pero necesitamos saber que tanto interés hay sobre el tema.. Gracias!!!

lunes, 19 de marzo de 2007

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jueves, 15 de marzo de 2007

Google Adds a Safeguard on Privacy for Searchers

SAN FRANCISCO, March 14 — Web search companies collect records of the searches that people conduct, a fact that has long generated fears among privacy advocates and some Internet users that valuable personal data could be misused.

Now Google is taking a step to ease those concerns. The company keeps logs of all searches, along with digital identifiers linking them to specific computers and Internet browsers. It said on Wednesday that it would start to make those logs anonymous after 18 to 24 months, making it much harder to connect search records to a person. Under current practices, the company keeps the logs intact indefinitely.

“We have decided to make this change with feedback from privacy advocates, regulators worldwide and, of course, from our users,” said Nicole Wong, Google’s deputy general counsel.

But it is unclear whether the change will have its intended effect. Privacy advocates reacted with a mix of praise and dismay to it.

“This is really the first time we have seen them make a decision to try and work out the conflict between wanting to be pro-privacy and collecting all the world’s information,” said Ari Schwartz, deputy director of the Center for Democracy and Technology, an advocacy group. “They are not going to keep a profile on you indefinitely.”

Others were less enthusiastic.

“I think it is an absolute disaster for online privacy,” said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Mr. Rotenberg said his organization has been trying to combat efforts by law enforcement officials to require online services to retain search records for long periods of time.

He said that 18 to 24 months was too long, and added that because of Google’s dominant position, it would most likely set a de facto standard for data retention.

Ms. Wong said Google uses the search data internally only to improve its search engine and other services. She added that Google would release search data only if compelled by a subpoena. Even so, Google was the only major search engine to resist a Justice Department subpoena for vast amounts of search data last year — a move that drew praise from privacy advocates.

Just how personally revealing such data can be became evident last year, when AOL released records of the searches conducted by 657,000 Americans for the benefit of researchers. While AOL did not identify the people behind the searches, reporters from The New York Times were able to track down some of them quickly through their search requests.

The ensuing flap caused AOL to tighten its privacy policies. The company now keeps search histories for only 13 months and does not link them to Internet protocol addresses — digital tags that can identify a specific computer.

For its part, Yahoo keeps search data for “as long as it is useful,” said a spokeswoman, Nissa Anklesaria. And Microsoft said that while it does not keep search histories alongside I.P. addresses, it can connect the two if law enforcement requests it.

For Web companies, tying search histories to individuals or groups can be lucrative. Companies like Microsoft and Yahoo, for instance, use such information to customize the ads they display. While Google does not currently do this so-called behavioral targeting, some analysts believe it might do so in the future.

Google may be tightening its privacy policy around search logs, but the company recently relaxed its privacy practices in another area. Earlier this year, Google users who signed up for services like Gmail that require them to sign in started to be automatically enrolled in a service called personalized search. The service tracks a user’s search history and tailors search results accordingly. Previously, users had to specifically choose to enroll in personalized search.

Users can opt out of the personalized search service and delete their search history. Still, some analysts believe Google should give users more notice.

“I don’t know that a lot of people have realized that that kind of change has happened,” said Danny Sullivan, who edits the blog SearchEngineLand.com. “You can delete your search history at any time — if you remember.”

lunes, 12 de marzo de 2007

War of the Consoles - Price Vs Graphic Quality

Peter Nowak, Financial PostPublished: Saturday, March 10, 2007

If there’s one thing the current generation of video game consoles can tell us, it’s that the next generation of games that kids will be playing will be very different. The coming wave -- perhaps five years or more away -- isn’t going to be about nicer graphics; it’s going to be about price and innovation.

Larry Probst, chief executive of the world’s largest video game publisher Electronic Arts, this week predicted Sony’s command of the market is going to slide over the current generation of hardware. Sony won the last round with its PlayStation 2, which accounted for about 60% of the console market, followed by Microsoft with its Xbox and Nintendo with its GameCube.
Sony’s momentum should carry it through the current round with its PlayStation 3, released in November, but it should be a much more level playing field this time around, Mr. Probst says.

That’s because the PS3 is just too expensive compared to its rivals. At $699, the console goes for a considerable premium over Microsoft’s Xbox 360 at $499 and Nintendo’s Wii at $279. Sony has packed a lot of expensive hardware into the console to provide the best graphics on the market, not to mention a Blu-Ray high-definition DVD player, but the success of Microsoft and the Wii indicate gamers want more than games that simply look awesome.

Prior to 2001, Microsoft wasn’t even a player in video game consoles. But with the launch of the Xbox that year, it was obvious the software company wanted to take gaming in a new direction. The Xbox had a hard drive for storage and a built-in broadband connection, both of which enabled the Xbox Live online service. Suddenly, gamers could play against each other online or download updates and expansions to games straight to the console.

The Xbox Live service, which was continued when the 360 launched in November, 2005, has been a tremendous success for Microsoft. The company this week announced it had surpassed six million subscribers, four months ahead of its original forecast.

If anything, the Xbox and the 360 have proven gamers have a real zest for online gameplay. Sony, meanwhile, was caught napping and has been playing catch-up ever since.
Nintendo, which was in Sony’s commanding position in the 1980s and much of the 1990s, went back to the drawing board and came up with a profoundly innovative product. The Wii shuns dazzling graphics in favour of a one-handed motion-sensitive controller that players can wave like a wand or swing like a tennis racket. The console has flown off the shelves and has opened up a world of possibilities in game design. It doesn’t hurt that the Wii is the most attractively priced of the three consoles.

A year ago, Nintendo was being written off as yesterday’s news in the video game console wars, but the company is now firmly back in the thick of things. With Microsoft carving out its online niche with hard-core gamers and Nintendo appealling to casual players, Sony is going to have to go back to the drawing board and figure out where its market is. It’s not beyond the company to do so -- after all, Sony did revolutionize the business with its original PlayStation, which, back in 1994, could play CDs and had vibrating controllers.

But needless to say, the days of steady improvements to graphics for an everhigher price tag are over. The games of tomorrow are going to be something else indeed.

Next big things in consumer gadgets

CHICAGO, IL, United States (UPI) -- Biometrics and Bluetooth stole the show Sunday at the International Housewares Association trade show in Chicago.
SPI Inc. featured a headrest that can be attached to a car seat or office chair, equipped with Bluetooth for the phone and a jack for an iPod or other MP3 player.
SPI spokeswoman Erin Burgy said developers were just focusing on in-car use in light of legislation making its way through state legislatures mandating the use of hands-free devices for cell phones for drivers.
'But we had a number of executives come by and say they`d attach it to their office chairs since they do a lot of business on their cell phones,' Burgy said.
The headrest is set to make its debut in the fourth quarter and sell for $59.95.
Pass Lock introduced the PL-600, a security lock that can be programmed to recognize a thumbprint. The security lock also works with a number code, electronic key or panic key and is designed for installation on homes, apartments or to secure rooms.
The $649 unit runs on batteries and the company estimates it can actually save money for landlords over 10 years with an average lock costing $200 and replacement keys running $2 to $4.

miércoles, 7 de marzo de 2007

Mystery over Vista Activation 'Crack'


The unknown hacker who claimed last week that a tool he'd created could generate valid Windows Vista activation codes has admitted that the crack was cracked. "Fact is the brute-force keygen is a joke, I never intended for it to work," the individual identified only as Computer User wrote on the KezNews website over the weekend. "I have never gotten it to work, everyone should stop using it! Everyone who said they got a key is probably lying or mistaken!"Watchers should have seen the confession coming. On Friday, Computer User issued an online apology and professed his love for Vista. "I apologize for exposing the work-around in question. I regret the fact that it has been leaked all over the Net, which I guess was to be expected. I simply love Windows Vista, and I happened to stumble upon this trick. Everyone should stop using the brute force KeyGen altogether because it takes away from legitimate customers."Others writing on the same thread were leery of Computer User's new-found religion, and either called his revelation into question or wondered if it had been issued because he had been spooked by legal threats."It's not fake, it's not impossible, but it's near impossible," wrote a user identified as ecko, who posted another message reading: "It's not a hoax, but it takes so long you'll be wasting your time trying." Last week, a KezNews poster calculated that that it would take Computer User's KeyGen 1.35 quintillion years to check all possible 25-character combinations that make up a Vista product activation key."Are you scared of getting into trouble?" asked tyga45.Computer User replied to that question Saturday. "Well, actually yes, I am worried about getting into trouble. I'd prefer a job rather than a lawsuit," he wrote. "I don't think there is anything they can do. I only posted a bit of source code. But I'd wish people would stop using it, and I think it'll be deleted from the site soon." As of Monday, KezNews still included links to several sites where KeyGen could be found.But some users remained adamant that the brute force utility had cranked out one or more valid Vista keys. "it was successful in retrieving 3 Keys with only 1 working," wrote salmypal. "Since [Computer User's confession] came out, it has been running non-stop and has retrieved 2 more keys that are not valid."Vista's activation, part of Microsoft's overall Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) anti-counterfeit programme, validates the license’s product key to make sure that a key is used only once. If Vista is not activated within 30 days of its first-time use, or is activated with a bogus key, it drops into a crippled state.Last week, Alex Kochis, senior product manager of WGA, said that even if the crack produced a seemingly valid key, Microsoft's activation servers would probably reject it because they "perform a more rigorous analysis of the keys that are sent up than the local key logic does”.

sábado, 3 de marzo de 2007

Adobe Photoshop

Following news that Adobe is working on an online version of its Photoshop image editing software, senior product manager John Nack has clarified that this is aimed at consumers, not creative pros.

"To set expectations properly," Nack says on his blog, "I think it's important to mention that by "Photoshop-branded" we don't mean the professional version of Photoshop. The tools being discussed here are targeted at the consumer market-- especially all the people using social networking and media sharing sites."
"A Photoshop-branded online editor lets us start bringing the tech to new customers," he says, "much like the new Adobe Remix reaches new customers using Adobe Premiere technology."

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand fishermen may have caught the largest Colossal squid ever found -- weighing around 450kg (992 pounds) and with rings the size of tyres.
The adult Colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) was caught by fishermen long lining for toothfish in deep ocean off Antarctica, New Zealand Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton said on Thursday in announcing the catch.
The squid was still alive when caught and was eating a hooked toothfish when hauled aboard, Anderton said in a statement.
"The squid was almost dead when it reached the surface, and the careful work of the crew was paramount in getting this specimen aboard in good condition," Anderton said.
"The crew stopped winching in the longline for two hours, while the squid was manoeuvred into a cargo net and hauled aboard," he said.
The squid was frozen in the ship's hull and brought back to New Zealand for scientific examination.
"The colossal squid has just arrived in New Zealand and it is likely that it is the first intact adult male Colossal squid to ever be successfully landed," Anderton said.
Colossal squid are one of the most mysterious creatures in the deep ocean, growing up to 12 to 14 metres (36 to 42 feet) in length. Anderton said the squid would be photographed, measured, tissue sampled, registered and preserved intact.
"On-going examination of this giant will help to unlock some of the mysteries of the deep ocean. Even basic questions such as such as how large does this species grow to, and how long does it live for are not yet known," he said.
Local media said early estimates put the squid at 10 metres (30 feet) in length and weighing 450 kg (992 pounds) -- 150 kg (330 pounds) heavier than the next biggest specimen found.
"I can assure you that this is going to draw phenomenal interest. It is truly amazing," squid expert Steve O'Shea at Auckland University of Technology told local media.
O'Shea said if calamari were made from the Colossal squid's rings it would be the size of tractor tyres.
Anderton said Colossal squid were found in Antarctic waters and were not related to Giant squid (Architeuthis) found around the coast of New Zealand. Giant squid also grow up to 12 metres (36 feet), but are not as heavy.

jueves, 1 de marzo de 2007

Paris Hilton ayudando a que You Tube genere mas ingresos

Hasta ahora parecía que Google Video llevaba la delantera a Youtube en lo que a generar ingresos se refiere o al menos habían apuntado a dos estrategias como son compartir ingresos o a su alianza con la MTV. Mientras Youtube seguía asumiendo unos costes muy altos de servicio (se hablaba de que pagan un millón de dólares al mes por ancho de banda y servidores) y los ingresos no se veían por ninguna parte.

Pero aquí llega la Warner dispuesta a crear el canal de París Hilton con 13 vídeos, situado en la portada de Youtube como estrategia de marketing del disco de la popular ¿actriz? El canal también incluye publicidad de la serie Prision Break de la Fox (vía Mashable)


Hoy por hoy salir en la portada de Youtube garantiza llegar a una audiencia planetaria. Cada vez que se acusa a este servicio de no tener modelo de negocio siempre digo lo mismo ¿cuánto vale una televisión con una audiencia actual de cien millones de vídeos al día y un enorme potencial de crecimiento? Claro que Youtube tiene costes muy altos de mantenimiento - y más que tendrá mientras siga creciendo - pero estar en su portada como hace París Hilton se va a cotizar muy alto.


Por cierto, el vídeo de que ponen en primer lugar no está recibiendo muy altas valoraciones de los usuarios que digamos. Una cosa es salir en portada y otra es convencer a los usuarios...

Modelos desnudas piden a la justicia de su pais eliminar fotos porno de Yahoo y Google


Esta noticia es de Argentina...

Los buscadores de internet Yahoo y Google deberán sacar de sus páginas todas las referencias a modelos argentinas que aparecen mencionadas en páginas pornográficas, según dispuso hoy la Cámara Civil. Dos salas de la Cámara ordenaron a Yahoo de Argentina y Google Inc. que eliminen de sus patrones de búsqueda las referencias que vinculan a las modelos Melina Marisol Pitra y María Agustina Sosa con páginas de contenido sexual en las que fueron incluidas sin autorización ni consentimiento. En el caso de Pitra, la Sala F, con las firmas de los camaristas Fernando Posse Saguier, José Luis Galmarini y Eduardo Zannoni, sostuvo que la inclusión en “sitios con contenidos relacionados al tráfico de sexo, afecta derechos de rango constitucional”.

“Si el buscador de internet puede preseleccionar o remover cualquier contenido que esté disponible a través del servicio, no se advierte cuál es el gravamen que le genera” cumplir con la medida cautelar dictada en primera instancia, en este caso a favor de Pitra. Pero según aseguraron fuentes judiciales, unas 80 modelos obtuvieron medidas similares, por lo que el fuero civil tiene a estudio una catarata de juicios por idénticas razones. Sobre la situación de Sosa, la Sala C, con las firmas de los jueces Omar Díaz Solimine y Luis Alvarez Juliá, coincidieron en que “se encuentra en juego el derecho constitucional a la imagen y el honor”, y advirtieron que la continuidad de la aparición de la modelo en los buscadores podría causar un “perjuicio irreparable”.

miércoles, 28 de febrero de 2007

Jesus Tomb? The church don't Believe - ¿ Tumba de Jesús ?, La Iglesia no lo cree

Dicen que es la tumba de Jesús pero la iglesia se ha mostrado incrédula ante tal señalamiento. Aqui les va la noticia:

La noticia del hallazgo de la supuesta tumba de Jesucristo y su familia en Jerusalén fue recibida con escepticismo en Estados Unidos y Canadá. El director James Cameron (Titanic) presentó la noche del lunes en Nueva York un féretro que, según sus palabras, puede contener los restos de Jesús de Nazaret y sobre el cual se rodó un documental.

The New York Times cita ayer al profesor de Harvard Lawrence E. Stager señalando que el hallazgo "explota la idea que El código Da Vinci (de Dan Brown) difundió". El diario canadiense Globe and Mail calificó el descubrimiento de "una historia improbable, que parece una película de Hollywood".

El documentalista israelo-canadiense Simcha Jacobovici y Cameron concluyeron de lo hallado que Jesús se casó con María Magdalena y tuvo un hijo. Los cineastas presentaron durante la conferencia de prensa dos estrechos féretros de piedra caliza encontrados en una cueva en los años 80 durante obras en el barrio Talpiot de Jerusalén. Los ataúdes fueron custodiados desde entonces junto a otros ocho por las autoridades israelíes. Pero, los huesos que se encontraban allí fueron sepultados nuevamente según lo estipulaba la ley.

English traduction:

The news of the finding of the supposed tomb of Jesus Christ and his family in Jerusalem were received with skepticism in the United States and Canada. The director James Cameron (Titanic) presented/displayed last Monday night in New York a coffin that, according to his words, would contain the rest of Jesus a documentary was filmed about it. The New York Times mentions yesterday professor of Harvard Lawrence And Stager indicating that the finding "explodes the idea that Dan Brown's Da Vinci's code spreaded".

The Canadian newspaper Globe and Mail described the discovery as "an improbable history, that resembles a Hollywood film". The israeli-Canadian documentalist Simcha Jacobovici and Cameron concluded based on the findings that Jesus married Maria Magdalena and had a son. The film directors presented/displayed during the press conference two coffins of stone Straits found in a cave in the 80's during works in the Talpiot district of Jerusalem. The coffins were guarded since then next to other eight by the Israeli authorities. But, the bones were buried again according to israelies law.

martes, 27 de febrero de 2007

New Career in the University: Expert in Videogames - Nueva Carrera Universitaria: Experto en Videojuegos

Parece mentira, pero al fin crearon la carrera de experto en videojuegos, ¡Ya era Hora! Aqui les va la noticia...

La Universidad de Oviedo inicia el próximo 5 de marzo la primera promoción del título oficial de experto universitario en tecnologías de programación de videojuegos, que se desarrollará en el campus de Barredo, en Mieres, con una duración de 200 horas. Con este curso el centro asturiano se convierte en uno de los primeros a escala nacional en ofrecer este tipo de estudios. El objetivo es formar profesionales competitivos para la industria del ocio electrónico y de otras áreas tecnológicas relacionadas, como la de los simuladores de realidad virtual; fomentar el espíritu emprendedor del estudiante y poner a su alcance conocimientos acerca del funcionamiento interno de la industria a todos los niveles; y poner en contacto al alumnado con las empresas y profesionales de más prestigio del país para favorecer sus posibilidades de contratación. El promotor del curso es el Laboratorio de Software de Entretenimiento y su director, Iván Fernández Lobo.

Now in English:
The University of Oviedo initiates next the 5 of March the first promotion of the official title of university expert in technologies of programming of videojuegos, that will be developed in the campus of Barredo, in Mieres, with a duration of 200 hours. With this course the Asturian center becomes one of the first a climbs national in offering this type of studies. The objective is to form professional competitive for the industry of the electronic leisure and other related technological areas, like the one of the simulators of virtual reality; to foment the enterprising spirit of the student and to put to its reach knowledge about the internal operation of the industry at all the levels; and to put in contact to the pupils with the companies and professionals of more prestige of the country to favor its possibilities of hiring. The promoter of the course is the Laboratory of Software of Entertainment and its director, Iván Fernandez Lobo.

The Thinnest LCD of the World


Technology continues to become more miniaturized day-by-day, with thinner, sleeker gadgets constantly rolling out from the design headquarters of the world’s electronics and computer manufacturers, but it’s dog-gone rare when a company beats its own record and renders its latest merchandise obsolete before it goes on sale.

The suits at Samsung SDI are currently gloating over their compatriots over at Samsung Electronics for coming up with a thinner LCD, creating a display that’s only 0.74 millimeters thick. That’s .08 mm thinner than the 0.82 mm units the Electronics boys announced just three short months ago. Is it too late to take back their Christmas bonuses?

While the new 0.74 mm LCD is a prototype, SDI is set to roll out a practically supersized 1.9 mm wide LCD in Q2 of 2007 as part of the company’s Ultra Edition II series of phone products. Samsung SDI said that the new 0.74 mm screens won’t be implemented until the company’s next generation of handheld devices. So, buy now or wait a year?

Samsung may be the current leader in having the thinnest LCD technology but rival manufacturer LG Philips LCD is miles ahead – well, really it’s about a foot-and-a-half ahead — in the race to manufacture the largest screen. LG unveiled a 100-inch LCD TV screen last March, beating the biggest Samsung model by 18 inches. At the time Samsung said that it didn’t have any plans to make an LCD larger than 82 inches. Maybe the old adage is true for the workers at Samsung: it doesn’t matter how big it is but how thin you can make it.

sábado, 24 de febrero de 2007

Concurso de fotografia digital sobre los Carnavales en Panama


Multimax está realizando un concurso de fotografia sobre los carnavales panameños, aqui esta la informacion:

MEJOR FOTO DE MOJADERA - PREMIO: OLYMPUS FE-2006.0 MEGAPIXELES2.5² LCD, 5.0XOPT/4XDIG

MEJOR FOTO DE DESFILES - PREMIO OLYMPUS X-7502.5² LCD6.0MP, 3.0XOPT/4XDIG

MEJOR FOTO ENTRE AMIGOS - PREMIO OLYMPUS X-7603.0x OPT / 4x DIG6.0MP, 2.5LCD

REQUERIMIENTOS DEL CONCURSO: La fotografía debe entregarse impresa 4² x 6² dentro de un sobre que incluyanombre, cédula, teléfono y e-mail, en cualquier sucursal de Multimax apartir del miércoles 21 de febrero, hasta el miércoles 7 de marzo de 2007.

Todos los derechos de la fotografía pasan a propiedad de Multimax una vezentregada y podrán publicarse.

La elección de las fotografías ganadoras se realizará el día jueves 15 demarzo de 2007
La premiación se llevará a cabo el día sábado 17 de marzo de 2007, en lasucursal de Multimax Tumba Muerto.

os ganadores que no puedan ser ubicados dentro de las 48 horas siguientes ala elección, serán inmediatamente remplazados por el segundo lugar.

La empresa se reserva el derecho de la elección de la fotografía ganadora yde cualquier cambio de fecha o lugar antes señalado.

Mas informacion en: http://www.dealante.com/nodo.php?nodoid=14482

viernes, 23 de febrero de 2007

Sony Woos Buyers With PS3 Freebies

TOKYO - Sony is handing out freebies to buyers of its PlayStation 3 as its hefty price appears to be scaring away shoppers. The latest giveaway will take place in Australia, where the gaming console launches March 23. The first 20,000 buyers will receive a copy of the James Bond movie "Casino Royale."

Free downloads of the PS3 game "Gran Turismo" _ out since December for U.S. and Japanese PS3 owners _ also will be offered in Australia. A PlayStation 3 model with a 60-gigabyte hard drive costs 999.95 Australian dollars ($790). The console costs $600 in the U.S., where it's been on sale since November.

"They have to sweeten the deal a little bit," said Hiroshi Kamide, director of research and game expert at KBC Securities Japan in Tokyo. "The problem with the product so far is that no one has fully understood why it's so expensive."

In the U.S., Sony also offered the movie "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" as a freebie. (The movies are produced by Sony's movie studio, and they're given away as Blu-ray high-definition discs, which the game console can play.)

Although Sony officials say PlayStation 3 sales are on track, the machine is still a money-loser for the Japanese electronics and entertainment company. Sony blamed losses in its video game operations for its faltering profits in the October-December quarter, when Sony profits slipped 5 percent to 160 billion yen ($1.3 billion), largely because of PS3 startup costs.

Sony said it shipped 1.84 million PS3 machines worldwide through Dec. 31, and is sticking to its earlier target of 6 million PS3 consoles by March 31. Nintendo Co.'s $250 Wii, which launched about the same time as the PS3, is being snatched up and has been out of stock at some stores. Nintendo sold 3.19 million Wii machines worldwide by the end of the year.

The Kyoto-based maker of "Super Mario" and "Pokemon" games said earlier this year that it's well on its way to reaching its target of global shipment of 6 million Wii machines by March 31, the end of the current fiscal year.Kamide, the gaming industry expert, said the PS3 needs a fuller lineup of new, attractive games to make the purchase seem worth the price."It's the least they can do," he said of the freebies. "If you're paying a head above everybody else for a similar product, a game machine, you want to be able to categorically say the reason why it's so expensive."

Power of consumption of the Wii, PS3, Xbox360 and pc

Compared the power consumption of the Wii, PS3, Xbox360 and pc during gaming, while watching a movie (not possible with Wii) or a HD-movie, at idle and in standby. Different games were tested, but finally they chose NBA Live 2K7 for PS3, Gears of War for Xbox360, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess for Wii and Prey for pc. The results speak for their self:


With 198 Watt, the pc consumes the most, immediately followed by the PS3 with 194 Watt. 185 Watt for the Xbox360 is a little bit better, but the absolute winner is the Wii with only 18 Watt.If you want to play a dvd, you're better off with a normal dvd player, so it seems. Those only use 13,5 Watt. Compare this with the Xbox360 consuming 126 Watt, the pc 147 Watt and the PS3 even 173 Watt.Also interesting is the power consumption in standby. Again, the Wii is the winner with only 1,3 Watt. PS3 consumes 1,9 Watt and Xbox360 2,5 Watt. That is, if you disable Connect24 on your Wii. If you leave it on, your Wii consumes 9,6 Watt in standby.If you want to take a closer look at the complete study, go to the HardCOREware site.

lunes, 19 de febrero de 2007

Videogames Online: Massively Addictive?


Mike Smith from Yahoo News

The eight million players of massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft don't really change the game's world. Even if you spend all night slaying an epic dragon, it'll still be alive again in time for the next team of intrepid adventurers. But in some cases, the compelling, addictive gameplay characteristic of many massively multiplayer games can have devastating impacts on the real worlds of their players.

After World of Warcraft's first expansion pack The Burning Crusade released last month, adding a new continent to the world and a sizable stack of new adventures for players to tackle, we were inundated with tales of Warcraft woe -- stories of broken marriages, ignored friends, lost jobs, and wrecked lives. If you want to play the game at the top level, a serious commitment of time is required, and that's leading some players to neglect real-world responsibilities.

Clinical psychologist Dr. Orzack sees similarities between game addiction and more traditional behavior disorders
Massively multiplayer addiction is a real phenomenon, and it's one that's being taken increasingly seriously by medical professionals. Facilities are being set up to combat it all over the world: Washington, Bejing, and most famously at the Smith & Jones addiction consultancy in the Netherlands. Smith & Jones compares the symptoms of MMO withdrawal to those characteristic of chemical dependence, and offers a detox program followed up with a series of real-life activities intended to replace the excitement of playing MMOs with equally engaging experiences that don't require 60-hour-a-week commitments.

Closer to home, more traditional avenues of support are available to those who feel their MMO habits are getting the better of them. Maressa Hecht Orzack, Ph.D., clinical psychologist and Director of the Computer Addiction Study Center at McLean Hospital in Belmont, MA, hears from six or seven people a day seeking treatment for gaming addictions. "Look at the fact that World of Warcraft now has eight million people playing it. Even if there are just five or 10 percent who can't stop, that's a large percentage, and I hear from a lot of them."

Dr. Orzack sees similarities between MMO addiction and more traditional behavior disorders such as compulsive gambling. "The same reward center in the brain is tapped -- the dopamine system. Gambling has all the components that go with these games," she explains, citing Solitaire as a simpler example of a game that can also lead to compulsive behavior.

Currently there's no psychiatric diagnosis that covers addiction to World of Warcraft, Everquest, or Solitaire, but that may change as new standards are drafted. Dr. Orzack is hopeful her profession may embrace the concept in the next revision of the authoritative DSM diagnostic text, due for publication in about four years. "There's a push to include compulsive disorders in the new manual," she says, "covering addictive behaviors and compulsive things like game playing and internet usage."

What symptoms might indicate a healthy gaming hobby is turning into a problem? "There are a lot of things. People might ignore their friends, they may not get to work on time, and their family relationships are often affected." She recommends players concerned about their habits look up one of the numerous online communities set up to tackle gaming addictions, consult any employee assistance programs their job might offer, or seek advice from their primary care provider.

viernes, 16 de febrero de 2007

Linux colaborando para abaratar costos en los celulares


El software de código abierto Linux ayudará a que Motorola, Samsung, Panasonic y NEC fabriquen teléfonos móviles que se podrán vender por menos de 125 dólares (unos 95 euros), al tiempo que permitirá el rápido lanzamiento de nuevos servicios.

Greg Besio, vicepresidente corporativo de programas para aparatos móviles de Motorola, explicó que creen que instalarán Linux en los móviles con un precio medio de venta de 125 dólares y aún así seguirán siendo unos aparatos muy interesantes. En cinco años, continúa Greg Besio, cuando tengan éxito, alrededor de la mitad de los móviles de Motorola se basarán en Linux.

Motorola, compañía con sede en en Ft Lauderdale (Florida, Estados Unidos) y líder global en el área de las comunicaciones, que ofrece productos y soluciones con seamless mobility para banda ancha, sistemas integrados y redes inalámbricas, Samsung Electronics, líder global en semiconductores, telecomunicaciones y convergencia tecnológica digital con sede en Tokio (Japón), y NEC, fabricante japonés y proveedor de servicios de telecomunicaciones, ordenadores y dispositivos electrónicos con sede en Tokio (Japón), y Panasonic, propiedad de Matsushita, se asociaron el año pasado con las operadoras Vodafone, compañía con sede en Newbury (Berkshire, Reino Unido), líder mundial de móviles con presencia en 26 países que proporciona un abanico completo de servicios de telecomunicaciones móviles, y NTT DoCoMo, la mayor operadora japonesa de telefonía móvil con sede central en Tokio (Japón), para desarrollar programas estándar de Linux para teléfonos móviles.

Estos proveedores producen más del 95 % de todos los móviles con Linux que se fabrican hoy en día.

Video game makers often talk about creating immersive games where players can lose themselves in virtual worlds.

A company called eMagin believes the answer lies not so much in the games, but in how they are viewed.

It has come up with a 3D visor that uses two micro displays to create a stereo vision of a game.

The headset has a tracking system using gyroscopes that lets players look around a game by moving the head from side to side.

"It is a much more immersive experience than looking at a big screen," said eMagin's Bruce Ridley.

"Most PC games will work with it," he said, adding it would also work on the new Microsoft Xbox 360.

The company is talking to all the major console makers about the headset.

"Nintendo has even purchased some," said Mr Ridley.

The company has been selling the headset via its website since July.

WEB SEO - 2da Parte - Keywords y Optimizacion

Ok, para continuar con lo del Posicionamiento de un website, en la version anterior le dimos énfasis a la importancia de escoger un buen dominio, ya que el dominio es uno de los factores (No el mas importante) que ayudan a la buena ubicación de un sitio en los buscadores o directorios. Ahora seguiremos hablando de la optimizacion y de los Keywords o palabras claves que se colocan en el meta de una pagina web.

Estas palabras deben colocarse en el codigo fuente del website, en cada pagina. Sin embargo la que mejores keywords debe tener por sentido comun es la página principal, aunque no necesariamente esto debe ser una regla. Los Keywords o palabras clave deben estar relacionados al tema principal que desarrolla el website, al producto o servicio que se desea promover. Ya que estas palabras son por lo general las que la gente buscara en Google, Yahoo o en cualquier otro directorio. Ademas deben estar relacionadas con el contenido del website.

Pongamos por ejemplo que el website vende y promueve "enciclopedias sobre servicios informaticos y computacion". En este caso específico se debe pensar: ¿Que término usará la gente al realizar la búsqueda? Es poco probable que alguien ponga "Enciclopedias sobre informática", lo mas seguro es que usen: libros acerca de computacion... asi que estas palabras (libros, computacion) se deben añadir tambien a los keywords y al contenido del sito. Y esto si es muy importante, el contenido tambien debe contener estos keywords. Ya que mientras mas veces se menciona una palabra ( de manera discreta dentro de un website) mas posibilidades tiene de escalar los rankings en esa categoria. Cuando digo de manera discreta me refiero a que los Robots podrian hayar extraño que se mencione muchas veces una keyword en el contenido y pueden penalizar o castigar al sitio. Por ejemplo si se abusa de una palabra dentro de un parrafo: "Nosotros vendemos libros de computacion y enciclopedias informaticas, la computacion ha llegado a los libros para que los estudiantes de computadoras por medio de los libros obtengan conocimientos acerca de computacion." Este parrafo es medio redundante y abusa de los terminos, por lo que es importante evitar la repetición constante por lo menos dentro de un espacio corto. Hay que espaciar el uso del termino para evitar la penalizacion de los robots. Ya que los buscadores usan los llamados robots que no son mas que programas que buscan y leen los contenidos de los websites para indexar el sitio en un determinado buscador. Estos robots o arañas entran cada cierto tiempo y realizan la lectura del código fuente. Este debe estar limpio tambien y libre de codigo malicioso y scripts complicados.

Despues seguimos con este tema...

lunes, 12 de febrero de 2007

Jovenes modelos argentinas piden justicia en España desde su BLOG


María Belén Tellez, una de las jóvenes apresadas en Barcelona hace dos meses, relata lo ocurrido y reclama la libertad desde su propio portal. El sitio fue creado por un familiar para presionar desde la red a las autoridades judiciales españolas. Las jóvenes fueron detenidas en el aeropuerto porque su representante llevaba 18 kilos de cocaína.

Las modelos María Belén Tellez y Jésica Almada denuncian su situación a través de la Red. El periódico madrileño El Mundo se hizo eco de su situación y publicó una nota en su edición de ayer gracias al portal que la prima del padre de Tellez creó para reclamar justicia.Las jóvenes argentinas de 21 y 19 años fueron detenidas en el aeropuerto del Prat (Barcelona) hace unos dos meses por posesión de drogas. Su representante, Alejandro Panno, llevaba en el equipaje 18 kilos de cocaína.Su versión es que fueron engañadas por su mánager. Y ya tienen su propio blog para denunciar lo sucedido y presionar desde la Red: belentellez.com.

No ha sido creado por ellas. Tampoco por gente completamente ajena a su situación. Como explican en el mismo blog, una prima del padre de Belén comentó el caso en su empresa, relacionada con Internet, y su jefe decidió poner en marcha el blog y asumir los gastos.El caso de estas dos chicas parece similar al de Ana María Ríos, la ya famosa ’gallega de Cancún’, a quien la presión social y mediática ayudó a salir del atolladero. En aquella ocasión no hubo un movimiento significativo en Internet; en ésta hay algo más.

Faces everywere, obsession??


More than a decade ago, Diana Duyser of Hollywood, Fla., received a religious message through an unlikely medium: a grilled cheese sandwich she had made herself. As she gazed at the brown skillet marks on the surface of the bread, a familiar visage snapped into focus.

Golden Palace.com; Oyster shell: Denis Balibouse/Reuters
A grilled cheese sandwich, top, with an image of what some see as the Virgin Mary sold for $28,000 on eBay. Jesus Christ is seen in an oyster shell, a frying pan and a pirogi.
“I saw a face looking up at me; it was the Virgin Mary staring back,” she told reporters in 2004. “I was in total shock.”
After holding onto the stale relic for 10 years, Ms. Duyser put it up for sale on eBay. The auction generated so much excitement that the sandwich eventually sold for $28,000, proving that she was not alone in seeing a face where none should reasonably exist. (Efforts to locate her to comment for this article were unsuccessful.)
Such faces made headlines again near the end of 2006, when Mars Express, an orbiter from the European Space Agency, captured the highest-quality three-dimensional images to date of what looks like a face in the Cydonia region of Mars. The photos reignited conspiracy theories that governments on Earth are trying to hide the existence of intelligent life on Mars.
Why do we see faces everywhere we look: in the Moon, in Rorschach inkblots, in the interference patterns on the surface of oil spills? Why are some Lay’s chips the spitting image of Fidel Castro, and why was a cinnamon bun with a striking likeness to Mother Teresa kept for years under glass in a coffee shop in Nashville, where it was nicknamed the Nun Bun?
Compelling answers are beginning to emerge from biologists and computer scientists who are gaining new insights into how the brain recognizes and processes facial data.
Long before she had heard of Diana Duyser’s grilled-cheese sandwich, Doris Tsao, a neuroscientist at the University of Bremen in Germany, had an inkling that people might process faces differently from other objects. Her suspicion was that a particular area of the brain gives faces priority, like an airline offering first-class passengers expedited boarding.
“Some patients have strokes and are then able to recognize everything perfectly well except for faces,” Dr. Tsao said. “So we started questioning whether there really might be an area in the brain that is dedicated to face recognition.”
Dr. Tsao used functional magnetic resonance imaging to record which areas of the brain were activated when macaque monkeys were presented with stimuli including fruits, gadgets, scrambled patterns — and faces. She discovered almost immediately that groups of cells in three regions of the brain’s temporal lobe seemed to be strongly attuned to faces.
“The first day we put the electrode in, it was shocking,” Dr. Tsao said. “Cell after cell responded to faces but not at all to other objects.” Her results were published in October in the journal Science.
Dr. Tsao’s investigation yielded a surprising related finding: areas of the brain she had identified as face-specific occasionally lighted up in response to objects that bore only a passing resemblance to faces.
“Nonface objects may have certain features that are weakly triggering these face cells,” she said. “If you go above a certain threshold, the monkeys might think that they’re seeing a face.” In the same way, she said, objects like cinnamon buns, rocky outcroppings and cloud formations may set off face radar if they bear enough resemblance to actual faces.
Pawan Sinha, a cognitive scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has devoted years of research to figuring out just what attributes touch off these face-specific pings. Security software that is being developed for identifying potential terrorists or detecting intruders must be able to reliably recognize faces. In teaching the software to do this, Dr. Sinha and his colleagues have arrived at unexpected insights into the question of why we sometimes see a cinnamon bun as a cinnamon bun, and other times as the earthly incarnation of a sainted nun.
To develop detector software optimized to pick out any human face, even in less-than-ideal surroundings, Dr. Sinha began by putting into his computer hundreds of faces as varied as those in a Benetton advertisement famous for its diversity.
As the computer amassed the information, it was able to discover relationships that were of great significance to almost all faces, but very few nonfaces. “These turn out to be very simple relationships, things like the eyes are always darker than the forehead, and the mouth is darker than the cheeks,” Dr. Sinha said. “If you put together about 12 of these relationships, you get a template that you can use to locate a face.”

domingo, 11 de febrero de 2007

Senador desea crear Ley para evitar usar Accesorios Electronicos en Nueva York - New York senator bids to ban crossing street with gadgets


Parece que en Nueva York va a ser prohibido manejar bicicletas, caminar o lo que sea, mientras usan accesorios electronicos (Ipods, Videojuegos e inclusive celulares). Esto se debe a que se requiere de mucha atención para usar estos artilugios mientras se deambula por ahi, lo que puede provocar un accidente. Esto solo es una propuesta de un senador de Nueva York para hacer esta ley efectiva. Habrá que ver que suecede ya que esto no gustará a la mayoría de los ciudadanos que dependen de la tecnología... He aqui el artículo en Inglés:

AP, ALBANY, NEW YORK Saturday, Feb 10, 2007, Page 10
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A new proposal would make it illegal for New Yorkers to walk, jog or bike across the street while using your tech gadgets. "If you're so involved in your electronic device that you can't see or hear a car coming, this is indicative of a larger problem that requires some sort of enforcement beyond the application of common sense," state Senator Carl Kruger said.

And it is not just iPods. Kruger's bill also would ban using cellphones, Blackberries, video games or other electronic devices when crossing the street. Kruger said a 21-year-old man in his district was killed last fall when he stepped off the curb at the busy intersection while listening to music. And a 23-year-old iPod listener was killed on Jan. 11. The proposed fine is US$100.

viernes, 9 de febrero de 2007

Videojuegos - El Wii por encima del PS3 en ventas en Japón


Parece mentira pero a Sony no le esta iendo bien en Japon con una consola por primera vez en mucho tiempo.

Realmente es dificil conquistar el mercado de jugadores y sobretodo en Japón. Sin embargo el factor determinante parece ser el alto costo del Playstation 3. Nintendo y Sony se pelearon por posicionar sus productos: Nitendo Wii y PS3 respectivamente.

En tan solo un año (2007) la consola Wii se apodera de las ventas en el mercado japonés con más de 405 mil unidades vendidas

La PS3 sólo tiene 148 mil unidades vendidas. Este no es un dato menor, porque cuando recién lanzó su producto, Sony aventajaba sobradamente a Nintendo. Al parecer, los usuarios están prefiriendo el menor precio de la Wii. Porque una consola PS3 cuesta el doble que una consola de Nintendo. Lo que le fallo a SONY es la excesiva confianza en su producto, no consideraron el factor económico como algo preocupante y estaban seguros que nada les podía fallar, que los usuarios estarian fieles a una consola de nueva generacion con todos los ingredientes para ser un éxito. Con excepcion del precio... El Xbox 360 le está dando duro a la PS3 fuera de Japon en cuanto al precio. Que será lo que le espera a la PS3 si ni en su propia tierra causa sensación?, Bueno solo el tiempo lo dirá...

Videojuegos - Xbox 360 Negra de 120 Gigas


Desde Australia una fuente interna de la compañia habría desvelado que en Microsoft estaría advirtiendo a las cadenas comerciales de Australia que en Abril podrían poner a la venta una nueva Xbox 360 de color negro con 120 gigas de disco duro y salida HDMI incorporada.

El precio se fijaría en unos 749 dólares y la medida estaría enfocada a competir con la salida de Playstation 3 en ese mercado a partir del 23 de marzo.

El rumor de una nueva versión de Xbox360 aterriza con fuerza en las antípodas,desconociendose si el mercado americano y europeo tambien recibirían dicha versión por esas fechas en caso de confirmarse.

Noticias - Gracias a Google Earth descubren Pueblo Romano


La arquitecta Concha Roca ha descubierto a través de Google Earth lo que parece un gran poblado romano en la Manga del mar Menor. La mujer llevaba quince días intrigada por una serie de manchas ubicadas en la orilla de esta superpoblada zona de Murcia, que localizó gracias al programa que tiene el famoso buscador para ver fotos aéreas por satélite en Internet. De confirmarse el hallazgo, que está siendo investigado por el Ayuntamiento de San Javier, Roca habría dado con unos restos que hasta la fecha están sin catalogar. A juicio de la arquitecta, los restos están sumergidos, porque desde los romanos las aguas han subido en esta zona de la costa mediterránea cincuenta centímetros.

SEO (Primera Parte) - La importancia del Dominio en la Optimizacion

Bueno, para comenzar con este tema es importante empezar justo con el principio, disculpen la redundancia. Cuando uno quiere hacer un website que venda, uno tiene que enfocarse en el objetivo principal: ¿Hasta donde deseo llegar con el website?

Generalmente la idea de un web para una compañia o empresa, por mas pequeña que sea es usar el sitio como una plataforma para alcanzar mas clientes y dar a conocer un determinado producto o servicio. Si realmente esto es lo que se desea lograr entonces hay que mantener un patrón determinado que nos ayude a lograr esa meta. Por lo tanto lo primero que se hace es comprar un dominio relativo al producto o a la compañía. ¿Por que se hace esto? Ok, esto forma parte de la estrategia de ranking en los directorios, eso facilita la busqueda. Pongamos un ejemplo: La compañia se llama: "ALMACEN PEPE, especialistas en bicicletas, ubicados en Costa Rica". Bien, al momento de elegir un nombre para usar en Internet, al buen Pepe se le ocurre comprar un dominio que diga www.almacenpepe.com ya que considera que es el nombre de su empresa y asi se va a dar a conocer.Error... A menos que seas una marca reconocida (SONY, MacDonald's, Panasonic, etc...) si compras un dominio que no tiene sentido para nadie, solo para ti, entonces no va a funcionar.... La formula correcta es: Comprar un dominio que sabes que la gente va a buscar. Con nuestro ejemplo anterior, un dominio mas aceptable para el Almacen de Pepe sería www.bicicletascostarica.com o www.bicicletas-costarica.com por que es mas fácil que la gente busque esta palabra en internet.

Para estar claros, el dominio es muy importante y se puede usar como una palabra clave o keyword. Un buen dominio puede traer mucha efectividad, pero es dificil conseguir dominios puros, en el caso del Almacen Pepe el dominio ideal seria comprar: www.bicicletas.com pero lo mas seguro es que ya esté tomado por otra persona. Algunos buscadores como Google o Yahoo tienden a usar los dominios como parte de la busqueda. Si alguien pone la palabra "bicicleta" en la casilla de busqueda lo mas seguro que con el tiempo y si se ha hecho un buen trabajo de optimización, el dominio de Pepe: www.bicicletascostarica, aparezca entre las primeras paginas del buscador. Mas adelante estaremos hablando de como verificar un dominio y como agregar los keywords correctos. Saludos!!!

Cualquier duda pueden escribir a:
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Bienvenidos a este Blog

Tratare por todos los medios de mantenerlos informados con todo lo referente a lo mas reciente en tecnologia, gadgets, celulares, diseño web, SEO (Search engine Optimization), VIDEOJUEGOS, etc. Espero que les guste, este sitio estará en español, sin embargo estamos a filiados a otros sitios en ingles de los cuales despues estaremos hablando. Por ahora esto solo es una bienvenida y esperamos que les guste. Saludos y nuevamente Bienvenidos!