Archivo categoría «Nuevas Tecnologías»
By Damian Kulash Jr., the lead singer and guitarist of the band OK Go (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 20/02/10):
My band is famous for music videos. We direct them ourselves or with the help of friends, we shoot them on shoestring budgets and, like our songs, albums and concerts, we see them as creative works and not as our record company’s marketing tool.
In 2006 we made a video of us dancing on treadmills for our song “Here It Goes Again.” We shot it at my sister’s house without telling EMI, our record company, and posted it on the fledgling… Seguir leyendo
By David Rowan, editor of Wired (THE TIMES, 16/02/10):
How Orwell would have delighted in satirising today’s tech titans’ perpetual war. Remember when Apple v Microsoft was the defining Oceania v Eurasia battle for supremacy? If so you’re experiencing a doubleplusungood false memory: both are now unimpeachable allies, working to replace Google with Bing as the iPhone’s default search provider. Likewise, you would simply be mistaken to recall Google’s chequebook-wielding flirtation with Facebook three years ago.
Google and Facebook, as every goodthinker knows, are dangerously implacable enemies.
That war entered a venomous new stage last week, when the internet’s biggest… Seguir leyendo
Por Josep Lluís Micó, codirector del Digilab, Laboratori de Comunicació Digital de Catalunya, Universitat Ramon Llull (LA VANGUARDIA, 07/02/10):
Tras meses de incertidumbre, la solución de la ecuación parece ahora más sencilla. Por un lado, están las industrias culturales (cine, televisión, radio, música, videojuegos…), acuciadas por la crisis. Por el otro, una tecnología como la telefonía móvil y el resto de dispositivos portátiles (iPhone, Blackberry y demás), con unas unas tasas de crecimiento prodigiosas en términos de usuarios y rentabilidad económica.
Entonces, ¿podrían estos aparatos, que han entrado a formar parte de la vida del ciudadano común con una facilidad… Seguir leyendo
By Dick Brass, a vice president at Microsoft from 1997 to 2004 (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 04/02/10):
As they marvel at Apple’s new iPad tablet computer, the technorati seem to be focusing on where this leaves Amazon’s popular e-book business. But the much more important question is why Microsoft, America’s most famous and prosperous technology company, no longer brings us the future, whether it’s tablet computers like the iPad, e-books like Amazon’s Kindle, smartphones like the BlackBerry and iPhone, search engines like Google, digital music systems like iPod and iTunes or popular Web services like Facebook and Twitter.
Some people… Seguir leyendo
By Carl Bildt, Sweden’s minister of foreign affairs (THE WASHINGTON POST, 25/01/10):
A decade and a half ago, when I was prime minister of Sweden, then-President Bill Clinton and I had the first e-mail exchange between heads of state. Already our two nations were at the forefront of the technological revolution about to transform our world.
We had just left an era in which communist dictatorships had tried to control fax machines and the Moscow phone directory was a closely held secret. Today, fax machines are definitely yesterday, and classical phone directories are more or less out of business.
Since… Seguir leyendo
By Daniel Akst, a former columnist and technology editor at the Los Angeles Times and a writer in New York’s Hudson Valley (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 24/01/10):
Literature has always relied on technology. We wouldn’t have the Dead Sea Scrolls had the ancients failed to invent papyrus, just as we wouldn’t have “The Da Vinci Code” if Gutenberg hadn’t come out with movable type.
Technology has also abetted literature by enabling the wealth and leisure that fueled the rise of the popular press — and allowed for such luxuries as a class of professional writers and a large campus establishment devoted… Seguir leyendo
By Hillary Clinton, the 67th United States Secretary of State (THE GUARDIAN, 22/01/10):
The spread of information networks is forming a new nervous system for our planet. When something happens in Haiti or Hunan, the rest of us learn about it in real time – from real people. And we can respond in real time as well. Americans eager to help in the aftermath of a disaster and the girl trapped in the supermarket are connected in ways that were not even imagined a year ago, even a generation ago. That same principle applies to almost all of humanity today.… Seguir leyendo
By Rebecca MacKinnon, the co-founder of GlobalVoicesOnline, an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Hong Kong, and former CNN Beijing and Tokyo bureau chief (THE GUARDIAN, 13/01/10):
Google’s stand against Chinese censorship and surveillance – triggered by suspicions that China had been trying to hack activists’ accounts – will be rightly lauded by defenders of human rights. But when it comes to upholding Google’s vow not to “do evil” by its users, China is by no means the company’s only headache. Before those of us in western democracies get too high on our horses about Google and China,… Seguir leyendo
Por José María Álvarez Monzoncillo, catedrático de Comunicación Audiovisual en la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (EL PAÍS, 08/01/10):
Después de superada la crisis de la web 1.0 representada por la quiebra de las compañías puntocom a principios del presente siglo, la web ha evolucionado hacia otro modelo menos orientado al negocio y al comercio electrónico. Esta nueva etapa, conocida como web 2.0 o redes sociales, se basa más en la comunicación entre personas y comunidades (many to many frente al one to one). En esta etapa había esperanza de que las empresas de Internet alcanzaran su rentabilidad gracias a la… Seguir leyendo
By Jonathan Galassi, the president of Farrar, Straus & Giroux (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 03/01/10):
What is an e-book?
News that the heirs of William Styron, the author of “Sophie’s Choice,” are licensing the electronic-publishing rights for some of his Random House books to Open Road Integrated Media got me to pondering: Are e-books a new frontier in publishing, a fresh version of the author’s work? Or are they simply the latest editions of the books produced by publishers like Random House?
It was an old-fashioned book publisher who decided that William Styron’s work was worth reading in the first… Seguir leyendo
By Murad Ahmed, technology reporter of The Times (THE TIMES, 28/12/09):
Empires always seem invincible just as they are about to crumble. Microsoft was no different. At the start of the decade, the company was dominant. Its software, Windows, ran most of the world’s computers. Windows users were then lured into using its other products — to surf the web, to listen to music, to write documents. Using a computer meant becoming a Microsoft customer.
The company was dominant. But not invincible. Today, Microsoft is openly mocked by Apple in its advertising. Computers have become portholes to the internet. Once… Seguir leyendo
By Sergey Brin, the co-founder and technology president of Google (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 09/10/09):
“The fundamental reasons why the electric car has not attained the popularity it deserves are (1) The failure of the manufacturers to properly educate the general public regarding the wonderful utility of the electric; (2) The failure of [power companies] to make it easy to own and operate the electric by an adequate distribution of charging and boosting stations. The early electrics of limited speed, range and utility produced popular impressions which still exist.”
This quotation would hardly surprise anyone who follows electric vehicles. But… Seguir leyendo
Por Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra, ex presidente de la Junta de Extremadura (EL PAÍS, 01/08/09):
Las noticias con las que nos desayunábamos en las últimas semanas nos anunciaban cambios significativos en el mundo de la informática. Como nos atrevimos a aventurar algunos hace unos meses, Google se propone meter el ordenador en la Red, eliminando todas las barreras que los no expertos en informática teníamos que intentar saltar cuando lo que imperaba era el soporte. Ya sabemos que con el anuncio de Google, el ordenador estará en la Red y, en consecuencia, vuelve a cobrar actualidad, ahora con más necesidad,… Seguir leyendo
By Jonathan Zittrain, a law professor at Harvard and the author of The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 20/07/09):
Earlier this month Google announced a new operating system called Chrome. It’s meant to transform personal computers and handheld devices into single-purpose windows to the Web. This is part of a larger trend: Chrome moves us further away from running code and storing our information on our own PCs toward doing everything online — also known as in “the cloud” — using whatever device is at hand.
Many people consider this development… Seguir leyendo
By Andre Oboler, a social media expert (THE GUARDIAN, 13/07/09):
Facebook has decided not to remove groups that deny the Holocaust. This contradicts its own “statement of rights and responsibilities“, which clearly states “you will not post content that is hateful”. Facebook seems to be ignorant of the inherent danger of Holocaust denial, the deeply hateful nature of it, and international efforts against racism. Facebook either fails to understand the responsibility it has to society, or it has placed profit far above morality.
Holocaust denial is illegal in 13 countries. Other countries, such as Australia, have broader laws