Archivo categoría «Nuevas Tecnologías»
By Robert X. Cringely, the host of the online PBS program”NerdTV.” (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 08/04/06):
HELL froze over this week as Apple Computer unveiled Boot Camp, a free program that will allow its new Macintosh computers with Intel microprocessors to run Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system as an alternative to Apple’s OS X. The news media were agog and Apple’s stock price zoomed at the announcement. In my view, it was mildly interesting, but hardly the revolution Apple users want to see.
Many Mac enthusiasts view Boot Camp as a huge coup for Apple that will eventually take … Seguir leyendo
By E. J. Dionne Jr. (THE WASHINGTON POST, 04/04/06):
When old regulations meet new technologies, there is bound to be confusion.
Last month the Federal Election Commission issued a rule regulating political activity on the Internet. To see how the new rule was reported, I fired up one of my favorite search engines, and what did I find?
One headline summarized the new rule as follows: “Proposed FEC Rules Would Exempt Most Political Activity on Internet.” Another headline read: “FEC Rules Would Regulate Paid Internet Ads.”
So which is it, more regulation or less? The best headline summarizing the controversy … Seguir leyendo
Por Salvador Giner, catedrático de Sociología de la UB y presidente del Institut d’Estudis Catalans (EL PERIÓDICO, 02/04/06):
El afán de libertad es la aspiración más antigua del hombre. Sin embargo, solamente los tiempos modernos lo han asumido como cosa propia, como bien alcanzable por parte de todos. Nuestra civilización se ha edificado sobre ese anhelo.
A medida que nos adentramos en el siglo XXI vamos asumiendo con mayor serenidad las dificultades de hacer realidad esa gran aspiración. Por primera vez, los tiempos modernos ya no son tan nuevos. Ya llevan 200, 150, 100 años –según los cómputos de … Seguir leyendo
By Jock Percy, a senior analyst atACE*COMM, an operations support systems solutions provider (THE GUARDIAN, 30/03/06):
The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority’s (QCA) annual report, released on Friday, found that more than 1,000 pupils were disqualified in last year’s public exams for taking mobile phones into the exam hall.While this is a fairly small percentage of those taking examinations, it is indicative of a much larger trend. The report concluded that many of the miscreants were penalised simply for having the phones in their pockets, having brought them in unintentionally. This highlights the fact that for today’s … Seguir leyendo
By James Harkin (THE GUARDIAN, 18/03/06):
In a scarcely reported move a few weeks ago, the makers of the online medieval role-playing game World of Warcraft reluctantly allowed teams of openly gay players, introducing the battle for sexual equality into the virtual world. Apparently players had begun to organise gay pride marches within the game, which must have raised eyebrows among the more conservative wizards and elves.Computer and video games are now big business. Their growing importance was recognised last week when the British Academy of Film and Television Arts announced that they are henceforth to be regarded as an … Seguir leyendo
By Esther Dyson, an investor in technology start-ups, is the editor of Release 1.0. (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 17/03/06):
A company called Goodmail Systems thinks it has come up with a potential (and partial) solution to the problem of spam and fraud on the Internet. According to Goodmail, market forces are the answer, rather than the kinds of ineffective regulations that have so far failed to solve the problems.
What Goodmail is proposing is a sort of FedEx for e-mail. For a penny or less per message, the sender gets guaranteed delivery for mail and the promise that it … Seguir leyendo
By Timothy B. Lee, a policy analyst at the Show-Me Institute, a nonpartisan research organization, is a regular contributor to the Technology Liberation Front Web site (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 16/03/06):
Should be be worried about wireless “piggybacking?” Millions of homes now have wireless Internet networks, and many of them are not protected by passwords. “Piggybacking” occurs when someone — a next-door neighbor or a stranger parked across the street — finds an open network and logs on.
News reports tend to paint the practice as a growing problem. Reporters use words like “stealing,” “hacking” and “intrusion.” But despite … Seguir leyendo
By Christopher Stern, a media policy analyst with Medley Global Advisors (THE WASHINGTON POST, 22/01/06):
Do you prefer to search for information online with Google or Yahoo? What about bargain shopping — do you go to Amazon or eBay? Many of us make these kinds of decisions several times a day, based on who knows what — maybe you don’t like bidding, or maybe Google’s clean white search page suits you better than Yahoo’s colorful clutter.
But the nation’s largest telephone companies have a new business plan, and if it comes to pass you may one day discover that … Seguir leyendo
Blog, bla, bla. José María Pozuelo Yvancos, catedrático de la Universidad de Murcia (ABC, 29/12/05).
By David Vise, a Post business reporter and the co-author with Mark Malseed of The Google Story (THE WASHINGTON POST, 13/11/05):
The soul of the Google machine is a passion for disruptive innovation.
Powered by brilliant engineers, mathematicians and technological visionaries, Google ferociously pushes the limits of everything it undertakes. The company’s DNA emanates from its youthful founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, who operate with “a healthy disregard for the impossible,” as Page likes to say. Their goal: to organize all of the world’s information and make it universally accessible, whatever the consequences.
Google’s colorful childlike logo, its … Seguir leyendo
By Arch Puddington, director of research at Freedom House, a nongovernmental organization that monitors political rights and civil liberties worldwide (THE WASHINGTON POST, 12/11/05):
Delegates from around the world will gather next week in Tunisia for what is known as the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Few people are aware of WSIS’s existence, its mission or the purpose of this conference. That is unfortunate, since the principal agenda item calls for a wholesale change in governance of the Internet that could lead to a significant setback for global freedom of information.
Although many are under the impression … Seguir leyendo
By Kofi A. Annan, secretary general of the United Nations (THE WASHINGTON POST, 05/11/05):
The main objective of the World Summit on the Information Society to be held this month in Tunisia is to ensure that poor countries get the full benefits that new information and communication technologies — including the Internet — can bring to economic and social development. But as the meeting draws nearer, there is a growing chorus of misinformation about it.
One mistaken notion is that the United Nations wants to “take over,” police or otherwise control the Internet. Nothing could be farther from the … Seguir leyendo
By Nick Taylor, president of the Authors Guild and is the author of nonfiction books (THE WASHINGTON POST, 22/10/05):
I am a writer.
For some time now — too much time, I suspect my editor believes — I have been working on a history of the Works Progress Administration. This has taken me to states from Maine to California, into archives and libraries, and on long and occasionally fruitful searches for survivors of the Depression-era program.
I have invested a small fortune in books chronicling the period and copies of old newspapers, spent countless hours on Internet searches, paid … Seguir leyendo
Por Jean-Noël Jeanneney (LE MONDE, 23/01/05):
POUR l’instant, la nouvelle n’a guère attiré l’attention que des bibliothécaires et des informaticiens. Et, pourtant, je gage qu’on ne va pas tarder à en mesurer la portée culturelle, donc politique : vaste.
Google est, comme on sait, le premier moteur de recherche propre à guider les internautes dans l’immensité de la Toile. L’un des premiers chronologiquement, puisqu’il remonte à 1998 (sept ans, longue durée dans ce champ). Le premier par son succès : 75 % de la recherche d’information passent aujourd’hui par son truchement. Le premier enfin par son poids capitalistique : entré … Seguir leyendo
Telefonía móvil: Más allá de la pura llamada. Nicholas Negroponte es autor de Being Digital y fundador y director del Laboratorio de Medios del Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) de Cambridge, EEUU (EL MUNDO, 12/01/05).