Archivo etiqueta «Telefonía»
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 Ariane Sherine (THE GUARDIAN, 03/11/08):
I like exclamation marks!!! Not to that extent, but I do. I use them sparingly, to liven up dialogue, signify volume and incredulity, and inject punch. But this, according to certain other writers, is a gross literary misjudgment on a par with ending a sentence with a comma,
“The exclamation mark is the last refuge of the scoundrel!” a writer friend railed (he’ll be railing even more now I’ve defiled the end of his pronouncement). “It’s the literary equivalent of an umbrella – pointy, almost always useless, and gets in the way.”
Another journalist… Seguir leyendo
By David A. Gross, ambassador and U.S. coordinator for international communication and information policy and Amir Zai Sangin, Afghanistan’s minister of communications and information technology (THE WASHINGTON POST, 08/09/08):
Afghanistan has been back in the news of late. Recent losses of civilian and military lives and the Taliban’s increasing use of purely terrorist tactics such as kidnappings and bombings have had a negative impact on public perceptions of the country’s progress. But these developments should not overshadow the good news: The government is present in more areas than ever before, health care and education are being delivered to more people,… Seguir leyendo
By Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School and the co-author of Who Controls the Internet? (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 30/07/08):
Americans today spend almost as much on bandwidth — the capacity to move information — as we do on energy. A family of four likely spends several hundred dollars a month on cellphones, cable television and Internet connections, which is about what we spend on gas and heating oil.
Just as the industrial revolution depended on oil and other energy sources, the information revolution is fueled by bandwidth. If we aren’t careful, we’re going to repeat the history… Seguir leyendo
Por Carmen Galán Rodríguez, profesora titular de Lingüística de la Universidad de Extremadura (EL PAÍS, 12/05/08):
En la historia iconográfica encontramos imágenes simbólicas de los dedos de la mano que se han sucedido hasta quedar semánticamente fijadas. El índice, por ejemplo, se ha representado casi siempre como un dedo que “habla” (indica) de nosotros y a los otros; de ahí que sea el más apropiado tanto para desatar la controversia, pues se usa al acusar, reprender, negar o imponer silencio, como para entablar el diálogo pacífico: es el dedo que levantan los alumnos entusiastas para responder a una pregunta y… Seguir leyendo
By Michael Gerson (THE WASHINGTON POST, 24/01/08):
Regular readers of this column will know that I am suspicious of cyberspace innovations — from Facebook to MySpace to Second Life– that substitute the accumulation of “friends” for actual friendship and exhibitionism for genuine intimacy. So the related phenomenon of “texting” (a word officially recognized by the Oxford English Dictionary as of June 15, 2006, but still unknown to my spell-checker) would seem to deserve the harsh glare of conservative moral scrutiny.
Texting, for those stubborn few who still use their cellphones for talking, is a form of immediate, shorthand communication that… Seguir leyendo
By Tim O’Reilly, a publisher of computer books adn the co-producer of the Web 2.0 conference (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 15/12/07):
The Internet and the cellphone are on a collision course.
In the future, the cellphone and similar wireless devices, not the personal computer, will be the primary interface to the cloud of information services that we now call the Internet. The demand for Internet-style applications on the phone — e-mail, maps, photo and video sharing, social networking and even Internet telephony — is exploding.
Meanwhile, cracks are appearing in the control that cellular carriers have long held over their… Seguir leyendo
By John Ashcroft, the United States attorney general from 2001 to 2005. He now heads a consulting firm that has telecommunications companies as clients (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 05/11/07):
For almost two years, the country has debated whether the Bush administration acted properly and lawfully in undertaking emergency surveillance operations of suspected foreign terrorists on presidential authorization in the wake of 9/11. For several months, we have been debating bills that seek to modernize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court statute.
There are many complex and difficult issues associated with these debates, but whether to terminate the huge lawsuits that have… Seguir leyendo
By John D. Rockefeller IV, a Democrat from West Virginia, is chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (THE WASHINGTON POST, 31/10/07):
In the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11, the Bush administration had a choice: Aggressively pursue potential terrorists using existing laws or devise new, secret intelligence programs in uncharted legal waters.
Unfortunately, President Bush often chose the latter, and the legitimacy and effectiveness of our efforts to fight terrorism were dramatically undermined.
The president’s warrantless surveillance program and his decision to go it alone — without input from Congress or the courts — have had devastating consequences. One… Seguir leyendo
By Eugene Robinson (THE WASHINGTON POST, 07/09/07):
If I were an iPhone owner, I’d be hopping mad. I’d be iRate.
Just 10 weeks ago, otherwise sane individuals were camping overnight in long lines for the privilege of paying $599 for a mobile phone. These people were fully aware that most wireless companies will give you a basic phone for free, but the object of their ardor was anything but basic. It was a lifestyle choice. It was an advertisement for oneself. It was a shiny little slice of the future, a thin slab of cool. So what if it cost,… Seguir leyendo
By Jesse Scaccia, a film producer, taught at Franklin D. Roosevelt High School in Brooklyn (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 23/05/06):
YOU’RE a teacher in the New York City public school system. It’s September, and you’re lecturing the class on the structure of an essay. Your students need to know this information to pass your class and the Regents exam, and you, of course, hope that one day your talented students will dazzle and amaze English professors all over the country.
You turn your back to write the definition of “thesis” on the chalk board. It takes about 15 seconds. You… 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 teenager, the mobile is… Seguir leyendo