O elogio geral foi que o governo teria aberto um canal de discussão com as teles, apesar de nenhum dos representantes das empresas ter garantido que essas conversas poderão alterar a iminente edição de um decreto presidencial lançando o plano. […]
Inicialmente, os interessados encontrarão disponíveis para consulta materiais do próprio CGI.br, da USP e do Arquivo Nacional, como os Cinejornais - noticiários transmitidos em cinemas brasileiros entre as décadas de 30 e 70. […]
O governo do Acre lançou na manhã desta quinta-feira, 4, em Rio Branco, o programa Floresta Digital, que possibilitará o acesso da população dos 22 municípios à internet com banda larga até o final do ano. O governo também anunciou que vai começar neste ano a distribuição de 9 mil netbook para estudantes do terceiro ano do ensino médio. […]
Depois que Steve Jobs profetizou o fim da linguagem Flash, que torna possível, por exemplo, os vídeos do YouTube, uma empresa suíça chamada Jilion lançou um player para o formato HTML5 chamado o SublimeVideo, que nos dá indicações do como será a exibição de vídeos online no futuro. […]
Na última sexta-feira, 29 de janeiro, em São Paulo, durante uma agitada visita ao pavilhão do Campus Party, cercada por mais de 600 repórteres, a ministra-chefe da Casa Civil, Dilma Rousseff, se encontrou com Lawrence Lessig, a maior autoridade em direitos autorais na era digital, professor da Faculdade de Direito de Stanford (EUA) e idealizador do projeto C […]
Brasil es un referente mundial en muchos sentidos, pero pronto también lo será en lo referente a derechos de autor y su relación con acceso a la cultura. Y es que se inició un proyecto de discusión pública para la modificación de su ley de derechos de autor. […]
De 25 à 31 de janeiro o Centro de Convenções Imigrantes, em São Paulo, foi palco da maior festa da internet brasileira e, pelos números de participantes, imprensa, palestras, debates, oficinas, este foi o maior evento do gênero do mundo […]
Most of the debate and discussion over HTML5 vs. Flash vs. Native Apps has little to do with what is the right technical approach, or whether something is open or closed, it has to do with the expressions of power and control that drive the businesses of the Internet’s dominant platform companies — Apple, Adobe, Google and Microsoft. […]
The department asked the court to encourage the parties to continue discussions on further changes to the settlement, which it said had many public benefits. […]
You pool your spare hard drive space together with that of your friends. This forms a distributed filesystem which endures even if some of your friends' computers are unreachable […]
The key to success -- one might even say DOMINANCE -- in payment systems is to begin with the foundation of frequent-use products, so that users won't forget their passwords. Whether intentional or not, Facebook has played this game to perfection. […]
Click on an RSS icon and most people will just get confused. Click on the logo of the monolithic Facebook and you're subscribed. Sometimes drastically reducing choices makes them more likely to participate. That's not pretty, but it's realistic. […]
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"The world is moving to HTML5". The world, of course, includes Google, which last week in a somewhat more modest development bypassed Apple’s iPhone app blockade by unveiling an html5 version of Google Voice, which takes full advantage of mobile Safari on the iPhone. […]
Apple now owns and controls their own mobile CPUs. There aren’t many companies in the world that can say that. And from what I saw today, Apple doesn’t just own and control a mobile CPU, they own and control the hands-down best mobile CPU in the world. […]
The latest round of negotiations over the Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA -- a secret treaty that contains provisions requiring nations to wiretap the Internet, force ISPs to spy on users, search laptops at the border, and disconnect whole households from the net on the basis of mere accusation of copyright infringement) is just kicking off in Mexi […]
How do we sustain ourselves as storytellers in this day of shifting distribution systems? How do we monetize our work and get the word? Presented by the WorkBook Project – DIY DAYS aims to answer these questions with a day of panels, roundtable discussions and workshops: A look at how to fund, create, and distribute and sustain. […]
Programs like this should start pushing the adoption of QR codes and other 2D barcodes for mobile marketing. One current barrier to adoption is that a consumer has to have a barcode reader installed in their phone in order to scan the code. […]