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La FCC trata de proteger la neutralidad de la red en EE.UU

Alejandro — Thu, 06 May 2010 10:23:33 +0000

La FCC, ha tomado acciones para regular el acceso a la internet con el fin de proteger la neutralidad de la red, es lo que dice un informe del diario de Wall Street Journal. Asumiendo que esto es cierto, es una gran noticia y potencialmente una gran victoria para los consumidores.

Lo más resultante de dicho informe, a pesar de no se muy claro; es que el director de la FCC, Julius Genachowski, junto con su equipo de trabajo; han estado informando a los comisionados de esta entidad sobre los recientes cambios que se realizaran en las lineas de Internet. actualmente son las compañías (cable operadoras y empresas telefónicas) quienes maneja las políticas sobre la lineas de internet; las cuales recientemente han argumentado que las nuevas regulaciones afectaran sus negocios. El temor de estas empresas radica en que la FCC podría obligarlas a abrir estas lineas a sus competidores o serían forzados a mantener limites de acceso. De acuerdo con el reporte del WSJ, oficiales de la FCC aseguran que este no es el objetivo, que por el contrario so lo buscan la neutralidad dentro de la red.

Neutralidad de la red es ideal, pero la FCC tiene que hacer exactamente lo que el cable y las compañías de telefonía no quieren que haga: crear más competencia en el mercado. Solo si existe una verdadera competencia, la neutralidad de la red sería un problema menor, porque la gente cambiaría a un proveedor diferente si con el que esta, procura bloquear determinado sitio, o limitar otros. Lamentablemente, por ahora , los consumidores no tienen muchas opciones porque los ISP tienen el monopolio en muchas zonas del país.

Up-coming Movies will have a new selling plataform

Alejandro — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:20:58 +0000

Ever imagined the movie industry releasing movies in a hole new different way?

As technology develop, companies and people also develop, and adapt or embrace to this new technologies; Tomorrow Monday, movies industry and consumers will experience a new way to release up-coming movies; the new platform are Mobile Phones.

Rage, a Sally Potter film starring Jude Law, Dame Judi Dench and Steve Buscemi is expected to revolutionize the way movies reach viewers; first came “World Wide Premieres” now the phrase is “World Wide Multi-Platform”.

Not only is Rage opening in cinemas in the US and in Britain in the next few days, but the DVD of the film is being released overseas and Australians will be able to download episodes of the movie over the Internet from Monday week, just days after its cinema release; and also they are releasing in the US, Britain, Italy, France, Germany and Spain a mobile device version enabling folks in this countries to watch the movie on iPhones and iPods in daily installments over seven days, starting tomorrow. It’s the first time a feature film will premiere on mobile phones.

iTwin – A USB file sharing solution

Alejandro — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:20:10 +0000

Have you ever imagined to connect two computers using a USB cable?; well I had, way before Bluetooth became available and wireless network connections where on the horizon, I tried; and without success, to connect two computers using a simple USB cable, I even suggested my brother to create a USB network solution. Soon, I realized that just it was not going to happen, connecting them that way wont help me get any file transferred; So we had to relay on our RS232 network connection.

But since then things have change a lot, and now that idea have become a reality (somehow): iTwin, is a device that allows to connect two computers via USB connected device (on each computer) and share files, so far, this just looks like any other sharing solution out there; the interesting twist of this device is that it uses the internet connection as a funnel to deliver the information between the two computers, in other words; it’s like the two computer where connected by an invisible (actually Internet) USB cable. According to iTwin designers web site users have the same experience as if the were using a flash drive, no software installation, no logins or passwords but still the solution provides a secure connection between computers and if one of the devices is removed the connection is stoped.