«A qualidade do serviço, medida na velocidade, dos fornecedores de acesso à Internet melhorou nos últimos dois anos, mas a velocidade contratada está ainda longe da conseguida, de acordo com o estudo divulgado hoje pela Anacom.»
Jornal de Negócios
Source Paulo Querido
«The map above is a neat find by the Le Monde newspaper in France, originally created by the research firm Datamonitor. What it’s showing is the number of hours (in millions) users spend on social networks across five major worldwide regions, and which site reigns supreme within different countries.»
Source Mashable
Mapa Le Monde
«Os dados do Bareme Internet da Marktest contabilizam, no Continente, 3,9 milhões de utilizadores de internet, um número que cresceu mais de oito vezes na última década.»
Source Marktest
«Leva quase um mês de vida o Dadus, projecto da Comissão Nacional de Protecção de Dados que pretende sensibilizar os alunos das escolas dos 2º e 3º ciclos do ensino básico para as questões de protecção de dados e da privacidade. Um blogue foi o instrumento escolhido para chegar mais perto do alvo.»
Source Paulo Querido
Dadus
"Silverlight 2 includes a cross-platform, cross-browser version of the .NET Framework, and enables a rich .NET development platform that runs in the browser. Developers can write Silverlight applications using any .NET language (including VB, C#, JavaScript, IronPython and IronRuby). We will ship Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Studio tool support that enables great developer / designer workflow and integration when building Silverlight applications."
Source: ScottGu's Blog
«Back in the late 1800s, automobile maker Henry Ford remarked that if you’d questioned consumers about what they hoped for next in transportation, they would have said that what they wanted was a faster and a stronger horse.»
Source Aiga
«I cannot let the irony pass with out commenting. A religious state, Pakistan, identifies a content provider, YouTube, as the source of blasphemous, seditious content and orders, King Canute style, that the Internet tides be stopped. A zealous ISP ignorantly decides the best way to comply with the decree is to re-route all of YouTube’s IP addresses to whatever site they thought was more appropriate. The first repercussion was that YouTube disappeared from the Internet for almost an hour.»
Richard Stiennon, ZDNet Blogs
Pakistan removed from the Internet
Pakistan declares war on YouTube
Pakistan takes out YouTube
«Japón ha lanzado esta madrugada un satélite para probar una nueva tecnología que promete proporcionar Internet de "super-alta velocidad" a hogares y empresas de todo el mundo. Si se cumplen las previsiones, los usuarios podrán disfrutar de acceso a la red con una velocidad de 1,2 gigabytes por segundo.»
Source El Pais
«Los medios digitales han pedido oficialmente a los dos principales partidos políticos, PSOE y PP, que sus respectivos cabezas de lista en las elecciones legislativas del 9 de marzo próximo, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero y Mariano Rajoy, realicen un debate en internet abierto a todos los medios 'on line', además de los dos debates en televisión ya acordados.»
Por un debate en internet
«Google Inc. will begin storing the medical records of a few thousand people as it tests a long-awaited health service that's likely to raise more concerns about the volume of sensitive information entrusted to the Internet search leader.»
Source Wired
Wikileaks, the website that helps people to expose fraud and corruption in government and big business, has vowed to continue it whistle-blowing efforts despite a US court’s decision to shut down the site. (...) Wikileaks allows whistleblowers to post documents anonymously on its site in the hope of exposing fraud and wrongdoing.
Source Telegraph
«Can you believe it? It's a shocker. An actual ad with actual old people in it! Complete with wrinkled skin and less than perfect abs. Seriously. We can't get over it. We're still in shock. And here we thought every one in the world was as hot as Obama Girl in a BarelyPolitical video. We are crushed at the thought of this new reality.»
Source Adgabber
«Welcome to a brand new beta site for uncensored, user-powered news. CNN built the tools, you take it from there. All the stories here are user-generated and instant: CNN does not vet or verify their authenticity or accuracy before they post. The ones with the "On CNN" stamp have been vetted and used in CNN news coverage.»
iReport
Source Tek Sapo
«You have a blog. You compose a new post. You click Publish and lean back to admire your work. Imperceptibly and all but instantaneously, your post slips into a vast and recursive network of software agents, where it is crawled, indexed, mined, scraped, republished, and propagated throughout the Web.»
Source Wired Magazine
«Print and Web are different. (...) However, there are a number of fundamental principles which are often being used in both media. Over the last years newspapers and web-sites started to apply similar principles of data presentation, such as the heavy use of white space and grid-based design. The results can sometimes be very similar, but often they have almost nothing at common.
This issue of monday inspiration series is supposed to provide you with some examples of outstanding newspaper designs which have been rewarded with prestigious awards.»
Source: Smashing Magazine
«If a songbird sings in the forest and no one is there to hear it, is it really music? Not if you're a teenager.»
Source International Herald Tribune
«O estudo Netpanel da Marktest contabiliza 1 883 mil portugueses que visitaram sites de turismo durante o ano de 2007, quando navegaram em suas casas na internet.»
Source Marktest
«A young Colombian engineer used the social networking site last week to organize a massive protest against the (...) FARC. On Feb. 4, millions of Colombians marched simultaneously in 27 cities throughout the country and 104 major cities around the world shouting "No more kidnappings! No more lies! No more deaths! No more FARC!"»
Source International Herald Tribune
«... about living with Bill, working with Warren Buffett, and giving away their billions.»
Source Fortune
