Technology and Gadgets

The issue of privacy seems to be a problem although underground, is at every celebration of the progress of technological devices and new communication technologies, in which the Internet appears as the most important device of all devices. A French philosopher said that our society is a society of sovereignty, as in times of absolute monarchies, “or times of discipline, as in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,” but we live in societies of control. People live displaying their intimacies and these publications are followed by the centers of economic and political power.

A little is that what is said against the social networks that make a show of intimacy. We all know that any information posted to the web, every picture hanging on our wall of Facebook, adds another element to the mass of information that large information and control of the companies handled daily.

Now this is confirmed by those published in recent days by TomTom. As you know, a while ago which confirmed the suspicion that the 3G iPhone and iPad keep track of the user’s location, as well as Android and Windows Phone. That record is nothing innocent, since it allows to accurately track the movements of users accessing the same privacy.

Now it turns out that this control is carried out, as TomTom has admitted in GPS receivers, allowing the user to monitor the police indiscriminately.

For those readers of the previous post that were not identified themselves with what is stated there , we have some small news that will serve to refute the thesis that all users of Microsoft is caught in a regressive attitude.
Is that July was the month chosen by Redmond to launch the public beta of SP1 for Windows 7, which can be downloadeda few days ago.

So that those who love Windows users still persist in keeping up, updated , taking as a selection criterion the principle of the newest, then they will be of great interest to know they can be available to you this new version of operating system world’s most popular.

But know that not everything is so easy in this life . Unfortunately, to start the download must resort to a trick. At one point she asked us what our occupation, and there have to say that we are “IT Worker”, “IT Manager” or “Developer”, if we choose any other option will prevent us from download SP1 because Microsoft says this Beta is not for home users. ”
Once this barrier will download a trigger that we “subscribe” to the beta of Service Pack (similar to “Channel Beta” and “Dev Channel” to Google Chrome). Being already signed, will begin to download the Beta via Windows Update.

As the common service packs for Windows, the SP1 does not include anything new in terms of functionality, but simply to add support for new technologies, and include minor updates and patches.

Acer has added another new all-in-one computer system to its range, is the Acer AZ3750. It equipped with 21.5-inch screen with a response rate of 5 ms, 300cd/m2 brightness and 1920 x 1080 Full HD resolution and powered by an Intel Core 3.20GHz processor i3-550.

Options allow you to add up to 8 GB of DDR3 SDRAM-1333MHz and equipped with a 500 GB HDD 7200 rpm SATA, MMC / SD / xD / MS card slot.

It is also equipped with a DVD Super Multi, Wireless LAN IEEE802.11b/g/n, 10/100/1000Mbps Gigabit Ethernet. It comes preinstalled with Windows 7 Home Premium 64 and weights about 13 kg. (more…)

Not all that glitters is gold. And though Android is one of the most successful operating systems now, it seems only right to emphasize the study carried out by the company Intel Labs in collaboration with American universities, Duke and Penn State. As it has been discovered that some Android applications share private data with advertisers, leaving in question its privacy policy and control over the waste of personal information that may exist in these environments. As revealed by the evidence, 50% of Android Market applications unashamedly share information strictly private.

To carry out these tests, making Intel Labs was developing a system named TaintDroid. By software that tracked the activity of these applications, a selection of the thirty most downloaded programs in the Android market. And those suspicions were confirmed, since TaintDroid found that half were sharing private information from users to advertisers’ own applications.

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