Russia, to be snapped with picture phones Stalin

Moscow, in Russia it steals a cell phone with the image of Stalin.
The unit and 'a normal Nokia phone, with the only particularity' dell'effigie of 'Uncle Joe' on the cover. E 'for sale at prices to suit all budgets, from 1,000 rubles (about 25 euros) to 60,000. Even tourists and foreigners have become infected from gadgets 'politically incorrect'.
The Nokia, said the agency Ria Novosti, says he has nothing to do with that product, that actually feels bad for his image, and promised lawsuits and damage claims against makers and distributors. "Even if it were on the brink of bankruptcy and that phone the only way out, the company 'would lend itself to such bad taste."
The network of stores ion, which sells the phone, do not comment on the origin and merely stated that "we're not making a political operation. They sell, and we just sell them. " Nokia, in addition to disregarding the product and to exclude it from the usual warranty, warns about the potential toxicity 'of the paints used for the portrait of Stalin.
Source: Reuters

Cisco launches wireless player, challenge Sony and Apple

Cisco Systems enters the consumer electronics market and challenge the big industry like Apple and Sony. The Californian giant of network equipment will begin 'because in the coming days to market a digital player that lets you play music and view photos by logging mode' access to your PC, or even the iPod cable.
According to the Mercury News, Silicon Valley's electronic journal, and that 'only the first of a series of products' consumer' Cisco, designed for living "digital" not only of American homes. The new line will be 'presented in a few days at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Cisco, led by CEO John Chambers is trying to broaden the horizons of its market, from 39 billion and more 'dollars, as well as companies and telecom operators and cable.
"It 's just a small first step - Saul Hansell writes in the New York Times - towards a long-term strategy to challenge Apple, Sony and other giants of consumer electronics. Cisco is working on other gadgets that allow people to watch videos over the Internet on their televisions. But the bet more 'great concern the' consumer 'of the video conferencing system for businesses,' Telepresence ', which will be able to' be used for chatting even on HDTVs. "
Source: Reuters

The house of the Epiphany, fill out the web form and arrives at the letter of the Epiphany

Urbania (Pesaro-Urbino), on the internet you can find anything, even a form to get home, away postman, a "real" letter of the Epiphany, on the letterhead and logo of the old woman.
The idea 'of the Pro Loco of Urbania (Pesaro Urbino) - the country of Montefeltro, where there is' already' the House of the Epiphany - a tour operator and the Marches. To receive "the true letter of the Epiphany" just connect to the site www.labefana.com and fill out the request form. Within days the boy or girl who wrote will receive a personalized response. The module 'also available at Italian travel agencies.
Urbania while you prepare the feast of Epiphany with several initiatives that will begin January 2nd and ends on the 6th. The website of the Epiphany and 'already' full of messages sent by children from various countries. Visitors can also find news on the topic, a page of photos and video shows on the Epiphany in Urbania and a shop of gadgets.
Source: Reuters

Comet Christmas marks a new Italian record

Rome, and the Christmas Comet 'a comet record. And 'in fact the seventh celestial body of this type discovered in a year from Italian Boattini Andrea, who works in the United States, Arizona, at the Mount Lemmon Observatory.
Boattini has passed so 'the Italian record, unbeaten in about 150 years and held by astronomers Francesco De Vito and Giovanni Battista Donati, who in the mid' '800 boasted the discovery of six comets. "It 'was a 2008 final very important for our group, we saw that NASA has renewed funding through 2012," notes Boattini.
Like the other six comets discovered by Boattini, even the seventh post your own name. It's called C/2008 Y1 (Boattini) and it 'was discovered on the evening of December 22 during the program Catalina Sky Survey (CSS), University' of Arizona, dedicated to the discovery of asteroids and comets that may approach dangerously close to earth.
The comet, of magnitude about 18, and 'observable to the South-West in the first two hours of the night with a tool and medium-sized and' about 90 times more 'small apparent size of the Moon or the Sun and its heart 'estimated at about five kilometers in diameter and its orbit does not seem to bring it near the Earth.
Source: Reuters

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P2P network anticipates the Beta of Windows 7

On one of the most 'famous networks' Peer to Peer ', primarily those used to download movies, music and software, not entirely legally, and' came from a few hours even the "beta" of Windows 7, the "next" system Microsoft's operational, well ahead of the 'release' Journal. The news and 'spread rapidly on the network and e' landed on the sites of the press.
By itself 'the fact is not' sensational, this type of "advance", you do not like Microsoft, and 'often occurred.
Not to mention the software 'pirated'. But there 'great expectation among users for this new operating system that would replace XP and especially Vista and this unauthorized distribution seems to have had more emphasis than before.
For those not in a hurry and in particular wish to do things according to law, to have a 'taste' of significant new program will have to 'wait almost certainly only until January 9, when, at CES in Las Vegas and' the plan ' intervention of Steve Ballmer, the CEO of Microsoft, which will focus' definitely on the new operating system. And according to the U.S. site CNET News, the 'release' of new and more 'complete version - not yet final - Windows 7, should be a few hours away.
For those who do not want to wait there are search engines for BitTorrent, but 'at risk of "malware". The files circulating online, it seems, and 'in "iso" (already' ready, meaning 'to be burned as DVD) which contains the version M1 (Build 7000), the most' complete so far, compared to previously released versions, with almost all the active functions. The Beta 1, in fact, should be a real 'pre-release' of the commercial version. This, the general opinion of experts is expected to arrive in June or July.
"Windows Seven" and 'was defined as a "Windows Vista without the errors of Vista." Unlike its predecessor, and 'more' fast, versatile and works well on less powerful computers, according to the results of the first test. It 'also very customizable. Among the innovations ', also has a "taskbar", the bar that appears at the bottom of the screen with programs in operation, very innovative compared to the past and that has given rise to some perplexity.'
"We learned a lot from Windows Vista," he said in a recent interview with Mike Nash, vice president of Microsoft. "Our approach to Windows 7, 'was marked by this experience."
Source: Reuters

Umbria Jazz Winter, Joao Gilberto concert canceled

Orvieto, Joao Gilberto concert scheduled for 2, 3 and 4 January at Umbria Jazz Winter in Orvieto, are canceled. He reports a statement of the organizers.
Artist and 'it was found an inguinal hernia.
Currently she 'admitted in Bahia preoperatively and e' was banned any movement.
"The organization - and 'said the statement - apologizes for the unfortunate mishap and the artist himself, and' extremely sorry".
Tickets will be fully repaid and the repayment organization will offer 'free admission for the concerts at the Teatro Mancinelli substitute on days 2, 3 and 4 January (Stefano Bollani more' special guests).
Source: Reuters

John Lennon, who stars in a TV commercial 28 years after death

New York, imagine John Lennon, who stars in a TV commercial for a charity, 28 years after his death. Through the use of digital technology and the 'green light' by Yoko Ono, the former Beatle and 'became the hero of the campaign' One laptop per child '(a laptop for every child') which aims to provide a computer to solar energy to most kids' world's poor.
"Imagine every child no matter where in the world can have access to a universe of knowledge. They will have the chance 'to learn, to dream, to get everything you want, "says Lennon's voice, accompanied by an image recreated artificially. "I tried to do through my music, but now you can do differently. You can give a child a laptop and more 'of what you can imagine. You can change the world "says the musician, with words that evoke and remind one of his songs more 'notes," Imagine "in 1971. The spot will be 'broadcast in the U.S. on TV and cable in spaces allowed for the initiative, and you could' also be seen at www.youtube.com / olpc. Created in 2005, the Foundation "One Laptop per Child" and 'an offshoot of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and started producing computers powered by solar energy at the end of last year, at a cost of less than factory $ 200 for each unit. '
Source: AGI

Facebook

Rome, one click and you become friends, meet old school friends or old flames. It begins to share the pieces of life, pictures and video. For senitrsi less alone. And 'the Facebookmania, a passion growing rapidly in Italy: the latest figure of 1 million 369 thousand Italian users (of 132 million worldwide), with an increase in visitors of 961% in a year (+135% of the members). "It 'a fever that plagued the band in particular between 30 and 40 years, and for good reason: this virtual world is indeed seen as an antidote to the sense of emptiness and loneliness, which at this stage of life, full of budgets , also infects the so-called winning "says Paola Vinciguerra, President of Eurodap (European Association of panic disorder) and dell'Uiap Director (Operational Unit panic attacks) to the Paideia Clinic of Rome.

THE ITALIAN GATHERING - If in fact the website was referring - even in name - to photo albums that American universities publish at the beginning of academic year to find lost friends, today the nostalgic hunting for former classmates are just one of many profiles facebook-maniacs: there are "too lonely", the dissatisfied, those with the alter egos, those who do it for publicity, the broken hearts and, of course, the Latin lover virtual. A witness to the passion for this colorful online world is also a meeting arranged for Wednesday 22 in Milan, at the Limelight nightclub, to rally the community Lombard Facebook. But according to experts, the growing exchange of messages, photos and contacts may also be the litmus test of a more widespread unease. "The huge growth of Facebook is also warning of a big deal of solitude - the diagnostic Vinciguerra, analyzing the phenomenon with Adnkronos Health - We have built our lives on an image capable, successful, superorganizzata. But in 30-40 years, that the goals that we had seats have been met or not, makes its way a sense of emptiness, because we have treated more like being the appearance. "

"COLOSSAL ILLUSION" - So we come to find those who are perceived as "real relationships: school friends, friends of many summers at the beach, the boys in the courtyard. Those to whom we gave and we received support and sincere understanding. Today we say in the real world a bit 'all - feel the Vinciguerra - but in the past was not so. " "Facebook allows many people to think to be important, just because you have dozens and dozens of virtual friends, but unfortunately it is often only a colossal illusion," says Tonino Cantelmi, psychiatrist and psychotherapist, professor of psychiatry at the Gregorian University Rome, and among the first to address the problem of techno-dependency in Italy. "Watch out though, because they forget that will always remain on the track of the web or banal narcissistic bunch of lies that you enter the network," warns Cantelmi. Often the lies come home to roost, as has already happened in the case of couples where one of two shows on the single site, and one finds out. "It is desperately looking for something different, even romantically, so it alters the truth," says Vinciguerra.

IDENTIKIT OF THE "FACEBOOKMANIACI" - Here, according to experts, the identikit of people infected by Facebookmania Internet.

1) The nostalgic: They thrill at the sight of pictures of classmates of average or high school. Seeking friends from the past to see how they aged, and comment on the good old days. A nostalgia for old times, in fact, is a longing for true relationships and lost, for now distant childhood and adolescence, and mythologized.

2) The Latin lover virtual Admittedly looking for new potential partners, but also of former handsome and available. Often conceal a relationship (if have), and gorge on their profiles and albums with pictures sexy or interesting, sometimes retouched. Typically accumulate dozens and dozens of friends of the opposite sex, with whom do the mysterious. "But eventually it comes to single people or deeply unhappy with their partner, who resort to heaps of banal narcissistic to make interesting," explains Cantelmi.

3) The broken hearts: Prostrate last report, in progress or finished, they are hunting for antique lovers, mitizzano memories. They seem to have lost their way something true. "In this case the dissatisfaction and loneliness go hand in hand - says Vinciguerra - and tries to give it another go" through the network.

4) The unhappy: unhappy even if they have a family and children, are often women. No place for dreams, romance and a touch of adventure, who end up trying on Facebook.

5) Those of advertising are more or less famous, politicians, sports stars, actors. They use Facebook in an instrumental way, to get mega-free spot.

6) Those with the ater ego: From 400 pranksters that have occurred in the shoes of the player Francesco Totti, the many Julius Caesar or Marie Antoinette, to those who publish photos or remodel the description boasting different qualifications and experience of fantasy. Alone and looking for contacts, you put a mask to get attention and credibility in the virtual world.
Source: Corriere.it

The Honda is safe, the team purchased by Carlos Slim

The Mexican magnate has also referred to the hiring of Bruno Senna, Honda, and in part also the fascinating world of F1, is safe. The Japanese team had indeed found a buyer, to give the news is today's edition of the newspaper 'La Stampa', that would already have been defined as the transfer of ownership of the team in the hands of Mexican magnate Carlos Slim Helu. Second place in the special list of the richest men of the world drawn up by 'Forbes', Slim owes his fortune to the property of Telmex, the telephone company more widespread in Latin America, which also holds stakes in banks, restaurant chains, tobacco plantations, in addition to 3% of the shares of Apple.
It was also described as the recruitment of the Brazilian driver Bruno Senna, nephew of the legendary Ayrton and sponsored by a company, Embratel, Telmex from its subsidiary. The purchase price, we read in the newspaper, was established in a symbolic $ 1, the greatest burden of the new owner it will cover the debts and expenses.
Source: AGI

Apple takes agreement with U.S. publishers to read e-books on iPhone

Iceberg with the software company ScrollMotion (developers of iPhone applications) will be possible to read e-books on the iPhone by Apple has already made ​​arrangements with Random House, Hachette, Penguin, Counterpoint, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Simon & Schuster.
This application will allow you to scroll and leaf through the pages with your finger and take notes.
The ScollMotion most likely develop the same application for Blackberry.

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