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In this framework we find news from all bands, from the ultra-thin models who choose, to integrating their devices with Google TV or even Ubuntu, but there is still time to see the latter in action. LG has introduced its new range of televisions which includes a lot of weird little words as LEDs, Smart TV, Cinema and 3D, and you do not miss going to tell you a little of what this is, so you can choose the TV best suits you.

• LED Technology

Start with LED technology, which is one of the most important. Hitherto employed tiny fluorescent lamps illuminating large areas of the screen so that light from a zone, this streamed to the next. The problem with this is that it was very bad for the contrast, because if there was a very bright area next to a very little light was passed from one to another. LED technology replaces those small fluorescent lamps emitting independent light areas of the screen much smaller. Because this greatly improves image quality and contrast.

The best thing to do is go to a store where they have plenty of models to compare and you focus on the LED. It is one of those technologies that are felt, not like others, I really did not offer much. Anyway here is all, and it is best you see it live, because they have to like more.

• Smart TV

The fashionable term. Now for a TV is good must be Smart TV, is like the much-Full HD used before, but this makes more sense. What makes a TV Smart TV is to much of what television offers. So far these devices only allow one-way communication, so we saw it aired, and the only control we had was to change the channel.

Smart TV introduces Internet on TV, thanks to applications gives extra value because we can access the browser, YouTube, Facebook or Skype. If you ask me, I think it is the revolution that broadcasters needed, because there was no point to an archaic model of TV as we knew before. Furthermore, this will gradually improve, and different brands will have improvements to make it better.

• 3D Cinema

3D Entertainment is a very controversial topic. Not like many people, and there are some who hate it especially. However the problem is rather that it tried to market from the start too early in a state in which it was developed. Gradually this technology improves, and televisions as this we find a much more elaborate 3D and better managed.

Not only can access the contents that are already in 3D, but the technology to turn any 3D content to enjoy it as well with glasses. As I remain unconvinced at all, but recognize that is slowly improving a lot, and no longer produces dizziness that created the beginning, so it is possible that within the 3D end not much winning. I think there is still time for 3D to become a truly viable model, but it is a good start, and only improvements made here will convince us to use.

Dipped to Raspberry Pi, but not because they promised, but because before there and selling test units to 2,000 € when its main feature is that it costs $ 25 and was crippling the world of technology.

It is now that we have to celebrate the existence of Raspberry Pi, because finally begins manufacturing.

According to reports themselves, the Raspberry Pi began to manufacture a few days ago. In fact already beginning to be some impatience among people who wanted to start watching this computer manufactured, many began to think would never come, but at least now they can begin to breathe easier.

The Pi Raspberry begin to send as FIFO (first in order it will be the first to receive it), and it is estimated that this will be the end of January. At first reach the B, and later will start buying models A. Recall that the only difference is that the former have 128MB and 256MB of RAM seconds.

The note in which Pi Raspberry has announced that it began to construct their minicomputers spends most of the rest of its length to tell us that their idea was to hire a British manufacturer, but due to problems with taxes, interests and dates of manufacture (2 to 4 weeks versus 12 to 14 weeks) had to take their manufacturing to China and Taiwan. Take a look at what they say, because it is very interesting.

We hope that this project really succeed and we can get a computer like this for only $ 25, the idea is great and the utility both for the educational field, to support third world countries or even our daily lives are endless.

I am one of the potential buyers of PlayStation Vita, and so I have special interest in knowing the dates of departure in the European market. If the other day the news broke that he could be with us in October, you better go calm down.

The next generation of Sony’s portable console not set foot in Europe and the United States until 2012. The delay means it will not be present at Christmas, with all the negatives that implies.

The Japanese do seem to have better luck going, so they can plant a Nintendo face the doldrums with his laptop in the land of videogames.

The information is not a rumor, comes from the mouth of Kazuo Hirai, vice president at Sony, thus ending with the promise that he would be in our hands at the end of 2011.

The decision to delay was taken by the catalog of games is not ready for release, and denies that he has to do with the sharp drop in the price of Nintendo 3DS.

Windows XP comes to be talking about an operating system that has exactly 10 years ago. And that has probably been the most successful operating system of Microsoft’s history was still in good shape and with a user fee too high for software that despite their numerous service packs and updates and is too outdated for times. The blame for this has been thus have several factors, including how much the company was slow to get Windows Vista and the complete failure it was this.

Microsoft makes little set in motion a campaign to have the 1000 days of life that remain to support the operating system, an attempt by the many who already has done so little to small users will migrate to newer versions. Especially Windows 7, which is a great operating system to rise to the occasion (and it says a user of OS X). Good news in that sense to the company and for the first time and that according to a study reported Net Applications share users within Windows XP has dropped by 50% first time staying in a apuradísimo (but sufficient) 49 , 69%.

The study also highlights that the share of Windows 7 will not only increase and it reaches a 27.92% market share, now global, versus 10% users of OS X and 0.91% of Linux users . Vista is a 9.27% ??which still leaves Microsoft as the dominant firm controlling an overwhelming 87.66% of all desktop operating systems. This is good news for Windows XP, although it is a system still used by millions of people (in fact many of you probably read from me ye him) it is necessary that users begin to migrate to better and more advanced versions.

Probably the time to spend those 1000 days of support offered by Microsoft, which is slightly less than 3 years and will be out the next version, reportedly called Windows 8, even more XP leaving in the lurch. Upgrading to Windows 7 should start to become a must for many and will not be surprising that large pieces of software manufacturers well known and widely used by many people (read: Photoshop or AutoCAD) begin to also withdraw support for XP to force further change to Windows 7 or Vista, if no other option. Which is your idea
about a good thing that XP has reached this percentage? How many of you continue to use Windows XP?

Technological innovation is not an isolated event, is produced by accumulation and depends on the specific conditions of each society. We will mention two technological revolutions, which paved the way, the First Industrial Revolution, which was the epitome innovative steam engine and the Second Industrial Revolution, with the advent of electricity.

Both permeated the social and economic networks and formed the basis for an information technology revolution, characterized by an expansion of the human mind.

We can make a historical sequence of the revolution in information technology: from technological advances in the field of electronics that occurred in World War II and later, shows the first programmable computer and the transistor. Both the transistor and the computer programs give rise to microelectronics, which is the core of the revolution in information technology of the twentieth century (although 70 did not spread these new technologies.)

It is also important to note the parallel development of genetic engineering and telecommunications. The sum of electronic technologies, previously discussed (microelectronics, computers and telecommunications), within the field of interactive communication lead to the creation of the Internet, which so far is considered the most revolutionary technological medium of the age information.

This technological revolution as a main feature we highlight the application of knowledge in a cumulative feedback loop, where man can become a user and operator time. This indicates the creation of a narrow thread between the social processes of creation and manipulation of symbols, which is the culture that is generated in a society, and the ability to produce and distribute goods and services, which would be the productive forces.

At this point, the human mind will become a direct productive force, not an element of the production system. The social role of men is reformulated, is no longer just an element of the production chain, it’s going to be able to produce by itself, this gives a full turn to the social life takes place.

Another feature of this revolution is the speed with which it spread throughout the world that only two decades (from mid 70s-mid-90s), creating, forming a global bond that creates social inequality due to the uneven use of the benefits of it.

2. What is Information Society?

Is that society in which the technologies that facilitate the creation, distribution and manipulation of information play an important role in social, cultural and economic?

We can also see it as that ideology based on the mental frameworks of progress, growth and modernity, developed from the eighteenth century, based on various trends and changes in both scientific and technological driven largely by innovation in military and industrial capitalist.

3. What distinguishes the knowledge society of the above?

As we have seen the information society refers to the increasing technological capacity to store more and more information and to circulate it more and more quickly and more capable media. However, the knowledge society refers to something else, critical appropriation, and therefore selective, this information led by citizens who know what they want and what they need to know in each case, and therefore know what they can and must do without .

4. What are the characteristics of modern society with regard to technology?

The technologies are part of the technological culture of today’s society and culture around us with which we live. Expand our physical and mental abilities. And the possibilities of social development. We understand technologies, information technologies and communication, including, therefore, not only computers and associated technologies, telemetric and multimedia, but also the media of all kinds: social media (“Media”) media and traditional interpersonal technological support such as telephone, fax … All of this star in our technological culture and star aforementioned our day to day. They are a way of life that defines today’s society.

Thanks to them we have a society with rapid obsolescence of knowledge and the emergence of new values, leading to a society with continuous changes in our economic structures, social and cultural rights, and affecting almost every aspect of our lives: access the labor market, health, bureaucratic management, economic management, industrial design and art, entertainment, communication, information, how to perceive reality and thinking, organizing companies and institutions, its methods and activities, as interpersonal communication, quality of life, education …

His great impact on all aspects of our lives makes that we have a society in which it is increasingly difficult for us to act efficiently without them.

5. What are the technologies of information and communication?

The information technology and communication, also known as ICT, ICT or ICT for New Information Technologies and Communication and IT for “Information Technology”, grouped elements and techniques used in the processing and transmission of information, mainly computer, Internet and telecommunications.

6. How do these technologies in our society?

They are no panacea or magic formula, but improve the lives of many of the inhabitants of the planet. Tools are available to reach the Millennium Development Goals, instruments that will advance the cause of freedom and democracy, and the means to spread knowledge and to facilitate mutual understanding “(Kofi Annan, Secretary General Organization of the United Nations, speech inaugurating the first phase of WSIS, Geneva 2003).

Use among city dwellers, helps lower at any given time the digital gap, increasing the cluster of users who use ICT technology as a means to develop their activities and thus reduces the set of people who do not use. However, current mixed use leads to increased social inequality.

7. What is digital divide?

Find multiple definitions include the concept. Here we will mention that the digital divide is the gap that exists between people (communities, states, countries …) that use Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) as a routine part of daily life and those who do not have access to them and that while they do not know how to use them.

Such inequalities can cover all the new technologies of information and communication technologies (ICTs) such as personal computers, mobile telephony, broadband and other devices.