Racism in the HP computers?

2010/01/01 — ruidongzq

A curious case involving facial recognition software of embedded webcams in notebooks from Hewlett Packard has caused great controversy on the Internet.

It all started when a black-skinned man with a video on YouTube showing the operation of that application. Here you can see that the camera is able to continue smoothly the face of his aion kinah, a woman with Caucasian features, while before him, the camera remains completely static without recognizing his face like a human face.
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New Facebook privacy policy, denounced in the U.S.

2009/12/23 — ruidongzq

The new Facebook’s privacy policy could undermine the rights of its users. This is the view of many American associations that have allied to denounce the popular social network to American officials, so that the matter be investigated.
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60% of invoices for the technical services have a “trap”

2009/12/07 — ruidongzq

The Organization of Consumers and Users (OCU) warned that 60% of invoices issued for repair services and technical assistance are incorrect and that one in four cases and bill replacing unnecessary parts.

Thus concludes a survey conducted by setting consumer advocacy organization in twenty technical care (SAT) official and gathering in Aion, which led to repair consoles from different brands.
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Mac Users boycotting Microsoft’s ad campaign on Twitter

2009/11/30 — ruidongzq

The ‘war’ between Microsoft and Apple goes beyond the companies and often are the users who end enfrentadose between them. This is the case of an advertising campaign in the U.S., where Mac fans have decided to boycott Microsoft writing messages on Twitter.

Bill Gates’s company had reached an agreement with a famous store, Saks, to allow it through a screen showing a page of Twitter messages about your opinion of Internet promotions Christmas from Microsoft. The messages, constantly updated, had to bear the legend ‘# holidaywindows’.
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A Spanish company, responsible for the virtual water of the film ‘2012′

2009/11/18 — ruidongzq

Next Limit is regarded as one of the aion kinah as referred to special effects. And is that its technology has gained a foothold in Hollywood.

Now, as indicated from PortalTIC.es, Next Limit load again with the film 2012, which was released Friday in the Spanish cinemas.

In this, the Spanish company has handled the representation of the fluid, using a technology that could already be seen in films like GI Joe or Watchment.
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‘Family Guy’ runs out of Windows 7

2009/11/06 — ruidongzq

“At first we chose to participate in the program of Seth (McFarlane) and Alex (Borsntein), based on the profile of the audience and creative humor of Family Guy, but after seeing the first version of the program, it became clear that that content was not appropriate for the Windows brand. So this week explained a spokesman for the company that Microsoft has dismissed appear in the animated series Family Guy.

Apparently, Microsoft thought to make a ‘product placement’ of Windows 7 in the series to be released this Nov. 8, but the company has dismissed the idea.
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Ten million people watched live U2 concert on YouTube

2009/10/31 — ruidongzq

Ten million people watched live on YouTube on Sunday the Irish group U2 concert in Southern California, which was a record audience for the web’s leading video distribution via the Internet, The Hollywood Reporter reported Tuesday.

The performance, part of the tour 360 º Tour, was considered an “unprecedented move” by the band that decided to free live music to the computers of fans who could not attend in person to the show.
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