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The laws of logic are broken in the computing world. We are demonstrating Microsoft engineers from Redmond (Washington, USA). The technology giant has unveiled its latest futuristic project: a team round, which could advance future trends .

The group founded by Bill Gates surprised the world more than a year ago with the introduction of Surface , a kind of table that was actually touch a computer. Thinking was created for use in public facilities such as hotels, restaurants and airports. 'Now

makers working Surface and a new version with spherical shape, no keyboard and no mouse, which has been dubbed Sphere.

Possibilities ...

is a prototype, although expectations are high. In a video recorded last Tuesday on the Microsoft facilities in Redmond, an engineer of the group shows how, with a few taps, the area becomes a luminous globe, with varied applications and location maps.

Another interesting point is the ability to display images in three dimensions and angles of 360 degrees, and broad or narrow with the help of only two fingers. Finally, the video shows a small model of game. This represents a major advance over other touch screens on the market, as it allows interaction with several people at once.

'Windows 7' ...

Some scholars have interpreted the Sphere Surface as a preview of what will be the next Microsoft operating system , which some called Windows 7 . It is envisaged that this version is released, at least within a year and is completely touch (to take advantage this feature must be installed on computers that have this option.) Peculiarities

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* ' Sphere' is the name given to the latest Microsoft experiment.

* is considered a PC version of the Touch 'Surface . "

* Has a multi-touch interface (can be used by several people at once), together with a projection system Global Imagination.

* The detection of the hands is via infrared.

* The sphere is transformed into a globe, to manipulate photos and images with two fingers, watching videos at an angle of 360 degrees and play games, among other possibilities.

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be in the direction of the EIT ... Google

Professor Manuel Castells has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the new European Institute Innovation and Technology (IET), whose official opening is on 15 September Budapest, according to the European Commission.

Manuel Castells is Research Professor at the University of Barcelona, \u200b\u200band Professor of Technology and Communication Society in University of Southern California and Visiting Professor Technology and Society in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He is the author of 19 books, including the trilogy ' The era of information: Culture, Economy and Society' , which has been published in 23 languages.

EU executive president Jose Manuel Durao Barroso, praised the quality of the management members of the EIT, Institute ' soon be a reality' . ' Europe needs more than ever a strong commitment to innovation and technology, "said Barroso. Besides

Castells, another 17 have been chosen to head the European EIT to form a 'balance experience and excellence', derived from business, research and higher education.

was used for appointment to an independent committee after public consultation and the result was communicated to the Council and European Parliament.

Brussels said the first meeting of the EIT will take place next September 15 in Budapest, home of the Institute, and will mark the official opening of its activities. In addition, you must design the first 'Knowledge and Innovation Communities' (ICC) before the end of 2009. The ICC will be the operational centers of the European Institute.

The Institute's headquarters is finally in Budapest, despite the great interest shown by Spain to host it.

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2008 Prince of Asturias Award ...

The Internet search engine Google has been awarded the Prince of Asturias Award Communication and Humanities .

considered the best search engine in Internet history, Google allows millions of users around the world access to a universe of knowledge and information is extremely fast and organized. Its creation has meant a revolution in access to all types of content, reinventing the technical principles which were governed by the search engines.

In its ruling, the jury justified the decision to award the prize to Google ' to put instantly and selectively available to millions of people the internet channel and promote widespread access to knowledge' . The jury has also stressed his 'decisive contribution to the progress of peoples, regardless of frontiers ideological, economic, linguistic or racial' to choose the winning , after seven ballots.

This application was given by José Luis Pardos, Ambassador of Spain and member of the jury. Is supported by Al Gore, Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation 2007 , and Vinton G. Cerf, Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research 2002 .

With offices all over the world, Google handles hundreds of millions of hits per day and searches on millions of web pages and millions of images. In order to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful to anyone with Internet access Americans Sergey Brin and Larry Page created Google ten years ago and have managed to bring the most innovative technology for knowledge, breaking all records of effectiveness. Recently initiated, through its subsidiary Google.org, a philanthropic allocating part of its profits to development aid and environmental projects.

Sergey Brin (Moscow, 1973) and Larry Page (Michigan, USA, 1973) developed in early 1996 that a search engine called BackRub , whose main feature was the analysis of back links , links pointing to a page determined. In 1997, BackRub adopted the name ultimate Google for its resemblance to the word googol , which in English is the name that represents the number 10 to 100 , referring to the amount of information trying to organize.

In 1998 they founded Google Inc ., Setting the office in a rented garage in Menlo Park (California). A year later, already had a budget of 25 million dollars and moved their offices to Googleplex, the current headquarters Google in Mountain View, California. What started being a university project is now considered the best search engine in Internet history, and despite its current leadership position, Google continues to progress and improve the search for information. The company recently acquired YouTube, a video platform, and DoubleClick, the leading international advertising agency online.

In collaboration with UNESCO has launched the call Literacy Project, by finding books, academic texts and materials shared on a single web page, aims to promote reading and education worldwide. In addition, Google Book Search allows access to culture for any user anywhere in the world with Internet access. This product has funding from some of the most prestigious libraries and works of more than ten thousand publishers from around the world. But not only written information but also the geographic available in the form thanks to Google Maps, Earth and Sky , which allows deeper understanding of the planet and soon, the sky to build a large telescope which will be available shortly. His recent projects include Google Gears, which allows use some of their services without being connected to the Internet. Google

in 2000 received the Webby Award the best technical achievement. Brin and Page were proclaimed in 2002 Young Innovator Who Will Create the Future by Technology Review magazine and are honorary MBA by the Instituto de Empresa (Madrid, 2003). In 2004 Marconi received the Prize, awarded by the Marconi Foundation Columbia University.

The Prince of Asturias Awards are intended , according to the laws of the Foundation to reward 'The scientific, technical, cultural, social and humanistic work performed by individuals, groups or institutions working in the international arena' . In this spirit, the Prince of Asturias Award Communication and Human communities 'will be awarded to the person, group of persons or institution whose creative work or research represents a significant contribution to universal culture in these fields' .

concurred In this issue a total of 25 candidatures from Albania, Bulgaria, Canada, Finland, Iran, Mexico, Poland, United Kingdom, Venezuela and Spain.

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Spain at the head of 'phishing' ...

According to data from Anti-Fraud Command Center (AFCC) RSA , Spain ranks third worldwide in the number of attacks against financial institutions. According to the report, the phishin g has increased by 66 percent in recent months worldwide.

phishing attacks wreak havoc with banks around the world. In addition, the report prepared by the Anti-Fraud Command Center (AFCC) RSA Over the past months phishing has increased dramatically worldwide, especially because the group ' Rock Phish' , creator of such attacks, stepped up its activity. Also, according to RSA have been identified and canceled many attacks based on Proxy servers that seem to be designed by different groups using a new phishing infrastructure called Rock-like . According to this organization, "These attacks show many similarities to the attacks by the Rock Phish but are hosted on completely different networks and show no signs known to the group." Responsible for of RSA , this shows that new groups are starting to adopt the methodology of Rock Phish.

Significantly, the reference to the English market, according to figures which gives the report, has risen three places on the report of last November, becoming the third largest financial institutions affected by phishing worldwide. Specifically, 7% of phishing sent around the world was against English banks affected 12 states with a total of 52 attacks, most of them from the United States. In this regard, during the last month a total of 159 financial institutions around the world received phishing attacks , 17% more than last month.

Alongside this, it should be noted that while the United States remains the largest sending country phishing attacks , the percentage has been reduced to mean 44% of the total. Second, Hong Kong, with 16% and China with 12%, form the top three as far as the ranking of major phishing hosters of .

The AFCC, working 24 x 7 , detects, monitors, tracks and blocks phishing attacks , pharming and Trojan s in more than 200 organizations around the world.