What company ‘software’ uses spy agencies … – RT in Spanish – International News

The TechCrunch portal has received a secret document dating from 2013 with data from the software maker ‘ Palantir Technologies company. The document contains information about the tools of data analysis that uses the back gray and numerous lists its major customers.

The work of this company have always been very discreet . The leaked document reveals that many US government agencies rely on Palantir and one of the first contracts awarded to the company was in 2006 with JIEDDO (Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization), a US government agency responsible for leading and coordinating all actions related to the fight against explosives home, and during the period between 2007 and 2009 was used in more than 50 state programs.

In addition, from 2013 Palantir was used to perform their actions for at least 12 agencies under the US Government. , among which include the CIA, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Marine Corps and the US Air Force.

main tool that this company uses is the Data Mining to make connections and sequencing between the available information. One of the main advantages is that the answer to the demands not offered in Structured Query Language (SQL, for its acronym in English) but a ‘natural’ language returned in real time is used.

The document also reveals that cofounder of the company is Peter Thiel, also responsible for the company PayPal . Thus, the system is based on the mechanism of fraud algorithms aimed at detecting anomalies and threats used by this company for electronic payment.

Cochabamba, Bolivia cradle of software – Journal Pagina Siete

 Genso professionals working in their offices
 in Cochabamba.

Natalí Vargas / La Paz
Since at least five years, entrepreneurship is an economic mainstay of Cochabamba. But one of the most striking components of the innovation is a group of small and medium software companies that provides services mainly abroad.
Internet is the main channel for market access that leverage these companies. “Everything is done through the Internet. There are specific platforms to contact external customers, where companies post their requirements, and individual applicants or businesses postulate” says Marcelo Rodríguez, head of communications at Genso, valluna software company.
This multimedia communicator five years ago, along with two systems engineers and two graduates in computer science, decided to undertake Genso, in order to meet local emerging niche market. At that time, the type of technology they work (on all through networks) was not yet in vogue.
but also software companies do not demand high cap ital investments starter and its value is in the trained human resources. Therefore, they are composed of young professionals seeking create your own source of income and this has led to quite interesting initiatives are given, from simple things like a game to more complex as social networks.

Turnaround abroad Enterprises engaged in the creation of software residing in La Paz have the market to government and banking; these companies focus on governmental and administrative projects, explains Gonzalo Nina, an entrepreneur who currently have a company incubator largest companies Bolivia, HUB7 3.
Nina adds that working in Santa Cruz have their customers in the managements of central Bolivia medium and large enterprises “and it may be one reason that markets Cochabamba look outside.”
Many, especially small and medium domestic companies still do not understand that technologies needed to improve its performance and costs are not low;. therefore, software companies look to foreign markets
“It was good to seek contracts abroad because 20% of our contracts with companies is now local (public bodies and large companies) and 80% with the outside, “says Marcelo Rodríguez.
The operations manager iProjectPartners (IPP) Bolivia SRL, Fernando Terrazas said that the domestic market is not large, but is growing. His company was born in Bolivia in March 2012 with the premise of giving support from the country to US projects; therefore it working Bolivian and foreign professionals.
With the Bolivian talent, he says, and the gaps that thanks to internet-which has allowed access to more information-close “in Cochabamba companies have become very capable and how they work responsibly that likes to foreign firms. “
iProjectPartners Bolivia SRL has offices also in Santa Cruz, but since its administrative office in Cochabamba online also works on projects in the US, Europe and Asia.

Competitiveness Working with orders over advanced countries also requires Bolivian professionals are equal to those of their peers in China and India capabilities. These two countries also offer building services technologies in progress and prices are stiff competition for Bolivians.
According to Marcelo Rodriguez, Genso, the programming level, especially Cochabamba, “can compete peacefully with China and India.” States that “although the national public education is not the best, not bad at all. There are good professionals and students have the ability to self-train through technology.”
Professionals leverage the Internet to take courses . There are study centers as Coursera, Stanford University, offering online courses and distance in English, which is also very important that professionals in systems perfectly mastered the language.
Nina Gonzalo he was president for two consecutive years, the Scientific Society of Students and Information Systems (SCESI) of the University of San Simón (UMSS). At that time, the SCESI had a lot of job applications from private companies .
Since many young professionals leaving the UMSS are not at the level that businesses need (international standards), many of which require more qualified staff and the SCESI is achieved that students are better prepared.
Today, Terrazas said, “there are many professionals out of universities and are recruited by software companies already known internationally”.
In addition to the capabilities of Cochabamba professionals, the costs of their services are quite low compared to the other companies of the same type in Europe and America.
“There always are on par, but these deficiencies are overcome with time and experience acquired by conducting outsourcing projects (outsourcing) and we compete with companies in China and India”.
Another element that benefits the Bolivian offer when it comes to US companies that require their services, is the time zone. Being the country in the GMT 5, has the same time that some US states of North. However, if you must fulfill contracts with India, working on night shifts, from 19:00, although there are some complications of coordination.

Markets outsourcing is a major sources of revenue for software companies, especially for those who are starting their operations and, of course, much is also given to companies in Cochabamba. The outsourcing involves the exercise they get many software companies to subcontract to small businesses from other countries to take charge of developing projects that ask their customers.
iProjectPartners SRL Bolivia, for example, specializes in business intelligence. Performs data analysis or big data and works with technologies that Bolivia, although they apply, are not well used to the maximum.
There is no exact data but it is known that at least 15 companies developing software projects known internationally, operating in Cochabamba and each with a minimum of five professionals as part of its human resources.
However, Bolivian conditions that leave the state still do not allow strong growth for these companies .
While in November 2013 the Government approved Presidential Decree 1793, the Regulation of Development of Information and Communication Technologies, which provides that all public bodies migrate to free software within seven months, this has not happened.

Also, there is no regulation that allows software projects are recognized as a property that can be used, such as credit guarantee

The valley emerges as a Silicon Valley

The deputy manager Autapo (Fautapo) Foundation, Jorge Lozano explains that in Cochabamba grows increasingly prefer to start new businesses.
 While statistics indicate that only 5% of the enterprises nationwide manages to consolidate to become businesses, from the point of view of entrepreneurship specialist, Alberto Melgar, most entrepreneurs continues in new ideas to success.
 The profile of the Cochabamba entrepreneur, says Melgar, who for years working with young cochabambinos through SOS and the municipality of Tiquipaya-, is “a professional with an average age ranging in age 31 and several sometimes tried either endeavor. “
 This, says Lozano, is because many young people graduate from universities and / or colleges are faced with the lack of employment. “The project does not attract both graduates and those who have already studied some career” he says. Therefore, training in business management is a subject that requir es a lot of training.
 Some municipalities as Tiquipaya that are launching incubators for young people not only improve their knowledge of their specialty, but to also become good entrepreneurs. In addition, organizations such as Fautapo support entrepreneurship in rural areas.
 Melgar said that a feature in vallunos ventures is that it is financed by remittances from abroad or many return from abroad to undertake.

Develop a software able to always win at poker – ARG News

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From Software could be filming live-action commercial Dark … – LevelUp

The official Twitter account of From Software Japan published 2 images that point to the filming of a live-action commercial for Dark Souls 2 . In the photographs, we see the fire classic game played in real life, and later realize that this is a film set.

The first image shows a close to the fire and has the caption: “We are now in the fire: bonfire”. In the second, we see the film set and has the comment. “! A surprisingly large scale in filming”

For now, From Software did not specify what this shoot is, but Chances are that it is a commercial for something related to Dark Souls 2 . As our readers will recall, editing Scholar of the First Sin , an enhanced edition of the game will be released on April 7, 2015 for PS4, Xbox One and PC in addition to Xbox 360 and PS3.

Guardian, a national software that contributes to the efficiency of … – republica.com.uy

Created by the company Allied, the Guardian program is an easy to install software that enables control by companies, Internet usage, improving speed Navigation and producing valuable information on it.

Created by Alejandro Martínez (programmer analyst) in 2010, in partnership with Diego Martínez (graphic designer), Ally is a service company specializing in security, infrastructure and networks.
Daily work with companies in our country, led them to seek an affordable solution to the filters used multinationals very good range but with the disadvantage of technical difficulties in interpreting information or remedy any situation out of the ordinary. Thus created Guardian, product entirely developed in the company, which was presented at the last Summit in Cologne, and allowed them to be included by the LATU in the Ingenio program in the incubator project.

Currently, Allied software installed on private companies and public bodies, giving full satisfaction to its users, who can obtain all data without technical knowledge of computer. 80% of those using the tool can easily access answers about common problems in business: why the Internet is slow ?; Where do you are browsing the company staff working in time ?; Who and who they’re chatting ?, etc. Knowing
questions, you can define usage models for every need; and knowing the answers, managers can streamline hiring Internet.

The software is designed for any business that uses the Internet as a critical resource, especially companies with between 20 and 100 computers, although it is prepared to work in all types of traffic volume.

The guarantee has meant entering wit, with the support and advice of LATU, is very important for members of Allied, as they are in full conversations for export to other Spanish-speaking markets the software. Since sales are confirmed Guatemala, and hope to enter the market in Chile, Argentina, Costa Rica and Spain

Product Features Guardian

Transparency.: installed without the need for modifications in the network. This makes it completely transparent, achieving reduced to a few minutes the installation

Web Filtering. Limits the possibilities of access to inappropriate sites. Guardian incorporates categorization of sites, based on predefined lists that are updated constantly

encrypted communications. It is even considered safe access to sites is analyzed, looking for inappropriate content. The configuration flexibility allows you to exclude sites to let them out of the analysis

. Email: sending and receiving business email is controlled, preventing data leakage and ensuring their proper use <. / p>

Instant messaging: supports to control various instant messaging programs; Monitors, records and blocks the transfer of files and attachments.

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OpenWWT: Microsoft releases its popular astronomy software … – wwwhat’s new? (Blog)

The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a virtual telescope, a research project of Microsoft Research, NASA and many prestigious US universities. He was born in 2007 and the following year took the form of a special software for Astronomy that remains a benchmark for the amount of data handled, its 3D simulations, interactive guides created by scientists and experts in general, the vast collection of images captured from the ground and from the Hubble Space Telescope with which it is possible to explore the Universe and learn from celestial bodies that comprise it.

Millions of people around the world make use of WWT from their computers advantage, in different research, teaching and to personal learning, the huge astronomical catalog available. Well, give notice on the website of the tool OpenWWT launching an initiative that seeks to liberate completely open source- WWT -volverle for any individual or institution has the ability to adapt and extend its functionality to the next level likewise for educational work and own research. The idea is that Microsoft Research will gradually released as the organization that will keep you from now on, organization to which any institution or interested can sign up by contacting the team responsible for WWT is formed.

In short, a valuable resource that will further boost the charm that produces Astronomy, much more when properly guided. By the way, there are three slogans that seeks to promote OpenWWT:

1) Advance in astronomical research, 2) Improve the teaching of astronomy formally and informally; and 3) Increase public awareness of the subject

More info:. WorldWideTelescope.org/OpenWWT

It is difficult to develop software in Q. Roo – Sipse.com

Cancún

The technology is very important for the tourism sector in the north.

Licety Diaz / SIPSE
CANCUN, Q. After Roo.- technological advancement and development of modern devices, software is a useful tool, which still costs exploit in the State. For Mario Gutierrez Perez , coordinator of the Department of Software Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Quintana Roo (Upqroo), it is difficult in the state, although in northern edge technology matters a lot, especially in the tourism sector, so that companies with good projects; whereas the south is more behind.

For software students Upqroo, in the period of performance of social service, orders are more focused on the development Web, administration and online outlets.

In his view, the country having borders with USA , one of the largest consumers of software globally, is advantageous to develop such programs and a way to give competition to India, with more power in conducting them located in Asia, which has the disadvantage of the time zone for the country of North America.

Abraham Pech Pech , teaching the area of ​​Computer Systems Inter American University for Development (PCS), said to be more direct students toward that direction and further exploit the ingenuity of youth region.

We are green

He stated that we must start from the basis of algorithm design and implementation, aspect in which we are still green; however, students to know the costs-benefits generated, providing “ a little more interest “, especially in the business world.

Data from the Ministry of Economy of Mexico, reported that the country ranks second in Latin America as an investment destination software project, and is the third country to export services worldwide Information Technology. Gartner estimates that IT spending in this 2015 will be 65 000 800 million, which represents an increase of 2.2% compared to 2014.

More than 20 software companies travel to international fairs – Caracol Radio

The results of the latest International Wheel Industry Software organized by Fedesoft and Procolombia resulted in $ 40 million in sales expectations. This year 11 Colombian software companies were selected to be part of the Delegation of the Commercial Service of the US Embassy to participate in the Cnsumer Electronics Show2015 Las Vegas, which will be from 6 to 9 January 2015.

Another 14 software companies were selected as special guests of Commerce, Ministry of Industry and Trade of India, to attend the INDIA IT SHOW 2015 , which will be held on 12 and 13 February 2015.

The chief executive of Fedesoft , Paola Restrepo says these meetings are important for employers and the development of the technology industry in Colombia , “these two countries are important markets for Colombian entrepreneurs. They are mature software industries that serve as a platform for Colombian companies approach increasingly the latest innovations in software & amp; IT World “.
               
               
 
               
               
               
             

Plantronic software uses AT & T to compete with Apple and Samsung – CNET in Spanish

With the WebRTC technology that AT & T integrated into your network to allow calls from a browser with a phone, consumers will be more and will not interrupt your work on the Internet

President Marketing for AT & T Mobility David Christopher announces the WebRTC API AT &. T Claudia Cruz / CNET

LAS VEGAS – AT & T announced in the international electronics show CES on Monday it will offer support for real-time communication for the Web (WebRTC, for its acronym in English) for consumers and application developers

WebRTC is a technology standardization via a browser connects to a mobile device to allow sharing and video calls without having to download additional software. And to demonstrate the capabilities of the open Internet protocol (API, for its acronym in English) AT & amp offers; T for WebRTC technology company headphones Plantronic used a very similar example to Apple Handoff and the new Samsung Flow technology <. / p> During a demonstration at the annual summit for developers AT & T introduces in this city, the executive vice president of technology and Joe Burton simulated begin ticket purchase a flight online. Because he was rushed, Burton decided to seek help from customer representative for a video call for the AT & amp; T (there was a logo of the operator in the user interface). . But because I had to leave the office, Burton automatically could, without difficulty and without losing the connection, transfer the video call to his cell

This ability is what AT & T says it is now possible given the improvements to its API for WebRTC, and is the first operator to offer support for this technology is already available in more than 1,000 million browsers, according to AT &. T

Also, when communication via phone, the user’s identity can be confirmed and accept any browser enabled with RTC said President of Marketing for AT &. T Mobility David Christopher

The demonstration of AT & T is not innovative in itself. Handoff Apple announced iOS devices operating between 8 and Yosemite OS X in September, Samsung introduced Flow during its developer conference in November. Both features allow the user to start a project or even a video call on a phone, and continue immediately to a tablet or computer compatible desktop

The difference is that AT &. T is not a maker of technology but an operator of wireless telephony, and is actively evolving its business plan for a technology company that connects devices. – be they phones, computers, cars or houses

Do not miss all the coverage CNET in Spanish from CES 2015 on our website dedicated to the show.

Software project for the detection and treatment of Ataxia – Cuban News Agency

Holguin, Jan. 6 (AIN) The Group of biomedical data processing Oscar Lucero Moya University of Holguin working to develop software that facilitates the diagnosis and subsequent treatment of patients with hereditary ataxias.
Allen Jimenez, a junior in the specialty of Computer Science and member of the team since entering the center, meant to AIN that the program’s importance lies in the possibility to quantify more accurately and objectively the patient response.
Also, Jimenez said that the use of software will allow qualified personnel access data much subjectivity as the angular speed, incline, the center of mass motion.
The beginnings of this scientific link with Ataxia Clinic have their roots in 2008 with the completion of the doctoral thesis of Professor Rodolfo García, who developed a mathematical algorithm to promote the study of eye movements of this disease.
In order to enrumbar their knowledge in terms of contributing to the sc ientific study center which has among its students and faculty members racing Informatics and Mathematics arises in March last year.
Currently its members work in seven new projects related studies coordination, gait disorders and eye movements.
These projects include the NSGait, which is under development and aims to use a sensor using video game technology for motion capture.
Another of these programs is the NSGlob, namely the development of a glove that allows the study of the ability of people to make opposing motions, principal involvement in patients with this disease.
All these applications will be integrated into the NSWeb computer system to facilitate access to specialists and stakeholders and is expected in the first quarter of this year the first clinical trial is implemented, meant Jimenéz.

Samsung will move his challenge of ‘software’ of Google to … – Panama America

Fact

• $ 7.100 million Samsug looking to grab market share by 2020.

• 74% operating profit fell by Samsung in the third quarter of 2014.

The challenge of Samsung Electronics Co. Google Inc. software is going phones to televisions, while the South Korean company tries to capitalize on the growing interest in smart homes.

The largest manufacturer of televisions in the world will present the first devices equipped with Tizen software in the Hall of Consumer Electronics this week, and all models connected to the web that sells this year will work with that operating system. You may at CES the company also show how televisions washing machines, refrigerators and vacuum cleaners communicate.

Lee, the controlling family, are trying to reinvent Samsung as a supplier of appliances connected to the internet to grab market share which could amount to $ 7.100 billion in 2020. Samsung wants to generate income and services with Tizen applications how do Apple Inc. and Google with their operating systems, and the company based in Suwon is putting the accent on TVs and consumer electronics following a year have been delayed with a phone equipped with Tizen.

“In smartphones, there is likelihood that the Tizen of Samsung may displace the two dominant operating systems, “said Claire Kim, Seoul-based analyst at Daishin Securities Co.” But on the TVs, Samsung may have a chance. “

The Samsung advance No. 1 in global sales of Android phones depended on Google. Almost all of the 243 million smartphones that Samsung shipped until September 30th worked with that software, Google usually gives in return for mobile advertising revenue and a portion of sales applications.

Phone Supremacy

Samsung faces the strongest to your phone supremacy after posting lower quarterly profit in more than two years challenge. Operating profit in the mobile phone unit, the largest cash-generating company, fell 74% in the September quarter and sales fell 33%.

This is leading the company to seek new resources to generate income. Tizen arose that Samsung joined Intel Corp. and NTT Docomo Inc., among others.

Samsung moves challenge Google software to TVs – Management Journal

Samsung, the largest manufacturer of televisions in the world will present the first devices equipped with Tizen software in the ESC 2015 this week, and all models connected to the Web to sell this year will work with that operating system.

(Bloomberg) . – The challenge of Samsung Electronics Google software is moving from phones to large screen televisions in both the South Korean company tries to capitalize on the growing interest in smart homes

. The largest manufacturer of televisions in the world will present the first devices equipped with Tizen software in the Hall of Consumer Electronics this week, and all models connected to the Web to sell this year will work with that operating system. It is possible that in the ESC The company also shows how televisions washing machines, refrigerators and vacuum cleaners communicate.

The Lee Family controlling, are trying to reinvent Samsung as a supplier of appliances connected to the Internet to grab market share which could amount to US $ 7.1 billion in 2020. Samsung wants to generate income and services with Tizen applications how do Apple and Google with their operating systems, and Suwon based company is putting the accent on TVs and consumer electronics following a year have been delayed with a phone equipped with Tizen.

“In the smartphones, there is likelihood that the Tizen Samsung can displace the two dominant operating systems, “said Claire Kim, Seoul-based analyst at Daishin Securities. “But on the TVs, Samsung may have a chance.”

The Samsung advance to Number 1 in global sales of Android phones depended on Google. Almost all of the 243 million smartphones that Samsung shipped until September 30th worked with that software, Google usually gives in return for mobile advertising revenue and a portion of sales applications.

Phone Supremacy
Samsung faces the strongest to your phone supremacy after posting lower quarterly profit in more than two years challenge. Operating profit in the mobile phone unit, the largest cash-generating company, fell 74% in the September quarter and sales fell 33%.

This is leading the company to seek new resources to generate income. Tizen arose that Samsung joined Intel and NTT Docomo., Among others, to develop an alternative to Android and develop their skills of software.

Helped by Samsung, LG Electronics, and dozens of other producers, Android works in 84% of smartphones. That fragmented cake profits as many providers lose money in a crowded market, the market research firm Strategy Analytics said in October.

While Apple has only 12.3% of the market, the fact that proprietary operating system gives the company based in Cupertino, California, greater control of each stage and a slice of each transaction.

“The value of an operating system is copyrighted, you get part of the gain beyond minor changes and rules of the game are set, “said Tom Kang email, research director at Counterpoint Technology Market Research, based in Hong Kong. “For a giant like Samsung is more preferable to command their own destiny.”

Experts IPN win first place with “software” anti-plagiarism – Milenio.com

The doctoral student, Miguel Ángel Sánchez Pérez and researchers Alexander Gelbukh and Grigori Sidorov, the Center for Computing Research (CIC) of the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) developed a model plagiarism detection for identifying texts product piracy.

With that software , polytechnic took first place in the category of Aligning Texts of the 11th edition of Evaluation Lab on Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship , and Social Software Misuse (known as PAN) held at the University of Sheffield, England.

The model, developed by Sanchez with advice from Gelbukh and Sidorov for the degree of master Computer Science, beat in the contest to works developed by competitors in other countries, such as Chile, USA, Spain, Germany, China and the UK.

By the technological contribution, with that same model, Polytechnic student recently won second place in the National Contest for Best Thesis in Artificial Intelligence, organized by the Mexican Society of Artificial Intelligence (SMIA).

Sanchez said discovering plagiarism involves the search and knowledge of a large number of texts in original sources, so scientists around the world are focusing their research on the generation of models for automatic plagiarism detection.

He explained that the location of fragments of text that are similar between two documents is called alignment. For example, if the first paragraph of the text corresponds to the third paragraph of another paper. “That’s the goal of the model,” said the student.

To compete, the model should be a system or software with high efficiency because evaluates thousands of documents, a large number of comparisons in search of text fragments is kidnapped. “In the event competing teams a base of approximately 5000 data to compare pairs of documents is provided, which may or may not contain plagiarism” he said.

Sanchez also said the competition process is to find the model developed similar fragments between a pair of documents that were provided to them.

“To assess how well we found a couple of similar fragments, the measures used are accuracy and completeness. Accuracy refers to how many characters the text that I detected were actually kidnapped, while completeness refers to how many, of the number of characters that were kidnapped, I detected. The combination of these two parameters allowed us to win the competition, “said the winner.

After PAN evaluated the model and proved to be the best, Sanchez realized that the model may have important implications. “The system could be used, for example, a database manager or Thomson Scopus & amp; Reuters. When a document the system is able to say what it is like and ask the editor to check it was published, “he said.

The polytechnic said it is difficult for a system of this type has a certain 100 percent.

“the intervention of a human it is needed, but the system can help you find texts that perhaps had not considered and specific fragments to make it faster,” he said.

Sanchez said in addition to the detection of plagiarism, the model can help build collective content sites, such as Wikipedia , where many people write articles, but many contents on the same subject are developed; the model could inform the writing if your text is unique or has similarities that would enable integrated to another.

He said that unlike other participants not to disclose how they get their results, ” we have open at a page of Dr. Alexander Gelbukh code, so that anyone can access and use it, simply quote the article “.

Antioquia software companies grow to 22% – El Colombiano

About 150 million billed in 2014 31 Antioquia software development companies that make up the Intersoftware corporation, which translates into an annual growth of 22 percent in income, 6 percent above the national average for this industry.

This was revealed Lina Taborda Giraldo , director of the enterprise network whose members account for 80 percent of sales and employment generation (3,200 direct charges) sector in Antioquia, where about 110 firms engaged in software development and related services operate. That said Taborda in an interview with El Colombiano:

How the growth of companies that integrate Intersoftware explained

“By the momentum of ours? companies in terms of quality, innovation and internationalization, to access new markets in the region. For example, companies like PCL, Personal Soft and Pragma have open market in Central America. “

What portfolio markets open?

” It covers the entire chain of technological needs you may have an entity, especially the development of custom software, software testing services, support, outsourcing (outsourcing processes), among others. “

And what is the difference in Antioquia companies?

“All companies Intersoftware meet one or more international quality standards for the industry. For example, there is a call CMMI certification (for its acronym in English), which measures the level of maturity of companies. In Colombia there are seven certified in this standard companies, of which five are Antioquia “.

What are the main clients?

” The field of banking , energy, telecommunications, food manufacturing. More and more companies that rely on local talent. “

How have responded arrival in Medellin subsidiaries of international firms?

“For us it is a good thing because it motivates improve all processes and offer our businesses and to be open to new foreign markets. But we also see the scarcity of human talent as a critical point in the arrival of more companies. “

What is being done to overcome it?

” It Future partnership has completed the Digital Medellín, where are Mayor, the Seine, universities and Intersoftware to jointly seek educational relevance to the sector. So we worked with students grades of schools in software development and entrepreneurs are linked to lectures and visits to the companies themselves.

What other initiatives are there?

“We are also annually thousand people on specific issues that the industry requires. Also in 2014 we trained 683 people who had technological training, developing mobile web applications and major technological platforms on the market and improve their occupational profile in the sector “(see box).

How painted in 2015 for companies that integrate Intersoftware?

“There are some very interesting possibilities to maintain the growth achieved in 2014, because he continues in the line of internationalization of services and products. In the case of the corporation, will seek to become inclusive of new services companies that comprise and open opportunities for joint ventures “.

Lizard Squad is selling the software that threw Xbox … – SDPNoticias.com (press release)

The aftermath of the attacks on Xbox Live and PSN on Christmas 2014 continue, this time on the side of the perpetrators, who made available to the public the program used in their raid platforms . videogames for a small fee

So, if you have a budget of between 130 and $ 500; can access the “Lizard Stresser” as it is known software . The announcement was made via Twitter Lizard Squad, a group responsible for that event.

According to the group, the program is fully functional and can launch DDoS attacks any site or service, regardless of their size. Of course a “weapon” of this kind, availability of any person, not an encouraging picture delivery in terms of internet; knowledge that can be used for any purpose the “squad” washes his hands saying its use is the responsibility of each buyer and unresponsive for them; the main purpose of “Stresser” home networks is to try to improve them.

For now, many network users does them very funny that anyone can get their hands on the software therefore mean that all internet in danger of being attacked.

With information from The Daily Dot.

Apathetic software developer award winning journalist … – Global Voices in Spanish

Chan To Chak camp in Admiralty, where has concentrated most sitting Occupy Central, and continues spreading on the internet which has witnessed. Courtesy inmediahk.net.

Hong Kong In-Media, citizen journalism platform has organized the awards E-Citizen to promote news, political comics, photography and participation online. Following an interview with Chan Chak To, winning the best journalistic award, first person recounted the events of the trial of mass sitting promoted by Occupy Central on 1 July 2014. The original interview is written in Chinese by Marco transcribed Mak, reporter contributor inmediahk.net. The edition in English version was translated by Choi Wan Cheung .

This is a computer engineer who loves 80s video games, football and hanging out with girls. However, their ideas and their lives have completely changed in 2014. If you type 511 in any search engine will find its name because it was one of those arrested July 2 for engaging in civil disobedience protest.

The afternoon of the arrests, Chan recorded in detail his experience firsthand; from the moment he was arrested and taken on a tour bus, which was found in the Police Academy in Wong Chuk Han where he was arrested until his release. This article is full of humor but also is sincere. The reader is transported to each scene of the protest and thus has a more realistic view of how it all began. The article by Chan has won the E-Citizen Award-Media In Hong Kong the best journalism. The day of its publication article went viral, which surprised the author.

What amazes even more, is that Chan says his future changed that night. Why decided to demonstrate the afternoon of July 1 ?. According to him, it all started in June and sincere support requested two weeks’ leave to stay home and watch the World Cup. During this time the Hong Kong Legislative Council discussed the preliminary proposal for financing the development plan of northeastern New Territories. Discuss as witnessed abuse of parliamentary Ng Leung Sing especially, Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Legislative Council, did not comply with the procedure. That’s when he decided he had to do something for Hong Kong.

When Chan surrounded the headquarters of the Legislative Council on June 13, stressed that he did not feel ready to jump the fence and confront the police. “I really ashamed of myself to see other younger students confronting. They had no fear of being arrested, and I felt useless . Compared to them probably had less to lose. Should have gone a little further. ” At that time only had one thought: “No matter what, but I must do something to protect them.” He shed tears when you think about it and even wondered why it was so cowardly

Following. events of June 13 felt guilty and regretted his behavior. So when the Student Federation of Hong Kong (HKFS) reported a series of massive sitting at the end of the year after pro-democracy march of July 1, decided that there would again be a deserter and participated in it. Coincidentally be spoiled credit card that day and asked his girlfriend a $ 500 loan if I had to pay a deposit. “This time it was itself prepared for the arrest.”

In 2003, Chan was in his last year of pre-university education when the March of July 1 against the law for a number of laws on national security had place. He did not join the protests, but stayed at home playing computer games. Neither you nor cared interested social and political issues. He was never committed to any leading position in student organizations of the university and turned a deaf ear to any matter of student associations. “I’ve always felt disconnected without enthusiasm to participate in any social movement.”

He claims to be an independent person had his own room in the residence. [...]. 4 years ago left his job as a computer engineer and moved to Australia where he met his girlfriend. For a time he worked on a farm picking strawberries all day, after cleaning toilets in hotel. He enjoyed what he did and why life in Hong Kong was so oppressive, where the working day is long and the few holidays are continually asked. Chan wanted to find the “ideal” place in periods of holiday work.

Before leaving for Australia, worked as a software developer in telecommunications was to send automatic messages to mobile clients, “for example when you get to Macao you receive a welcome message, etc. But while you feel that this makes no sense. ” Before returning, I wanted to become a journalist because there was a mission within the profession that was report the truth and also loved to write. It was once said, “do not go back to your old job because he has not reported you happiness.” However, life is often frustrating and apparently when he returned scheduling software seemed to be his only skill. He found work as a journalist and had to return to his former profession, but began to write what he saw and heard in social media.

Have blogged with friends to share your thoughts. “A few years ago entered the hospital after suffering a pneumothorax and narrated my experience and feelings.” Your article One in 511 , which won the Citizen E-In-Media, prize details many scenes he witnessed the afternoon of July 1 and the next day: feelings of his fellow protesters, Scenes Police yy its sincere appreciation to middle-aged participant came to Hong Kong from Shenzhen. “A part of sharing my feelings recording what happened, I wanted to tell people around me what I thought and demonstrate that social action and even civil disobedience are not so far from our lives.”

“I never imagined that in Hong Kong there are many people concienciada to social issues, such as the Central Occupy movement. Every day there trajeadas people arriving at Admiralty to see what happens “. If we want to involve the politically apathetic people, Chan believes that political messages have to be in plain language. “The people refuse to read in academic jargon. I want to write stories that reach the public, Wong Tze Wah I like (Hong Kong famous comedian who writes political news jokingly). Maybe I adopted her mood unconsciously. “

three months he was arrested ago, but has returned to the streets again and camped in Connaught Road Central (one of the streets of the sitting), because you want to express their persistence in fighting for what he believes. His family does not agree with what you do because they think that if you have a criminal record can affect their opportunities for promotion and job prospects. “I have spent all paid leave this year and am currently an unpaid leave”. However, if your company requires you to immediately return to his post. Chan says with a smile that his girlfriend has also begun to participate in protests and camped on the street overnight. She supports and understands him. “Understand what I’m doing and even told me you can fight and I will work for a living”

What has touched him was the support he has finally gotten by her family, who visited him in Admiralty. Chan says he rarely talks about social issues with his friends but spread their ideas and what you hear and see in social media. “Most of my colleagues are of the generation of 70. You often wonder why people can not just focus on their work instead of fuss.” Chan wants to use his writings and actions to tell you that in this society money is not all that matters, wants to make them understand that there are other values ​​that worth fighting. People get involved in social movements because they want to achieve a society in progress.

The software Council – The Universal – Colombia

In those long moments with nothing to do, when we lose time thinking nonsense, I imagined a city without Council. Not having a group of people chosen truly democratic, able to decide and act on what the community needs, exercising in turn adequate control over the executive function so I considered software to do such work. A simple algorithm where the priorities of the city they ordered based on the real needs of the population and the impact on their quality of life. This tool would emphasize relevant decisions, and education and health would always be at the beginning of the list to generate continuous improvement actions, thereby dictating the actions of local government.

In the absence of influence of the Council, the Mayor would have on the various secretariats at the best and not bureaucratic commitments. All results of governance would be available in real time and citizenship could online without intermediaries, deciding whether actions had the objective.

Yesterday, while reading about closing activities Council of Cartagena, I was so bored with what happens here as when I imagined what the software.

taught that somehow the problems of population and Council actions seem to be in parallel worlds, disconnected from reality each other. I sensed that on this date, the software had not tried to pass agreements providing parking areas a particular name just one, but would concentrate its efforts on legislation to improve test scores and curb Saber chikungunya. I knew immediately that this software will never be developed.

In tests Saber, Cartagena not improved in the past four years and in 2014 was 14 positions below Sincelejo, just to compare it with a sister city without tourism, beaches and industry. The case of chikungunya is dramatic, with many reports of deaths so far and thousands of hours of incapacity for workers.

The council should plunge into the heart of the city, its main problems and needs. That’s why they were chosen and should play a more active and human role, with concrete actions to improve, first in education and health. Everything else is secondary. Hagan real political control and ask heads when not work. For our part as voters seek how to have committed councilors, forward-service and well prepared. Still, we demand of them real changes that bring to Cartagena shameful delay in ourselves decided to stay.

Jesus Olivero

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The ‘Post’ wants to do business with ‘software’ – Milenio.com

The Washington Post aims to become a provider of software for other news organizations, to develop new revenue and raise its profile as a technology company.

The American journal, which accelerated the search for digital media revenues since Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s director, bought last year at 250 million dollars (mdd), receives offers to license the software developed to feed their website. Potential customers may include a network of local and regional US newspapers that were recently launched and whose subscribers will receive free access to digital products Post .

For the newspaper, ” affiliate program is not just about the content, also it is that we offer technological solutions, “said Shailesh Prakash, director of information daily.

Student Newspaper at Columbia, Yale and Maryland already use content management software Post in a test to see how they can open up to other professional services news.

The development of a licensing operation would be step in the efforts of the Post to generate profits while digital print operation is reduced. Now there is also the habits of media consumption and the pressure of new competitors require news organizations to invest in strengthening their technology.

The Post faces great challenges. Standard & amp; Poor’s estimated in September that American newspapers and magazines will drop their earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (Ebitda) in percentages of between 5 and 10 percent at least the end of 2015. The income will print advertising more falls, said S & amp;. P, and “digital strategy alone will not stop the total fall in Ebitda publishers, which should increase subscription prices and cover to try to stabilize incomes”

“In the short and long term, provide print money until eventually digital becomes sustainable,” said Steve Hills, president of Washington Post . “In the long run, the fight will be completely digital. We took the long run by Jeff Bezos,” he said.

In the past 16 months, Bezos pumped money into the Post . He hired 100 people for writing, to have a net increase of about 60 staff and launched blogs and digital products which include an application Fire Tablet Amazon offering morning and evening editions. The publisher no longer publishes its financial information, but executives say traffic growth as evidence that the strategy works. Unique visitors increased 62 percent, to reach 48 million 800 thousand in November compared with figures from a year ago, according to ComScore.

But is the technology side of the business which shows signs more clear influence of the founder of Amazon. The Post hired 20 engineers in 2014, and now employs 225, divided among developers working in their digital initiatives and more traditional information technology functions, such as printing plant resources and departments human, sales and advertising.

Prakash said, “followed the example of Amazon” in software development to suit the needs of Post and can be opened to other users. Amazon Web Services, which offers cloud computing customers ranging from the CIA to
Netflix, he became the division’s fastest growing e-commerce company.

“Technology is the heart of our business, “Prakash said about pushing more self-developed software. “You could not outsource the business plan or plant revenues. Why outsource technology?

Attempts to renew the image of news organizations to digital technology companies found a mixed reaction. In The New Republic , the centennial political magazine, resigned half its staff this month in protest at the way his owner, Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook, managed the launch of the new strategy focused on digital.

Martin Baron, editor of Post , joined executives from the commercial side of the business in the description of the company as “an organization’s technology” from Bezos bought it. “Understand that our technology has to be at the forefront of what we do,” he said.

Bezos investment referred to as giving to Post a ‘track “to experimentation, release the pressures of quarterly financial scrutiny. But the task is still create a sustainable model for creating and selling journalism.

“We are a business. We were not bought to handle a (organization) charity, “Baron said.” The tracks do not follow forever. We hope to take off. We are in terms of traffic. I hope that also means dollars at some point. “

BEZOS ATTRACTS SOFTWARE ENGINEERS

The Washington Post builds its engineering team under its previous owner, Graham, whose patriarch, Donald Graham, family sits on the board of directors of Facebook. But the association with Bezos strengthened the capacity of the newspaper to attract talented developers, according to Prakash.

“As an engineer, Amazon is a mecca for us,” Prakash, who is part of the company since 2011 and previously worked at Microsoft and Netscape said. “That Jeff Bezos we present to me and my people to people and right technology is a competitive advantage that attempt to use much. “

However, the contracts have a cost. The average salary for a computer engineer in Washington DC is approximately $ 78,000, according to the recruitment site, Glassdoor, compared to $ 52,000 for a journalist.

Technology companies often also offer stock options. “We have the capital to deliver,” Prakash said. To compete, the Post opened a design and development office in New York. Another remote place in Virginia, not far from the headquarters of the Washington Post, but near a growing community of startups, will be operational in March.

“Not only fighting for journalists. I show that we are not a company journalism really are a company partially technological innovation that builds material instead of managing and buy it, “said Prakash