Thursday, April 30, 2015

Expo, the first examination for safety: “A block of two-three thousand … – The Huffington Post

Notes scattered from the eve of the inauguration of Expo: ten searches; a den cold and empty; an arrest; loaded with relief against a group of anarchists infiltrated the march No Expo students; written, spray and broken windows; the expulsion of the three Germans found yesterday with mace, gas masks and rags and bottles useful for making Molotov cocktails. Three other Germans were stopped a van with the windows shielded: they had cans with stinging and it is likely that Milan did not want to do just a walk.

The intelligence and Interpol are clear: “Two or three thousand people who arrived in recent days Milan are ready to burn.” Generally attributed to those two little words-black bloc. In Genoa, fourteen years ago, it took only a lot less.
While the red carpet in Armani, the Scala and Piazza del Duomo are full of excellence of Made in Italy in all its forms, fashion, cinema, music, sports with a touch of Hollywood, Oscar winners and stars like Bocelli and Tina Turner to inaugurate Expo, a security system for impressive numbers and technology continue other work, parallel to that of the International exposure: make wire smoothly. Starting from now. And at least for the next six months.

An effort already begun in these “Five Days of Milan” that mixing May Day, denied rights and Expo has become a very rich dish for the opposing forces and anarchist Italian and European. “Here we go on day after day,” said the cabinet of the police headquarters in Milan where the commissioner Luigi Savina is, along with the prefect, the top of a chain of command that handles 4,600 men (including army) and a strong high-tech operations room, to example, five thousand cameras to protect sites and goals.
Police Chief Alessandro Pansa makes it clear, and not only does it now, the way things are: “The fears are many because Expo is a world stage and great for those looking for fame or for worse.” “Happy” on a double level, that of internal security and the front of the jihadist threat. Needless to say that many, all those who are in the age, can not fail to observe that the national and international context is very similar to that of fourteen years ago, in July 2001, the day of the G8 summit in Genoa.

The safety of Milan is completely different. There are red zones artificial armored with metal nets three meters high and a half and Expo pavilions are naturally isolated 12 km from the city center. The commissioner Savina is focusing on “dialogue” with the organizers of groups and acronyms that have organized the “Five Days” (this there was also a Gonova) including the procession “No Expo”, tomorrow, considered the appointment more risk.

But the commissioner tip even more on prevention (sadly lacking in Genoa). Police, Carabinieri, Finance Police, perform every day raids at addresses targeted, and so far all right, to defuse possible outbreaks of urban warfare. Wednesday were sieved public housing occupied by antagonistic groups to Giambellino. Today controls are clicked in via Ambrogio de Predis, in via Mac Mahon, in via Bramantino inside the community center The Madragola. A girl would have gotten their hands on an officer and was arrested. A group of anarchists came to the rescue, and there was some tension. “We have sought dialogue with all the souls of the event – says an official of the Digos of Milan – the problem is a hard core of 10 percent (about 20-30 thousand expected, ed) with which there is no possibility of dialogue “. It is subject mostly foreigners arrived in northern Italy in recent days, especially from France, Germany, Greece and Spain. The novelty of this international black bloc would be the presence of young Bosnians and east.

Police and the prefecture have decided to change the route of the procession of the morning. In Milan are well-marked red 490 goals (net of the Expo) and you can slide the march away from the old town “going from via De Amicis and via Carducci and ends in Piazza Cadorna”. Protest organizers (Cobas and Cub) that speak of “war scenarios exist” and ensure that their will be a “peaceful march in solidarity with the workers of La Scala blackmailed for Turandot and to the thousands of workers who will be forced to the May Day work in defiance of rules and judgments. ”

Reclamation and searches will continue tonight. “We will be very hard against those who seek confrontation to guarantee the right to demonstrate legally” it is the promise of the Interior Minister Angelino Alfano. It always says that. A few hours and start, it all together: parade, May Day, Expo. In the presence of the Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. In fact, an exceptional showcase.

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Microsoft, arrive glasses “see” emotions. And the app … – The Republic

ADDITION TO software and smartphones, the completion of the 40th year of age Microsoft wants to impress. So in Redmond check a patent for the glasses that read emotions. While in San Francisco, is ongoing in the annual developer conference, the company began to show applications HoloLens. It ‘a display similar to that for video games in the future that will allow us to open a Windows or make a call via Skype, by fixing a hologram projected on the wall. From San Francisco there’s also news on the app world, on Internet Explorer that will be replaced by Edge and Microsoft Windows 10, which even though you do not know an official release date.

The glasses that read emotions, inspiration ‘ Lombrosian ‘, may remain on paper like many inventions that are deposited by technology companies. But meanwhile, the US Patent Office has given the go: the device would be able to read the emotions of those who enter our field of vision. Privacy considerations and uses sentimental aside, the device is already assume different professional applications such as interrogations, negotiations or job interviews. Like what they do software used by some companies for marketing purposes, that decipher emotions faces and subsequent approval of a product.
Microsoft, moreover, it has already moved beyond its core business by launching a few months ago HoloLens and a platform connected to ‘holographic computing’, an augmented reality technology that lets you interact with holograms in the life of every day and to do practical things: a video conference, use the walls of the house as a television, turn the pages of a program on the walls instead of the computer.

At this device is connected to a whole universe of app developers who are working towards a commercial launch, but for which the company still did not report . Just as it was the official release date of Windows 10, the new version of the operating system born thirty years ago that, according to rumors, will arrive in the summer. “It represents a new era in personal computers leading to holography. An era in which what matters is the portability of the experience is not that of the device” has explained about the CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella. While the company’s vice president Terry Myerson ventured a prediction: “Within two or three years after its launch, Windows 10 will be on a billion devices in the world.”

How to win more and more users and in space device market? Increasing the number of app. Redmond is working on this, ‘opening up’ somehow the door to Apple and Google: it has made it easier for developers to adapt applications already ‘written’ for devices with iOS and Android. Just change a few lines of code to the applications already developed for these platforms.

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Expo, promises technological miss: the recognition … – The Daily

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“A great incubator technology , a watershed between the before and after.” So, Roberto Formigoni in February 2012 described Expo 2015 , the event that for six months he reshaped Milan . In fact, even then, the intention was to move towards technology consolidated, without running the risk of venturing on a journey into the future.
The desire to surprise, however, was so great. And so it was announced the biometric recognition for the visitors, who would guide them suggesting access less crowded and offer a Avatar to plan the visit. Too bad, though, that this novelty to Expo 2015 will not be.
 
 

In the first project dates back to Moratti was talk also of a portable device specially created. An idea then replaced by the impetuous development of smartphone and tablet and Tim returns with Tim2go , a service that allows you to rent from one to seven days a tablet equipped with all the apps Expo to visit the event.
The tablet will use the network available on the exhibition site, an example of smart city which, as told by Andrea Costa Expo project manager for Tim, “includes over 220 kilometers of fiber 10Gb, 4G for mobile and use the cloud , with over 200 servers, which already in 2012 enabled services Expo . “

In addition to a hundred information totems , were also installed 2,700 access points for coverage Wi-Fi using directional antennas able to orient where there is more traffic , in addition to the creation of a widget natively installed on TV of the latest generation of Samsung , another sponsor of the event. Costa does not reveal details on mobile broadband and Wi-Fi but that “it is a cover not trivial with a user experience top regarding the Wi-fi. “

In practice it should be simple to connect. Cisco has chosen “a balance between the new and statements “, says the leader Expo Fabio Florio , deciding to use the products present in the ‘ August 2014 . The company was responsible for the infrastructure of the network on which “runs 99% of application , the entry turnstiles, to the ticketing and the energy management of pavilions “. Everything is based on the protocol IP . So, if you gave the network closes Expo.

Augmented Reality and HealthPresence: that there will be – All technology partners have provided basic services to the pavilions that within them are free to adopt or not other technology . The situation is changing rapidly because someone has signed contracts for the ‘ high tech in recent days. L ‘ Azerbaijan will provide links to telepresence (videoconferencing at the highest level) between Milan and some squares of the country, but no trace of reality increased , at least outside the halls. Also abandoned the project HealthPresence with medical remotely via totem because of organizational difficulties and also the expected bracelet that would monitor the health of visitors.

The RFID have been left to focus on leaner QR code , and should soon It is presented a project that traces the origin of the products to the table of the consumer and the exhibition site will be used localization solutions to understand how they move people.

Traffic, virtual reality, taxi and hotel apps available video wall will not be interactive as opposed to totem They will have information and schedule . It seems inconceivable that, as announced, offer the opportunity to book museums , Restaurant and also the gift blood . Samsung , said the head of marketing and external relations Mario Levratto , has provided “ video wall , tablets, big screens and smartphone “creating installations like” Wall Market “30 x 10 meters with 460 screens that will provide information on the food .

“Within the Expo are also available twenty iWall who interact with the mobile allowing you to send postcards, messages, and more.” Samsung has provided even fifty Gear Vr rent. The device for the virtual reality allows you to dive to 360 ° in the exhibition site and will also be used by the Ministry of ‘ Environment .

And then there’s the app created by Accenture which provides basic information , but not the ones on the traffic for which c ‘is the app Luceverde City and Aci , and allows personalization of the visit. In an upcoming update that we do not know when it will be ready will be a section devoted to the links to access the companion app as the app City1Tap , through which you can book taxi and hotel . And if there is any curiosity you can contact AskExpo , the social info point via Twitter .

At the end of May will be released Memento . It is an update of the app that the user can decide whether to activate and allow you to save and share your path in Expo with some statistics such as km routes and pavilions visited.

As for the information to the disabled ‘s Asphi (association that deals with initiating and developing projects to reduce the handicap by the computer), it has evaluated totem and website “but – says Ennio Paiella of Asphi- not know if the suggestions are then adopted” . On the app checks are suspended for now.

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TomTom presents Bandit, his first action cam – Wired.it

There are 21 days to Wired Next Fest

Unveiled the new year: un’action cam, and a new navigation system maps with sengnalazione of fixed and mobile always included

(Photo: TomTom )

(Photo: TomTom)

Amsterdam – TomTom has presented in its usual annual displacing a bit ‘all. The rumor of the day before predicted the launch of a wearable accessory, while the Dutch company has focused on video: through innovations – products and services together – TomTom aims to become “more social, more user-friendly and more attentive to ‘optimization of time in private life and working consumer “, told us Luca Tammacaro Vice President Dach, Italy & amp; EEA TomTom.

Take a company’s ability to respond to market changes and business without being anchored to his old asset (PND), take a basin data owner not indifferent (big data) buzzword in recent years, it may well? A new website, a new app, new satellite navigation devices, but also the first action cam signed TomTom: Bandit .

Coming up with a few years late in a market already started, Bandit comes with the newest technology: made with a built-in media server, makes editing and sharing fast and easy, eliminating the need to download the video before you can edit it.

The camera communicates with your smartphone through the appropriate app, which allows you to create and share videos in just minutes. In editing mode, in fact, just shake your smartphone to instantly create a video; then you can easily make changes, adding music and effects; The app also includes a viewfinder superfast. The hours spent for download and management of the video remains a distant memory.

TomTom Bandit is equipped with motion sensors and built-in GPS to automatically find and mark images shot depending on the speed, altitude, G-force, acceleration and heart rate.

Looking in detail the technical details, it reads that the camera has a wide-angle lens, an exclusive sensor 16 megapixel CCD and a really powerful processor. TomTom Bandit is fully waterproof. The mounting system is characterized by a steel ring quick release. The unique design Batt-Stick combines a long-life battery, microSD card and USB 3.0 SuperSpeed. The device connects to the computer via USB to upload and download videos, eliminating the need for extra cables or adapters.

TomTom Bandit will be available from May at a price of 429 euro.

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TomTom has also introduced the new TomTom MyDrive , a website and an application specially designed to connect the car to the digital world . Users can use their smartphone, tablet or PC to analyze traffic information in real time, plan routes and send destinations to your TomTom GO, before getting into the car.

The platform TomTom MyDrive is evolving and is open to developers and third parties. An open source ready to grow to bring benefits to motorists.

(Photo: TomTom)

(Photo: TomTom)

In Amsterdam, the true soul of TomTom was heard the announcement of new PND, I brand new TomTom GO 510, 610, 5100 and 6100 . From a hardware point of view have a screen with touch functions, of a rich user interface and simplified, 3D maps, and support Click & amp; Go . Two screen sizes, 5 “or 6″.

As for the software, are born with Maps World and Tutor & amp; Speed ​​cameras (fixed and mobile) for free for the lifetime of the product and are already equipped with a SIM card on board.

Brigade “monitored” by the GPS: “So the interventions will be faster” – Il Messaggero Veneto

 UDINE. A few more weeks of waiting and then all of the municipal police patrols will be “monitored” by a GPS (Global positioning system) that will enable the operations center via Girardini to know in real time the position of all the agents in the service.


 


 “In this way – ensures the commander of the municipal police, Sergio Bedessi – we want to reduce waiting times for interventions. Knowing the position of the patrols will enable us to be more efficient. “


 


 The goal is ambitious. “Currently we have an average wait of about 25 minutes – explains Bedessi – but I am convinced that we can reduce them to less than 15 ‘when all the teams will have supplied the new radio.”


 


 The “revolution” technological progress is a direct result of the assignment that the City has committed to the reconstruction of the whole radio network used by the firefighters.


 


 “We had a system that was half analog and half digital – he said – and this allowed us to make the most of new technologies. Thanks to determined by the Administration were positioned 14 repeaters in addition to the existing ones and all radios will be able to take advantage of the digital channel that will allow us to know the exact location of the patrols. In this way, as soon as the operating center will receive a call, you will know in real time what is the nearest patrol. The district is not too extensive, and so I’m sure there will be significant improvements. “


 


 But the news does not end here. “Each transceiver can also read a short text message and this will help us improve the efficiency and effectiveness of,” continues Bedessi.


 


 For the same reason, as already it happens for other groups, like for example the control unit 118 operation, each intervention will be cataloged on the basis of the gravity and therefore the urgency with which to intervene.


 


 There will then code “red” for situations that have priority such as an injury accident (in which case the patrols will have to move with sirens and flashing), the code “yellow” for urgent situations but not severe (l ‘ car or motorcycle use only the flashing) and the “green” claims instead that I can wait.

 


 All “innovations” that will be introduced in a few weeks (the company is still completing the construction of several radio) and that will complete the reorganization of the municipal police that since last month has increased by eight the number of agents operating in the area on foot, by bike or public transport provided.

 


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Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Windows 10, the date there but Microsoft likes to surprise with … – BBC



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He expected the launch date of Windows 10. But was not disclosed. Remains vague “end of July” that we learned in the past weeks. Microsoft, however, has astounded by presenting a world of holograms and robots. All thanks to Hololens, the response of the giant founded by Bill Gates in Oculus Rift and other virtual reality helmets.

App Universal

The Redmond company unveiled the first phase of the project in January, almost unnoticed. On April 29, at the conference Build 2015, the tone has changed. “This is a new world,” announced Alex Kipman, chief engineer of the project. The thirty-five Brazilian has already worked on Kinect, the sensor system with which the Xbox console interact with the environment, and now he wants to convey amazement: “You are lucky to live in this age.” Other novelties are passed almost overshadowed although all have a common trait: the universal app for Windows 10, can run on any device, from those with a huge screen, up to those with no screen. Just as the lenses that materialize holograms.



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“Windows 10 is not a new version, is a new generation, “so said the CEO. Satya Nadella with her Indian accent and calm voice, is light years away from the tone of the plaster founder Bill Gates is the screams thrown from the stage by his predecessor Steve Ballmer. And there is no denying that the changes are huge. Windows 10 provides a unified experience for all devices that use it. “You develop code only once and then have the app has to adapt,” said Joe Belifore, responsible for the design of new products. The underlying philosophy is called Continuum and allows, for example, to connect a mobile Windows Phone to a screen and a keyboard and have the same experience that you have on a PC desktop, with Word, Excel and Outlook. All synchronized via the cloud. And using the same commands, known as the ctrl + c. In short, a computer without need of computer. Mouse, touch or voice, it does not matter the type of interaction, only the platform. To make “the personal computer more personal.”

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Hololens the conquest of reality

Cloud, universal app , one code only for each device. And the extreme of this concept are the Hololens: glasses can produce holograms and bring up the windows of Windows in the real world. So the media player can become our TV screen, we could put up notes on the walls and do videoconferencing setting a wall where it was placed the Skype window. It is a technology that can be applied to other devices. During Build it was applied on a mini-computer Raspberry Pi connected to sensors and robot with the wheels. This system mounts Windows 10. But what surprised the most is how the lens on the helmet of a human being and those of a robot are discussing in a single virtual environment. What the audience appeared like a bat broom with wheels, for the user with a helmet it became Miko: an android smiling, talk shows and cartoons virtual time information. This is the first application of a science-fiction technology on a large scale. And Microsoft is so confident that provided a version of Hololens to present at the conference.

for Linux, iOS and Android

For three decades has been the symbol of the closed software: what it is designed for Windows must run only on Windows. Now it is proposed to dialogue with all existing platform: Linux, Android, iOs and micro-cheap computer Raspberry Pi. See the robot Miko greet presenters onstage eclipsed another moment of astonishment of the day, and that is when the development tool Visual Studio has been launched first on a Mac (neither Gates nor Ballmer would have never allowed) and then on Ubuntu Linux. “Because Microsoft is primarily a company that thinks first of all programmers and helping people to make things better,” says Nadella. It has already said that upgrading to Windows 10 will be free and the same approach was followed for Visual Studio, which will be downloadable from the Mac and Linux and also Office (up to devices with a screen 9 “).
> Also on Windows 10 for phones will run the app for Android phones and, after being converted (recompiled in jargon) even the iPhone. All software but must be published in the Windows Store, which is preparing to become the gateway preferential Microsoft ecosystem. Even for desktop users. So yes it is a system open to dialogue, but reserve access control. In this the Redmond company has followed the trend that Apple and Google take for years.

Cortana vs Siri

For technical is called machine learning (software that learn), users will be able to see on your desktop only backgrounds they prefer and, in first place among the app to download, those who may want to try. It is one of the aspects on which Microsoft has invested more. This philosophy is the personal assistant Cortana. It is the anti-Siri running on Windows. So far it’s been available on Winodws Phone (in Italian only in test version). During Build 2015 was presented in enhanced version now also runs on desktop and can also interact with external app. For example you can say, “Write ”ll be late’ and send it to Antonio through WhatsApp” Cortana and open the application and paste your message.

Edge and preferences

” The Windows you are used to is back ‘, so you open the video presentation of the new operating system. It refers back to the start menu, which we have already spoken. But the company is proving to listen to the little tips that are coming through the new Windows Feedback. Who is trying to preview 10 demanded the return of transparency that characterized the seventh version of the operating system and, at the conference, Joe Belifore presented a menu with the much appreciated effect “milk bottle”.
It was announced also the trade name of the new Microsoft browser. So far it is known as Project Spartan, from now on will be called Edge. It is integrated with the personal assistant Cortana and is able to learn your browsing preferences and present them on the homepage. A space that we all see when we run the program, but, nevertheless, one of the least exploited. Cortana will provide users with the most visited sites, the favorite apps, the news of our football team, the news on the topics to which we are interested. It will also allow you to use the code of Chrome extensions.

Developer

The most extravagant of Build was the approach: already at 9 am (now San Francisco), the giant screen of the stage was full of lines of code. And there was talk of cloud integration, non-relational database, Docker, ssh tunnel. In short, before the “special effects” and the robot, there was an hour and a half of technicalities. Who nearly upset the journalists present: “I have an idea: I could throw my laptop randomly into the crowd and give readers a reportage better than I can,” said a sarcastic journalist head technology The Verge. After all, Microsoft is a company of developers talk to developers, said Nadella. And it was founded by developers, witness the tweet of the co-founder Paul Allen, who celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the company photographing his first few lines of Basic code, the programming language that has helped to create.

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Opel Corsa, Karl, Astra and Insignia, the new generation of Lightning – Blasting News

The House of lightning German Opel , is making great strides for the renewal of its range. Already this year, with the launch of the new Opel Corsa , now in its fifth generation, the manufacturer orbit of General Motors gave LA to update the image and style of their models , anticipated featured the small chic family, the Adam and before the concept car Opel Monza (in photo), presented at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 2013. The new Opel Corsa , whose version of OPC has recently announced the official price for Germany, scoring is already strong sales, a sure sign of the success of this model that shows no signs of decrease over the years. Officially arrived on the market in January 2015, the Run has maintained the pace of sales of the previous version, peaking in the first quarter of 2015 in fifth place among the best selling cars in Europe.



Opel Karl: already ordered, will arrive in dealerships in June

instead will come only in June, but can already be ordered at dealerships, the new city car Opel , the Karl . The latest addition to the family of the Lightning, which replaces the Agila , is named after one of the sons of the founder of the company, Carl Opel, son of Adam (who also inspired the name for the car of the same name). Small but equipped, the Karl offers standard ESP with traction control, ABS, Hill Start Assist, Lane Departure Warning, fog lamps, the cornering lights and the city mode, to lighten the steering wheel during parking maneuvers. The heir to the Agila features a 3-cylinder gasoline engine, the 1,000 ECOTEC 75 horses, which declared consumption from the house is 4.3 liters per 100 km.



Astra and Insignia coming in 2016

At higher range, there will soon be news for the segment C of Opel , the Astra . Spotted in testing recently, the German hatchback due to be presented at the IAA in September after the summer, replacing the current generation in sales since 2009 and “doctored” with a makeover in 2012. The car will be then very probably it launched in 2016: if we think that the Travel And has been presented for the first time at the Paris Motor Show in October 2014 and sold in January 2015, it can be assumed the same “fate” for Astra K , then for sale in January 2016.

It will however still a bit ‘wait for the new version of the flagship sedan of Russelsheim, the Insignia . However, an advance of the new generation, which should be similar to what was seen on the concept car stylistically Monza , you can guess the new Chevrolet Malibu , presented recently at the Auto Show New York, which could share technical solutions with the “different twin” Insignia , both belonging to the Group GM . The new Malibu in fact hides probably the architecture and technology solutions that will meet the future sedan Lightning.

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Energy savings: Midori at SMAU Turin – PMI.it



Announcements of Midori for energy saving in the home presented at SMAU Turin .

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part in SMAU Turin presenting solutions to promote energy efficiency and the saving energy in the domestic sector, offering services to promote consumer awareness (through the web platform Kiui) and a significant cut on expenses.

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Project NED

In particular, it will be shown the project NED (Not -Intrusive Energy Disaggregation), a real technological revolution in the field of power metering: the system automatically estimates the power consumption of the devices in an apartment, offering many advantages: having a single point of measurement to maintain low costs, no complex phase initial set-up, in view of the historical time of the estimated consumption of each device.

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Midori will be at SMAU 29 and April 30, 2015 at Lingotto Fiere, Pavilion 1, stand C03.

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Use the bike with the motor? . 1 million in fines, six months of stop – La Gazzetta dello Sport

Lights and shadows on the group. Bettini

Turn. They turn all right and not talk. Emanate from 30 to 500 watts. They are the electric motors for the high-end racing bikes. Even the UCI, the world federciclo, push on the Circ (Independent Commission for reform of cycling), begins to take seriously the problem of doping technology, so that season amended Regulation. Now, in the 12 “Rules and Procedures”, he has introduced a new paragraph: 12.1.013.bis, “Frode technology”. The penalties for the runner is excluded from the order of arrival, the disqualification for a minimum period of six months, a fine from 19,265 to 192,230 euro. Fine tougher for the teams: from 96,135 to 963,160 euro, one million Swiss francs. To find them, abandoned the scanner because of the excessive costs (60 thousand euro the rent), it will be used to the probes. “They can also take apart a bike, so do not find it. Also because often they are not using a bike in the final”, says one of the greatest world experts.

blitz – For the Paris-Nice, two bike team, and the Milan-Sanremo, about 37 between race and stock up on Trek, Etixx, Astana and Tinkoff, the commissioners have used their UCI probes to search for the gimmick. The Super Classic, and it is not secondary, to lead the operations of Imperia also a magistrate and six policemen. “The luck was that they have controlled the media in tow,” reveals our source. But what happened that night, after arriving? Certainly there were lively discussions between team managers and Commissioners. So much so that someone said, “They can control all the bike they want, but they have no right to go up on our vehicles.” Bicycle rigged there was talk in 2010, when Fabian Cancellara was accused by many of having used the scooter in Flanders and Roubaix. Remember the terrifying stretch the Grammont and the plain to take off Boonen’s wheel? But those are not the only suspicious incidents. Daniel Martin, Irish Garmin, fell strangely in the last corner of the Liege-Bastogne-Liege in 2014, but the most striking case concerns the Canadian Ryder Hesjedal, his teammate, in the seventh stage of the Vuelta last year. Remember how turned his bike after the fall?


not only the pros’ – But how they are and how they work scooters? There are very powerful, up to 500 watts. They are using them people who want to have fun and make less effort, but also princes and sheikhs. Not professionals. A well-equipped bike can cost 20 thousand euro. The pro ‘enough smaller engines, lower power, 30 to 70 watts. They may seem little, but they are a lot, a huge amount. In a climber of 60-65 pounds guarantee a power increase from 0.45 to over 1 watt / kg. “The difference, however, is not the power, but the noise. However already use it in many, even in the marathon. In Italy in recent years have been sold 1,200 kits and among the amateurs I often see that in the first 10 there are 5 -6 runners who use it. The scooters are the new EPO. Although the system revolving around sometimes is hidden. It happens that people will buy one meter and sixty frames that are good for people of a six-footer. Clearly that bike not for them, “says our interlocutor.

start – The power of the engine can be made with three different systems. Hardly anyone uses the button, however microscopic and hidden. A system in vogue from 2011 is related to the heart rate monitor. It maps to the computer to which heart rate start it: reached this level, lights, shuts down. The third system, the most innovative, associated with Bluetooth. The motor can thus be turned on remotely, for example from the team car. “With a kind of kers your batteries will last 4-5 hours.” Not even the weight is a problem. “To make them light they are also used in plastic bevel gears, especially for a pro ‘does not count the time. In total weigh 200-300 grams. What do you want to have a bike so light that often have to be ballasted to meet the regulations?”.

caches – Some people say are hidden in the standpipe, or other nell’obliquo in the bottom bracket. There is talk of the wheel hubs. “You can do everything, the possibilities are immense, from science fiction. I am convinced that many companies have built frames with big pipes just to be able to accommodate the engine.” Another road, which this time involves the frame builders, would be that of an internal chamber to the pipes for the housing. The probe, during the inspection process, would drop in the pipes “guided”, ie without finding the obstacle.

biological passport – Assuming that can not be traced, as you can fight? “There is a fairly simple system. In the biological passport should also enter the data to the threshold of power emerging from the test. Then you do the checks during the races. In plain calculation is not easy, uphill instead formulas to work perfection. Physics is physics, not a question of believing or not. For example, if an athlete tests has 420 watts, can not climb a mountain at 430-440. Otherwise has the engine. If nothing is done, we will see races MotoGP “. The creator of the scooters was a Hungarian engineer, Istvan Varjas, who patented the first 17 years ago and put them on the market 8-9 years later. In order not to copy and not to reveal their trade secrets, he bought the components from different companies. Now, however, the production is more extensive and involves companies of German and Austrian model.

the wheels – New technology also concern the wheels, especially those in high profile carbon. There are those who practice the nicks in the circle and passes into a special wire. They say this practice, however, prohibited because modifying a component approved, will serve to “reduce the hertz,” or reduce that effect “noise” that some studies would act negatively on aerodynamics.



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Uses the scooter? 1 million. fine, 6 months disqualification – La Gazzetta dello Sport

Lights and shadows on the group. Bettini

Turn. They turn all right and not talk. Emanate from 30 to 500 watts. They are the electric motors for the high-end racing bikes. Even the UCI, the world federciclo, push on the Circ (Independent Commission for reform of cycling), begins to take seriously the problem of doping technology, so that season amended Regulation. Now, in the 12 “Rules and Procedures”, he has introduced a new paragraph: 12.1.013.bis, “Frode technology”. The penalties for the runner is excluded from the order of arrival, the disqualification for a minimum period of six months, a fine from 19,265 to 192,230 euro. Fine tougher for the teams: from 96,135 to 963,160 euro, one million Swiss francs. To find them, abandoned the scanner because of the excessive costs (60 thousand euro the rent), it will be used to the probes. “They can also take apart a bike, so do not find it. Also because often they are not using a bike in the final”, says one of the greatest world experts.

blitz – For the Paris-Nice, two bike team, and the Milan-Sanremo, about 37 between race and stock up on Trek, Etixx, Astana and Tinkoff, the commissioners have used their UCI probes to search for the gimmick. The Super Classic, and it is not secondary, to lead the operations of Imperia also a magistrate and six policemen. “The luck was that they have controlled the media in tow,” reveals our source. But what happened that night, after arriving? Certainly there were lively discussions between team managers and Commissioners. So much so that someone said, “They can control all the bike they want, but they have no right to go up on our vehicles.” Bicycle rigged there was talk in 2010, when Fabian Cancellara was accused by many of having used the scooter in Flanders and Roubaix. Remember the terrifying stretch the Grammont and the plain to take off Boonen’s wheel? But those are not the only suspicious incidents. Daniel Martin, Irish Garmin, fell strangely in the last corner of the Liege-Bastogne-Liege in 2014, but the most striking case concerns the Canadian Ryder Hesjedal, his teammate, in the seventh stage of the Vuelta last year. Remember how turned his bike after the fall?


not only the pros’ – But how they are and how they work scooters? There are very powerful, up to 500 watts. They are using them people who want to have fun and make less effort, but also princes and sheikhs. Not professionals. A well-equipped bike can cost 20 thousand euro. The pro ‘enough smaller engines, lower power, 30 to 70 watts. They may seem little, but they are a lot, a huge amount. In a climber of 60-65 pounds guarantee a power increase from 0.45 to over 1 watt / kg. “The difference, however, is not the power, but the noise. However already use it in many, even in the marathon. In Italy in recent years have been sold 1,200 kits and among the amateurs I often see that in the first 10 there are 5 -6 runners who use it. The scooters are the new EPO. Although the system revolving around sometimes is hidden. It happens that people will buy one meter and sixty frames that are good for people of a six-footer. Clearly that bike not for them, “says our interlocutor.

start – The power of the engine can be made with three different systems. Hardly anyone uses the button, however microscopic and hidden. A system in vogue from 2011 is related to the heart rate monitor. It maps to the computer to which heart rate start it: reached this level, lights, shuts down. The third system, the most innovative, associated with Bluetooth. The motor can thus be turned on remotely, for example from the team car. “With a kind of kers your batteries will last 4-5 hours.” Not even the weight is a problem. “To make them light they are also used in plastic bevel gears, especially for a pro ‘does not count the time. In total weigh 200-300 grams. What do you want to have a bike so light that often have to be ballasted to meet the regulations?”.

caches – Some people say are hidden in the standpipe, or other nell’obliquo in the bottom bracket. There is talk of the wheel hubs. “You can do everything, the possibilities are immense, from science fiction. I am convinced that many companies have built frames with big pipes just to be able to accommodate the engine.” Another road, which this time involves the frame builders, would be that of an internal chamber to the pipes for the housing. The probe, during the inspection process, would drop in the pipes “guided”, ie without finding the obstacle.

biological passport – Assuming that can not be traced, as you can fight? “There is a fairly simple system. In the biological passport should also enter the data to the threshold of power emerging from the test. Then you do the checks during the races. In plain calculation is not easy, uphill instead formulas to work perfection. Physics is physics, not a question of believing or not. For example, if an athlete tests has 420 watts, can not climb a mountain at 430-440. Otherwise has the engine. If nothing is done, we will see races MotoGP “. The creator of the scooters was a Hungarian engineer, Istvan Varjas, who patented the first 17 years ago and put them on the market 8-9 years later. In order not to copy and not to reveal their trade secrets, he bought the components from different companies. Now, however, the production is more extensive and involves companies of German and Austrian model.

the wheels – New technology also concern the wheels, especially those in high profile carbon. There are those who practice the nicks in the circle and passes into a special wire. They say this practice, however, prohibited because modifying a component approved, will serve to “reduce the hertz,” or reduce that effect “noise” that some studies would act negatively on aerodynamics.



Claudio Ghisalberti

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Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Classic Football Manager 2015 – Balls Travel – Multiplayer.it




Version tested: iPad

Digital Delivery: App Store, Google Play

Price: € 19.99



Until some time ago, employees from Football Manager had only one way to save themselves from their drugs: being away from your home PC, without having thus able to fall into temptation. Despite the football management has for years also available for Handheld smartphones and tablets, the most demanding players could find it only on PC depth that makes the famous series license plate Sports Interactive, whose mobile version constituted only a small surrogate snubbed from the socket hard demanding. The difference between the two versions of Football Manager was in fact quite clear, both in terms of gaming features that database before with Football Manager 2014 Classic boys led by Miles Jacobson decided to do some further step in the mobile world, publishing game on PlayStation Vita. After a year, the gap must be filled in time further, with the 2015 edition that leaves the console from Sony to focus on Android tablet and iPad: like the previous one, it is a version that would reflect the content Classic mode already known on PC, with an inevitable series of changes to adapt the game touch interface of these platforms.

Classic but not too

For those who does not know the classic mode of Football Manager, remember that this was introduced with the 2013 edition the management of PCs, to give fans of the series a simplified way to pursue his career as a coach without having to deal with all the details and the delays which submits the full mode of the game. Balls trip On the inside, are in fact been introduced a number of features which can both speed up the experience, is to make it more simple and accessible: in the first case, for example, has been made possible to skip the simulation of a game to directly obtain the its result, while in the second it was introduced a system of microtransactions to get bonuses of various types, such as instant healing from an injury occurred to a player. Features that blend perfectly with those of the mobile world, where to prevent the arrival of a Football Manager deeper was so far the barrier created by technological progress, now arrived at a point where the latest devices are, according to the developers finally able to handle the loading and amount of data. Although not in the classic mode completeness of the traditional one, with respect to the handheld version there is almost a chasm: just to have a size, it is possible to find in the first well 117 sampled, compared to 35 of the second, with all that implies also on the number of players inside the game, went from 30,000 to 150,000. In terms of gameplay stark, Football Manager Classic adds a number of tactical options and management, which can give fans of the series who are always in motion a more than valid to give vent to their passion: the personality of the players, tactics and training finished and more are no longer exclusive to the PC world. Football Manager Classic 2015 – The launch trailer Football Manager Classic 2015 - The launch trailer

Here comes the 3D

For those who play Football Manager on the PC, the 3D graphics engine with which are simulated games is a feature acquired long ago. In the mobile world, however, its introduction is new: as in the desktop version of Football Manager 2015, you can now choose to see the round match with all 22 men on the field represented by polygonal models and not by bullets 2D, engaged in dribbling, contrasts and so on, with animations and models rather good for the platform on which you are located. Balls trip In addition to the aesthetic aspect, the 3D engine gives the coach a chance to realize more effectively the need for any instructions to be given to the flight, or going to change the face of the team putting hand tactics using the tools offered by Football Manager Classic. About the technical sector, we recommend that you pay special attention to the specifications published by Sports Interactive: all the qualities inherited from the PC version of the game in fact have their price, which results in the need to be in possession of a tablet quite recent. As for the Apple world, Classic Football Manager 2015 is fully compatible only with the last two iterations of the iPad Air and iPad mini, while the Android models supported are about 45. Another historically sensitive to the performance are the boots, which prove able to withstand the workload quite well, although as it once on the initial phase of the PC game will require a bit ‘of time to be defined. As for the touch interface, we are not yet at the level of quality that we would expect to see: the main problems relate to areas of the screen sometimes too small to make a tap selection, as well as drag an item (for as when you make a substitution) becomes at times frustrating experience to say the least. We also hope for the future support for bailouts of cloud, to carry on a game going from PC to tablet, and vice versa.

         
         
 
       
 
 
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A winning idea on the internet, giving away a trip to San Francisco – The Tirreno

 PISA. Back for the fourth edition .itCup Registry, the startup competition organized by Registro.it, the registrar of domains Italians managed by the Institute of Informatics and Telematics of the National Research Council in Pisa. .itCup is reserved for business ideas in the field of internet, from smartphone applications, to web services to the most varied world of the Internet of Things. Like every year, the final event will take place in the course of the Internet Festival of Pisa, Friday, October 9, 2015.


 


 They can participate in .itCup students and professionals, individually or in teams, with ideas of startup or established business for innovative products and services in the ICT sector. Requests to participate may already be sent (up to 15 June 2015). The jury of .itCup select up to a maximum of ten business ideas that will participate in a process of mentorship from industry experts startups and innovative companies, which will include a two-day classroom in Pisa guests of the office of the CNR. At the end of this phase, the finalists will offer their pitch to investors and will select five finalists, who will compete for the prizes offered by the partners of .itCup the day of the final, voted by a trio of prominent leaders of the world startups.

 


 Up for grabs this year a trip to San Francisco and the inscription at Startup School of Mind The Bridge (prize offered by the Foundation Denoth) and a communications consultancy offered by IDNA. New for 2015 is rather a partnership with b-ventures, accelerator technology startups Buongiorno. b-ventures will award to one of the finalists of .itCup Register a check for € 4,000.

 


 Media partners of the event is confirmed Startupitalia, the platform dedicated to the world of Italian startup. “Each new edition of .itCup was a growing, both in the number of startups that participants in the quality of the finalists,” says Domenico Laforenza, director of Registro.it. “This is a sign that there is turmoil in our country, a creative and entrepreneurial vitality that does not stop in front of the crisis. In our small, since the first edition, we just sent this signal: boys, formatevi, you undertake, be curious and get in the game. The results achieved by the startup year after year give us reason. We hope to see this fourth edition projects increasingly competitive and increasingly qualitative ideas, that can bring ideas and solutions to firms more established ICT “.

 


 In the edition 2014 the trip to Silicon Valley was won by Bills in Cloud, service invoicing digital launched by twenty-three Daniele Ratti that in a year from launch already has more than 30,000 active users.


                                                     

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Internet, to make profits are always the usual suspects – BBC



Milan , April 28, 2015 – 12:07

Maria Teresa Cometto

     
     
 

Mobile and cloud are the two magic words that are doing fly quotations of blue chip technology on Nasdaq, the stock exchange specializing in high-tech back at the highest last Thursday, 15 years after the collapse of the dot.com.

The content and advertising on smartphones and tablets, the services and products distributed via the Internet from the cloud (megacentri storage and data management) are in fact today the business with the highest growth rate: a mirage for Ultra-old IBM, a reality for the veteran ecommerce Amazon.com and the queen of the social network Facebook.

Their quarterly financial statements, published last week, along with those of Google, Microsoft, eBay and Yahoo !, offer important clues about how the tech market is evolving and on who has the best prospects cavalcarne trends. The worst results were those of Big Blue, the former computer giant that is now worth less than the stock market Facebook: for the twelfth consecutive quarter of its turnover fell, while the strategy of the Managing Director (CEO) Ginni Rometty, in office for three years, is struggling to bear fruit. His bet is reinventing IBM increasingly leaving behind the old hardware business, in decline, and betting on the new frontiers of cloud computing, cybersecurity, social networking, mobile technologies and data analysis.

All these activities should account for 40% of sales of IBM by 2018, according to plan of Rometty, almost double the 24% generated in 2014. To achieve this goal the CEO is taking decisions heretical, such as the recent alliance with former arch enemy Apple to offer iPhone and iPad apps for IBM companies. The Wall Street guru Warren Buffett has confidence in her, so as to have increased investments in shares Ibm 6.3 to 7.8% of his holding company Berkshire Hathaway, but the other shareholders are less patient: quotes are Big Blue the only red (11%) in the last year among all those considered here.

Up and down

Most brilliant, up 35%, are those of Facebook, the social network founded and led by Mark Zuckerberg, who has 1.44 billion active users per month (+ 13% on a year ago), of which 936 million active every day (+ 17%). It is a network that continues to grow and is a wealth of data ultra attractive to advertisers: Facebook fact knows precisely the profiles of “friends” and can offer companies the target much more accurate than those processed by Google based on the their behavior online.

If you add to this the fact that much of the activity on Facebook is done via mobile devices , we understand the boom of its turnover, grew by 42% last quarter. The net result, however, is in the red, because of the heavy investment on long-term projects of Zuckerberg as virtual reality and Internet access anywhere from heaven. But investors are hoping that other app controlled by Zuckerberg – WhatsApp Messenger and Instagram – which for now generate zero profits, sooner or later becomes profitable. Competition from Facebook in the mobile advertising is one of the thorns in the side of Google, which continues to grow, but more slowly than in the past. Profits, always derived largely from advertising search engine, remain solid, but on the future of the company co-founded and led by Larry Page also weighs the antitrust proceedings initiated by the European Union. An interesting innovation of the quarter was the revelation for the first time of how important the business in the cloud for Amazon.com: accounts for 7% of all revenue and grew 49% over last year, on track to generate 6 billions of dollars in revenue this year; is also a source of good profits, $ 265 million (operating profit) in the quarter. The company of Jeff Bezos is the leader with 28% of this market, a place beloved by investors, still willing to be patient on the budget in the red, caused by heavy investments in new technologies (eg drones) and new services (spending home). Behind Amazon. com in the Microsoft cloud advances, that with Azure has reached 10% of the market. Satya Nadella, before becoming the CEO of software company, was the head of Azure and its development is one of the cornerstones of the strategy to overcome the decline of the old business model. His next test will be launched this summer, the new operating system Windows 10, the unifying language for PCs, tablets and smartphones. While it remains to be seen if the promised price cut will be enough to revitalize sales bloodless apparatus manufactured by Microsoft, especially the former Nokia phones.

Former stars

Two tarnished star Internet, eBay and Yahoo !, are the most difficulty in finding the path of growth. Ebay suffer competition from new services Amazon.com for online merchants and the low costs of new competitors as Jet.com. His only growing business is the online payment system PayPal, which will be spun off later this year. Marissa Mayer, to guide Yahoo! for nearly three years, has invented the acronym Mavens (in English means “very influential experts”), which stands for “mobile, video, native and social advertising”, the sectors on which the tip to revive the company. Which is fine on the Stock Exchange now only for the expectations on the sale of investments in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan.

April 28 2015 | 12:07

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