Sunday, December 24, 2006

Places To Do Community Service Hours

patents on RSS

we are trying very quietly. Microsoft is indeed trying to patent RSS . Mica stuff just eh.

For further details, I refer you to a great post on Wired , which addresses the issue. If you wish to leave a comment on the case, well for what is the forum GT . ;)

While you are there, Merry Christmas to all readers of this blog.

Cheers.

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Long Does Take Ice Freeze

Italians and Microsoft Internet Conference

Italy late in the EU for presence of the Internet in homes : in our country - the fifteenth in the standings - are linked to 40% of all households, while the European average is 52% . And 'one of the data in the 2006 Istat report on new technologies.

Internet in the EU. Leading the European Union are Holland (80%), Denmark (79%), Sweden (77%) in tail Greece (23%), Slovakia (27%), Hungary (32%). We are close to France (41%), Spain (39%), Portugal (35%).

The most common goods. In the technology sector, are television, present in 93.9% of households and mobile (82.3%). Below the video recorder (63%), the DVD player (50.7%), the personal computer (46.1%), Internet access (35.6%).

More and more cell phones. Compared to 2005, increased primarily possession of the phone (80, 8 to 82%, 3%) and personal computer (from 43.9% to 46.1%). Internet access is fairly stable (from 34.5% to 35.6%) but improves the quality of connection: reduce that narrowband (dial-up modem or traditional telephone line ISDN), which increased by 21.6% to 18.7%, and instead increase as broadband (ADSL or other), which increased from 11 , 6% to 14.4%.

The generation gap. Among the different types of family are strong technological gap. The nuclei consist of only the elderly continue to be excluded: only 5.5% own a personal computer, only 2.8% have access to the Internet and is almost entirely lacking the spread of broadband connections (1.1 %). The only common good (except the TV) and mobile phones (45.3%). At the other extreme, households with at least a minor possessing the personal computer e l'accesso ad Internet rispettivamente nel 69,7% e nel 51,8% dei casi.

Il divario economico-sociale. Nelle famiglie con capofamiglia dirigente, imprenditore o libero professionista il possesso del cellulare (96,3%) ha superato quello della televisione (94,5%). Molto diffusi anche personal computer (80,6%), accesso a Internet (70,2%) e i beni tecnologici legati al televisore come l'antenna parabolica (44,7%), il decoder digitale terrestre (26%), la tv digitale (12,9%) e il lettore dvd (78,1%). Tra le famiglie con capofamiglia operaio e quelle in cui il capofamiglia è dirigente, imprenditore o libero professionista c'è una differenza di circa 30 punti nel possesso di personal computer e di 37 punti nel possesso di accesso a internet.

Il divario territoriale. L'uso di pc e internet è più diffuso nel Nord-ovest (rispettivamente 46,4% e 39%). Diversa la situazione nel Sud e nelle Isole dove le percentuali di utilizzo sono più basse (intorno al 35% per il personal computer e al 27% per internet). Va sottolineato, inoltre, che dal 2003 al 2006 le differenze tra Nord e Sud del Paese sembrano leggermente aumentate: la distanza nell'uso del personal computer tra il Nord-ovest e il Sud era di circa 8 punti percentuali nel 2003 ed è diventata di 12 punti percentuali nel 2006.

Le età. Il picco di utilizzo del personal computer has between 11 and 19 years (over 75%) and the Internet between 15 and 24 years (more than 67%) and decreases with increasing age. Even among people of 35-44 years the use of personal computers (53.8%) and internet (45.7%) is much smaller. Among people aged 60-64 only 16.4% use their personal computer, and 12.3% use the Internet, over sixty of the use of these technologies is marginal.

activities. What do you do on the Internet is yanked age-related users. Between 20 and 44 years more than 80% of users use the Internet primarily to send or receive email. Using the web to chat, however, is particularly widespread among young people of 15-24 (over 43%), as well as using the web to play games, download games, pictures and music that is most widespread among people of 6-19 years (over 60% ). The training activities at schools and universities is very common among 18-24 year olds (over 41%), while the vocational training activities are mainly practiced by individuals aged 20 to 59 years (with higher values 15%). [Via republic ]