Ninth digit in SP: Understand how this change will work

 

From this Sunday (29/07), with mobile devices will have a 11 digit code 9 at the beginning of their numbers. The only mobile phones in the 11 remaining unchanged - with eight digits - are Nextel radio.

As for now, is valid for any link regional, national or international made to the metropolitan area of ​​Sao Paulo, which comprises 64 municipalities. But the idea is that the ninth digit password to operate throughout Brazil.

During the press conference of Anatel, held in Sao Paulo this setxa Monday (27/07), Adeilson Birth, manager of interconnections of the agency, said there is no deadline for the change of numbers in the rest of the country. "It may take several years. We can not say how long it will take to standardization. However, the next areas to receive the ninth digit should be 21 (RJ), 31 (MJ), 51 (RS) and 81 (EP)" he said.

According to Nascimento, the change is justified by the need for greater availability of numbers. Currently, the region with code 11, the operators have requested assignment to 42 million lines. With eight digits, the maximum combination of different numbers is 44 million. Already with nine digits, the maximum combination of lines shall be 90 million different numbers.

Adaptation

The change is not abrupt. The FCC and the telephone operators in Brazil drew up a plan of gradual adaptation. In the first ten days after the start of installation, whether to add the digit 9 in the calls, the calls will be completed automatically. But, you may receive warning alerts the operator to change. The switching time of reporting the change is not charged to the user.

After this period of ten days, the calls made without dialing the new number will be intercepted and the user is informed of the need to update your schedule. After day 23 January 2013, there will be no more warnings of this kind, and if someone calls to area 11, entering only eight numbers will receive the message that number no longer exists.

Instabilities

The manager of the FCC noted that on Sunday there may be some instability in the system, resulting from changes in the structures. "There will be small and should not last more than one or two minutes," he said Nascimento.

The spokesman also reiterated that all operational responsibility of the operators is that, even bore the cost of $ 300 million in upgrading the infrastructure needed to adapt.

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Google tries to finish things off against the project to digitize books

Again, the Google went to court to try to end an action in facing the Authors Guild, the largest organization lobbying on behalf of writers in the United States, which accuses the company has scanned millions of books for your project Google Books without ask permission, nor compensate their authors. The news agency is Reuters .

The Google claims that its project, which hopes to build the largest digital library in the world, represents a 'fair use' ('fair use') works, and therefore should not pay royalties. Since the organization of writers seeks $ 125 million to yield an agreement, which was denied by a federal judge.

The agreement was rejected by Judge Denny Chin, who considered that the approval of the partnership could mean a green light to the monopoly of the Silicon Valley company in the area of ​​digitizing books.

The company claims that more than 20 million scanned books in English and posted excerpts of about 4 million, and it was only possible thanks to an agreement with the country's large public libraries. Many of the books are still protected by copyright but are out of print for many years, so the Google claims that it is fair to scan them at no charge to authors.

In the lawsuit filed in a court in Manhattan, Google said that the provision of works - which can be searched internally - without prejudice to the authors, but helps in the dissemination of books, many of which are completely forgotten by society.

"The Google Books creates enormous and positive transformations and by no means reduces the value of the work of the authors, "the lawsuit says.

And you, what do you think?

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Eduardo Saverin, the eighth richest Singaporeans

Half Brazilian and half the U.S. until the middle of last year, Eduardo Saverin is now a citizen of Singapore and, according to a list released by Forbes magazine , his eighth richest man.

The naturalization occurred largely because of high taxes that the co-creator of Facebook would be required to pay to the United States and was heavily criticized by the press and politicians.

Born in Sao Paulo, Saverin was educated in the United States and there amassed his fortune of $ 2.2 billion, but in May 2011 the entrepreneur decided to give up their citizenship to avoid taxes that would be charged because of the IPO Facebook. The amount would be around U.S. $ 67 million.

Saverin living in Singapore since 2009, which also does business.

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Facebook's market value fell $ 10 billion

 

Investors have reduced the value of Facebook at $ 10 billion on Friday (27/04), leading the newly listed shares to a new low.

According to Reuters , a drop of 17% of the shares led the market capitalization of Facebook for U.S. $ 48 billion, less than half the value of launching the Initial Public Offering (IPO, in English) of U.S. $ 100 billion, in May.

The latest crash cost the chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, about U.S. $ 2.3 billion, based on their participation in the company.

Social networking revenue beat expectations on Thursday (26/07) in the first announcement of quarterly results as a public company, but the company failed to reassure investors about its future prospects.

Investors worried about the social network will make money with mobile advertising expected the company would give a signal that revenue growth was improving. The stock has fallen nearly 40% of market value since its debut on the stock exchange.

They fell to a record low of U.S. $ 22.28 on the morning of Friday, before recovering to U.S. $ 23.03.

At least four brokerages, including Barclays Capital cut its price target for shares of Facebook, although the majority suggested that the company is worth more than the current trading levels.

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Skype denies in talks clips

 

Those responsible for Skype denied on Friday that made ​​changes in the terms of service for voice over IP to allow clips of calls between its users. According to reports published this week, the change would be a requirement for governments of different countries and serve to assist the police in investigations confidential.

The charges arose after the company was bought by the giant Microsoft, which recently filed a patent for the surveillance of conversations in voice over IP programs. In addition, Skype would have secretly changed its terms of use, and migrated to a system supernodos, which would facilitate access to conversations.

However, Skype's chief development officer, Mark Gillett, said the allegations are "false." "The move to the super was not made ​​to facilitate access to communications of our users and not to cooperate with the authorities," said a post on his blog .

According to Gillett, the super help the stability of the Skype network, allowing people to be located on the servers of the tool and a connection with another contact is established.

To better understand the case, read the charges against Skype and Microsoft this week.

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Creator of Amazon, Jeff Bezos donates $ 2.5 million in favor of gay marriage

 

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will make a hefty donation - $ 2.5 million - to lobby for the legalization of gay marriage in the U.S. capital of Washington. The vote on the so-called 'Referendum 74' is scheduled for next November 6, when it will decide the fate of gay couples in the state and the next U.S. president.

Besides Bezos, persons engaged in the technology industry as Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, both from Microsoft, also made donations to the campaign (U.S. $ 100 000 each). Companies like Google, Facebook and Electronic Arts helped fund the campaign.

In the latest research on the subject, 51% of respondents said they were in favor of gay marriage and 42% said they were against the law.

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Console will open source content Ouya OnLive Store

 

The console hackable Ouya, made possible in a campaign that kickstarter already grossed nearly $ 5.6 million, has partnered with a major supplier of content for platform game, OnLive, which announced that "hundreds of great games, with quality console "will be available in stand-alone product that should hit the market next year.

With open source programming, the Ouya is based on Android 4.0 and can run applications and games, independent producer or large. According to one charge of the project, the designer Yves Behar , the console will have the size of a Rubik's Cube and have a Tera3 Quad-Core processor, and 1GB of RAM.

The partnership muffles the main criticisms of the project, claiming that anything would be an open hardware he could not run games as complex as the owners of the islands.

The company had already announced a contract with Robert Bowling, largely responsible for the Call of Duty series, so that their next release - the game of zombies Human Element - has exclusivity for Ouya.

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Nokia will close its last factory in Finland

 

Nokia decided to close its last factory in Finland, his country of origin, and must dismiss 780 workers who worked on it, according to Slash Gear .

The factory gave the last phone produced today (27/07) and operations will be completely closed until September.

The closing of the plant in the town of Salo is more action in a restructuring plan of Nokia, who must resign to 10,000 employees worldwide to cut costs.

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