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Knowledge Graph: Google takes a step towards the Semantic Web

software — Sun, 20 May 2012 18:11:44 +0000

Knowledge Graph: Google takes a step towards the Semantic Web

01net.

the 18/05/12 at 18h46

one little phrase: “We are at the beginning of a transformation that will take us a motor to a motor information to know. “, Johanna Wright, product manager at Google, summed it wishes to make the search giant with her new baby, Knowledge Graph.
This new feature, which was presented before yesterday by The search giant, will be launched gradually in coming days, the English version of the site initially.

Semantics and almost natural

Knowledge Graph is a first step towards the dream of Web inventor Tim Berners -Lee: the emergence of a “semantic web” which would connect not just pages of documents by links, but also concepts, ideas, facts.

Google provides its users with a database that goes in that direction. It contains about 500 million objects and 3.5 billion of facts, links between these objects.
The system knows such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir was an impressionist, was born in Limoges February 25, 1841. The database is able to compare him with other painters from the same school and to identify his work. In short, the link information that are typically isolated.

Note that the system is also able to answer certain questions in natural language (“ what is the tallest building on Earth” or “ wife of Barack Obama” for example) but it is far from exhaustive and frustrating blow.
For Google, this is just the beginning: “is an essential first step to build the next generation of Internet search, which exploits the collective intelligence of the Web and includes world like the people “wrote Amit Singhal, vice president of Google, the blog of the company.

According to Google, this new feature improves tripling its service: First, Knowledge Graph avoids the problems of homonymy, offering you to refine your search in case of doubt.
Second, this module summarizes the most important facts related to research, to obtain as quickly as the good result … Finally, Knowledge Graph provides more serendipity in research, deepening, particularly with a feature indicating related queries made by third other users.

A mobile future?

Enabling this new feature is automatic, it appears in a new column when doing a Research. It is already possible to try it, by following the link test from this page.
In practice, we think of a mixture of Wikipedia (from which some of these data) and Wolfram Alpha search engine that drives the particular vocal assistant Siri … While not go so far in the approximation, the combined data.

In this regard, we imagine, moreover, that Knowledge Graph will be more interest in research on mobile, because this new module could well serve as the basis for a future assistant close to that of Apple, which is natural language question him for answers …

Behind the scenes, the Net freedom may be threatened

software — Sat, 19 May 2012 01:11:52 +0000

Behind the scenes, the Net freedom may be threatened

01net.

the 18/05/12 at 19h19

It is a story cascading and extremely complex. One story that could have serious implications for all Internet users worldwide. One such story where nothing is all black or all white, but everything is cause for concern, because it is our freedoms and a tools that allows our expression referred.

A warning

regularly for some time, Robert McDowell, Commissioner recognized and highly respected within the FCC, the Federal Communications Commission U.S., writes articles in the American press when he yells at anyone who will listen that freedom of the Net is threatened, usually by the UN.

the American Commissioner to explain that the ITU, International Telecommunication Union to, attached to the UN since 1947, will review in December, at the request of some of its 193 member states, the treaty 1988 to mark the WCIT, the World Conference on International Telecommunications . And it is not nothing: the Treaty of 1988, also called the Treaty of International Telecommunications Regulation, enabled the emergence and development both structurally and economically of the Net as we know it today.

The risk of revision

Review the treaty is not inherently evil. According to Robert McDowell, the most worrying is further proposed amendments to the Treaty and to those who submitted them. In his column last February, and it points the finger at China, Russia and their allies.

countries that want to implement billing systems data flows that could affect peering , the basis for some freedom and a certain transparency in trade between operators and countries. China and Russia would also like an international entity recovers the powers and jurisdiction of some international institutions, not affiliated with governments or countries, such as the IETF or ICANN.

A liability

economic and political heavy

We now understand clearly that economic incentives are optimal to support clear political motivations. Motivations in which actors find themselves but not necessarily for the same reasons.

The first group consists, broadly, many countries are developing or growing now, who would like the United States dropped a bit of ballast less tightly controlled and some institutions, such as ICANN, at the heart of how the Internet works.

Just like the Non-Aligned Movement of the 60/70, these countries would like to weigh in the balance of the Net and its economy.

The second group includes China and Russia, plus a few satellites. Driven by a desire for power sharing on the Internet, these two countries have also a very different view of what should be the freedom of the network of networks. Hence a desire to create instances of international control and monitoring, as reported by Robert McDowell. A position, that being said, is not always very far from how to proceed from the United States. Let us remember the case of the intervention and Megaupload forcibly , led by the FBI against the site.

EFF and a host of associations come into play

One might say that Robert McDowell is concerned because ” he is here representing the political and economic interests of the United States. Yet, yesterday, May 17, 2012, EFF, the Electronic Frontier Foundation , and thirty associations and committees defending the freedoms on the Internet, have split a news worried, in which they draw up a list of demands.

This letter is a call that the preparation process of WCIT is more transparent, that the documents be communicated, that large entities and civil associations to be involved in discussion and that within all Member States with a discussion or citizen initiated.

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150 years of democracy

Applications that do not seem exuberant and are well on the straight of this love very American to direct democracy. However, is it possible to set up such sites? The debate, highly technical, is it affordable for all? Many questions for colossal stakes.

ITU, last February contacted by us and we would have liked eloquent, could not answer questions that had aroused in the editorial reading of the chronicle of Robert McDowell. It was however noted that within the ITU decisions are made democratically, each member having one vote. Similarly, we were reminded that for nearly 150 years of existence of the ITU, the common interest had always been defended and carried forward, even if this required sometimes heated debates …

Candor? Sense of reality? Need to change and division of powers? Critical need to avoid certain countries are undemocratic strong hand at the heart of the Internet? The show that emerges from this little crisis is worrying. Behind the scenes of Net ensures the future of what is now a media. Whatever the ultimate direction taken, there is concern essentially beyond economic issues: our freedoms.

Social Networks: addiction to addition, lost identity (4/5)

software — Thu, 17 May 2012 08:11:37 +0000

Social Networks: addiction to addition, lost identity (4/5)

01net.

the 17/05/12 at 09:45

How sounding way to turn? Who to believe? What position? Difficult to know where to turn against the totally schizophrenic speech of major industry players. Google says that in mind one day that the protection of privacy is the top priority and then, through the voice of her ex-CEO Eric Schmidt, that the very idea of privacy required, if not totally abolished. Or at least widely reassessed downward, since even suggests that in the future, people may have the opportunity to “change their digital identity” to forget their youthful mistakes? And what about about Facebook repeating to anyone who will listen that privacy is protected, and Randi Zuckerberg did say, Mark’s sister then marketing director of Facebook, that “anonymity is disappearing”? Orwell would have seen it fair? …

Towards a unique identity

For years, many politicians, joined by an increasing proportion of actors from the private sector, we explain a unique identity (biometrically ) securely over the Internet, is not only desirable but also inevitable. And again, the private sector could be much more effective than government to make the public accept this kind of measure, as it has managed to digest the biometric profiling, no government could have achieved without causing an outcry history.

Google and Facebook are not hiding anymore of wanting to become an “identity service”, ie the unique vehicle through which you will exercise your online identity, despite the retreat of Google + which now allows the use of pseudonyms. This “de-identification” has an interest multiple: to legitimize the official database, channel the flow of information, etc.. The attempt to hold on the comment systems – blogs and other third parties – is eloquent. Today, even third party solutions like Disqus (when will the redemption?) Propose to enter via a Facebook account, Google + or another, and many sites (like Scribd, for example) offer default under its log Facebook identity. All of which converge gradually towards this “unique identity of the user.” The advantages are obvious: fewer passwords, easy to share resources from one network to another, etc.. But again, what is the real cost of this little comfort?

order of bubbles:
- Welcome to you, citizens of Facebookia (on the chin, we read: MINISTRY OF PRIVACY)
- This is your country and your privacy!
- This is why we have just introduced a new regulation!
- By default, all your information are now accessible to everyone … not just your friends … but the Internet
- To protect your privacy, share everything with everyone!
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Privacy, it is the sociability
The secret is sharing
Intimacy is the exhibition
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but not for all

Time and again, the spread of social networks is presented as progress, as a transition towards a more virtuous “transparent”. Mark Zuckerberg’s dream would be, according to his family, to promote “transparent society”, as described by the utopian American David Brin. Such analysis, however, completely ignores the nature of the panoptic unambiguous: a “transparent” ever more total users is requested. The intermediary – the machine, the black box from Facebook, Google and others – remains for its share of total opacity.

The era of prediction and monitoring total

History reassure those who have long denounced the invasion of programmed ” communicating objects “- packed with sensors of all kinds – in our environment as a serious security drift, General Petraeus, the new CIA director, confirmed that his agency had properly integrate all these technological advances in its arsenal of total surveillance.

After a decade

acclimatization “soft”, it appears that heavy track last fall, history of bludgeon of tweezers without taking a fait accompli because of broad guidelines adopted decades ago in the area military, technological society HAS consubstantially a surveillance society. Very clever people who will come to separate from each other.

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Google, meanwhile, has invested heavily in Recorded Future, a services company with prediction algorithms. Worse, predictive technologies – real and amazing efficiency to predict certain phenomena over wide ranges of population – are now openly claimed as valid paths to predict criminal behavior, the famous concept of “pre- crime “, a drift so denounced by Philip K. Dick in Minority Report is believed to forever confined to dystopian novels and other formal warnings. The American series Person of Interest , where each episode begins on a voiceover telling pretty much: “the government knows your every move” , also falls timely.

automated observation of behavior, physical and mental, between biometric data and data collected on the Web has allowed companies belonging to this giant public-private surveillance who knows an unprecedented boom since September 11, to market several software solutions already “functional”. The technical solutions to make all types of information flow (Internet traffic, video, other monitoring systems: such as RFID in transport, coordination of drones that will soon make up the American police, but also European police ) and fully interoperable “centralisables”. The mission of TIAO for Total Information Awareness Office , and companies like Palantir is in the making, both in the private sector and through a European semi-public as the project Indect.

dialectical impasse

Naturally, the defenders of invasive technologies – the former CEO of Google Eric Schmidt at the top – no frequently fail to use a hackneyed argument as absurd: “If you have nothing to reproach yourself, you have nothing to hide” . But even assuming that freedom of conscience is a value past, even if you have full confidence in the current governance structures, and the safeguards, however much abused civil liberties, that can vouch for the future ? What guarantee have you that the enormous powers granted – and now irrevocable – by governments and multinational corporations overpowering will not be used for unfair in the future? No. Instead, a minimum of historical hindsight to conclude that such abuses are the norm, not the exception.

What safeguards?

Given the failure of any form of self-regulation (in the words of the Federal Commission Trade (FTC)), facing the ever more extreme concentration of industry, oligopoly-like duopoly, and the resignation of governments (despite some efforts in Europe), what to do? Confronted with acts totally illegal surveillance on French soil (mapping of all wireless devices, listening and recording of data traffic, etc.). By Google Street Cars, the CNIL has ordered the company to pay a paltry penalty € 100 000 (approximately six months salary of a product manager or senior developer at Google). All this after Google initially denied publicly the facts and then kept it as an error code, before seeing his copy and admit that the collection of data was deliberate. That aside, the motto of Google is always “Do not Be Evil” …

Read the first three rounds of this article series:
– Social Networks: addiction to the addition (1/5)
– Social networking tools such as: addiction to the addition (2/5)
– Networks Social: addiction to addition, tapped (3/5)

Tomorrow, find the continuation and end of our file.

Difficult start for Diablo III

software — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:12:35 +0000

“Blizzard however good reasons to make the permanent connection required. The publisher obviously hopes by then to avoid piracy.”

It is almost a good one this reflection, hacking, how much you bet, if this is a good game, like all good games, he has single player playable offline in a while?

In fact, publishers who engage in online DRM, continuing obligation of the Internet will only fight against the buyers … This is fine, at least, as I have not bought, nor any hacked Diablo I, II, I know I did not need to look if it’s worth it to buy one day of the trilogy Diablo’s.

By the way in specialty stores and supermarkets, it would be interesting to separate the games with DRM (internet required) of other, albeit less numerous, but at least as I would lose a little less time looking for the game that is worth spending my money, besides the last one was to bear the brunt Sniper 2, when I saw Powered by Steam, not sorry, though I’d seen for download illegal somewhere seems to me there?

And all that before I bought DRM 99% of my games, now is buying 95% less.

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ARCEP: Free Mobile blew the market

software — Sun, 13 May 2012 22:12:21 +0000

ARCEP: Free Mobile blew the market

01net

the 11/05/12 at 17:48

As a presidential candidate, Xavier Niel could have said he felt “ride the wave” . Figures from the telecom Regulatory Authority (ARCEP) prove: the arrival of Free Mobile has had a profound impact on the mobile market in France. Published yesterday, the observatory’s mobile market Arcep shows that the first quarter of 2012 saw “exceptional level” of terminations: 6.9 million on a fleet of 69.5 million SIM cards in use, 10% of the market. Requests for number portability also exploded in the first quarter 2012 to $ 2.6 million. Of course, all these applications have not only been made by new subscribers Free Mobile.

Free

happens, prepaid cards and MVNO toast

ARCEP does not say how many subscribers have lost the incumbents (Orange, SFR and Bouygues Telecom) since the Arrival Free Mobile. However, the market was very dynamic, with 5.2 million packages sold in the first quarter of 2012, twice a quarter of normal. Prepaid cards have seen their numbers drop by 765 000 units, probably to compete with the offer of 2 euros Free Mobile.

Other collateral victims: mobile virtual operators, or MVNOs, whose growth has been consistently cut short with a market share decline of 11.43% at end 2011 to 11, 15%. This is certainly not much, but the uptrend has stalled for years. We understand a little better why some MVNOs asked ARCEP to act against Free Mobile, which would not have favored enough.

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European operators are doomed to decline?

software — Sat, 12 May 2012 05:14:20 +0000

European operators are doomed to decline?

01net.

11/05/12 20:00

Every year, the DigiWorld Yearbook Idate takes stock of the previous year and outlines the major trends that will a priori their growth the following year. This year among the flood of information and figures, the economic map of the digital world as compiled by the institute of studies and analyzes posed the question of the decline of the telecommunications market in Europe.

Crisis in the first line

Idate indeed notes a decrease of 0.5% of consolidated revenues of mobile operators in Europe: in France -2.2%, -6.2% Portugal, -0.6% in the UK and -13.1% in Greece. The differences are explained by two factors. On the one hand, the impact of sovereign debt crisis on the economies. We see how the market is affected Hellene.

other hand, by the fact that historically “many European markets for mobile telephony based on the model of prepaid [cards purchased piecemeal, Ed] and non-paid post [with a subscription commitment] “, stated François Barrault, President of the Idate. With the first, in case of budget problem, an individual suspends obviously easier his “investment” , he concluded on this point.

Souci investment

Anyway, these declines in sales of European operators of telephony are all the more glaring that American actors are growing income of 4.5% for 2011, according to Idate. The DigiWorld Yearbook also points to a trend rather heavy. The Capex, investment expenditures, the largest North American operators is superior, 4 to 5 points to that of European operators (15% of turnover, against 10% on average).

other words, the U.S., investment is stronger, which is materialized by a particular system of 4G LTE faster than in Europe, while they were initially delayed for 3G. From there to think that investment is driving growth … François Barrault took the leap: “There are four or five years, regulators would have been better to require or encourage investment in 4G , instead of opening the door to a new entrant ‘, is as beneficial as it arrives.

Evolution of the mobile services market in Europe (of 27, Ed) and the United States.

New Model

For the installation of 4G LTE, still limited in speed and use voice, also marks a paradigm shift. The entire economy of the operators is questionable. The economic model of operators until now been based heavily on revenues per minute of airtime. It now opens to all-data, the bandwidth, where the calls are VoIP.

“You have to make a smooth change of the model” , Didier advanced Warbler, in charge of economic aspects of telecommunications to Idate, this transition is not easy for operators. Beyond the red house, it is not easy to change strategy when shareholders may block the four irons, seeking profit from quarter to quarter without seeing at longer terms.

The intrusion of “computing” and the Net, not only chipped the world of telephone operators, but it also allowed the emergence of new players. Including actors called “over the top”, which are those companies, like Facebook or Google, which use networks to make money without contributing to their maintenance or their financing. We then observe “a transfer of value, to the detriment of operators’ , stated François Barrault.

The role of regulators in the future

But beyond the pure economic issue, European operators have also another problem, double bottom, compared to their North American colleagues. The first is the lack of a single market, which would mean “growth potential and consolidation of supply ‘, gold,” there are over 160 operators in Europe now “, completed Didier Warbler, and Europe is ” a checkerboard of 27 markets “.

The second is the regulation. Faced with this multiplicity of facets, limiting regulation nationally makes no sense. For Francois Barrault, the control problem must be considered at the supranational level, at European level. “It is necessary to impose an entity, a super-regulator, yet to” , which would be long term and allow operators to escape the lack of European single market.

Returning to the charge, as to avoid any talk of the evils of partisan technocrats, François Barrault refined his vision of what would be one of the first constants of effective regulation. It should avoid the short-time political office. Better for him, it would be good to ensure that the numerical questions are loaded among professionals as telecommunications environments are “somewhat closed” to outsiders, those who do not belong to their circle. In addition, these regulators, these politicians should not see the move to these positions as “a launching pad for a career or as a thank you for service rendered” .

What future?

For those responsible for Idate, the current situation poses a question fraught with consequences: “should we expect the general impoverishment of European operators ? “ because that’s what where we’re going, despite the dissatisfaction of users, who have always felt like the turkey stuffing.

impoverishment that would result in a snowball, even to less investment, deteriorating services and a decline in market valuation. Which could lead ultimately to takeovers by players from North America, or China, where markets have a full explosion of growth and economy of scale.

course, operators of the European landscape is extremely diverse, some are heavily indebted, others are less so. Some are totally private, while others may rely on state support. Although in a context of sovereign debt heavy, States have a tendency to want to reap the fruits of their past investments rather than re-invest for the future. And operators must move quickly or Europe could be delayed significantly and permanently lose his hand …

RT Windows 8: Microsoft blocks the choice of browser, according to Mozilla

software — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:11:42 +0000

Windows 8: Microsoft blocks the choice of browser, according to Mozilla

01net

the 10/05/12 at 24:36

While Mozilla is working on a version of Firefox for Windows interface Metro 8, Microsoft revealed that the foundation seeks to prevent the installation of Firefox on Windows RT version ARM processors for Windows 8.

On its official blog, Mozilla says that Windows Internet Explorer RT is the only browser capable of operating in the Windows Classic interface. Other browsers are capable of operating in the interface Metro, but Mozilla wants to have a free hand and have no technical barriers to work in the Classic environment.

Speaking on the issue, Harvey Anderson, Vice President and General Counsel of Mozilla, is furious: “Windows for ARM restricts user choice, reduce competition and innovation cools. (…) To make Internet Explorer the only browser that platform is a complete return to the dark years of the computer when there was only one browser on the Windows platform. “

The charges

Mozilla remind the legal problems of Microsoft in the 90s when the company joined mandatory Internet Explorer to Windows, without leaving the choice of another Web browser. With justice, Windows users have the ability to choose their default Web browser.

Harvey Anderson concludes: “The world does not need another closed proprietary environment and Microsoft has the opportunity to be so much more. “

iPhone 5: analysis of the latest rumors

software — Tue, 08 May 2012 19:13:30 +0000

iPhone 5: analysis of the latest rumors

01net

the 07/05/12 at 18:45

After months of rumors about the iPhone 5, it should take a step back and analyze those that seem most likely. Since announcing its main competitor, the Galaxy SIII, things have changed a bit. For once, this is Apple to assume the role of challenger. It will take the high road to fight against the smartphone from Samsung, which takes a serious step ahead of a material point of view. However, the Korean manufacturer does not equal the Apple brand in terms of software: the vocal assistant Siri and the IOS operating system, Apple is much more efficient than their Android equivalent.

release of the iPhone 4S was a disappointment to many. And the disappearance of Steve Jobs may be a turning point for American society. Innovation is no longer in his camp. It is imperative that Apple changed its housing design, which has not changed for over two years and the release of the iPhone 4, June 24, 2010. We need the Apple wakes up to make us dream again.

A bigger screen: 4 inch

The main novelty of the iPhone lies in its 5 screen. This would increase to a 4-inch diagonal, according to several sources, including Digitimes, against 3.5 inches now, a size that has not changed since the first iPhone in November 2007 as smartphones continue to see increase their screen size (4.8 inches for the Galaxy SIII). The screen would have the same width, but greater length and 1 cm, which would have an extra line of icons. Although many users find sufficient 3.5-inch, Apple can no longer afford to ignore market trends.

A housing

finer than 2 mm

The iPhone

5 possess a finer screen than the iPhone 4S approximately 2 mm, which would increase its thickness to 7.4 mm, or (cons 8 , 6 mm in the Galaxy SIII). The screen would benefit from a pane of Gorilla Glass 2, manufactured by U.S. company Corning. It is thinner and just as strong as glass Gorilla Glass which equips the iPhone 4S. Moreover, the Taiwanese daily Digitimes , taking sources from the supply chain of Apple, said the next iPhone will be equipped with an LCD in-cell. This technology increases in thickness compared to a normal screen since the part is built into the LCD touchscreen. Currently, the iPhone 4S has four layers. In addition to its thinness, the screen, which would be made by Sony or Sharp Toshiba, would also be brighter, as there would be one less layer to cross. Besides the touch interface would be even more precise.

As for Liquidmetal casing, it is no longer in question. Although Apple’s proprietary operating in this alloy in the high-tech, using the Liquidmetal should still be limited to the trombone extraction of the SIM card. Indeed, in a recent interview with Business Insider , the creator of Liquidmetal, Atakan Peker Dr. says it is very unlikely that Apple uses in its next smartphone. The back of the iPhone is yet metal but not curved as some rumors have said previously.

Smaller connector for the dock

Apple should introduce a new connector for the dock of the iPhone 5. It would be a real revolution: more no accessory is compatible without an adapter. According to iLounge.com, this port would be much smaller than the usual thirty-pin connector that has existed since the first iPhone. It would be a little larger than a speaker at the bottom of the unit and would include only sixteen pin. This connector would become the new common port for all future brand products.

An October release most likely in June

The question of the smartphone’s release date has been a lot of ink. Two dates move: an output in June at the WWDC, the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (11 to 15 June 2012 in San Francisco), or as an October release for the iPhone 4S. Although some at Foxconn speak for a June release, several serious arguments plead for the month of October. The first is a Marketing: iPhone 4S being released in October, leave a sufficient lifetime, at least one year, to the product. The second argument is technical: as the new iPad, the new iPhone 4G will have a chip. But his supplier, Qualcomm, said not being able to ensure adequate supplies in the wake of strong demand from other handset manufacturers.

As a result, analysts look for a release of the new Apple smartphone in the fall. One of them, Gene Muster said “We believe the launch of the iPhone 5 is likely to follow the new scheme launched in October, established with the iPhone 4S. We expect that [it] includes not only a revolutionary body, but it supports and uses the LTE chip 28 nm Qualcomm. “

The main features of the iPhone 5

Broadly, the new Apple smartphone should use the same components as the last iPad and introduce a major new version of IOS, as each launch. Here are the expected characteristics:
♦ a multi-touch screen IPS 4-inch diagonal, Retina display;
♦ a dual processor Apple A5X heart with 1 GHz Graphics Processor 4 cores;
♦ 1 GB RAM;
♦ 16 to 64 GB of internal storage;
♦ 2 cameras, 8 megapixels in the back with flash and video recording at 1080p, 1.3 megapixel front (in 0, 3 megapixel on the iPhone 4S);
♦ Wi-Fi a / b / g / n on both bands, Bluetooth 4.0, 3G compatibility
♦ + (DC-HSDPA to 42 Mbit / s) and 4G ;
♦ dimensions of 12.5 x 5.85 x 0.74 cm;
♦ a new cabinet with a metal back;
♦ iOS 6.0.

Post launches the letter entirely digital

software — Mon, 07 May 2012 02:12:04 +0000

Post launches the letter entirely digital

01net.

the 04/05/12 at 18:56

Post finally passes the all-digital for sending and receiving of mail. Since May 2004 and until now, only the document was entrusted to La Poste electronic mail was indeed printed before being delivered to the recipient. The letter online, or LR line, may always be distributed in this manner, by the factor, but also now in a completely digital.

The latter is very useful since it provides a very important time saving: no need to put his letter by registered mail, to complete the set of recommended, no need to move the post office … everything is done online at the company public. Similarly, the recipient no longer needs to move to the post office in his absence when the postman and it is possible to connect for 15 days on a secure site for the Post Office to find out its recommended . The recipient will have an opportunity to read his letter, save it on your computer or print it.

The same legal value as the paper version

The letter online offers the same legal protection as its paper counterpart, because it provides proof of electronic filing dated, verification the identity of the recipient, proof of digital distribution to the recipient, a fixed compensation rate R1 (in case of any loss or damage).

In addition, the online storage of proof of deposit and the contents of the letter is three years, with possible consultation 24 h/24 and 7/7 via the Internet course. The first LRE, in 2004, was already offering these services.

the same price as a recommended paper but unlimited pages

Those who thought that the dematerialisation would bring down the price of the letter are wrong. The recommended line is the same price as the recommended paper, or 3.38 euros. What is less expensive than the cost of letter mail service at the origin.

“As it provides the same level of security, must have the same price. Moreover, the RS line has costs: management based identity, making a rendezvous with the factor, online storage, etc.. “, explains Isabelle Micheu, Internet marketing manager mail to the Post. But it is possible to send a document of several pages, add attachments, like photos or scanned documents, without costing more, unlike the paper recommended that the price varies depending on its weight.

A digital identity guaranteed by Post

To use this new service, you must register for free at Digital Identity La Poste. The initial process is quite long. At the first connection, the site asks for personal information (name, physical address and e-mail, mobile phone number …) and a password. Following verification steps (validation of the e-mail address and telephone number, with, ultimately, a “real” factor that is responsible for verifying your identity face to face at home). Of course, it is possible to arrange an appointment with the factor. Your digital identity you will then receive registered letters online in accordance with the decree of February 2011.

In the end, the Post offers a very valuable service that is long overdue. The company hopes to use this digital identity to allow individuals to access other services: online games, dating sites or e-commerce.

The News of 01net, most of the weekly high-tech news in video

software — Sat, 05 May 2012 09:12:40 +0000

the menu this week include:
• Rapsberry Pi PC at $ 25 for what?
• First contact with the Galaxy SIII (see our article)
• Software for rental or by subscription: are you ready? (See our survey);
• The response of the PS party (see our article);
• The “Hobbit” in 48 frames / sec: future standard for film? (See article);
• The Cube, a 3D game with “Maps” from Google (see our article).