Bill Gates: a benefactor of mankind ... version GMOs and nuclear

MOST. What to do with his money when it is the second richest man in the world? Help others! Must still invest in ethical companies. Yves Paccalet, ecologist, is not taken in philanthropy of Microsoft boss.Bill Gates, one of the richest men in the world, the founder (and profiteer) of the company Microsoft, has launched a foundation called "philanthropic and environmental." Green paint! Here are some recent news (2010), given by the online journal Save the Earth, the Gazette of whistleblowers:

The new version of Twitter is similar to Facebook

 
The micro blogging site has completely redesigned its interface with the development of business contacts, tabs and more distinct. Twitter and Facebook is close
For weeks, inspired by Facebook Twitter with the arrival of subscription systems, similar to the "following" on Twitter. But this time is that Twitter decided to learn from Facebook with a completely redesigned interface, almost confusing.
 

JustSystems, "Seung Ichitaro 2012," released in February 2012

E-book formats "EPUB 3.0" corresponds to the output formatJustsystems December 08, 2011, word processing software "Ichitaro 2012 approved (Shou)," and Japanese input software "ATOK 2012" and was announced to be released on February 10, 2012."Seung-2012 Ichitaro" series, Limited Edition (21,000 price, the same below), as well as "premium" Copper (£ 62,500,002), "as super-premium" (£ 46,500,003), consisting of. Graphics software included in the premium over "2012 Hanako" (290 yen 10,000), E-mail software "Shuriken 2012" (5040 yen), the OCR software included in the super premium "Ippatsu! OCR Pro7" (10,000 290 yen) will each be sold separately.

Kaspersky leaves the Business Software Alliance

The editor of Russian security solutions did not like the BSA supports the US Stop Online Piracy Act.

If passed, this bill would allow the blocking of Internet sites, and their owners would be held responsible for any content posted there is. Supporters of Internet freedom are strongly opposed, while having rights in its favor.

The Business Software Alliance combat copyright infringements and counterfeiting. But if it fully supports the SOPA initially, she later criticized some of its details (while maintaining that the idea was good, but should be improved). What has not been sufficient in the eyes of Kaspersky, which has terminated its membership in the BSA.

Facebook pushes on the Freebox TV

Free continues to gradually deploy TV services for its subscribers to Freebox Revolution with the advent of Facebook.
The operator promised many new features at the launch of the Freebox V6 called "Revolution" a year ago and is held there. Not to let fall the blow, Free Facebook add today online services accessible from the TV through the box.

Facebook invites himself (again) in the provision of Free TV

After Twitter, Dailymotion is the turn of the social network to interfere with the Freebox Revolution to allow subscribers to access Facebook from their TV.
Two weeks ago, Dailymotion and Twitter were appearing in the offer of Free TV for users with the Freebox Revolution (read the article "Twitter and Dailymotion are invited in the Freebox Revolution", from 22/11/11 ). Today it's Facebook's turn to appear on TV screens via a service that will be accessible from the menu "Web" and requiring the Freebox, however, an update of the Player of the Freebox Revolution.

Facebook buys the site will stop geolocation Gowalla

The founders of the service to the application of location-based Gowalla announced Monday that they would stop this service, then they will join the Facebook website, which bought the company. 
"We are delighted to announce that we will make the trip to California to join Facebook!", Said the co-founder Josh Williams, the official blog of the Texas company, the rival New York Foursquare.

Facebook would have bought a competitor of Foursquare

Facebook would have bought Gowalla location-based social network, a competitor of Foursquare, according to CNN. The aim would be to recover the development team to work on the new feature of Facebook, Timeline. 
Gowalla recently repositioned on niche travel guide, with the ambition of its users to share content related to the places they visit.

Navx demands 23 million euros to Google

The French company accused Google of abuse of dominant position. She has already won a victory over the engine by triggering an investigation by the Competition Authority, which concluded that Google was in a very dominant position in the market for sponsored links.
The French company Navx, which provides content and services for smartphones and GPS, claims 23 million euros in damages from Google for abuse of dominant position in the proceedings between them before the Court of commerce de Paris. Navx, in conflict with Google since the engine had unilaterally suspended the account, is responsible for the opinion of the Competition Authority on 14 December 2011, holding that Google is dominant in the market sponsored links.

Wikileaks: government agencies spying on you through a flaw in iTunes

Wikileaks reports a security vulnerability in iTunes that allows government agencies to spy on you

According to Wikileaks, a security vulnerability in Apple's iTunes software allow all governments to spy on everything that happens on your pc.

In an interview in London, Julian Assange reportedly said, "a flaw was intentionally placed in the Apple iTunes music software to enable government agencies to enter easily on the PC owners".

Facebook acquires geolocation service Gowalla

Facebook buys Gowalla.

According to sources close to Gowalla geolocation site, Facebook would acquire the company for a figure so far have not been revealed.

Gowalla is a service that allows users to perform check-in of the sites they visit from their mobile devices. Users are rewarded check ins elements.

This same source says that the majority of employees Gowalla and CEO, Josh Williams, will move to work at Facebook's offices in California. This team will join Gowalla work with the Facebook group of employees engaged in the timeline that the company introduced during the past F8. The remainder of the team may continue working Gowalla Austin.

The rich get richer!

The rich get richer!
While the Greek crisis continues to hamper Europe and the U.S. economy is recovering slowly, the richest people in the world are becoming more prosperous and more numerous than ever. Thus in 2011, the world has 11 million millionaires with at least $ 1 million (705,000 euros).

Over 80% of them are over 45 years and 75% of men. The highest proportion of wealthy women are in North America - 37% - while the lowest is in the Middle East -14%.










53% of the richest people live in three countries: USA, Japan, Germany.





However, the Asia-Pacific has a very strong growth in this area and has for the first time to go beyond Europe.

Financial investments: savings plans, books, life insurance ....

Financial investments are investment products in the form of acquisition of securities. They consist of assets such as cash, cash equivalents, short-term bonds and money market instruments.


To benefit from the profits generated from financial investment, some methods of investment should be adopted. This is the short-term investment and long-term investment. The method of short-term financial investment is based on media safe while the short-term profitable but risky.

Savings - investment advice financial

In France, there are several categories of investments. Among them, the distinction is made between mutual funds and life insurance. Mutual funds are financial investments to small investors. They are led by a manager who invests in the stock market with funds raised. Funds may be subject to a number of assets based on changes in market prices. Life insurance known for its massive membership since 2006. It has a higher interest rate to the extent that housing loans fall in the market for financial investments. This growth rate was noted in 2007 and 2008.
Life insurance and savings plans are protected by the Fillon II reform and tax cuts. In 2010, financial investments for mutual funds on the stock market experienced hazards. The year 2011 promises to be famous for investors, however, have questions about the national debt. Experts still count on the return of inflation to be a benefit for the scholarship. It is up to each investor to choose the best financial investments.

Generally, to make financial investments without risk, financial institutions advise investors to diversify investments. This system is to use media investments such as interest-bearing account, the Livret A, the booklet savings, savings plans or PERP. The choice of media depends on the investment asset class for which the investor has chosen. Also, it must ensure the availability of its placement on the current account. Financial investments based on a blocked savings are an attractive rate of return than available savings.
Financial investment while providing a profit on the stock market is limited by a number of constraints. These constraints relate to compliance with a minimum age, a periodic payment as a minimum deposit, savings and a maximum term savings. Before opening a savings account, any investor should make investigations with financial institutions to determine the benefits and limitations that arise from financial investments.

U.S. growth revised up slightly

The U.S. economy grew slightly faster than expected in the first quarter of 2011.


Gross domestic product (GDP) of the United States in the first quarter of 2011 was revised upwards to 1.9% yoy, against 1.8% previously estimated, according to data reported Friday by the U.S. Department of Commerce . The small upward revision mainly reflects the increase in exports

In the fourth quarter of 2010, GDP growth was 3.1%.

Economic growth in the United States is not yet sufficient to reduce unemployment which stood at 9.1 percent last month. According to economists, the economy would need to grow 5 percent for an entire year to reduce unemployment significantly.

Amazon.com now sells more books than Kindle digital paper versions

An official press release of Amazon reveals that the digital revolution has taken over the old guard print.

Amazon began selling books in 1995, Kindle digital books are more popular 16 years later than their cronies printed paper (hard and soft covers combined).

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, said he thought it would happen eventually but he could not imagine the transition as quickly as it did only four years since the Kindle service is running.

The special offer at $ 114 for the Kindle topped with special offers is apparently a great success, helping to spread the Kindle e-reader as number one in the world and the Kindle Store platform as the most popular on the Web for selling e-books.

Special Offer Kindle $ 114

Among the key dates for Kindle, Amazon's press release notes:

* Since April 1, 105 pounds Kindle sold for 100 printed books.
* The continual increase in book sales, combined with soaring sales of Kindle books version, has led the largest annual growth in the history of Amazon.
* The special offer at $ 114 has become the best selling category Kindle since its introduction five weeks ago.
* Amazon has already sold three times as many Kindle books in 2011 for all of 2010.

The U.S. Kindle Store offers more than 950 000 references, of which over 790,000 are offered a price below $ 9.99. More than 175 000 books were added to the catalog within five months. In addition, millions of books are completely free with some free copies, or rights prior to 1923.

Of course, the books in Kindle version is compatible with most digital devices such as the iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Mac, PC, HP TouchPad, the BlackBerry phones with Windows Mobile or Android.

A book bought on Amazon Kindle version is automatically saved in your account, for free download at will.

SwissLife Insurance launches E-reputation

The company, assures Swiss Life, in partnership with Reputation Squad has launched a new insurance product is unique in France, in line with the new problems caused by behavior on the Internet.

The "Insurance e-reputation" allows you to 9.90 euros per month, to remove any problematic content about you: publish images and information without your knowledge, messages on forums ...

How do they do? Either through the courts to remove the information, either by drowning the fish, that is to say, favorable leverage information to ensure that it is this kind of data that emerge first in search engines .

The issue of e-reputation

The e-reputation, you know? That never entered his name into Google and had fun (or not) to see the results that emerge?

Your e-reputation is this: all traces of your activity on the Web! And as the Internet has a lot of memory, wherever you left a trace, Google is there to remember, where sometimes some data that we would have liked (to) forget.

A new type of insurance

A study conducted for Harris Swiss Life, nearly 50% of Internet users fear the consequences of what could be broadcast on the Internet, and 72% of people do not know how to delete data published without their knowledge.

This form of insurance is designed both to individuals, families, executives, employees, but also to students who will begin to apply. And yes, nothing worse than to come across pictures of watered evenings when we want to get hired.

Spanish police arrest leaders Anonymous

The Spanish police announced in a press release that the three alleged leaders of the movement Anonymous Internet revenge has been arrested.

The arrests took place in Barcelona, Alicante and Almeria. When a party has seized a server that was used for the cyber attacks. According to police, the men, all three between 30 and 32 years old, the leaders of the Spanish branch of Anonymous. Anonymous there yet known to have no hierarchy.

Attacks on banks, governments and PlayStation Store
Via Twitter, the police released a screenshot of an IRC channel where the attacks were organized. The trio is accused of cyber attacks on two major Spanish banks, the Italian energy company Enel and the governments of Egypt, Algeria, Libya, Iran, Chile, Colombia and New Zealand.

They would also be responsible for DDoS attacks on the PlayStation Store and for attacks on the website of the Spanish Central Election Commission, a few days for local and regional elections on May 22 in Spain took place.

The investigation was launched in October 2010 after a complaint from the Spanish Ministry of Culture. The website of the Ministry was shot down in protest against a bill to illegally download harder to address.

Rumor: Nokia soon bought by Microsoft for $ 19 billion?

A new rumor ensures that proposed acquisition is in the air. Nokia described the new "100% baseless. "

Even before the announcement of the partnership between Microsoft and Nokia, the rumor about a possible buyout by the Finnish giant had begun to circulate. Here it is revived again by the Russian blogger Eldar Murtazin, author of several scoops about Nokia.

In a message posted on Twitter, it evokes a "small software company"that would spend 19 billion dollars to buy a "small phone salesman. " Murtazin had already advanced the possibility of a takeover there a fortnight. A spokesman for Nokia said that the rumor was "100% baseless. "

The news comes as Nokia has just released an alert about the results of its second quarter will be significantly worse than expected.

WikiLeaks promises Swiss banking secrets revelations

London (CNN) -- A Swiss whistleblower plans to hand over the "offshore banking secrets of the rich and famous" to WikiLeaks, the website dedicated to revealing secrets said.
Rudolf Elmer, who describes himself as an activist/reformer/banker, was set to hand over the papers Monday.
"I think as a banker I do have the right to stand up if something is wrong," he said at a news conference in London.
Elmer is due to go on trial Wednesday in Switzerland for violating the country's banking secrecy regulations.
He said he wanted "to let society know what I do know and how this system works because it is damaging our society in the way that money is moved" and hidden in offshore jurisdictions.
He began looking into the issue when he was a banker in the Cayman Islands, he said.
When he first looked into the problems of offshore banking he said it looked like "a mouse tail," but as he investigated in the Cayman Islands and Switzerland, it became a "dragon's tail," and finally a many-headed dragon.
Elmer will not reveal names, lawyer Jack Blum said Monday, saying it was not always
possible to determine who, if anyone, had engaged in "criminal tax evasion."
Elmer aims to "challenge Swiss Bank Secrecy at the European Court of Human Rights and the Swiss courts," he says on his website. He has worked at six offshore banking centers, he says.

Elmer and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange worked together on a complaint against Swiss banking secrecy at the European Court of Human Rights in 2008.

Hu questions future role of U.S. dollar

(FT) -- China's president Hu Jintao has raised questions on the role of the US dollar in the global monetary system on the eve of a state visit to Washington, saying "the current international currency system is the product of the past".
Mr Hu, who arrives in Washington on Tuesday, also delivered a thinly veiled critique of US monetary policy, underlining China's concern about the impact on its own economy of recent stimulus measures taken by the US Federal Reserve.
"The monetary policy of the United States has a major impact on global liquidity and capital flows and therefore, the liquidity of the US dollar should be kept at a reasonable and stable level," said Mr Hu.
Mr Hu made his comments in response to written questions from two US newspapers, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal.
His unusually blunt comments on the US-led monetary system as a "product of the past" is confirmation that China will continue to take measures to internationalise its own currency, the renminbi.
However, Mr Hu said that "making the RMB an international currency will be a fairly long process".

Mr Hu rarely gives newspapers interviews, especially to western outlets, leaving most high-profile media public appearances at home and abroad to be conducted by Wen Jiabao, the country's smooth-talking premier.
Although Mr Hu's stiffly worded answers contain little that conveys any of his own personality, their distribution illustrates the importance China attaches to the US trip, which also includes a stop in Chicago.
Despite what he acknowledged as a "sensitive" issue of disagreement between the US and China, he generally struck a positive note on bilateral ties, saying the two sides could work productively together.
"There is great potential for our mutually beneficial co-operation both in advancing Asia-Pacific regional co-operation and in improving global economic governance and promoting sustainable growth of the world economy," he said.
Mr Hu strongly criticised the structural faults in the world's banking system that led to the 2008 financial crisis.
"Its root cause lies in the serious defects of the existing financial system," he said, adding that global institutions had failed to fully reflect the changing status of developing countries in the world economy and finance.

Mr Hu will be feted in the White House with a state dinner on Wednesday, the type of event that the administration reserves for close friends or countries and leaders that it thinks need to be cultivated.