Vittorio Pasteris

Via Techcrunch

The web has been abuzz the past few weeks with chatter about Microsoft’s announcement today at its Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans about the new version of Microsoft’s Office 2010. There’s even a mini-movie about its debut. Facing potential challenges from the browser from Google’s Apps product and its new Chrome OS, Microsoft has been touting its three screens strategy, which is the ability for products to synchronize across the phone, browser, and desktop, for some time now.

With the release of Office 2010, SharePoint Server 2010 and Visio 2010, we finally see implementation Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie’s mantra. We had the opportunity to see an in-depth demo of the new suite of products from Microsoft’s Group Product Manager for Office 2010, Chris Bryant. Here’s a complete breakdown of all the functionality that has been added, including screenshots.

Most certainly a direct challenge to Google Apps, Microsoft is rolling out lightweight, FREE, Web browser versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote. All based in the cloud, the web-based versions of these products have less features than their desktop cousins but still let users that users basic tools to edit and change documents.

A spiegare che succederà nel futuro del giornalismo ci voleva Rupert Murdoch che di mestiere fa l’editore, che non è per niente amato dai suoi giornalisti, ma che ha le idee chiarissime sul futuro dell’informazione (e non si può che dargli ragione) Trascrizione del suo intervento da Vittorio Zambardino

Today I would like to talk with you about a subject that always gets certain journalists going: the future of newspapers, and it’s a subject that has a relevance far beyond the feverish, sometimes insecure collection of egos and energy that is the journalistic profession.

Too many journalists seem to take a perverse pleasure in ruminating on their pending demise. I know industries that are today facing stiff new competition from the internet: banks, retailers, phone companies, and so on. But these sectors also see the internet as an extraordinary opportunity. But among our journalistic friends are some misguided cynics who are too busy writing their own obituary to be excited by the opportunity.

Self-pity is never pretty. And sometimes it even starts in journalism school—some of which are perpetuating the pessimism of their tribal elders. But I have a very different view.

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Via Yahoo

Yahoo! Inc. today announced that its Board of Directors has initiated a search for a new Chief Executive Officer. Jerry Yang, co-Founder of Yahoo!, has decided to return to his former role as Chief Yahoo! upon the appointment of his successor as CEO, and he will also continue to serve on the Board. Yang, 40, assumed the CEO role at the Board’s request in June 2007, and he has led Yahoo! through a strategic repositioning and transformation of its platform.

Via IHT

For years, like legions of other professionals, Obama has been all but addicted to his BlackBerry. The device has rarely been far from his side — on most days, it was fastened to his belt — to provide a singular conduit to the outside world as the bubble around him grew tighter and tighter throughout his campaign. “How about that?” Obama replied to a friend’s congratulatory e-mail message on the night of his victory.

But before he arrives at the White House, he will probably be forced to sign off. In addition to concerns about e-mail security, he faces the Presidential Records Act, which puts his correspondence in the official record and ultimately up for public review, and the threat of subpoenas. A decision has not been made on whether he could become the first e-mailing president, but aides said that seemed doubtful.
For all the perquisites and power afforded the president, the chief executive of the United States is essentially deprived by law and by culture of some of the very tools that other chief executives depend on to survive and to thrive. Obama, however, seems intent on pulling the office at least partly into the 21st century on that score; aides said he hopes to have a laptop computer on his desk in the Oval Office, making him the first American president to do so.

Obama has not sent a farewell dispatch from the personal e-mail account he uses — he has not changed his address in years — but friends say the frequency of correspondence has diminished. In recent days, though, he has been seen typing his thoughts on transition matters and other items on his BlackBerry, bypassing, at least temporarily, the bureaucracy that is quickly encircling him.

Via Silicon Alley Insider

Been refreshing Real Clear Politics and FiveThirtyEight.com six times a day for the last two years? Then you’ll need to know how to feed your election news habit during office hours and later Tuesday.

Here’s how to get the whole picture, live:

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Ecco qualche aggiornamento sull’incontro di domani a Roma su giornalismo online questo sconosciuto

L’ incontro verrà trasmesso in diretta web-tv da Il Cannocchiale (disponibile da domani)

I lavori saranno resi   disponibili in rete nei giorni successivi per permettere una discussione allargata sui temi trattati.

Abbiamo i primi interventi proposti dai partecipanti

• Marco Mazzei, (Editor-in-chief & Chief content officer Mondadori On Line) Il ruolo del direttore e le nuove organizzazioni del lavoro nell’ editoria online
• Francesco Magnocavallo (Direttore editoriale di Blogo.it) Pratica ed etica del nanopublishing
• Robingood Storia di un giornalista-editore che vive di internet
• Paolo Butturini (Segretario dell’ Associazione Stampa Romana)

Hanno assicurato la loro presenza:

• Claudio Giua, Direttore centrale contenuti digitali Gruppo Espresso
• Federico Badaloni (Responsabile dei progetti editoriali area internet Elemedia, Gruppo Editoriale L’ Espresso)
• Stefano Romagnoli (Nove, Firenze).

Oggi esce ufficialmente la versione 3.0 di Open Office

La nuova versione del maggiore competitor OpenSouirce di Microsoft Office prevede finalmente anche una versione nativa per MacOsX Intel Aqua oltre alle tradizionali versioni per Windows, Linux, Solaris.

Immagine dal blog di svilupppo di Quickoffice per Iphone

Via Newsweek

In his first 100 days in office, Silvio Berlusconi may have done the impossible: to a degree unprecedented in modern Italian history, he asserted control over this seemingly ungovernable nation. The opposition parties are mired in squabbling, and Berlusconi, now prime minister for the third time since 1994, has an approval rating of 55 percent—higher than Britain’s Gordon Brown, France’s Nicolas Sarkozy or Spain’s José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
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Such tough tactics could give Berlusconi the cover to tackle some of Italy’s deeper issues. Italians now pay some of the highest taxes in Western Europe, at 43 percent, and have some of the lowest salaries—leading to widespread tax evasion. Public debt remains at more than 100 percent of GDP; servicing it costs Italy 5 percent to 6 percent of GDP annually, says Bank of America’s Gilles Moec. Berlusconi has pledged to reduce spending (in contrast to his first term), but doing so will make it harder to fulfill a pledge to cut taxes or to stimulate growth. Yet Berlusconi must figure out a way. Italians like him now, but what they really want is economic stability. Cleaning up trash and harassing immigrants won’t be enough.

Via Webepoque

Eeebuntu è il suo nome, nasce dalla costola di Ubuntu ma è interamente dedicato all’eeepc. Esisteva già eeexubuntu, è vero, ma il suo condividere troppy repository con la distro maggiore la rendeva alquanto altalenante per l’eeepc. Wifi che smetteva di funzionare dopo l’aggiornamento, il passaggio alla 7.10 alla 8.4 catastrofico. Non ne potevo più, ho fatto una ricerca e ho trovato sto gioiellino.

Si integra perfettamente, con tutto l’hardware senza problemi. Wifi, tasti fn, funziona tutto alla meraviglia. Un unica osservazione: l’immagine ISO, che potete scaricare da qui, pesa 900 Mb, più di un cd per cui è consigliato o fare il boot da pen drive o avere un dvd esterno…

Altra particolarità: esce in due distro, la standard e la nbr, dall’interfaccia grafica molto differente. Il pacchetto sw rimane lo stesso ed è fin troppo nutrito: pidgin, amarok, amsn, skype, openoffice, gtkpod, gpxpod, compiz fusion… insomma tutto l’arsenale non per un subnotebook, ma per un vero e proprio laptop da casa…

Via Melablog