Great prices, great plans for subscriptions, monthly service offered ... The two companies Cellular compete on the field now known smartphones.
Last Friday That launched with great fanfare its BlackBerry service, allowing "access to wireless e-mail, email, social networks, Internet, multimedia applications, phone, calendar and a wide variety of applications for business and leisure "said a statement by the company.
Digicel, which provides BlackBerry service since February 2009, has quickly responded in "liquidating" for Mother's Day his Blackberry Curve 8520-2000 gourds, gourds against 5000 earlier. Plus six months free of BlackBerry service. A look at 2350 water bottles and three months for the company Uni-Vert.
Note that the BlackBerry Curve 8520, includes support for Wi-Fi, an optical trackpad innovative multimedia keys, convenient to manage videos and music. Robin Padberg, the CEO of Here, "going green BlackBerry smartphone users benefit from high reliability, which will, immediately, the envious"
"Switch to red" or "Go Green" Tweets here and there, free SMS and minutes, raffles galore ... nothing is too much, to enlarge its network of clients. This is to prepare for the imminent arrival of Haitian Viettel in the arena. According to corroborating sources, the Vietnamese company, concoct even more aggressive promotions, to impose its cellular Natcom (the next name Teleco), or its Internet services and even TV programs.
Haiti: the elderly victims are struggling to survive with little help
By Laura Figueroa (Miami Herald)
lfigueroa@MiamiHerald.com
Flies buzz around his wounded leg, and yet, despite his cries for help for Christiane Carystil, 87, can not attract the attention that his case requires.
Even outside the ruins of the Municipal Asylum - the main health care center dedicated to seniors in the capital - the staff can barely take care of the elderly in particular each trying to survive in a post-earthquake.
"Here are many needs, but staff is still very inadequate" said Andree Devils, one of the workers at the center.
In Haiti, the elderly must face the fact that assistance to victims of the earthquake was mainly thought for children and adults. Edentulous elders should try chewing on hard biscuits, distributed by United Nations humanitarian workers, or eat whole grains, they are no longer able to digest properly. "In the urgency of the distribution of aid as quickly as possible, these details have unfortunately escaped" , advance Cynthia Powell, spokesman for HelpAge, an international organization that helps seniors through the world.
Since his arrival in Haiti, shortly after the earthquake of January 12, HelpAge has taken much of the daily tasks at Asylum Comunale, and continues to mobilize its efforts to help the elderly staying in tent camps in Port-au-Prince, Petit Goave and Leogane.
The organization has provided financial support to eight health care centers run by churches and houses 400 seniors, and has set up camps in protected areas consisting of elderly needing attention. She also launched a radio campaign urging families not to abandon their elderly parents.
Yet HelpAge workers are concerned that in a country where the needs are so enormous that the elderly continue to be neglected.
"We've had reports of cases of abandonment of the elderly in the camps" regrets Rosaleen Cunningham, spokesman of HelpAge. "Concerns were also raised about the increased risks to the elderly and unable to protect their property and themselves."
In Asylum Communal Clairevana Desbrosses, 87, shows off a bottle half filled with amber liquid, sort of medication to alleviate his shooting pain she feels in her abdomen. Addressing the shortage of medicines, she is afraid that he steals his bottle in a moment of inattention.
"I'm not feeling well" shouted it repeatedly.
It is part of the number of 42 residents of the nursing home, forced to stay in Outside the center, following the collapse of one of the two main dormitories. Over 90 residents share the same space as 100 families who have established their camp on the lawn of the clinic.
Children playing around the muddy lawn, not far from the seniors lined up naked, bathed by nursing attendants with buckets of cold water.
From the beginning, HelpAge had paid men to serve as security guards at several residents who complained that gang members "were in their tents to steal the little food they had. "
" The best option for their residents would be relocated as soon as possible " believes Cunningham " but the mayor has given agree to any proposed plans. "
For now, HelpAge has hired a physician to ensure continuity of care at the center and working to transform the first floor of a clinic in an area of geriatric care room with 25 beds.
While people older living in households receiving aid workers who take care of them, thousands of elderly people trying to survive in tent camps. Nearly 200,000 people over age 60 are now homeless, according to figures collected by HelpAge.
Many seniors rely on the generosity of neighbors or the resourcefulness of children and grandchildren to get food and medical care.
"Sometimes, my neighbors give me a few grains of corn" Dilianne says Charles, 90, inside his tent in the Parc Sainte-Thérèse in Petionville.
While children run through the camp, playing jump rope or football, many older people, like Charles, say rarely leave their tents.
"At my age it's hard to stay in the sun" said Charles. "What can I do? There is nothing else to do than sit here and do not waste my energy. I always said that I'm alive for a reason. "
Frézelia Cetoute, 109 years, was one of the oldest residents of the camp of the Park St. Therese. She has since been transported to his home, one of the lucky homes that have been declared safe enough to accommodate their occupants.
Yet while living in the tent camp has Cetoute tried to remain attentive to its environment, despite his blindness.
"Play children play made me happy, "she said had one of those days. "It allowed me to know that life goes on."
Cetoute lived under a makeshift tent built from tarps and gray floral leaves, with her daughter aged 66, her grand- 17 year old daughter and her two nieces, 8 and 9.
Thanks to money sent by relatives living in Miami and New York, the three generations of women lived on soft foods that are easy to eat for Cetoute, such as potatoes and the bananas.
Cetoute often worried about not being able to walk in the park crowded. So she spent most of his days fingering her black rosary, praying installed in a lawn chair that served as beds.
"I just waiting" sighs Cetoute. "If I can survive the earthquake, who knows what else I can survive? "
L are friends of the forest n have not forgiven Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1440 AD can say thank you to the Internet. The digital revolution is putting an end to the civilization of our trade paper dematerializing speed of 100 megabits per second, much more soon. fax, letters Love, postcards, tax returns, books and newspapers printed ... Before ten years, maybe less, millions of tons of paperwork - which is still trying to recycle to save what remains of the Amazon jungle and forest European primary - will be relegated to the realm of antiques . As before her clay tablets of Babylon and Sumer, the papyri of the Pharaohs, and marble stones Greco-Roman.
With the incredible boom in smartphones ( Gartner, 525 million units will be sold in 2012, against 179 million in 2009!) and the advent of the Holy Tablet Apple (Gfk provides that the firm should sell to the apple iPad 4 million this year), humanity will indeed enter the era of ubiquitous portable touchscreen . Look around you: in the subway, on the street, at work, the reader of "Liberation" or "World" paper is scarce and older. Soon I'll the last of the Mohicans with some other club members nostalgic for the old school press. Result, the daily newspaper circulation is crumbling inexorably yet - 3.9% in 2009 all national newspapers according to the latest figures from OJD , with peaks at - 10% for some titles. Besides, since I gave in to pressure for progress and compliance, I flip over absently patting my duck preferred more and more frequently on the screen of my iPhone and frantically scrolling news and links. Because like other fellow mutants, I became a TweetJournaliste addicted to the Internet in real time. So ...
This will probably sadness in love with the printed word, but c ette dematerialization of writing is an unavoidable , one of these technological revolutions which tile masterly history every two or three centuries.
Just observe the behavior of the media less than thirty years, this generation of "digital native" to which I devoted this recent post : they already know what a newsstand or a postage stamp let alone a fax ... And tomorrow, hypnotized by the multiplication of screens, this incredible digital Library of Alexandria and what became the Web this wonderful fluidity of knowledge a click away, perhaps they will associate less and less as bookstores .
Before ten years in developed countries, the printed word may become paradoxically a luxury , a window reserved for some elite newspapers like Le Monde and Les Echos "which will draw thousands to a few limited editions copies. No need to be a genius to know that media will broadcast all the info (text, audio, HD video, 3D ...) in real time on handheld devices increasingly lightweight and ergonomic, which Cybernetics will be an extension of ourselves. Cete revolution is already underway on the iPhone and Blackberry. In publishing, idem: the paper will be a day set aside for first printings of the new literary and art books to , the bulk of production is available on the "readers" and other digital tablets .. . It will download soon the latest installment of the crazy black and huge James Ellroy as a pizza. Unless a beautiful hardcover book sold three times more expensive. It is inevitable with the online bookstore Amazon pushing to bring down the average price of the book at $ 9.99 in the same way that Apple has placed the song at 0.99 cents on its iTunes store.
For argument behind the beautiful "Green" climbing rising - "Hou is not all that great though paper waste that threatens the lungs of the Land that our forests are " - the economic logic of dematerialisation is much more relentless . Imagine: when you buy a € 1.30 daily, almost 80 cents go into paper, printing costs and distribution. The equation is the same for the book: 70% of the price of a book are now captured by the channel that leads to the bookseller's stall (see Figure this lovely site of the Union National Edition) "By passing this relic millennium tends to become the paper, industries are the press and publishing can expect huge productivity gains and nice margins found ... if you finally find a business model online. Obviously, there will still be the social destruction: hundreds of thousands of jobs worldwide in the paper industry, printing, press and publishing disappear into the oblivion of "progress". It's not for nothing that the "powerful" union CGT Paper, which is already a shadow of himself, clings to its status and its positions. A desperate struggle doomed to failure and contributes to stopping the financial newspapers. But that's dying an old craft that was long that of the aristocracy of the working class.
But before taking advantage of the dematerialization, media and publishing course will convince consumers they should pay for digital see when the culture of gratuity is the norm on the internet. And yet there is another story. For most readers, the newsstand is now known as Google News and it currently remains totally free .
The famous Apple iPad tablet could contribute to evangelism, as the iPod and iPhone have brought millions of music fans to abandon the sites of "peer to peer" and purchase their music online legally.
The pressure by Citizen Murdoch and others could change this if the press is able to form a common front against "vampire Google" as the called Rupert threatened a mass boycott by the newspapers in favor of Bing (Microsoft) or another Internet giant may be willing to donate one day a kind of "global license" to the press in exchange for the launch of its articles. Sitting on a pile of gold advertising, the masters of the Internet will be invited to share - a little - to live the cultural industries. It would not be outrageous to the extent that they live rather handsomely for content they certainly give access, but without paying one cent to produce.
For the old world of print, in any case there is urgency to get rid gradually his last rags of paper . Matter of survival, rather than ecology. For today's digital homo pincer much less today for the sap of trees for the stream of information that scrolls across the screen of their smartphone ... Google built its already best digital world on the ruins of the printed early 2009, the California firm flatly bought a pulp mill to paper Finnish Stora Enso for a whopping $ 50 million dollars ... Not to feed the presses of the "Echoes" or provide the pages of the next Goncourt. No, this factory in the middle of the northern forests of Summa r Mile was ased to build a new "data center" ! One of those famous "farms" of servers that Google scatters to the four corners of the globe tirelessly to index the Web and to run its search engine at full throttle. This is called having a sense of symbol and history with a capital H. Good old Gutenberg must obviously be turning in his grave, but we can not stop progress ...
A tent, mud and a fake kitchen table, this is part of a series close to the reality that thousands of Haitians after the deadly earthquake of January. Entitled "Under Heaven", this series, which has planted his film set in a camp survivors, is to broadcast messages to practical purpose but also distract the 1.5 million Haitians homeless.
Friday, shooting the third episode, which was to focus on securing shelter against weather of the rainy season was interrupted by flooding and power outages. The Haitian-American filmmaker Jacques Roc has decided to take the risk of turning into a camp of Port-au-Prince vulnerable to flooding in order to get as close to reality as experienced by refugees.
"It are many things happening in the camps and when there is, one realizes ", says he.
This drama tells the story of a family who found refuge in a camp for survivors after the devastating earthquake of January 12. Actors in Haiti known as Junior Metellus, 35, played in the series, which mixes comedy, drama and educational messages. The initial goal of the creators was to portray a family of middle class to show that the disaster affects all segments of Haitian society.
"All those in the tents do not come from an environment modest. Some had a house, and some still have their car " says Jacques Roc, who settled in the United States at the age of 14 years and studied filmmaking at New York University.
Each of the 16 episodes of 15 minutes discusses a topic determined by the UN mission in Haiti, MINUSTAH, which is behind the project and finance the $ 6,000 it costs each episode. Officials of the UN force of 9,000 men hope that the series will provide useful information to victims on survival in difficult conditions and will also provide a distraction.
"In the evening, it provides entertainment and a way to communicate information that is useful" said David Wimhurst, spokesman for MINUSTAH. The topics covered include safety, prevention of violence, registration of camp residents and any other danger or challenge that the earthquake survivors are facing.
The series is broadcast on outdoor screens in a dozen refugee camps and six TV stations in Haiti. It may also be downloaded and distributed on YouTube channels of the Haitian diaspora United States.
When the UN mission gives the theme of a new episode, the team writes Jacques Roc, turns and climbs a few days. The first two episodes were broadcast just hours after being completed.
Episode 3 was to be shot Friday. Civil Security had issued a flood warning, but the team still has the soap opera won the set, located in a camp on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince. Torrential rains flooded the area and filming has been delayed.
The next day, the camp residents of Port-au-Prince had to settle for a replay of the 2nd episode. But no one complained of the dozen people gathered in the rain around the screen installed in the Champ de Mars, near the presidential palace collapsed.
"Once (the weekend arrives), that's when I just pass the time" says Luknor, 19. "They come with big screen to show us what is happening in the country" . Luknor said he learned from the first episode of "Under the sky" than return to his home, near the main football stadium in the capital, would be dangerous for his family.
Although evoked by the plight of the country, the series is willing to humor, which partly explains its success, according to Jacques Roc. "Haitians love comedy, they laugh like" says the director. "Even if it's serious, they need to laugh in one way or another" .
Mounting a photo (left) taken of the earthquake in Haiti in Port-au-Prince January 12, 2010 by Daniel Morel and credited AFP PHOTO / LISANDRO SUERO and message (right) proposed by the AFP on the pictures of Daniel Morel DANIEL MOREL / 20 MINUTES
MEDIA - News Agency refuses to repay the copyright after resuming his photos on Twitter ...
If you are looking for pictures of Daniel Morel on the photo site of the AFP, you simply find this message: "Due to a rights issue, we ask you to remove and destroy all of your programs Photos taken in Haiti by Daniel Morel. "
Photos that will travel around the world without compensation
The Haitian demand freelance photographer indeed accountable to the French news agency since January. Reason? It was used with impunity Photo earthquake he had posted on Twitter , via his account Twitpic never pay back any copyright.
Yet he who is the author of a photograph that made the headlines of the world world in the aftermath of disaster: a young woman covered in dust trying vainly to get out of the rubble of a building in Port-au-Prince.
Lisandro Suero, pirate Dominican
Already on site, Daniel Morel, a former photographer for the AP, provided the first pictures of the drama. Except it took very little time for a certain Lisandro Suero, simple surfer Dominican Republic, resume your photos and installs them on his own behalf.
Daniel Morel does not respond to requests for images, AFP photographers in the absence of his agency there, was served immediately with Lisandro Suero, open to any proposal. The news agency has so clearly stated the source of his shots, but crediting the pirate, not Daniel Morel, the original author.
Twitter / Twitpic a different regulation
latter then spent recent months to seek compensation from the news agency. Arguing that in any way, the photos are published free for Twitter, the AFP has gone up file a complaint against the photographer Haiti, March 26, for "trade libel."
Except that the pictures from the site microblogging actually come from Twitpic his avatar photo to him, does not oppose the Regulations: "All rights belong to their images uploaded respective owners. "AFP is necessarily wrong and Daniel Morel has also decided to go free.
replica judicial Daniel Morel
On April 21, he sued in U.S. court AFP, but Getty Images (by which the AFP had risen to distribute their images) and American television, for infringement of copyright. Daniel Morel claims include $ 150,000 (about 120,000 euros) for each unauthorized use of his photos.
First things first. The declaration of rights and responsibilities of Facebook says that your content belongs to them (see Section 2.1): "You grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use intellectual property content that you post on Facebook.
9. The CEO of Facebook has been shown repeatedly to unethical behavior
are questions about the ethics of Mark Zuckerberg since the inception of Facebook. According BusinessInsider.com, he used data Facebook users to guess passwords, e-mails and read private correspondence to discredit his rivals.
These allegations, if they have not been proven and a bit dated, nevertheless pose troubling questions about the ethics of the CEO of the largest social network in the world. This is particularly annoying as Facebook has also disbursed more than $ 65 million to end a lawsuit claiming that Mark Zuckerberg stole the idea of Facebook.
8. Facebook has declared war on privacy
founder and CEO of Facebook warrant last January changes relating to privacy on Facebook explaining that "people have become really comfortable with the fact of sharing not only more information but also more openly and with more people. This social norm is simply something that evolves over time. "
In other words, not only your data belong to Facebook, but they also have the right to show everyone. In itself, this is not necessarily unethical, but ...
7. Facebook encourages access to your data
They explain how developers access your data with s API, but are far less talkative when it comes to explaining the implications users. Facebook encourages you to share information that they then make available publicly.
In Since their business is to monetize your information for advertising purposes, this amounts to erode the users to provide information about themselves to advertisers. That's why Facebook is much worse than Twitter: Twitter has adopted the attitude of the simplest (and therefore more credible), stating bluntly that all the tweets of all users were public. Difficult to be more clear. But not Facebook. That is why the U.S. FTC gets involved and people are continuing (and win the case).
EFF has compiled an excellent history precisely which documents the changes in Facebook's privacy policy.
6. Facebook does not want it known
When Pete Warden disassembled how their system works (by searching among all the data that changes to privacy settings of Facebook had made public ) they sued. Why pursue an independent developer? Because they do not want their members to know how their data is accessible.
5. Even your private data is shared with applications
Currently, all your data is shared with applications you install. This means that you not only trust in Facebook, but developers of apps. Knowing that many of them do not necessarily protect your privacy as a priority. Clearly, you should assume that your data is your data- public, unless you never use any Facebook app. Coupled with the API OpenGraph, it means you are no longer simply rely on Facebook, but to the whole eco-system Facebook.
4. Facebook is not technically competent enough to be trusted for
Beyond ethical issues, the technical competence of Facebook does not seem enough to entrust their personal data. Their recent button "Like" has made it easier for spammers. And this is not the first time that Facebook is considered as a nugget for data collection .
Either they do not care a bit about the privacy of your data, or their engineers are not very good. Or maybe both.
3. Facebook makes it incredibly difficult to remove your account
The day you decide to quit Facebook, the site does not facilitate the task. Those who have experimented know it is not very clear really delete their account. This is probably as complicated as voluntary. Weary of war, perhaps you will agree to cancel your account. This is different from a simple deletion. Disable akin to a prolonged disconnection, during which your data stays in the system.
2. Facebook does not really like the open web
Their Open API Graph n'ad'open the name, the better conceal its closed nature. It really is completely proprietary. You may not use any of its features if you're not on Facebook. Implementing a truly open operate on any social network. In the same spirit, they implement a minimum OpenID to be able to say they support it, just to better promote their alternative owner, Facebook Connect.
1. Facebook is useless
Between apps rotten, old comrades class that you do not particularly want to hear about the balls and you had forgotten about, Facebook is more painful than useful in everyday life.
Top Ten Reasons You Should Quit Facebook
Facebook is clearly engaged in a race with all the features of competing networks. As the frog with beef, not unlike Facebook AOL wanted to absorb all the web, at a time when their CDs were raining from the sky. Twitter at least knows how to stay in his place will not be omnipresent in your digital life.
You'd better take a step back on what you really bring social networks, on how you use them, and also about how you use them.
"On Monday May 3 the afternoon between 5:00 and 8:20, we found that the transmitters of Radio Vision 2000 are victims of a strong signal. After several tests, radio technicians came to the conclusion that it would be an interference of radio signals " said Leopold Berlanger, CEO this commercial station transmitting at Port-au-Prince on the sidelines of the General Assembly of the ANMH.
The Radio Vision 2000 have apparently he was jammed. This is the reason that prevented the broadcast of the latest editions of news-that of 5:00, News 2000 and the 8-hour refreshes MEMW, Monday, May 3
Recognizing the complexity of the issue, believes that Leopold Berlanger can not talk about political persecution. However, the full powers granted to the executive in favor of the Emergency Law in the present context are, for him, a source of concern.
The director of Radio Vision 2000 says he fears nothing in its struggle for freedom and the establishment of the rule of law. "It's been a while we are fighting on the ground for another Haiti. For the policy to do otherwise, to exit the scheme of corruption, lawlessness, the rule of special interests on the community, we will not give up this fight " has reassured Leopold Berlanger reminiscent he is aware of the dangers involved in this battle for freedom expression.
The former president of the National Association of Haitian Media (ANMH), Jacques Sampeur, believes that the email in circulation which reported an alleged threatening to close the radio stations Interference has nothing to administrative or proof. "We can not do much to draw from an email correspondence" , has qualified Jacques Sampeur without wanting to mention any names of the sender.
A source close to the telecom sector says that in such cases, management of Vision 2000 should contact the regulatory body, the National Telecommunications Council (Conatel) to track down the interference. And if so, the station to complain to the courts.
Max E. Chauvet is the destiny of the National Association of Haitian Media (ANMH) following elections held after a general meeting of members of this group of media owners, Tuesday, May 4, 2010.
The editor of the daily Le Nouvelliste , Max E. Chauvet, became, Tuesday, May 4 2010, the new Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Haitian Media (ANMH) following elections during a general meeting of that institution. He succeeds Jacques Sampeur who held the post from 2008 to 2010. The board comprises the following members: Frantz Duval (Magik 9), Herold Jean-Francois (Radio Ibo), Richard Widmaier (Radio Métropole TV) Aruns Bellevue (Galaxy Radio TV), Patrick Moussignac (Radio Television Caribbean) Leopold Berlanger (Vision 2000), Liliane Pierre-Paul (Radio Kiskeya) and Jacques Sampeur (Radio TV Caribbean).
If all elected members are regulars on Tuesday, two newcomers join for the first executive body of the ANMH Frantz Duval and Patrick Moussignac. The board will assign the various duties of the members elected at a meeting scheduled this May 5
"We will strengthen the institution while enlarging it, open it to other media and make it a versatile instrument, capable of meeting the needs of our members" said Max E. Chauvet before his peers, asking them to help him in this onerous task he wants a collective work. So he asks the other press associations to join the dialogue that will move into different folders.
"I see clouds approaching. There will be a redefinition of the communications industry with the arrival of big players, financially very strong. The deployment of fiber optics will enable the advent of new players in areas such as broadcasting, television and everything about telecommunications " , says new boss ANMH.
"ANMH members have been lucky in choosing the four presidents who have headed the institution until then. They all lived up to both their credibility in the organization of this institution ", said the newly elected president of the ANMH.
By contextualizing its mandate, Max Chauvet said that the ANMH faces challenges quake of magnitude as the economic difficulties. "The press will do in the coming months work in the debate on the reconstruction of our country and during elections. When the debate is highly charged, the press is often blacklisted ", he said before a crowd of journalists gathered at the local Radio-TV West Indies at the foot of Black Mountain.
During the last two years, Jacques Sampeur showed us his qualities as an organizer and moderator of its virtues, Chauvet launched against the president. "You brought us safely despite damage caused by the earthquake of 12 January " said Mr. Chauvet, addressing the President of the Employers' Association of Haitian media that it replaces.
elected head of the Association, Max E. Chauvet is the fifth president of the ANMH after Herold Jean François Radio Ibo, Richard Widmaier of Radio Metropole-TV, Anne Marie Issa Signal FM and Radio Sampeur Jacques-TV West Indies.
