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Internet in 2008 became the second largest source of information for the Americans, beyond the traditional print media, but television remains by far the preferred means of communication, according to a survey by the Pew study center.

About 40% of Americans reported using the internet to be informed, against 35% who prefer to read the newspaper.

The study, revealed on Tuesday, shows an increase in Internet use between 2007 and 2008, an increase of 16 points, while the newspapers show a growing decline in readership in recent years.

Television remains the main source of information for about 70% of Americans. However, among people younger than 30 years, the number of people who prefer television fell to 59%, equivalent to 9 points less than an earlier study published in September 2007.

The poll was conducted among 1489 people between 3 and Dec. 7. The margin of error was not specified.

The team record Warner has ordered YouTube to remove all videos of its artists on your page, following the failure of talks between both sides. The measure could affect hundreds of thousands of videos, because it includes not just the singers but the songs published by the subsidiary Warner-Chappell.

Warner was the first company authorized by the vision of its videos on YouTube, following an agreement signed in 2006 but decided not to renew the contract when it expired. The record company was looking to receive a larger share of potential earnings by traffic on the Internet site, which receives nearly one million hits per month just in the U.S..



The music companies are, in general, a portion of the advertising revenue generated by their videos and a small amount for every time that these images are on the Internet. Warner had hoped that the total volume of these amounts was important, but according to his version, the figures have been minimal.

A month after the initial agreement with Warner, YouTube was acquired by Internet giant Google, which paid for the site 1650 million dollars.

This is the situation: you're working with two or more applications at the same time, something quite typical, and you have to be changing between them. At that time wanted to have two screens to avoid having to come and go. Lenovo has the solution: ThinkPad W700ds.

Will feature two LCD screens: a 17-inch, and another 10.6 inches. One is a little bigger than normal in a laptop, and the other is about the size of a typical NETBOOK. It will be much heavier than normal, and also a little more expensive (starting at $ 3600 when released onto the market in January).



But perhaps the specifications make use of these disadvantages. This mobile work station, as was baptized by Lenovo, will come equipped with 2 Intel quad-core processors, Nvidia Quadro mobile graphics card, 8 GB of RAM and two hard drives with a total capacity of 960 GB.

Any machine without a doubt. However, for users much weight and size could be a big problem in this day and age where gadgets and electronic devices tend to be increasingly small and portable.

The Japanese pioneer of video games, Nintendo announced that it will launch a service for disseminating popular videos exclusively for the Wii console, which can be connected to television and internet from one side to another.

About 80% of the Wii are installed in the family room and connected to the main television, Nintendo stressed, to justify the appropriateness of use Wii as a vector of visual content than just games.



The new offer, which consists of programs specifically produced for Nintendo, will be available from next spring in Japan. Will build on the platform in the Internet Wii, in which there are video games that are downloaded, channels of information and virtual stores.

The same service will be offered abroad, but later as from a date yet determined. Nintendo has sold nearly 40 million Wii in the world (more than seven million in Japan) from the marketing of this console at the end of 2006, which makes this machine one of the biggest commercial success of video games.

Until May next year, the distribution companies can buy licenses of Windows XP and indestructible. The operating system meets and 7 years, and for the vast majority of experts and users is the best software for PCs that Microsoft has released.

In theory, this system was discarded by Microsoft, except for netbooks versions, but the reality is that every day thousands of users by disgruntled Windows Vista prefer to go back to XP, an operating system and acknowledged by its users.



Now the deadline is extended until next May 31 and according to analysts' opinions might be the reason for the difficulties encountered by the company to put Vista on the market, mainly in economic teams and therefore with less hardware resources. It is worth noting that Vista requires a minimum of 2GB of RAM for proper function.

Some sources take for granted that Microsoft could extend the shelf life of Windows XP until the end of 2009 coinciding with the arrival of Windows 7.

The U.S. chain of department stores Wal-Mart, the world's largest company by sales and number of employees, announced it will begin to sell certain models of the iPhone, the mobile phone from Apple, in about 2,500 establishments.

The black model of the iPhone 3G 8 gigabytes of memory will leave with a sale price of 197 dollars, which has 16 gigabytes, which in this case also will be sold in white, will be offered by 297 dollars, as detailed in the company a press release.



To purchase these models, customers must enter a contract for two years with the telephone company AT & T or update certain requirements under the service we already have with her.

These same prices and conditions are very similar to those offered by AT & T and Apple in their stores and just eight U.S. dollars higher than the offer that has temporarily Best Buy, so far the only large chain stores that sold the equipment.

In that sense, Wal-Mart explained that their establishments can match the sales price to those offered by their local competitors during the promotion.

In the New Year 2006, life seemed to smile at Bruce and Sylvia Brown, newly married, with combined revenues of about $ 150,000 annually, a house half a million dollars on a quiet street closed and a dog named Saki.

But soon, things are complicated, and court documents reflect the increasing desperation of Bruce Brown after losing his wife, and then become unemployed without a dog. In late 2008, Brown was asking a judge to give his wife a pension and cover attorney's fees.

The debacle ended in Pardo Eve, when the electrical engineer for 45 years were dressed in Santa Claus and killed nine people in the house of his former in-laws in Covina, where he made a feast. Then the attacker used a home-made device, which was hidden as a Christmas gift for spraying fuel into the house and burned.

Brown had planned to flee to Canada after the killing, but suffered third degree burns in the fire - which melted part of his disguise, adhering to the skin - and decided to commit suicide, according to researchers.

His body, with a shot in the head, was found in his brother's house about 64 kilometers (40 miles) from the scene of the attack.

The killings occurred six days after the Brown and his former wife appeared in court to consummate their divorce. The police believed that among the dead are Sylvia, for 43 years and their parents, Joseph Ortega of 80 years and Alicia, 70.

The other victims were two brothers of Sylvia Brown and their wives, and the attacker's former sister-in-law and a nephew of 17 years.

But police have not identified the victims because, according to the coroner, nine corpses were so burned it was impossible.

Friends, dismayed, they said that there was one trait in Bruce Brown suggested that the impending attack. Brown had told a friend who planned to help usher during mass as a rooster on the occasion of Christmas in their church. He promised to visit you in Iowa, to congratulate him.

The attacker had no criminal record.

"I can not believe you're seeing my ex-boyfriend on television, and all the people who destroyed their lives," said Carol Sanchez, who had a relationship with Brown four years, when both were high school students to 18. "I'm shattered."

"He was a very kind and friendly person," he added. "I never would have thought he was capable of doing something well."

Brown had a child of 9 years, Matthew, with another former girlfriend, Elena Lucano. The child had not seen for years, but reportedly said the child was dependent on it economically, in its report for the payment of taxes. Lucano told the newspaper Los Angeles Times that she was unaware of the fact that Matthew Pardo said that depended on him.

The child suffered a severe brain injury in a fall at the pool, January 6, 2001, when Brown was alone with him in his former home in Woodland Hills, according to attorney Jeffrey Alvírez, who represented in the case Lucano resulting in the courts.

Medical expenses reached $ 340,000. Lucano Pardo sued him for money from your home insurance policy for $ 100,000, and $ 36,000 were deposited into a trust for the child, who requires constant attention.

Brown never made money for the care of the child.

"I never spent a penny on his son," said Alvírez, who noted that it had not surprised that Brown concealed his wife that aspect of his life.

The divorce papers before the court are a couple who had trouble from the start and sparked a bitter dispute.

The couple married on January 29, 2006, and moved to the house that Brown had in Montrose, about 24 kilometers (25 miles) north of Los Angeles. The house is located in the top of a hill near the Church of the Holy Redeemer, where Brown helped usher during mass as for children.

Two days after the attack, cintilaban Christmas lights still on the fence and the roof, as well as an orange, while two police officers searched the house.

At least eight people died and 15 more were wounded on Sunday when a suicide bomber tried sacrificing during a meeting of tribal leaders, ending by doing so on Sunday near a primary school, authorities said.

Five of the dead were children, like the 15 wounded.

The detonation occurred at the entrance of a police headquarters and army, said Yacub Jan, the deputy chief of police in the eastern province of Jost. U.S. troops are also prominent in the barracks, but there were no soldiers injured or killed in the attack.

In addition to the five children, said Jan, killing at least one soldier and a private security guard.

Dr. Abdul Rahman, a doctor from a nearby hospital, said the young victims were between eight and 10 years.

Abdullah Fahim, spokesman of the Ministry of Health in Kabul, said that eight people died and 51 more were wounded. Asif Nang, a spokesman of the Ministry of Education, said the injured students were hit, most by broken glass.

Jan said the attack occurred when Pashtun tribal leaders, district Mandozai, met at the complex to deal with security issues. It is unknown how many of them may have wounded or killed.

The attack occurs on the last day of school in the year. The students had gathered in classrooms to receive licenses this year, said Nang. The teachers also were delivering books to students, he said.

An alleged suicide bomber of the Tamil rebel left at least seven soldiers killed when sacrificing at a facility near the capital of Sri Lanka, the authorities said. 17 other people, including four civilians, were injured.

The detonation occurs while developing heavy fighting between the rebels of the Tamil tiges and government forces in the north. The navy said it destroyed a rebel boat and a website that supports the Tigers said that at least 50 soldiers were killed in a battle near a rebel stronghold.

The suicide bomber was opened way for a module of the Civil Defense in the town of Wattala and triggered the explosives he was carrying, said Brigadier General Uday Nanayakkara. Wattala is located a few kilometers (miles) north of Colombo.

The blast left six soldiers and one civilian dead, while another 13 soldiers and four civilians were wounded, said Nanayakkara, who blamed the separatist rebels of the Tamil Tigers.

The Tamil Tigers, who are regarded by the United States and the European Union as a terrorist organization, often deny any involvement in suicide bombings. Sri Lankan authorities have accused of conducting more than 240 such attacks against political, military and economic centers since the mid-1980.

One person died and 16 more were wounded, said police in Iraq, when a suicide bomber blew on Sunday was in the midst of a demonstration in northern Iraq against Israeli air strikes in Gaza.

The attacker penetrated his bicycle in the demonstration, about 1,300 people at the center of the northern city of Mosul, said a police officer who asked not to be identified because they are not authorized to speak to the media.

The demonstration was organized by the Iraqi Islamic Party, a Sunni cutting. His spokesman in Mosul, Yahiya Abid Mahjub, was that the police and army in Iraq had not taken precautions for the event.

So far nobody has claimed responsibility for the attack, said police.

"Those who attack our brothers in Gaza are the same ones that attacked us today in Mosul. They are agents of Israel," said Mahjub.

U.S. forces and Iraq maintain the fight against al-Qaida and other rebels in Mosul, the third largest city in Iraq, where tensions persist econ omicas + and policies. These issues have been complicated by tensions between Arabs and Kurds in the city.

Also on Sunday, police in Fallujah said that a bomb exploded on the outskirts of the city, killing two civilians and wounding four more,

A policeman said the bomb exploded in a parking lot, where farmers and merchants gathered to buy and sell.

The trucks and other vehicles are not allowed to enter Fallujah can not enter their charges to the city, west of Baghdad.

The police asked not be identified, was not authorized to speak to news media.