Lower the popularity of Facebook Home

When the interface Home of Facebook was announced, the people were very excited about it.While the application does not alter the core operating system Android , other mobile makes our devices more oriented contact via social networking. As we said, all initially went great andFacebook Home was downloaded more than 500,000 times during its first week on store Play of Google, but now the picture is very black. 's popularity is dropping interface and it is estimated that could spend many weeks before they are achieved over 500,000 downloads.

Home The popularity of the Android app store dropped from 50th to 130th in a week, and also most of those who have downloaded the software have said it's not as good as it looks and have voted negatively.

Maybe Facebook is able to turn the tables with updates to Home, which will be coming out every month. The following is expected around mid-May.

Have you had a chance to try Home? If you did, what did you think?

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First HTC officially announced

Yesterday, during the event that Facebook took on in its campus in Menlo Park, not only unveiled Facebook Home, but also what many consider the "Facebook Phone", which is actually called HTC First . You remember how we saw here two days ago .

According to HTC CEO Peter Chou, the First is the smartphone definitive social. This little has support for 4G networks and will be sold in four colors: black, red, white and blue. If the hardware and software which you are interested, the new phone has a 4.3 inches, Snapdragon processor 400 series, runs Android 4.1 and of course integrates the new Facebook Home.

The First HTC actually is no heavyweight, is a pretty standard smartphone. What makes it special is only that comes with pre-installed Facebook Home, the rest is nothing special. Its full specifications below:

-Processor Qualcomm MSM8930 Snapdragon 1.4GHz dual core. 
, RAM: 1GB. 
-Storage has an internal memory of 16GB. 
-Screen: measures 4.3 inches and has a HD resolution of 1280 × 720 pixels. 
-Camera: front has a 1.6 megapixel sensor, while the rear takes May 1 megapixel and LED flash features. You can record video in Full HD. 
-ConnectivityPocket: supports NFC, WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0 and can connect to 4G LTE networks. 
-Battery: 2000mAh capacity. We can talk for 14 hours if it is complete. 
-Operating System: Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.

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Facebook announces Android event

Facebook announced an event is Android ? Sounds weird, but it is. The famous social network just announced that next April 4 will be holding an event that relates them famous mobile operating system Google. The event takes place on the campus of  Menlo Park and will begin at 10 am local time. The event invitation says nothing interesting, just related to Facebook and Android.

Surely many are the thing came to mind: Facebook submit (finally) their smartphone. In the past we've talked about this device several times, and it is believed that HTC will be the manufacturer.The phone would run with a modified version of Android and would be closely integrated with Facebook.

Last year, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO and creator of the social network, said they had no plans to launch a smartphone and it would be a bad strategy on their part, so it probably would not make much sense to advertise a mobile.

No one is quite sure what it is that Facebook will announce on Thursday, but the chances are not great.

Do you think it will be a smartphone or perhaps a new application? Or maybe something else?Give us your opinion.

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Facebook has updated its app for iOS

On Monday, Facebook launched version 5.6 of its popular app for iOS, the Apple mobile operating system. The most noteworthy feature in this case is the ability to make change in our forum home anytime you want. Users will now be able to change the cover photo from your iPhone with a few movements of your finger.

Simply touch the cover photo when you're in your profile and you can choose whether you want it or change it. You can use a photo from the gallery or take a new at the time. Simply select the desired photo, adjust it and save your changes.

The update, besides the classical improvements and bug fixes and other, also brings new ways to create talk groups and the ability to locate us quickly.

Facebook 5.6 for iOS now available in the Apple App Store, so if you use it often do not forget to update it when you can and you can start enjoying some new things.

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Offline Marketing: Trends

 

In the digital age we live in now could not imagine life without the World Wide Web. Not only in the private sector, its use, demists a major role, but Internet occupies nearly every facet of our lives. The business world has figured out this need right now is a fundamental tool for sectors such as marketing and sales of products and services. More than ever, the world of business, no hesitation. Any company that resists the use of Internet as a communication and sales of their products, will quickly lose its place in the sector and as a result their business disappear.
This trend is unstoppable, with no reverse Internet. Companies increasingly use network-related services: file storage , email, digital distribution, ultimately, businesses are inconceivable without the existence of the Internet. Surprisingly, a recent study shows that the development of enterprise digital media has taken a completely different direction than expected.
The study was developed by the Ecole Hotelier de Lausanne and shows that hotel companies are abandoning the use of social media as a marketing channel and sell their products to re-direct sales. This shows that either, with a greater focus on direct selling and getting high commissions portal and online travel agency business can be saved. Distribution costs may be lower, if one focuses on direct bookings and the use of smaller niche sites. Also the use of popular social networks like Facebook, Twitter and TripAdvisor now can save many businesses in the catering sector. Although these channels are ideally suited for marketing, also can go wrong. The uncertainty is related to some sites, like Facebook, for the protection of data makes the risk of new incidences enfrenarse increase.

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Microsoft also was hacked

 

Not only Facebook and Apple recently suffered at the hands of hackers, but Microsoft is also one of the big companies that are added to the list. It seems that cyber attacks against major companies in the industry are becoming increasingly common, and not only that, but slowly they become more sophisticated. The attack was nothing serious Microsoft when compared with that of Facebook for example, but still served to give a shock to the software giant.

According to statements by a spokesman for the company, during a recent investigation found that several teams, including some units Mac (yes, MS also uses Macs) were infected by malicious software using techniques documented by other organizations in recent days. So far no evidence has been compromised customer data and research is ongoing.

While at no time made ​​mention of Java exploit suffered Apple and Facebook, that will point to a similar case recently affected other companies makes us think that this is the same problem with the Java Plugin.

Such attacks are not targeted only large companies, but any team could have sustained should have been using the vulnerable version of Java.

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Apple is the new target for hackers

On Tuesday, Apple announced that some Macintosh computers used by its employees had been infected by hackers recently. There is no evidence that hackers have done with some data and Apple has reportedly been working on a software tool whose function is to identify and repair infected Macintosh computers, which would be completed at this time. Infected systems within Apple have been isolated and removed from the company's internal network.

An unknown group of hackers managed to exploit a bug in the Java plugin used in web browsers. A similar malware was used to attack Facebook earlier, and the recent attack he suffered Apple also suffered other companies.

For a long time it was thought that Apple computers were the safest in the industry, but not the operating system was impenetrable, but there was a lack of attention from hackers to the platform, as most teams have always made use of Windows, the operating system in the world with more vulnerabilities. Maybe now that Apple is achieving greater market share hackers have decided to change their objectives.

What do you think? Did difficult time ahead for Apple?

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Facebook admits to being hacked in January

 

Surely many are afraid that their precious social network account is hacked Facebook, especially if it is a very protected profile and can only visit family and friends. However, recently, the company has admitted that his famous website was hacked in January, and it happened when some of the team members were infected with malware in their laptops without knowing it.

Although it has been suggested that the attack was sophisticated, we can now rest assured that as the social network of any user no data has been compromised. The company's official statement reads:

"Last month, Facebook Security discovered that our systems were the target of a sophisticated attack. The attack occurred when several employees visited a website that was compromised development. The site in question contained an exploit that could install malware on visiting teams. The laptops were fully updated and ran antivirus current analysis. As soon was discovered the presence of malware, clean the affected machines immediately inform law and began an arduous investigation that continues to this day. "

So far not much is known about it. Hopefully the people of Facebook again soon and make another statement that their employees be more careful.

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Google+ is already the second largest social network in the world

 

When Google launched its social network, called Google+, many said they already have enough social networks or that another was not needed. This was in June of 2011. Currently, in just over a year and a half, Google+ has already passed the milestone of 343 million users, making it the second largest social network on the Internet, obviously leaving behind Facebook, all in accordance with GlobalWebIndex a report.

Of course that Google+ still has a long way to catch up with Facebook. The social network Mark Zuckerberg has more than twice that Google+ users and is currently hovering around the 1,000 million mark, is also one of the most visited in the world. Both Google+ and Facebook are growing rapidly, but that makes it even faster is Twitter, even though this is in fourth place with 288 million users. And who is the third time? As the community's largest video sharing network: YouTube.

Below is a chart showing the number of users of each network in millions:

 

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Facebook for Windows Phone gets a new update

If you're somebody who practically can not live without being connected to Facebook and also if you have a smartphone that runs Windows Phone, then we have good news for you. The biggest social network in the world announced the new version of its app for Windows Phone. The application has just been updated to version 2.8, but unfortunately were not made ​​aware of the changes that were made ​​to the app. Does that mean we must discover it for ourselves? It is likely, though not surprise me in the coming days Facebook gives details of this new version.
The least we can expect is a level of performance improvement and fixes for some bugs, ie, things that include almost all updates.
If you are using Facebook in WP, have you noticed any difference in the new version?

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Java and Adobe are the main targets of hackers and malware in 2013

The next year, according to research conducted by Panda Security, vulnerabilities of software will be the main target for cybercriminals. In particular, Java and Adobe will become the main targets of hackers.
The guys said Panda, in 2012, Java was compromised multiple times and used to infect a wide variety of users, and the software is installed on millions of devices of all kinds. Other software has also been very committed is Adobe Acrobat Reader ie, Flash, etc. and there are also several security flaws at. Adobe applications are also abused by hackers to infect all types of devices.
At the level of web sites that could suffer more attacks are Facebook and Twitter, given its growing popularity and the large amount of users they have, not to mention all the information flowing through them. Panda also suggests more careful with Skype.
In addition, warnings to stay safe are also Mac users who rely heavily on their platform but perhaps keep a few surprises next year.

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Facebook for Android 2.0, now faster than ever

Yesterday Facebook announced the launch of the new version of its app for Android, which is now available. This is version 2.0 and like the iOS version is now using native code, which has given a big improvement at speed.
Although the application may appear identical, the first thing we notice is a change in the level of performance, which is obviously far greater. Since Facebook for Android was released, this has certainly been the biggest challenge has been through the application of the company since between this version and the previous work there are plenty of level through code.
If before I was frustrated how slow the Facebook app on Android, then I recommend taking a look now.

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Facebook Announces Photo Sync for Android and iOS

Yesterday, Facebook announced a new feature that will improve your application for Android and iOS. This new feature is called Photo Sync and allows users to upload photos automatically from your smartphone . It is a feature that was first seen in August and has been available for a few, but now can be used by the general public.
Photo Sync, as stated above, is in charge of uploading them automatically and are stored in a user's private folder. Once the photos have been uploaded, the user can choose which you want to share immediately in the social network and which not.
Users have 2GB of space in your private folder.
Remember to use Photo Sync is necessary to have the latest version of the app on Facebook.

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New Firefox integration with Facebook

If you've ever wanted to chat with your Facebook contacts directly using your web browser, then now you can. Thanks to this new feature of Firefox we have Facebook chat in your browser window without the need to open the social network in a tab. The idea behind this is to find out the latest news from our friends without the need to switch tabs all the time.
Besides being able to chat, also warns us through notifications if someone comments on one of our states or if we tagged in a photograph.
For now, Facebook Messenger pair Firefox is in beta, but we can still use it, for which first need to follow this link .

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Twitter add filters to photos

Instagram, as many know, has a great service of filters for photos that go up. This and many other features have made it the best platform for sharing photos. In fact it is so good that once tried to acquire Twitter, but surely remember that Facebook beat her and ended up buying it first. After this "defeat", Twitter began looking for a similar company to acquire. Yesterday it was announced that the popular microblogging platform plans to incorporate a system of filters to photos that hang up in their social network, which really does not surprise us much.
Unable to buy the filters, it seems that Twitter has chosen to create. The New York Times reports that the filters work much like they do in Instragram, allowing tweet photos with various effects.
In addition, an employee of the company also stated that it is planning to add more tools as one to upload and edit videos that does not rely on third party applications. Interesting, is not it?

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Anonymous Facebook attack Monday on Guy Fawkes Day

The hacktivists remember the 5th of November with an attack on Facebook. The group Anonymous, as rumored, will attack the most popular social network in the world in memory of Guy Fawkes Day, also known as Guy Fawkes Night . If you do not know what this is, I recommend you follow the link above.
Anonymous The idea, apparently, is that Zynga (very popular on Facebook) to retract its decision to lay off 1,000 of its employees. In addition, it appears that the hacktivist collective also launch several Zynga games as free downloads. Anonymous says downsizing Zynga has no excuse because the company does not go through a time of financial problems, but the opposite.
Anonymous course not said how he plans to destroy Facebook, but the attempt to shoot down a year ago to the world's largest social network was not successful, so obviously there is the possibility that this may also not be.

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HTC Opera UL, could this be the smartphone of Facebook?

Much has been said about the possibility that Facebook will launch a smartphone market, but the company's CEO has denied this a few times. They recently resurfaced rumors as voices come direct from Taiwan that a new smartphone called HTC could be the smartphone of Facebook. This is in particular a model known as HTC UL Opera.
From Taiwan have also come rumors that this device will not be released soon and that its development has been delayed, but we do not know why. Whether or not the mobile phone of Facebook, what would we find a processor (probably quad-core) at 1.4GHz, a Qualcomm Adreno 305 GPU, HD display with 1280 × 720 pixels and operating system Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean. As you can see, the UL Opera HTC smartphone seems quite promising.
Do you think Facebook will launch its own mobile really someday?

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Facebook will be judged by problems in IPO

Facebook, the Nasdaq and banks involved in the issuance of shares of social networking are increasingly a target of several lawsuits, according to Reuters . All will be centralized in a federal court in New York (United States), which will have the task of deciding on the legal consequences of problematic IPO of Facebook.

Investors claim to have lost money for technical failures in Nasdaq and accuse Facebook of omitting unfavorable information about their business prospects to Wall Street analysts, who then would have passed the privileged investors.

The lawsuits, seeking compensation for undisclosed amounts, can cost millions of dollars in legal fees to Facebook, which claims not to have violated any rules, and blames the Nasdaq by technical problems of business on the IPO.

Although some of the cases involving different defendants and claims, a group of federal judges ruled that Americans they gather sufficient factual issues common circumstances related and shared documentation to justify centralization.

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Facebook now has over 1000 million users

Mark Zuckerberg must be more than happy because its popular social network now has more than 1000 million users. This means that one-seventh of the world's population can engage in sharing your life and see what others are doing through Facebook. The only drawback with these 1000 million users, is that many users are not considered.
Probably in your list of Facebook friends you have someone who has more than one account, someone who for months stopped using his and similar cases. Considering this and the many fake profiles that exist, it is clear that the actual number of users is not mentioned above.
Some interesting facts that Zuckerberg has published on the social network recently:
-Average user Age: 22 years.
-Countries with most users: Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico and the United States.
-Photos increases in total: 219 000 000 000.
-Number of Times pressed the button "Like": 1.13 trillion times.

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More details about BlackBerry 10

BlackBerry 10, also known as RIM El Salvador, is the operating system that the company plans to launch in a few months. Not much is known about it, because RIM has preferred to remain silent, but recently we have found out some other details.
Al seems, using BlackBerry devices 10 will have an app native Facebook as revealed in yesterday. Obviously this application is similar to that can be found in iOS and Android devices so as to maintain uniformity. It is 100% integrated with the operating system and uses the new interface Flow.
In addition to the application for Facebook, there will be native applications for LinkedIn, Twitter and Foursquare.
Moreover, it seems that the team that made the presentation RIM did not look very excited, which is understandable given the state where the company is today.
We hope to have more news soon.

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