New Digg iPhone app

 

Digg is back, and he returns with a new app for iPhone. The Digg popular platform, created to share all kinds of news from different fields, has been relaunched and now even has its own application for that from our iPhone, we begin to see and share the most popular news, interesting and controversial point.
The user interface that is equipped with the app is great, fast and intuitive. To get to the Digg app, just spend the app store and download it for free.

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Facebook changes the photo viewer

 

The Facebook announced on Monday (30/07) an update to your system for viewing photos. From now on, they get bigger and reorganized.

When the user clicks on the "Photos", located below the cover photo, he will see large images fill the page. From there, you can navigate between photos marked, and the shared albums.

There are also how to mark images as favorites, so they are highlighted in the profile. Just click on a star that appears to the upper right corner of each.

Despite being shown today, the news is not yet available for all users.

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Facebook's market value fell $ 10 billion

 

Investors have reduced the value of Facebook at $ 10 billion on Friday (27/04), leading the newly listed shares to a new low.

According to Reuters , a drop of 17% of the shares led the market capitalization of Facebook for U.S. $ 48 billion, less than half the value of launching the Initial Public Offering (IPO, in English) of U.S. $ 100 billion, in May.

The latest crash cost the chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, about U.S. $ 2.3 billion, based on their participation in the company.

Social networking revenue beat expectations on Thursday (26/07) in the first announcement of quarterly results as a public company, but the company failed to reassure investors about its future prospects.

Investors worried about the social network will make money with mobile advertising expected the company would give a signal that revenue growth was improving. The stock has fallen nearly 40% of market value since its debut on the stock exchange.

They fell to a record low of U.S. $ 22.28 on the morning of Friday, before recovering to U.S. $ 23.03.

At least four brokerages, including Barclays Capital cut its price target for shares of Facebook, although the majority suggested that the company is worth more than the current trading levels.

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After Google Talk, Twitter is the time to stay off the air

 

On the morning of Thursday (26/07) the Google Talk went off the air, and a few hours later, it was time for another service down for no apparent reason: Twitter.

Until now, users can not access the microblogging site or by official or by applications such as TweetDeck and HootSuite. However, the mobile version of site is functioning normally.

In the Twitter status blog , microblog confirms the failure. "Users may be experiencing problems accessing Twitter. Our engineers are working to resolve the problem."

It is the second time in just over a month since the microblog is off the air. On June 21 another problem also meant that users were unable to access the service. On occasion, the service returned, but the company's team did not disclose the reason for the decline.

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Facebook announces first results as a public company

 

The Facebook released its first quarter earnings report since it became a public company when it launched its shares on the Nasdaq stock exchange technology. The social network claims revenue of $ 1.184 billion, representing an increase of 32% over the same period last year. In total, Facebook had a net loss of $ 157 million, or $ 0.08 per share, in the second quarter due to costs related to its initial public offering.

Most of the revenue came from the area of ​​advertising, which raised $ 992 million in the period and exceeded 28% mark in the same quarter of 2011.

The company also announced that it has 955 million monthly active users and 552 million daily users, in a measurement made in late June. 543 million people access the social networking application on smartphones and tablets.

The trading session on Thursday closed down 8.5% in the roles of the company, mainly driven by the poor results reported by sister company Zynga .

"Our goal is that everyone is connected and that every product can provide a great social experience," said CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the reporting of results. "So we're focused on investing in our priorities in the mobile, platform and social ads so we can help people to access these experiences."

With the closing today, the company's stock fell 29% over the price of $ 38 of its initial public offering in May.

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How to install Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean in the Nexus S

Google has started to launch the updates, but you may not yet have. So if you are desperate to discover each new Jelly Bean in your Nexus S, then I recommend the following steps of this tutorial we are going to share below.

Just remember that you are solely responsible for what may happen to your smartphone as a result of this process. True, this tutorial is meant to help, but nobody is going to be responsible if you take any step goes wrong. Above all, keep in mind the model of your Nexus S to be able to apply the steps in this tutorial, it is not for everyone. In the steps of the tutorial I give models for those who can use it.

Now, with that clarified, let's go through the tutorial to install Android 4.1 Jelly Bean in your Nexus S.

• Step 1: Unlock the bootloader, make a root and flash mode controller ClockworkMod Recovery. This procedure can do it easily with this software: download all-in-one root tollkit Nexus .
• Step 2: Download Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean (JRO03E) from this direct link from Google . The. Zip file you download is to update from Android 4.0.4 Jelly Bean (IMM76D) in the following Nexus S: i9020T / i9023. It can also work in the Nexus S i9020A, according to some users. In any case, and left up to you. Just do not intend to apply this. Zip on computers without Android 4.0.4 or any other model that has not been mentioned in this step, because there they can have problems.
• Pas0 3: Restart ClockworkMod mode (CWM) Recovery off your Nexus S and then simultaneously press the buttons simultaneously to increase the volume and power.
• Step 4: Make a backup nandroid. This will help you recover information in case you have problems later with the Jelly Bean ROM.
• Step 5: Choose the option 'install zip from sdcard ", then" choose zip from sdcard' and then the. Zip you downloaded in step 2. This will make Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean is flashed on your Nexus S.
• Step 6: When you're done, go to the CWM main menu and restart the system, selecting 'reboot system now'.

That's it. If you followed the steps right, I'm sure now you are enjoying the new features of Android Jelly Bean in your Nexus S. If you do not dare to follow this tutorial, you can expect that Google will send the notification to upgrade to the new version of Android in the coming hours, days or weeks.

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RIM's shareholders re-elected to its board

The shareholders of RIM, the maker of the BlackBerry, have re-elected to the board of the company for its annual meeting, the first led by new CEO Thorsten Heins, who faces an uphill battle to relocate to the company's track.

Heins commented Tuesday that the strategic review of RIM is focused on recovering the firm with a revamped product portfolio with its axis placed on the strengths of the company.

At the same time, the executive has acknowledged that the firm will suffer a decline in average selling prices and a drop in service revenue this year as it tries to sell the BlackBerry 7, which have struggled to compete with iPhones Apple and mobile operating system Android.

The shareholders meeting is an opportunity for investors to make the new management tough questions after a year in which the shares fell almost 80 per cent and the share of the firm in the smartphones market collapsed .

Just last week, Heins, that RIM has promised to make an "efficient machine" announced a delay in the launch of the new generation of BlackBerry 10 until early next year. With this model, the Canadian firm hopes to reverse the decline in market share.

The new head of marketing for the firm, Frank Boulben, has tried to take drama to this delay, saying Monday that the delay will give vendors more time to meet the renewed devices before they reach stores.

RIM suffered its first operating loss in eight years and said it would cut 5,000 jobs, nearly a third of its workforce, it struggles to compete with technology giants the likes of Apple, Google, Samsung and Microsoft.

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First trojan for the iPhone and iPad is identified by security expert

 

A security specialist Kaspersky claims to have identified a trojan designed for Apple's mobile devices - iPhone, iPhone and iPod. The worm was disguised as a digital application called "Find and Call" and also have a version for Android devices. Apple has removed the malicious application of the store.
In one post , Denis Maslennikov, Kaspersky Lab expert, says that installing Trojan horse (malicious program that opens up security holes on the device is installed), the application sends the contact list of devices to a remote server. The data are used later in this remote server to send spam via SMS. The main target users in Russia.
Maslennikov said he had contacted Apple and Google to report the malicious application, but did not yet return. In App Store, the app no ​​longer appears, but you can still find it via search engines.
For the "Wired," the Apple spokesperson Trudy Muller said only that the application was removed from the App Store for "unauthorized use of your contact list, a violation of the rules of the store."
It is not the first time that an application "steals" the catalog of contacts in iOS devices. In 2008, the game Aurora Feint was removed from the App Store for security and privacy problems. Aurora sent the contact list of users to their own servers without using encryption features.
More recently, the Path, application to share posts, photos and videos, also captured private data from users of iOS. The company apologized for what happened and claims to have deleted the data collected.
The "Find and Call", unlike the Aurora Feint and Path was developed exclusively for stealing data from mobile devices - what would rank as the first malware for Apple's system.

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Drive SDK allows you to use Google cloud apps from Android and IOS

The second version of Google Drive SDK adds a new API to allow developers to make use of cloud storage from both Android applications, as for IOS. In addition, the web version also includes enhancements like the ability to convert formats, copy or share files with users.

Last April, Google announced the first version of Google Drive SDK along with a wide range of applications. On Wednesday, during the conference Google I/O 2012-that the Mountain View celebrated these days in San Francisco, the team has submitted the next version of the SDK for Google Drive, with a series of updates that include an extension of the API, simplified development experience and support of mobile applications.

According to the developers of Google Blog, the new Google API for Drive exposes all standard file operations and methods of listings and searches files, format conversion, copying files, managing reviews and share files with users.

They have also introduced comprehensive support for Android and iPhone OS applications using the SDK for Google Drive and having an ally to the cloud. Android developers and IOS can make use of cloud storage directly from their mobile applications. Thus, third-party applications can take advantage of the virtual space to download, upload or edit at any time.

"Mobile applications can use the API for Drive to read and write files directly to Google Drive. Users also can click on Open with on their mobile devices to view or edit the content from your smartphone or 'tablet' as they do from the web ", say the developers.

The new version of Drive SDK is already available on the Google developer.

Related links:

- Google Developers

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