Facebook launched its smartphone in mid-2013

 

For a long time we've been hearing rumors that Facebook, the largest social network in the world with over 900 million users, is working with HTC to create its own smartphone and apparently the release date would be mid mobile , 2013.
Early rumors indicated that the phone hit the market in late 2012, but HTC is focusing as much on the Android market, it appears that the release date had been delayed.
The technology that would own the equipment and its specifications are things unknown, but apparently the device would use a modified version of the Android operating system, as we know HTC is well adapted and associated with that platform.
Facebook has decided not to open his mouth when asked about this project, although it appears that itself is working on its own smartphone. Also of note is the fact that it has hired some former employees of Apple , which would be part of the team working on the smartphone.

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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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Google Earth 3D comes to iOS : Viewer program gets update to the local mobile operating system

 

The Google on Thursday released an update of the program Google Earth to iOS, adding some interesting features like allowing the visualization of some world cities such as Rome and New York, in three dimensions.

The appeal must reach out to personal computers by the end of the year when the company expects to deliver new versions for Windows and Mac.

Another innovative feature is the application of the "tour guide", which indicates interesting towns to visit around the world and allows users to exploit through its visualization system with satellite photos. See the promotional video of the new app: 

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Review: Mountain Lion is the platform more social Macs

The most visible changes shows that the company is encouraging a new experience with the system, leading people to interpret the Mac as an extension of mobile devices. So much so that computers put in three applications that were previously only seen in iOS: Reminders, Notes and Messages. With the first, you can create alerts that will be displayed in other gadgets apple, if the Mac itself, you will make use of other big news: the Central Notification.

The Mountain Lion comes with a sidebar that displays a range of reports. New e-mails, reminders, messages, appointments in Calendar, updating applications ... everything appears in a single space. To check the task list, just click a small icon in the upper right corner of the screen, then the Central Notification appears pushing the desktop to the side.



 

The version 10.8 of OS used in Macs was released for download on Wednesday (25/07), then install OS X the famous Mountain Lion here to show what is most important among the more than 200 updates.

Soon after the installation process (which takes about two hours), the user is already faced with the first - and important - news: the "welcome" of OS X 10.8. The startup configuration is iCloud, which becomes available to Mac users this means that you can share virtually all products from Apple with the help of the cloud.

Share

The bar contains what is perhaps the biggest highlight of this new version of OS X. That way you can write tweets, and soon there will also be connecting with Facebook (something about which more later). We can set this to highlight why sharing is a word that defines well the Mountain Lion - throughout the system were adopted ways to spread content.

When you open the Finder, for example, the owner of the machine note the novelty of two ways: there is a button "Share selected items" and also a "Share" that appears when you right click on something is triggered. The file type defines the possibility of dissemination, such as audio and video, which can not be sent to Twitter but you can send them by e-mail, or airdrop.

In total there are nine options for sharing applications, including Safari (which is now in version 6), Photo Booth, QuickTime, iPhoto and Preview. You have to exchange files via e-mail, messaging, airdrop, Twitter, Vimeo, Flickr and soon on Facebook. And the site of Mark Zuckerberg received a great emphasis on the operating system.

Facebook

There will be a great Mac-Facebook integration from now. The social network will have a number of funds with the OS X 10.8. When you log into the site by the system, the user takes all the contacts into the Mac and, thus, the birth dates are to appear in the Calendar

As we mentioned before, status updates can be made directly by the Central Notification - as well as adding photos to albums. And the sidebar also show site activity.

The Mountain Lion is definitely more social than the previous version and connection with the Facebook came to cover a hole, since the applications to control the network by Mac are not the best. In the case of Twitter, a timeline that shows the integration efficiently is able to kill the application's official Twitter, which already works quite well.

Overall, the system houses more than 200 new features, so if you decide to upgrade your Mac, tell us what features you most attention.

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Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) available today in the Mac Store, check their price

Tim Cook said that Apple will begin a marketing its operating system OS X 10.8, better sonocido As Mountain Lion, the latest version of OS X to date. The announcement came yesterday during the presentation of results of Apple's third quarter, and five months after being announced to the press.
Mountain Lion (version 10.8 of OS X), goes on sale at a price of $ 240.00 pesos, cheaper than it did a year ago to upgrade to OS X 10.7 (aka Lion) and, like it is can purchase and download from the Apple Mac App Store . Another similar to the previous system is that Apple will also allow users to pay for a copy of the operating system may be installed on multiple Macs, something that true maqueros certainly appreciate.

 

According to the developer version, which has been available a few months, users will have installed on their computers at least Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6.8) to any version of Lion (OS X 10.7) to upgrade to Mountain Lion , and any of these equipment listed below:
MacBook (Late 2008 or early 2009 or later)
MacBook Pro (mid / late 2007 or later)
MacBook Air (Late 2008 or later)
iMac (Mid 2007 or later)
Mac mini (Early 2009 or later)
Mac Pro (Early 2008 or later)
Xserve (Early 2009)
Mountain Lion includes a number of characteristics that favor integration between Macs and iOS products like the iPhone or iPad, which includes integration with icloud, and Mac versions of IMessage, Reminders, Notes, Center notifications, integration with Twitter, Game Center and mirroring through AirPlay.
The new operating system for the first time will also include integration with Facebook, social networking notifications will be included in the new Notification Center, and even allow you to upload photos to social networks directly from iPhoto. Facebook contacts and their profiles will also be added to the Contacts application that includes Mountain Lion.
Other new features including Mountain Lion is the usefulness of the new utility Dictation and Power Nap (available in laptops with SSDs) that allows for updates to Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Reminders, Notes, Photos Streaming, Find My Mac and Documents, and then download and install them on computers when they are in standby mode, if they are connected to a power source.

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Windows 8 vs. Mountain Lion

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Windows 8 vs. Mountain Lion: What operating system succeeded in bringing the mobile to the desktop?

Meanwhile, Microsoft had higher aspirations: Windows 8 will run on your desktop and laptop as it does on your tablet is unlike anything I've done before.
Let's take a closer look at each one, to try to get a better idea of what the system is ahead. We begin
The Home Screen Windows 8
The differences between Windows 8 and Mountain Lion are evident from the moment you start. When launched Windows 8, we saw something completely different: Instead of the common Start menu, toolbar and Windows Explorer, you have a Home Screen, which consists of a square and rectangular icons with your apps called Live Tiles (give more detail below).
 

By default, the Home screen displays each application you installed on your PC, but you can choose what and what not to appear there. You are not restricted with the Apps: you can put other objects on the screen, including booksmarks of your favorite sites and contacts in your address book.
Windows 8 will run also in the traditional computer applications, and will do in a desktop environment that resembles the layout of Windows 7. You probably take a while to get used to the new environment, especially after all applications have Metro.
Launchpad in OS X
 
When you first enter a Mountain Lion, you will see the typical desktop OS X, the menu above, the OS X Dock on a button and a photo topic of space as desktop wallpaper. By clicking on the search icon in the Dock will open the Finder window to locate files and folders. Mountain Lion has a strong approach to the Home screen: Launchpad. With Launchpad obtain a presentation as the iPad with icons for your programs, which makes it easier to locate and access them. Although the IOS runs Launchpad, Mountain Lion feels and looks like a Mac, not an iPad.

Notifications and Live Tiles

The home screen of Windows 8 is more like an app with Live Tiles. In addition, Live Small Tiles act as informational widgets. Applying Climate Bing, for example, shows weather out, while the Live Tile for Cut The Rope game shows your status in the game.

OS X does not have a special feature that compares to Live Tiles, but includes features similar notification. Dock icons may show numerous warnings if an application needs your attention, for example, if you have three unread messages, the Mail icon will be displayed.
Notification Mountain Lion alert
Notifications Center in Mountain Lion is a compilation of statements from various applications. You can see the Notifications Center from anywhere with a simple touch, or giving the start menu click search on your desktop When you give a notification list for each application. Programs may also appear in pop-up style banner that will appear in the top corner. These banners appear at the top whenever you're doing something else on the screen, and will disappear in a few moments.
Windows 8 has pop-up notifications to complement Live Tiles, and have a lot of what has Montain Lion: They also have notices that appear in the top corner of the screen and stay there a while.
Comparison Applications

 

Windows Marketplace is clean and attractively designed
Although still very low for many applications, Microsoft Windows Marketplace is attractive and well designed. From one point of view is quite similar to the Mac App Store: apps are organized into categories, shopping applications with one click and you can view or post user reviews. Although it is too early, we can say that the Windows Marketplace has an advantage over the App Store: test applications. Yes, you can test an application for a period of time before you decide to buy it.

Gestures
Although we have a clear idea of gesture support for Mountain Lion, do not know yet what we see in Windows 8. Mountain Lion allows you to use a trackpad to a number of actions, for example, you can use three fingers to open your applications, or turn left or right with three fingers to change desktop or viewing in full screen. If you have the touch sensor Apple Magic Mouse can use some of these functions.
While Windows 8 has some moves by the time they are all for tablets and touch-screen computers.
We do not know what the gestures that have Windows 8 for laptops. So far it's all in the air, but last year showed a Synaptics touchpad friendly Windows 8 that accepts various gestures.
File Manager
With Mountain Lion, Apple has a small advantage in the Finder, the file manager for OS X. It looks and works much like you do with Lion-if you're using Windows Explorer or an earlier version of Mac OS X, do not take long to know how to use the form on Lion Mountain.
Microsoft may have worked hard with the interface of Metro, but any progress with the file manager still needs more work and use the traditional Windows Explorer. Fortunately, Windows 8, Explorer had an update: now features Ribbon toolbar makes access to common features easier
Switching between Metro and the traditional Windows Explorer is just a bit bumpy and frustrating, so we expect Microsoft to do something to make the Metro file management simpler.

icloud and Windows Live
Windows 8 and Mountain Lion are cloud service from Microsoft and Apple, respectively. Both let you synchronize your data with different devices, and both include some online storage services.
Windows Live is everywhere with Windows 8. You can access Windows 8 using your Windows Live ID. This will let you sync multiple PC settings through Windows 8 devices, and you can access your account on SkyDrive.
Also, when accessing for the first time a Mountain Lion will ask you to enter your account information icloud. From there you can sync email, contacts, calendars, notes, reminders, and recent photos through your Macs and IOS devices.
 

The Mountain Lion has new documents is the cloud, which allows you to store your documents in the icloud service from Apple. If you have a icloud, you can save your documents directly on a hard drive, if your applications to take information from this feature.

At first glance Documenmtos in the Cloud Mountain Lion is silly and stupid, you can access any document stored in the cloud through the Finder, for example. We hope that these characteristics are improved. icloud is free and comes with 5GB of storage, but you can buy additional storage.

With SkyDrive, Microsoft has a subtle and more traditional approach: Using SkyDrive using a separate application through which you can access to everything you saved on SkyDrive. It is also free but limits you to 25GB of storage. 
What about the tablets?

One of the major points in favor of Windows 8 is that it has "commitments" this operating system runs on your desktop, laptop, tablet PC or touch screen. This advantage is useful when you have to pass your information from one device to another.

On the other hand, Apple still has a big difference between the IOS of mobile devices and Macs. Despite the strong influence on their computers, OS X is OS X. It seems that Apple's philosophy is to keep each system in its authenticity, and some characteristics between the devices are similar and family.


Microsoft seems to want that the tablets are an extension of the PC, while Apple seems to be only a support for Macs. Resumámoslo well, Microsoft wants the tablets represent the next step in the evolution of the PC, not a separate category.


Both Apple and Microsoft are trying to bring the features of their mobile operating systems to the corresponding desktop OS, but their attempts are quite different.

Originally, Mac OS X is still an operating system designed for desktops and laptops. Sure, Apple has added features of IOS, but OS X is still based on windows, menus, folders, and so on. 

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Twitter seeks ways to retrieve old posts

 

"Twitter CEO says the company is working on an export tool that will compile all the tweets that a user has logged on the network"

Twitter is working on a tool that allows users to export each Tuite has been done on the site, said the chief executive, Dick Costolo, the American newspaper The New York Times .

But why would anyone want all of your tweets - possibly going back to all stories published since 2006, when Twitter was first released?

Facebook now allows users to download a "personnel file" which includes a list of all messages you have sent to someone, a list of every friend you have on the network, copies of any photos or videos you've sent site and more. I recently looked for my file and was surprised at the amount of data shared - a package of 46 MB of files and folders - and look what I consider a user is not so active.

Now imagine the data of 140 million users of Twitter, which are firing 140-character tweets throughout the day - every day - or about his personal life or about his thoughts about current news and repercussions they have.

In fact, Twitter has become a major news feed and real-time communication tool. Consider as examples only a few events that accounted for the most popular ' tweets per second '(TPS) last year: a half-hour show of Madonna's Super Bowl (10,245 TPS), the Tim Tebow touchdown during a playoff in American Football Conference (American Football Conference in free translation) on January 8 (TPS 9420) and the death of Steve Jobs (6049 TPS).

So the idea of ​​a person being able to see perhaps tens of thousands of his thoughts over time, all in one place, is quite convincing. For some people this would act as a virtual diary and journal information - all in one place.

Currently the Twitter only gives users access to a number of tweets and Costolo did not say when the company will launch the export tool in which people are working. Meanwhile, recover old posts is important to you, try SocialSafe.net , which backs up social networks, or CloudMagic , which is a lightning fast way to search for things Exchange, Twitter, Gmail, Google Apps , Chat, Docs, Calendar and Contacts.

Another thing worth mentioning is that the tool that Twitter is developing is only to users of the tweets themselves, not to "dig" the entire network. "They are two separate problems of engineering search," the Times said Costolo. "It's a different way of architecting the research, going through all the tweets of all time. You can not just put three engineers working on it."

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Virus attacks nuclear power plant in Iran and requires computers to play AC / DC

 

"E-mails sent by a scientist from the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran reported that a malware has forced computers to play "Thunderstruck" at maximum volume"

Scientists reported earlier this week that computers of a nuclear plant in Iran were attacked by a virus that forced them to play the song "Thunderstruck" the Australian band AC / DC - and at maximum volume.

Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at security company F-Secure, says he received "a series of e-mails from Iran" this weekend about the attack. The emails have been sent by a scientist at Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI, which stands for Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, in free translation).

One of the emails was published by the analyst in a blog post on F-Secure , on Monday (23/7).

"I am writing to inform you that our nuclear program was once again attacked and compromised by a new virus that ended our network automation at Natanz and Fordo another facility near Qom [...] The automation network and hardware Siemens were attacked and shut down. [...] There were also some random songs playing in several of the workstations in the middle of the night at full volume. "

However, Hypponen ended the post stating that there "can confirm any details. However, we can confirm that the researcher was sending and receiving e-mails from within the AEOI."

It is not the first time Hypponen has been bombarded with e-mails of this type. Last month, the analyst would have written in Wired about his experience of having received an email from the Computer Emergency Team of Iran, who reported on the discovery of the Flame.

For those who do not remember, the Flame is a spy supervirus developed at the behest of the U.S. government in partnership with Israel, in order to attack and destroy the program of uranium enrichment in Iran

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